Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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  • “That cleaned up pretty nice, I think maybe I’ll keep that after all”

    “tough shit, old man, you had your chance and you gave it away. $10 million and it’s yours though.”

    Entirely depends on your relationship with your dad, though, but mine would just roll his eyes and say “fine I’ll just get a new one.” neither of us would in any way feel upset about it, and have a small chuckle while retelling it later.






  • Skilled truckers

    I have met truck drivers that can (and have demonstrated) back their trailer up to a cargo dock blindfolded.

    I’ve met some that can navigate turning radii (radiuses? Radiens?) smaller than my old Nissan.

    And then I’ve also met some that couldn’t figure out their 13ft tall trailer can’t fit under a 12ft 8 bridge…

    For the most part though, in my experience truck drivers are better drivers than 97% of regular drivers.



  • You know, it’s always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as “barbaric” or “Savage”, but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.

    200 years ago, the local “doctor” will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he’s gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it’s last use.

    200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you’ll be fine.









  • I ended up finally giving it a shot last month, and I recall having seen stuff about season 2.

    I finished season 1 in 2 days, and then found out season 2 hadn’t quite come out yet.

    Then I did what I always do and waited for all the episodes to come out… I got halfway through season 2 before my last month I’m paying for streaming services ran out.

    So now I will indefinitely be halfway through season 2.

    I should have started season 2 the day the last episode was released.


  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    I used to work demo tables at a convention every year, as the company would pay for people’s convention costs in exchange for 14 hours of volunteer work over the course of 5 days.

    I decided after the first year that I would be volunteering my time overnight, instead of during the day. They ran after-hours games until 2am, and I usually stayed until 4am to run some more. We usually had about 100-150 people at 10pm, dwindling to about 20 by 4am.

    By the end of the night, the temperatures inside are around 60, and nobody is sweating. It’s fantastic.

    I also decided to start getting dollar store deodorants, the little travel size ones, and leaving them out with some baby wipes with a sign that says something along the lines of “NO JUDGEMENT, EVERYONE FORGETS SOME TIMES, TAKE ONE” With a little picture of “wipe pits, apply deodorant” underneath.

    Every year, about half the deodorants have been claimed.

    Sure it’s like $20 extra if I get things on sale, but it’s a small price to pay for not having to smell Convention Stank.

    And when my job is literally to walk around a big circle of 10-30 people, most of whom have been walking around since before noon in a hot dealer hall, walking through a wall of “Cool Breeze” is so much less unpleasant than BO.