Government shouldn’t be choosing one tech over another...base it on carbon/pollution but not on a specific tech.

Duh. The more crutches you give to lazy people, the more lazy they will become. Like those powered carts at the grocery store, elevators in two-story buildings, and all sorts of other silly things, the further we “dumb-down” the world around us, the dumber we’ll get as a whole.

Re 5th Gear: A lot of declarative sentences there proclaiming the value of lower speed limits, narrow roads, speed bumps and speed cameras to catch dangerous drivers and reduce accidents.

Lol. I meant to buy it, but that's hilarious. Someone left a star trek branded moleskine notebook on my car because I have star trek seat covers

Just curious, but would it ever be possible to use a combination of CNC and 3D printing to make even less expensive, more limited run, dies?

Manufacturing complexities aside, if we could somehow bring back vintage-ish car designs back and slap them on an EV skateboard chassis, I think the first two generations of the MR-2 would be PERFECT. Lower center of gravity and weight would fix the notoriously twitchy handling.

Good thinking here. Throw in 3D printing and we should be on our way.

Ugh, I love this fucking car so much. There's one nearby I see a few times a year and I want to leave a note.

You’re not wrong. This is the way.

The Isuzu Vehicross Deserves A Comeback

The VehiCROSS will always be a cool car. I have spoken.

I hope they set this up at a 70mph zone and I'd drive by at 1 under.

Thanks for this - you gave me an idea of what to watch on Hulu tonight! Decent episode. I was never a huge fan of TNG back in the day, so I have not seen all of them, including this one.

Ouch. Don’t do that. 

I’d totally beam huge hairy sweaty donkey balls right into crew members mouths while they’re asleep.

“Who does the laundry? Or are clean uniforms just replicated?”

I’d like to think that the state of security today, with sandboxed applications, encrypted hard drives and randomized address spaces, is a direct consequence of software engineers watching Trek in the 80s and 90s, saying, “Well let’s make sure THAT can’t happen,” and then going to work.

I’ve been binge watching a lot of TNG on Netflix lately, and besides the transporter issue - the biggest problem I’ve found is with their computer security. They have a giant multi-user mainframe computer on the ship, but pretty much anyone from anywhere on the ship can take complete control of the computer. Even…

This is the correct answer, and they actually sort of deal with this in the episode “The Pegasus” which involves the Federation developing a cloaking system based on phase-shifting, which is effectively just putting the whole ship into a transporter field: