My secret shame is that I lowkey love the Rama sequels, though I fully acknowledge that they are political soap operas in space and tonally absolutely nothing like the original.
James R Kirk
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Because nobody has suggested it yet, Blindsight and Echopraxia are excellent.
I really liked The Gripping Hand though I agree it’s difficult to reach the level of excellence that is The Mote in God’s Eye.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek?English
3·4 天前That’s an awesome story and I agree he was great in that role.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek?English
2·4 天前Oh fun I will have to check it out
everybody needs to be on their best behavior for the next few weeks ok
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek?English
2·4 天前He should have won best actor for his performance as “Ian” in Jungle 2 Jungle.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek?English
2·4 天前The fact that it lost to American Beauty that year is a travesty
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek?English
3·4 天前Colm Meaney’s performance in Layer Cake is simply astounding!
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Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•If you could only play 10 games for the rest of your life, which would you choose?English
3·5 天前I would put Duck Tails 2, but still- why are they so dang replayable??
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Review: EXO-6’s ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Garak Is No Plain, Simple FigureEnglish
8·5 天前Yeah, they also mentioned that it was difficult to capture it in photos:
The facial sculpt by Dean Tolliver features an enigmatic smile typical of the character, and like a lot of EXO’s sculpts, this one is hard to capture just in photographs.
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Quark's@startrek.website•Magic School Bus Movie: Legendary Developing With Elizabeth Banks To StarEnglish
2·5 天前Really? It’s not going to be educational?
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•The First PC Shipping With SteamOS Arrives Next MonthEnglish
5·6 天前Steamroller is a great name. I built a similar SFFPC with Bazzite a few years ago but if I was in the market I would probably choose this over the Steam Machine (as cool as it is).
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Doctor Who Social Club@startrek.website•Ncuti Gatwa is officially a doctor after receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of GlasgowEnglish
4·8 天前Schrödinger’s celery is a good point, I retract my criticism.
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Doctor Who Social Club@startrek.website•Ncuti Gatwa is officially a doctor after receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of GlasgowEnglish
5·8 天前Not enough vegetables imo.
Crazy that this was uploaded almost exactly one year after it went off the air. Also crazy that that was twenty years ago!
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Framework Laptop Community@lemmy.ml•I just bought a second hand Framework laptop, and I fucking love it!English
2·8 天前It’s actually crazy, I feel like we’re just waiting for the word to get out at this point lol
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Framework Laptop Community@lemmy.ml•Framework says it's selling more Linux laptops than Windows as new Laptop 13 Pro sells out first 7 batchesEnglish
1·9 天前That’s exactly what I did! Framework (not pro) with an Anker dock to replace old desktop/laptop. No complaints.

















“Space vampires” is such a turn-off of an idea for me that I’m glad I didn’t know about it going in but WOW was it a great concept!