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[Nate the Great]

Today is my 40th birthday. It's a bummer. Time for a Trek birthday roundup! Not including "Distant Voices", of course. That episode is still depressing.



Kirk's birthday, McCoy edition
Kirk's birthday, Spock edition
Worf's birthday
Tuvok's birthday.
There's an error here as Janeway thinks that he's not 100 yet, when we all know that he's 112. He was born in 2264, and "Fury" is 2376. Remember that he was a fresh Ensign in "Flashback", which is 2293. If Janeway was right and Tuvok is around 99, that would mean he was born in 2277, making him 16 at the time of "Flashback". No dice, he was born in 2264 and was 29 during "Flashback", which you have to admit seems a little old for any ensign not named Harry Kim. Memory Alpha reconciles this by stating that he started at the Academy in 2289 at the age of 25 and was a fresh graduate for "Flashback".

[Nate the Great]

Matt Parker strikes again, with jigsaw puzzles this time.


How do you relate the puzzle proportion, piece proportion, and number of pieces in a jigsaw puzzle to get a pleasing puzzle piece shape AND a pleasing total number of pieces?


I went through a jigsaw puzzle phase in my youth, I even had a bunch in one of those puzzle keepers for awhile waiting to be framed before I gave up on it. As it turns out, custom picture frames are really expensive, I only did it for my All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarden poster.


So now I only do jigsaw puzzles on screens.

[Nate the Great]

A discussion of the transporter and the perennial question: does this thing just kill and then clone you at the destination?


An interesting idea presented is that you're not really being deconstructed to your component atoms, you're transferred to another dimension and then transferred back to our dimension at the destination.



One annoying component of the whole debate is that people are always bringing up the Ship of Theseus. And the thing is that the Ship of Theseus doesn't equate to the transporter as well. The whole point is that the sailors ON the ship can take raw materials and convert it into replacement parts for the ship. Just like we can eat food and convert it into replacement cells. The transporter is NOT the ship of Theseus, everything happening to the transport subject is done by an external force.



So yeah, the transporter is a suicide box. Furthermore, it spits in the face of the concept of a "soul". Unless you're going to tell me that God is willing to transfer your soul into your transporter clone every time. Highly doubtful.



The last question is about the subject's awareness during transport. We've seen that from the subject's perspective it's just a bit of blue sparkles for a second before arriving at the destination. What are the odds that this other dimension that you're temporarily shifted to looks exactly like the annular confinement beam? Unless you're going to argue that the blue sparkles are the other dimension bleeding through. Which means that Federation transporters tap into a blue dimension, and Klingon transporters tap into a different orange dimension, etc.

[DrWho42]

best keffals clip:

that time keffals tried to shotgun a white claw rip

[Nate the Great]

Steve Ramsey snaps a tape measure 10,000 to see if excessive snapping really ruins them like you've always been told.


TLDR: It took almost the entire 10,000 times for a tape measure to break. So you shouldn't worry about it.

[Nate the Great]

Ambush: A Star Trek Fan Production


What I find most confusing is the presence of ENT uniforms in an otherwise TOS-based setting. Although I do appreciate the use of a ship-specific chest emblem (even if the thing is ugly as sin). And why do they have Federation flags on their shoulders?

[DrWho42]

I pitched this game to a friend and she might play it on stream?

Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim on Steam