I had assumed these were just the old Tron Legacy figures, which had the exact same light up and moving face gimmicks. They certainly LOOK quite similar. But those figures used a tiny projector and didn’t have sound or memory, so I suppose it’s just the same concept in a new implementation? I still think it’s weird no…

True, it’s been like 40 years. Medical treknology has surely advanced!

When the holodeck power thing was addressed I said out loud “That’s an explanation we’ve been waiting for for YEARS”.

I’m not sure about the other two, but I don’t think they CAN throw Elon out of Twitter. Pretty sure it’s privately owned. IIRC, it was previous owned by a group of interested parties, but now it’s essentially just him. The only way to be rid of him is for him to leave.

Well, it HAS been more than 25 years since the end of the Dominion War as of Picard season 3. The effects are surely still being felt, but that doesn’t mean people would be just name dropping it all the time, and the Dominion itself is half a galaxy away, presumably keeping to itself.

Wesley’s scene at the wedding got cut from the final movie. It doesn’t count. I mean, it certainly could have been canonized later if they’d wanted, but they’ve pretty clearly chosen to ignore it.

Well, the alternate Confederation timeline called out Admiral Sisko, and featured the trophy mounted skulls of several DS9 notables. And back in season 1 there was a sign for a Quark’s location. There’s certainly been little else though.

I didn’t mean Mando and Boba. I meant all of the SW shows they’ve been producing. Yes, those crossed over to the point of overlapping, but the other shows are all in the same continuity and should be counted on to share characters and plotlines.

Like I said elsewhere, this is nothing like comics. There may be multiple titles, but there’s like only ever one going at a time. There’s not even theatrical movies you have to go out and see (or wait for streaming). It’s more like one big show that changes focus every so often.

Not sure why it’s so hard not to see these as all basically one big show that just happens to cut back and forth from different locations, characters, and time periods now and then. Actual singular shows do that all the time. There’s usually only one of these series running at a time, they’re all in one place to…

Just add some legs!

Depending on the software at play, the same phrase will actually generate the same image every time (or very very nearly so) so long as the other settings the software uses (random seed, etc) stay the same. I’ve done this myself on a pair of parallel local Stable Diffusion installations.

Are you saying Lightyear had a lack of merch? Because... it had a massive toyline. Like full quarter aisle at Target massive. A ton of ships at various scales, and loads of figures with enough versions of Buzz to make Kenner Batman jealous.

I just assumed it was an old device and that was the password he was using at the time. Lucky he still remembered it.

Well, if it was a ship of Theseus situation, they’d replace the whole thing and still call it the same ship. In this case it was such an extensive refit that they chose NOT to call it the same ship anymore.

I believe Shaw had actually been commanding the Titan since before the refit. Note, he said he’d been commanding her for 5 years, but the refit was implied to be fairly recent (though that may have just been me reading in to things).

According to the Star Trek Logs entry for the ship, the new Titan began as a simple refit but changed direction partway through the process to integrate newer technology. The new ship uses a significant amount of the original Titan’s internal components and thus is considered a refit, but was also drastically rebuilt…

“We waited in vain.”

I noticed this book being called out on a news scroll on “CNN” during Wakanda Forever. Didn’t realize it was gonna be a whole thing though.

There’s a difference between an ashcan film you throw together to hold on to a license and low budget one you legitimately intended to release at one point.