If Star Trek was written and produced by Pakled…
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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Wtf is this? The falcon cockpit does not have a light strip all the way around it! It’s a smuggler’s ship ffs! Lousy cgi garbage retro fuckery . . . /grumble /fuss
SpaceBalls is superior to Star Wars in every way.
This version of Data is so much more whiny and not even anatomically correct. I would like a refund on this meme.
Yet for some reason Tasha Yar wants to bang it.
And Dr.Crusher wants to bang Yar's ghost.
Correction: wants to => has already, twice (I will leave you to guess which one(s):-P)
The observed anomaly exhibits a volatility exceeding acceptable parameters. It is imperative that we establish a containment protocol before further degradation occurs. Inefficiency in this situation is… unacceptable.
Photons or protons?
Potatons
Fired or mashed?
au gratin!
Why not au pressed latinum gratin?
sounds like something Tuvix would say....
Phrotons.
Krotons
Crouton torpedo
AI slop: not even once
He stole the work from a hungry artist that could have painted that shitpost!
It would have been a funny joke without the picture, too. For me the unnecessary energy consumption of making a picture by AI is the more relevant criticism here.
Oh no. What if they used renewable energy?
I do not think that is likely because as far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong) these image generations are mostly done on servers which use the cheapest energy mix. But even if they use a 'green' server or run stable diffusion locally and power it by their rooftop solar, the energy for this picture would otherwise have gone to the grid and replaced some fossil energy source. One AI image takes approximately 3Wh of energy (enough to boil ~86 cups of tea). With a gas power plant this produces about 6mg of CO2. That doesn't sound like a lot but it adds up. We really need to reduce emissons wherever we can and this would be an easy place to do so.
The nacelle isn't even attached! Who would ever design such a Starfleet vessel?!
Beverly Crusher. She didn't design it, but the nacelle was detached within 10 minutes after she became acting captain.
Extra torpedoes fired!
AI, apparently.
yes
honestly, people are right when they say the similarities between trek and wars are superficial because trek is heady scifi and wars is space opera, but both do ultimately deal with the struggles and pitfalls in creating a better ~~galaxy~~ world and shit like Deep Space 9 and the Zahn SW books (hell, and SG-1 and Babylon 5) show that special things happen they try to meet in the middle
I've heard the difference described as Star Trek is a dystopia becoming a Utopia, while Star Wars is the opposite, a Utopia falling to Dystopia.
i would argue, that Star Wars is and was a distopia. Sure, they had times of peace. But it never lasts very long and even during times of peace the little guy gas to struggle: The lower platforms of Coruscant are riddled with crime and slavery is quite lucrative in the outer rim (even though it is theoretically illegal).
All that happens before the phantom menace, while huge megacorps are giving themselves political appointments. It is not as extreme as WH40k - but i have not heard yet of a universe so much over the top, as where space nazis could be considered the good guys.
I prefer this version of star trek
Of the four great star franchises: trek, gate, wars, and search, this is easily my third favorite.
It's okay to be wrong
j/k (I'm no gatekeeper)
I'm no gatekeeper
SG-1 on the other hand...
