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VOY 4x10 "Random Thoughts"

I've always interpreted this episode as mocking the parents who claim their kids would be angels if not for video games.

The Mari. Mario. Coincidence? lol

VOY 4x08 "Year of Hell"

VOY 3x26: Scorpion Part 1

Is there some kind of Starfleet form I can sign to opt out of transporter hacks you "just came up with"?

Black hole jets, which spew near-light-speed particle beams, can trigger nearby white dwarf stars to explode by igniting hydrogen layers on their surfaces. "We don't know what's going on, but it's just a very exciting finding," said Alec Lessing, an astrophysicist at Stanford University and lead author of a new study describing the phenomenon, in an ESA release. Gizmodo reports:

In the recent work -- set to publish in The Astrophysical Journal and is currently hosted on the preprint server arXiv -- the team studied 135 novae in the galaxy M87, which hosts a supermassive black hole of the same name at its core. M87 is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun and was the first black hole to be directly imaged, in work done in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. The team found twice as many novae erupting near M87's 3,000 light-year-long plasma jet than elsewhere in the galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope also directly imaged M87's jet, which you can see below in luminous blue detail. Though it looks fairly calm in the image, the distance deceives you: this is a long tendril of superheated, near-light speed particles, somehow triggering stars to erupt.

Though previous researchers had suggested there was more activity in the jet's vicinity, new observations with Hubble's wider-view cameras revealed more of the novae brightening -- indicating they were blowing hydrogen up off their surface layers. "There's something that the jet is doing to the star systems that wander into the surrounding neighborhood. Maybe the jet somehow snowplows hydrogen fuel onto the white dwarfs, causing them to erupt more frequently," Lessing said in the release. "But it's not clear that it's a physical pushing. It could be the effect of the pressure of the light emanating from the jet. When you deliver hydrogen faster, you get eruptions faster." The new Hubble images of M87 are also the deepest yet taken, thanks to the newer cameras on Hubble. Though the team wrote in the paper that there's between a 0.1% to 1% chance that their observations can be chalked up to randomness, most signs point to the jet somehow catalyzing the stellar eruptions.

Francine Smith aka Wendy Schall in VOY 3x22 "Real Life".

Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected Internet age, the hub of companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook. However, a pioneering company here in central Ohio is responsible for developing and popularizing many of the technologies we take for granted today.

A listener submitted a question to WOSU’s Curious Cbus series wanting to know more about the legacy of CompuServe and what it meant to go online before the Internet.

That legacy was recently commemorated by the Ohio History Connection when they installed a historical marker in Upper Arlington — near the corner of Arlington Center and Henderson roads — where the company located its computer center and corporate building in 1973.

The plaque explains that CompuServe was "the first major online information service provider," and that its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online newspapers and magazines and the ability to share and download files.

(Lwaxana voice) Previously on Star Trek Voyager... And now the continuation....

Captain's Log - Supplemental: We have successfully traversed the wormhole back to where we entered, rescued the prisoner from the surface, and secured the weapon known as the "melt stick". We haven't yet concluded our analysis of its capabilities and mode of operation, but I've asked Seska to join me in cargo bay 2 to confirm several hypotheses.

Note: It's really hard to write Jeff Goldblum dialog with such a small text area. Pretend there are more "um"s and pauses in there.

Edit: I'm thinking about doing a "What if..." series with Voyager and some of the space elements from the MCU. Have a few ideas, but nothing fully fleshed out.

Mashup / parody of 1x10 "Prime Factors" and MCU's Grandmaster. Inspired by Sikiarians and Sakaaran sounding similar and Gathorel Labin giving off Grandmaster vibes.

Top: Lateral vector transporter from the Walker-class USS Shenzhou

Middle: Phase discriminators used to trap the Red Angel in the titular episode

Bottom (left): Exocomp

Bottom (right): Medical device from the Automated Repair Station from Dead Stop

3x07: Sacred Ground

Guide: "You really should have picked up on that when I had you finger painting so I could go out back and have a space cigarette".

3x04: The Swarm