• GraniteM@lemmy.world
    99·
    23 days ago

    There’s two points that I look at when I think of how much the Star Trek future is driven by people just doing what they enjoy.

    The first is when Captain Jellico takes over the Enterprise and everyone gets all grumpy and Riker gets relieved of duty. Things aren’t going well and Jellico goes to Riker’s quarters to talk, and after asking for permission to speak freely, Riker tells him “You’ve taken all the joy out of everything.” In this ship of hundreds of hyperqualified people working with bleeding edge technology, literally hours away from possibly facing their deaths and the start of a galactic war, Riker is correctly pointing out the the commanding officer isn’t letting them have fun anymore. People in Star Trek don’t get paid, they do what they do for the love of the game.

    The second point is when Eddington goes rogue and Sisko realizes that he was fan of Les Miserables, and that Eddington is essentially cosplaying as Jean Valjean and wants Sisko to be Javert. Sisko points out that Eddington didn’t have to become a terrorist or betray his uniform. He could have resigned any time he wanted. But he loved his role play so damn much that he was willing, even eager, to get the most determined man in the quadrant pissed off enough to hunt him down at all costs, and Sisko was able to use the implied script of this role play to capture Eddington. In this case, Eddington was having so much fun with his version of living his best life, he was literally willing to get captured and sent to prison because it was how he wanted to play the game.

    People in Star Trek can choose to stay on any number of paradise planets, and quite a lot do, but they will also will face death and worse than death, all in the name of self-actualization, and that’s pretty fantastic.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      43·
      23 days ago

      It reminds me, or vice versa, of the Culture series. It’s a universe that’s so post scarcity it makes Star Trek look a bit mercantile.

      One of the most coveted and sought after things in The Culture are jobs. Because AI Minds do pretty much all the necessary labor, only jobs that organic brains and bodies are required for still exist and they are seen as prestigious. Everyone has everything they could desire and the only thing left to work for is purpose.

    • basdiljhs@lemmy.world
      14·
      23 days ago

      I think this here is the reason why I, as a young boy watching startrek with my dad back in the 90’s, felt like I had to pursue self actualization and other higher leveled Maslow hierarchial needs even though the environment around me was and still is just looking to satisfy base needs,

      Now that I’m thinking about this out loud I guess this could also be applied to 1st world countries as well , their base need being money/food/resources/safety i.e. first level of Maslow’s needs. For context as a child I moved from a 1st world country to a 2nd or 3rd world country depending on how you look at it.

    • fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      23 days ago

      I just watched the episode where he becomes a spy and it was so stressful. The whole time I was wondering why he’d put himself through all that

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      Eddington was having so much fun with his version of living his best life, he was literally willing to get captured and sent to prison because it was how he wanted to play the game.

      And Sisko was having so much fun with his version of living his best life, committing was crimes.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
    34·
    23 days ago

    Starfleet doesn’t deserve O’brien.

    He is, without a doubt, the most important person in starfleet history.

    Sorry, zephram, you gotta take second. I think he would be okay with being second. First is too much work.

    • profdc9@lemmy.world
      12·
      23 days ago

      O’Brien is certainly one of the most abused, weathered Starfleet officers. He ended up on DS9 fighting an insurgency, and spent 20 years in a mind prison. This description could go on for hours.

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
        21·
        22 days ago

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    • luckystarr@feddit.orgDeutsch
      9·
      23 days ago

      Good thing you survived. They are seriously dangerous. The capacitor usually retains enough energy to kill you for days after it was unplugged.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        5·
        23 days ago

        Hum… The stuff I’m finding on the internet should keep enough energy to harm a person for an hour or two. Not several days.

        Did microwave design change after it popularized?

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        4·
        23 days ago

        That’s exactly the part I was changing. The terminals on it were plenty recessed, and I was careful not to stick my finger directly into the socket.

        • luckystarr@feddit.orgDeutsch
          3·
          23 days ago

          Diode and magnetron are also frequent failure causes. The magnetron is easy to test with a resistance meter. Should be low ohms through and infinity to its casing. (all cables removed of course)

          • Nougat@fedia.io
            2·
            23 days ago

            I believe a new magnetron was fairly expensive, and I’m not by any means good with electricity (beyond some very simple car stuff), so I didn’t even bother trying to check it. We kind of hated that microwave anyway, its beeps were so annoying.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        8·
        23 days ago

        It just stopped heating things up. A bit of research suggested that the most common failure was the capacitor, which was like $10, so I figured why not? I was going to have to take the broken microwave off the wall whether I could fix it or not.

        Didn’t work, bought a new microwave.

        • Thomrade@lemm.ee
          7·
          23 days ago

          Microwave repair can actually be quite dangerous if I understand correctly, as they can hold a residual charge which can be very harmful if you short it.

          • Dharma Curious@slrpnk.net
            3·
            23 days ago

            There’s also some kind of toxic powder in there that’ll just straight up make you dead. Or so I have heard from youtube

            • Incandemon@lemmy.ca
              4·
              23 days ago

              If I understand it the ceramic of the magnatron can contain beryllium. Inhaling or contacting beryllium can cause beryllicosus, lumps in the lungs and body, not fun. That said if you don’t damage the magnetron you should be fine on that front.

  • pewter@lemmy.world
    8·
    23 days ago

    Now I’m wondering how many days a week they work and how many hours a normal shift is.

    Since they’re not depending on the sunlight to mark their days, the “graveyard shift” might not even be a real distinction for them.

    • roguetrick@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 days ago

      You don’t like the magnetrons though? They’re the closest you can get to handy dandy home particle accelerators ever since we got rid of CRTs.