Last post for a while, I promise.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    I wonder what the reasoning was behind the prop designer’s Genesis Device interface was? Because it’s not really a terrible idea in terms of a “do you really want to do this” redundancy mechanism goes, but it’s also not exactly something someone would normally think of either.

    Edit: And now I read this and it’s made me grumpy. https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/18o512g/star_trek_ii_was_there_ever_an_inuniverse/

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      I wish you had never linked to that thread. I had never thought about it. It was always a Hollywood countdown thing. But now? Just pure confusion.

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      Ceti Alpha V uses Mario Time Units (MTU) rather than Standard Seconds. After being there so long Khan was just used to it.

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      Star Trek is so full of those horrible interfaces that you aren’t actually expected to use. I really like (or dislike? I duno) the ejection mechanism of the ships outer plating, that not only require a lot of meaningless movement, but also expect two people to do it at the same time.

      The worse thing is, I can really imagine people making something like this.

  • OpenStars@piefed.social
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    My Firefox on Android gives different types of errors when trying to play this - if anyone else runs into this, try Chrome bc it works fine from there.

    image of a broken Firefox, that I wish Lemmy would allow me to make into a smaller size