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Keith David. He was great in the outer limits and men at work, and i always wanted to see him captain a starfleet ship.

I thought picard was crazy for questioning data in his quarters alone in clues. Especially after they confirmed something was wrong with him by catching him in a lie.

Yeah, that's why the general was pissed at the end. He wanted to stabilize the augments, but instead the doc created a cure with the side effect of still causing the dermal disfigurement.

I think it makes more sense to think of local as the federation. It's the communities (planets) that founded the federation or we have treaties with. All is more like the galaxy. It's the great unknown, containing pleasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. There is (or will be) everything from hippie planets to gangster planets to cowboy planets to nazi planets. We'll venture out to meet them, and some will become allies, while others will become adversaries. The more we experience, the more we learn about ourselves, but we can always find our way back home to the federation (local).

He's got ants in his pants.

I can't believe i left out semicolons. Sadly it changed nothing though. But it's weird, as i continued to screw with it, i refreshed after some random change, and suddenly everything worked. Then i refreshed again and it went back to not working. No changes, just another refresh. And i do see my values in the live css in the inspector. That seems to indicate that reality as i perceive it is a lie and i'm likely the subject of an experiment that's being conducted by beings living in a reality that's outside the realm of my awareness or comprehension.

Yeah it's the hr, which somehow i can still see. I have the same css on startrek.website and while it's still not hidden there, setting the margin does work, but not on lemmy.world for some reason. I can see that both sites have the same class for the hr (my-3), so i'm kinda stumped at the moment.

I also added the following to change the width and spacing of columns, and again it works on startrek.website, but not on lemmy.world. It's really strange.

.container,.container-lg,.container-md,.container-sm,.container-xl {
    max-width:1540px
}
.col-md-4 {
    flex: 0 0 25%;
    max-width: 25%
}
.col-md-8 {
    flex: 0 0 75%;
    max-width: 75%
}

I added this to make the gap between posts smaller.

.my-3 {  
    margin-bottom: 0.2rem !important;
    margin-top: 0.2rem !important;
}

edit: For some reason this doesn't seem to work on some instances, not sure why.

This is unfortunately a loosing battle. I've been explaining how it makes perfect sense for years, but as soon as another person starts their voyager rewatch, another thread pops up about how they said they can't replace torpedos, and others jump on board to call it a plot hole.

It is indeed all about trade, but it's really about one specific thing: antimatter. Three things are required to keep the ship running almost indefinitely: antimatter, dilithium, and deuterium. With those things they can manufacture all the parts they need and keep the ship, shuttles, and torpedos flying. Dilithium can be mined and processed using the refinery that b'elanna built from the secondary impulse reactor. Deuterium can be collected in space or extracted from sea water. But antimatter takes massive infrastructure and energy to produce.

In the beginning, they weren't sure if there would be any opportunities to acquire more antimatter, and without it they're boned, in both torpedo/shuttle production and ship propulsion. But they soon found out that the delta quadrant was just a big flea market filled with warp capable races. And yes, there may have been a moral/procedural issue in theory, but i'm pretty sure Janeway would have traded with the bad guys if it came down to the ship not being able to fly anymore.

So after they realized they can get more antimatter just about anywhere, there were no more issues at all. They just had to plan things out to make sure they wouldn't run out in the middle of a void or something. It would have been nice for someone to mention it directly on-screen, but they didn't and here we are, so we just have to keep fighting the good fight for the benefit of all.