That’s just like, the new-hire complex. This guy doesn’t actually walk around where there’s traps and shit.

Dying in a pit with spears at the bottom is not cool, and accidents happen.

That doesn’t mean this backpack was the backpack he carried.

I hope it’s not someone trolling the cops. That just gets them wrapped up in it and possibly cops looking at them as more evidence.

Can you imagine all the good intel she’d have access to if she were a romulan spy?

Seriously. Nobody would think they’re a military ship because of all the stupidity, if they didn’t go around taking Klingons and romulans and every other race on and handily smashing them.

The stupidity? Families. Civilians in the bar, who also double as a therapist… because the actual therapist is on the bridge moonlighting as… something.

you, uh, know they still make the yellow pages? you can get one yourself.

Also, who ones what property is generally public information. It’s difficult to imagine, however, how you owning a certain proprety can be used as evidence, for example, in the killing of an asshole insurance ceo.

Your photograph could be used to link you to that, however.

Also, while it’s reasonable to assume the cops have done due diligence on that guy they keep flashing around. But also, it’s reasonable to take a step back and ask “how do they know”. There’s a non-zero chance that guy just popped up on a city-owned surveillance camera and popped on facial rec’ because he has similar eyebrows.

There’s two massive issues at play with facial recognition. the first is that it’s rather far from perfect- especially on shitty and grainy security cameras and the algorithm doesn’t get to say “uh, I don’t know”. it’s expected to give a “yes/no” answer (even if they try to soften it with a percentage probability… it’s used as a yes-no/) . The second is that cops (and people in general) almost always assume the aglo is right.

So it’s entirely possible that the guy in the photo is completely uninvolved.

As for how this is relevant? they need to have photographs to match to; or fingerprints. or DNA. (though they could just as easily use your cousin’s… Yeah. you know those DNA ancestry kits you got for xmas? they fucked you over with those.)

I mean, it has nothing to do with being an uncle… but I do want to have the full collection….heh.

(I would love to watch Star Trek with the nieces and nephew. Unfortunately… they get scared by paw patrol. And not because they watched that one video about the previous police doggo…)

Hands down… he was the absolutely best uncle… I have a lot to live up to.

I was in middle school. I watched it with my Uncle (who was in another timezone) on speakerphone.

To clarify… my uncle is the guy that got me into star trek to begin with; and scifi more broadly. We may had been visiting him and my aunt when I was like five or six, and my brother had a soccer thing in the area. I discovered his VHS collection, including TOS and all the movies that had been made. I was caught binging them when I was on Trouble With Tribbles- he had walked into the office/temporary bedroom, was like “HEY! this is my favorite episode. Rewind it while I go make popcorn!”

And then we proceeded to binge watch the rest of star trek.

If they had a name, they’d probably already have the person it belongs to in custody.

See, that sort of works, but there’d still be a chronic shortage. Once they leave, you’d now probably double the demand for staff.

My personal head cannon is that Picard (and everyone else,) is full of it. Same way people screaming about how great America is are full of it. He was saying what was necessary to keep his timeline from being borg-ified.

Or like the guy that was thawed out. That totally sounds like a party line.

But this makes sense since we also know that Picard loves to spout nonsense propaganda about the enterprise not being a warship, star fleet not being a military organization, and the federation being totally peaceful. Except all the battles with the romulans, the Klingons. The borg. The dominion. The cardassians… I’m sure I’m missing a few…

But again…. How human is the connection at Starbucks? Especially at 5am on your way to work?

Like. If a machine can spit out a Starbucks latte to order and there’s one less person? Hell yes.

In the Voyager episode (where Kim is somehow in an alternate timeline stuck on earth developing some kinda snazzy shuttle), it’s not a social thing. It’s a pop-in-get-coffee-and-go thing

As for total automation of “menial services”… I’m not sure how you get around that without the use of a semi-sentient intermediary. Plus maintaining those systems, which would fall under the purview of the most important man in all of Starfleet history.

…why? why do they need to be sentient? we already have machines capable of doing just about everything we could want them to in terms of menial tasks. The biggest issue is a) they’re usually hyper-specific in terms of what tasks they do, and b) universally expensive as fuck. It’s just currently cheaper and more “efficient” to have a few humans doing most the tasks. but that’s increasingly becoming less so. (I’m thinking of the deep sea mining robots that while awful for the environment are… pretty impressive engineering… and also the commercial floor cleaning robots my grocery store is starting to use.)

As for repairing stuff… replicator technology is way, way under utilized. (seriously.) Like. Seriously. Why starships, space stations… buildings…can’t repair themselves I will never know. I mean, think about it. there’s already hundreds, probably thousands, of replicators on the D, just an example. in every crew quarters, office, medical or engineering bay… i think the only prominent room that doesn’t have one is actually the bridge… and there’s one off in Picard’s ready room not twenty steps away. You have to assume the notion has occured to every single starfleet engeering wonk every single time some EPS conduit blows out or worf’s face gets imprinted in a wall to prove how strong a villian really is. (lets be honest, Geordi probably has a collection of wall-panels framed with Worf’s face. I would.)

There’s absolutely no reason that replicators can’t be integrated into the structure as an array that could just automatically repair it. An array isn’t even strictly necessary if you use the transporters.

Considering that the Delta Flyer and the Runabouts had a replicator on it, too, and I’m guessing other shuttles, that would suggest anything too small to have one themselves… would easily be replicated in something like a shuttle bay with an industrial replication pad. Storage, repairs. etc, all happen just by recycling it and printing another.

I was thinking just integrate them into the table. The entire surface gets cleaned.

Sorry but waiting tables (Sisko’s dad probably had waitstaff, as well as dishwashers, probably a hostess to handle the front of house…) is not a job you’d do for very long because “its fun”. they’re doing it because they’re being compensated for it.

Same goes for baristas. I might enjoy making an espresso when friends and family come over, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be fun to make 300 drinks a day; for no compensation, just because some star fleet engineers need their morning joe and can’t get it from a replimat.

If those were his items, and his dna on those items, sure. Iirc, this is how they got the BTK killer- a familial match.

They might have eliminated currency but they still had people working as baristas and waiting tables.

These are not jobs you do because they’re fun, and they’re totally unnecessary in a post scarcity world.

So… you don’t need to find caves. Just bring some excavators, and some prefab-structures and bury them.

This would then let you set up some place with useful resources (light for solar power, ice for drinking and stuff.

Personally, though, I vote we send Musk to the other Sister Planet. The one that’s full-on angry-goth-girl, complete with the sulphuric acid. Don’t judge, as far as planets go, she’s freaking hot.

…. But they’re anal retentive. You really don’t want to tickle that sphincter. Most have been holding since the 80’s

Abbot is a limp chode

he should fuck off to someplace that doesn’t have internet so we can forget about him.

DATA SEASON!! FIRE!

(wait… no. don’t fire. Mr Tricorder was hilarious. we can’t lose that.)

Uhm. This is why historical context is incredibly important when talking about these things.

Jesus was the son of a carpenter. he wasn’t exactly wealthy, by any means. He certainly didn’t have the resources to take a trip to India to study anything- such a trip would have taken at least a year just to travel.

He was raised in the Jewish tradition and taught their religious teachings, which, most certainly did not include the philosophies of other religions. Suffice it to say, that Jesus was thoroughly Jewish his both his understanding of the world about him, and how he expressed that understanding.

Further to the point, when jesus was at what we now call “the last supper”… he was not speaking to a bunch of Hindus. he was speaking to a bunch of Jewish men. Even if he had been aware that Hindus exist at all- never mind having studied their teachings and philosophies- he wouldn’t be relating such in that place at that time.

When he says “this is my body” or however you want to translate that, he meant it to be a more literal symbolism than you ascribe. in jewish tradition, when an animal was brought to the temple for sacrifice, it was common for only a small part of that animal to be burned at the altar. the rest of that animal was then divided between the priests and the petitioner (or it went entirely to the priests, or it was the less-common sort that was entirely burned. it depends on the reason for the sacrifice).

he was speaking to jewish men. He was establishing a new sort of sacrificial offering (the right of communion.) and while the disciples didn’t fully understand what he meant, they figured it out pretty damn quickly. he was saying he’s the ‘final’ sacrifice, and therefore- as part of the ritual offering- his followers were to symbolically consume his flesh and blood.

now Catholics take that a step further and follow a doctrine that says the communion bread and wine literally become such during the right (it’s called ‘transubstantiation’). But he was ultimately talking about how he was a sacrifice and he was establishing a new sort of ritual for his followers.

This was an echo of already-established jewish tradition. he wasn’t drawing on hindu or hopi or any one else’s teachings. he was drawing on jewish tradition surrounding sacrificial offerings and echoing that. because he and his followers were jewish.