The original post here uses words like “gouging” and “raking”, so this didn’t start out as a calm discussion of opportunity cost.

The post you’re replying to is kind of condescending, so all in all this is probably not the best content we’ll see all day.

“The Best People.”

I bet this will be as lucrative as twitch streaming.

Crewed vs uncrewed is a decision made at the very beginning of the planning stages, years ago. These days a crew is just a gigantic extra expense on a mission with little return. Remotely operated missions can achieve all their scientific objectives.

*requires overcoming inertia.

One of the reasons you don’t know Detmer was they made a conscious decision to make a “one main character” show instead of an ensemble show. They were consciously not trying to develop anyone but Burnham, and to a lesser extent Saru, then Stamets.

“I can't imagine it would have been good, but boy do I wish I existed in a universe where this movie had been made.” — This is the perfect reaction and I cannot improve on it in any way.

There are self-appointed moderators over there who browse new and downvote anything that doesn't fit their vision. I was one of them, looking for certain "offenses." For instance if someone posted run-of-the-mill war news in an "interesting" sub, with nothing at all novel or intriguing about it, I would downvote it. So I guess I've got my gates to keep too.

But yeah, I had the same thing happen to me in a couple subs. I posted what I thought was perfectly relevant content, and it would attract a few downvotes right away, and then, usually, climb back up as less-zealous people read it.

Reddit is the big news right now, so that makes sense. It's news even outside of our own circle of technophiles and ex-redditors.

It's up to us to spread things out. A whole bunch of us are just waiting for someone else to take a step. If we take the step ourselves, people will join in, AND new users checking out the platform for the first time will see familiar things that make them feel like they've come to the right place.

A lot of people in these comments sleeping on Prodigy. I think it's very good and would probably put it behind only Strange New Worlds. For me, the start of the season is just meh and feels more Star Wars Kidsy, but the season just grows and grows and has a real heart, real drama, and action.

Is there a Great Hall of Noob Questions somewhere?

"partially intentional"...

Oh, it's WAYYYY intentional. Star Trek knows what it's doing. A story like this one may not map 1:1 onto one particular group's struggles IRL, but the moral principles that motivate us (or should motivate us) do. There is a current in our society now of people who are hurting because they feel they're not free to be who they really are, and that they're expected to lie about it or apologize for it. That's exhausting. That's why Una turned herself in.

As as everyone reading this knows, that has affected and is still affecting more than one group. So Trek episodes are a little broader, more allegorical, and ambiguous. That way, it's not just "the trans episode" or "the racism episode." It's an enduring message of unity in diversity that can stand the test of time.

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and your story here. It takes strength to be your true self when the world feels like a stream running the opposite direction. Just like Una saved La'an, who then went on to save others, you are now a part of that chain. Your strength, and the strength of your contemporaries, will make it easier for more and more in the future to live their authentic lives with pride.