IcedRaktajino
@IcedRaktajino@startrek.website
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 6 days ago:
Just got around to this one and finished it last night. Thanks for the recommendation. Was definitely different and fun. Kind of a “breather episode” compared to the high stakes of the rest of the ones I’ve been reading.
- Comment on 'Starfleet Academy' Deserved Better Than This 1 week ago:
I downloaded one and I still want to support the author so I have no issue with buying it on sale.
Same. Not with A Stitch in Time but two of the PIC tie-in novels weren’t available without DRM. So I bought them full price and “acquired” DRM-free versions from elsewhere. My conscience is clean.
- Comment on 'Starfleet Academy' Deserved Better Than This 1 week ago:
Yeah, A Stitch in Time was what started the search. Just over $100 seems like a bargain when I was seeing the used paperbacks listed over $200 on Amazon lol. So I went with the ebook copy.
www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/…/andrew-j-robinson/
I think I paid $10.99 for it last year, and it’s $8.99 now. If you are interested in more, create an account and add them to your wish list. They will randomly go on sale with no notice. I got several that were normally like $12.99 for $1.99 just by catching them on sale when I checked back on my lists.
I’ve been getting all of mine from there. If the title is available without DRM, it’s noted in the listing, and you can straight-up just download a clean epub file once you’ve bought it. That’s everything I’ve always wanted from an ebook store.
- Comment on 'Starfleet Academy' Deserved Better Than This 1 week ago:
It’s like reading an extended episode of ST.
Very much that. Mine are all ebooks but I’m starting to build a nice collection. Thankfully I can get most of them DRM-free so they’re actually mine. Best I can tell, the publisher will release them DRM-free approx. 5 years after they’re published.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 1 week ago:
USS Equinox
Nova Class :)
The Bajoran Solar Sailor anyone
For a pleasure cruise? Yes, please. I forgot about those, but they are gorgeous. Practical, though? Probably not unless you plan to sail through a tachyon field lol.
- Comment on 'Starfleet Academy' Deserved Better Than This 1 week ago:
Good thing there’s still a large backlog of Trek novels I haven’t read yet. Not really a consolation prize or silver lining, but it’s at least something.
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- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
A Ferengi ship? Interesting choice!
TIL that I’ve always been looking at them backwards. I always thought the curved section was the front.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
Had to look that one up and recognized the USS Aventine from ST: Destiny. Definitely looks like a cool ship. Assuming the models of it are from ST: online?
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
maybe they don’t use plasma at all?
Never even thought of that. There was a lot of dialog and plot points about finding alternatives to warp after the Burn, and we know they still use dilithium as a regulator, so I assumed they’re still using the same M/A reaction as before. But it’s very possible they extract the energy from the reaction in completely novel ways now.
Was just assuming the same way as we’ve always known because (checks notes) the nacelles still light up blue lol.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
Good catch. I knew Book’s ship did the fancy, in-flight reconfiguration but never caught the Discovery refit using similar capabilities. Guess it was a subtle thing I just missed.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
LOL. As far as how I’d like to spend my retirement, that’s definitely in my top 3.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, yeah. I always forget about the circular nacelles on Vulcan ships. They do have a certain elegance to them.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
I thought she was the oddest looking ship that I had ever seen, but she QUICKLY grew on me.
Like the Triceratops of starships. Hopefully that Jurassic Park reference makes sense.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not versed in the arts, but going by this definition of art deco:
the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, nice. Never heard of that but will definitely give it a go.
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
Also quite fond of pre-Burn Discovery’s “retro Art Deco” style.
I almost added “retro Art Deco of the Crossfield class” to my examples but wasn’t 100% sure that was right. Thanks for confirming lol.
And yeah, I’m still warming up to the detached nacelles of the 31st century ships. I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.
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- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 2 weeks ago:
hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that.
@29:48 in the same video:
Well, I only do stuff that’s cult: Star Trek, Gargoyles, Sharknado. It makes sense.
–Marina Sirtis
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 2 weeks ago:
Very well could be. It’s a quote from a panel they did on the Star Trek Cruise not long ago (www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ML_ScYo8wQ) and everything was off the cuff. I’m about 15 minutes into that recording as I reply.
I would definitely enjoy Legacy , but I was a total sucker for the fan service that was PIC S3. After reading the rest of the Picard tie-in novels (thanks for the recommendation, BTW), seeing Captain Seven command the Enterprise would be pretty great.
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- Comment on TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player 2 weeks ago:
I would love to have one of those. Couldn’t find any active listings, but old listings had them going for like $250+ which isn’t too bad for a collector’s item, I guess.
I did come across a TNG CD holder: www.ebay.com/itm/117030364928
Apparently you can only fit 4 compact discs in a Galaxy class ship lol
- Comment on They Don’t Make CGI Quite like They Used To 3 weeks ago:
I gotchu.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 3 weeks ago:
I’d like to see some of the novelverse villains. The Grigari come to mind.
They’re kind of like the Borg but turned up to 11.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 1 month ago:
They’re separate queens and separate collectives/cooperatives.
The Jurati Cooperative is, as of the end of Season 2, guarding the spatial anomaly that formed in the beginning of S2. They’re completely absent from the third season. Which I can understand since S3 was a fan-service reunion (which I loved).
The queen from S3 is the same one from VOY: Endgame and part of the same collective since they were first introduced in TNG.
The new one affected the other one?
AFIAK, no. The alternate timeline queen was not the same queen seen in S3 or elsewhere.
- Comment on Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard 2 months ago:
Nice. I’ll look into that one.
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- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 2 months ago:
The “Cuatro Leches” is like the jackasses on The Price is Right who, seeing you’ve bid $500, bids $501.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 2 months ago:
They should be. I have never seen them anywhere in my neck of the woods, but I did find a vape juice that’s “Tres Leches” flavored. It’s pretty amazing.
