Found it in “Unsaved Document 4.txt” LOL

MERCER: I have to pee. Bortus, you have the conn.

BORTUS: Aye, sir.

MALLOY: Why not just use the teleporter?

GRAYSON: You pee in the teleporter booth? That's disgusting!

MALLOY: What?! No! Of course not. Watch.

[The bridge crew watch as Mallloy presses buttons on his console to initiate a site-to-site teleport. He then switches the main screen to display a view off the starboard bow where an amber blob of liquid materializes and begins to boil and freeze into an icy nebula]

MALLOY: Ahhhhh.

MERCER: Did you just...? Gordon, you're relieved.

MALLOY: You bet I am!

MERCER: No, I mean get out.

GRAYSON: Wait a minute. I remember right after we got the teleporters installed, we spent two months in orbit around Galavar VI. During that time their moon mysteriously and miraculously developed a ring system. That was you?

LAMARR: Yeah, I, uh, might have helped with that.

ALARA: Me too.

MALLOY: Yeah, and even Issac got in on it.

ISSAC: That is impossible as I am an artificial lifeform and do not produce urine. However, I do require periodic coolant flushes which could be considered crudely analogous.

MALLOY: And do you have any record of coolant flushes during that time?

ISSAC: [BEAT] I do not. To use your parlance: You. Bastard.

BORTUS: Is that why my Ja'loja is late this year? Dr. Finn was unable to determine...[INTERRUPTED BY MERCER]

MERCER: [PICARD FACEPALM] Oh my God. [BEAT] You know what? It's fine. Gordon, you're fine. Return to your station and set a course for Galavar VI. We've got to go tell them their holy miracle ring is just a bunch of piss. It's fine.

GRAYSON: Ed?

MERCER: You know what they say: there's a good story and a bunch of idiots behind every warning label.

I’m now considering this both 30 Rock and Star Trek canon: Lower Decks is a prequel to 30 Rock. Who says immortal beings have to obey linear time?

I don’t get the reference, but I want to. What movie was that?

The Fly?

Keller Williams style! Love it.

Saw Keller live when I was in college; probably the best show I’ve ever been to. Also didn’t hurt that the crowd was a bunch of hippies, and we collectively hotboxed the Warner Theater. 😆

It probably smelled like the art teacher’s office in there for at least a week after.

ENT did a little bit of body horror with the transporters since they were still new in-universe. One of the away team was beamed up during a storm, and some branches and leaves blew into the beam and became integrated into him when he rematerialized. He got better.

I’m hazy on the specifics, but in DS9, someone sabotaged the transporter and the contact they were supposed to meet burned alive during rematerialization. That was pretty gory for Trek.

Galaxy Quest went all the way and turned the pig-monster inside out lol … and then it exploded.

Lol, a few years ago on the alien site, I wrote a scene for The Orville as a “what if The Orville suddenly got transporters” That was basically the premise of it.

If there’s interest, and I can find it (I saved it to a text file somewhere before nuking my account), I can post it here.

I can do all that with my X1 Carbon which isn’t much thicker than an M1 Air. It’s got the same two USB-C / Thunderbolt ports but also has full-size HDMI, 2xUSB A, and wired headphones.

It seems like Apple’s main method of innovation is finding new ways to get people to buy $29.99 dongles over and over again.

They like to make things appear sleek until you actually have to use them. All that sleekness goes out the window as soon as someone hands you flash drive and you have to break out a dock.

Yep. IMO, Year of Hell is probably the best episode of Voyager and in the top 5 of all Trek, and a Smith was definitely a large part of that.

Am also layman, but my understanding is that “dark matter” is just kind of a placeholder for some unaccounted for mass that’s detectable by inference. i.e. we can’t see anything that would produce that gravity, but we can detect that something out there has mass.

with black holes still an option for the behaviors we are seeing accounted to ‘dark matter’ why are we bothering with another, seemingly ephemeral type of ‘matter’?

That’s actually a theory that’s gaining traction again. Primordial black holes left over from the Big Bang are one contender for “dark matter”:

https://www.space.com/tiny-black-holes-big-bang-prime-dark-matter-suspects

I set that up and put in the necessary bypass in Authelia for that route, but it seems to have borked my library in Calibre web and only like 10 of my books show up there now. The library seems fine in calibre desktops though.

Haven’t had time to dive in further though. I just used Calibre desktop to sync them over USB for the time being.

Main phone:

I finally found the source file for that. I posted a screenshot of my phone months ago and people were asking for it, but I had no idea where it was. A little late, but I guess I finally delivered lol.

Backup phone:

I always thought he looks like a lump of mashed potatoes that rolled into a pile of assorted barber hair

Interesting. I’ve only ever had success with cellular PPP when using #777 for carrier based DUN back before mobile broadband was a thing.

👏

Not saying drugs haven’t ruined lives, but the war on drugs has ruined far more.

O’Brien: Worf, before we head into this battle, I need you to promise me something.

Worf: What is it, Chief?

O’Brien: If I don’t make it, go to my station and delete all my pattern buffers.

“Botanist to the arboretum! The Romulans are attacking!”

Keiko: Seeds away. Locking time beam, and …Happy Arbor Day you Romulan bastards.

That was from The Orville where they duct-taped Chekov’s Gun to the MacGuffin. The seeds were specially designed to be self-sustaining, radiation proof, and could grow anywhere (and according to Bashir’s dad, tasted pretty good too).

Was Keiko crew, though? I thought she was just a civilian and would shelter somewhere (probably in their quarters).

Yeah. Part of that is the same kind of nostalgic for me, but also I guess I miss the feeling of the internet being somewhere you go, deliberately, rather than always-on, always-connected, pinging me with attention-sucking notifications constantly.

Like when you sign into AOL messenger in the dial-up days. That was an indication you wanted to chat and had set aside time for it; it was like flipping the sign from “closed” to “open”. Now, you’re just always expected to respond.