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(DIR) Post #B1O9dQW99AgACxYGTQ by JeremyMallin@autistics.life
2025-12-18T23:44:09Z
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One thing I never understood about Star Trek: The Next Generation…They're on an interstellar space craft. There is no real day and night for them. So, why is there a night shift with a dramatically reduced bridge crew? Wouldn't it make more sense to have two (or more) full crews?#RandomThoughts
(DIR) Post #B1O9dS9t2u3tIV9W3U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-18T23:46:04Z
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@JeremyMallin Having two crews might be more difficult socially? The crew with the captain would attract other "important people" and you'd end up with a needless divide. Maybe "bridge" vs. "engineering" or something. By having "night" and only a smaller staff the majority are all part of one group.
(DIR) Post #B1O9tW3cJkqu1TsZYu by JeremyMallin@autistics.life
2025-12-18T23:48:59Z
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@futurebirdOr even just overlapping shifts that keep the entire 24 hours/day crewed.
(DIR) Post #B1OA2gpRdgbc2Icmy8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-18T23:50:41Z
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@JeremyMallin It would be so annoying to set things up though. Also, on a big ship you'd have spaces with plants, UV lights, those would need to cycle for the plants people and insects to thrive. I guess you could have different rooms with different lights, but ideally you'd have ambient light that suggested sunlight and nobody wants that on their skin if your body thinks it's night.
(DIR) Post #B1OA6p1h6QVycQKBbU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-18T23:51:26Z
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@JeremyMallin The enterprise must either plan to have ants, or simply have ants they didn't expect. Thems the breaks.
(DIR) Post #B1OAOuq8E7wFrTXnM0 by adriano@lile.cl
2025-12-18T23:54:37Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin dunno whether to call this formicization or picnicization.
(DIR) Post #B1OAl4NxPvoBpyvhCK by mpark@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-18T23:58:28Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin On submarines, the crew splits into three eight-hour shifts with a lot fewer people than the Enterprise. The captain doesn't have a watch and there's no particular status to being on one watch or another. The starfleet model exists for the actors, not the characters. We need the main characters on screen together.
(DIR) Post #B1OAtOjldLqvH36Opc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:00:11Z
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@mpark @JeremyMallin There is a lot more to do on a submarine than on a starship. No reason not to have "night" and let people get healthy sleep. Those submarine schedules work, but also slowly drive everyone mad.
(DIR) Post #B1OB4mTXiQMq5AwPYm by mpark@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-19T00:02:14Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin Looking back, I'm not sure it was all that slow. :P
(DIR) Post #B1OBM34lFVuiUSaF7o by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-12-19T00:05:21Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin They kind of address this in Lower Decks with D shift
(DIR) Post #B1OBT8TPZzThG2Uczo by phooky@hexa.club
2025-12-18T23:57:42Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin there's a night shift because even in the future, some people are night owls.i think the real failure was to only have one person with the rank of captain instead of a second "night captain", because COME ON, how cool would it be to have someone referred to as the night captain
(DIR) Post #B1OBT9oiaG7DQPT9qS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:06:37Z
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@phooky @JeremyMallin Night serves an important social function. Sometimes some people get overwhelmed with "people everywhere" and if you could sign up for the nightshift for a bit and walk some empty halls. Have some quiet. Listen to the ship sounds. That's a good space to have for overall mental health.Managing mental health is one of the greatest challenges of a community ship. You'd need high levels of social alignment and shared values. But if you have that you also need outlets.
(DIR) Post #B1ODNXkEuLpfo3pDua by ElGrossKotzo@troet.cafe
2025-12-19T00:24:03Z
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@phooky @futurebird @JeremyMallin yeah would be so cool when they put a rubberdoll in captains seat...
(DIR) Post #B1ODNYtUdQpRN3A7yS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:28:01Z
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@ElGrossKotzo @phooky @JeremyMallin um
(DIR) Post #B1ODSQaSwn3H3UaCFE by Moss@beige.party
2025-12-19T00:28:50Z
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@futurebird @phooky @JeremyMallin Imagine careening around the halls of the Enterprise at night, at reckless speed, on their equivalent of a pallet jack:
(DIR) Post #B1ODXX36LjieXoPWka by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:29:53Z
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@Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin This is the true nature of joy.
(DIR) Post #B1ODrbSzdPaq2M5lom by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:33:29Z
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@4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin She is experiencing the pure joy of "use powerful machine"Much like the leafcutter ant she glories in the power of her labor.
(DIR) Post #B1OF50EQyAkaZ0Eeg4 by PalmAndNeedle@norden.social
2025-12-19T00:47:05Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin I mean, seafaring folk figured all that stuff out centuries ago. It's called watchkeeping, and there's many ways to skin the cat as far as how to spilt the day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchkeeping#Watch_systems.Star Trek does what they do best when confronted with actual real world problems: hand waving. Let's not bog ourselves down with specifics, just so happens that whenever anything happens to $Starship, everyone we know and love is on duty already.
(DIR) Post #B1OFLKXvD1eSCV8VYO by ElGrossKotzo@troet.cafe
2025-12-19T00:49:59Z
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@futurebird @phooky @JeremyMallin i did NOT meant an inflatable sexdoll...
(DIR) Post #B1OFNfNIjuJRNYHZdA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:50:30Z
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@ElGrossKotzo @phooky @JeremyMallin OK I wasn't even thinking about that.But NOW I am. :/
(DIR) Post #B1OFdeQQ2Qdp4CMYZk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:53:18Z
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@weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin My mom hired a guy to dig some fields for her with his small bulldozer. After watching him for a bit she asked if she could do some of the digging and they guy showed her how. Then we couldn't get her out of that machine. In fact, we only got her out of it by pointing out that she shouldn't "help by digging the neighbor's yard too" and "maybe we could buy one of these the man needs to go, Mom."To this day she asks when we will get one.
(DIR) Post #B1OFgWS08xfhCeTKkq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:53:54Z
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@weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallinWhen the catalog from the small personal bulldozer companies come in the mail Dad hides them.
(DIR) Post #B1OG3GgGwQssxDzdku by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:58:00Z
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@weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin Someday I will call and Dad will answer."Yeah, your Mom got that bulldozer she wanted.""Oh. Uh. Where is she?"*crashing sounds*"... outside ... happy"
(DIR) Post #B1OG8OvrgqJ5zfjaD2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:58:55Z
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@jrconlin @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin mother must never see any of this.
(DIR) Post #B1OGCMZiOcl3qDGMq0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T00:59:33Z
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@catmisgivings @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin Yes. They have a little family farm.
(DIR) Post #B1OGLALPEtjgVwleL2 by mcc@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T00:55:35Z
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@phooky @futurebird @JeremyMallin okay so a theory I have is that the function of Starfleet is to serve as a kind of containment pool for people who are only able to live in atavistic situationsThe federation is a post scarcity socialist utopia. But in such a society there would be people who are workaholics, hierarchal thinkers etc and can't function in that environment. Starfleet is a sort of SCA of the twentieth century. You can act out what being in a military was like when we had borders.
(DIR) Post #B1OGLBQlCTc3sqHRK4 by mcc@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T01:00:10Z
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@phooky @futurebird @JeremyMallin Applying this to the captain problem— if earth is what canon claims it is, the people who live there have socially progressed to where they could have 3 captains on 8 hour shifts in a power sharing arrangement (or even 6 captains, for 4 hour lead shifts and 4 hour copilot shifts, so there's no discontinuities of command at handover) and have organizational continuity. But the people who join Starfleet don't have that social skill set.
(DIR) Post #B1OGLC46qB5Xqsgrei by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T01:01:12Z
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@mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin Listen people love earning merit badges and having goofy titles. If you don't have a place for that to happen you will have problems.
(DIR) Post #B1OGtEIb2gOycphEB6 by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-12-19T01:07:20Z
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@futurebird @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin Consider the company "Extreme Sandbox" here in Minnesota:https://www.extremesandbox.com/
(DIR) Post #B1OHKQSpv8NuApSDDM by PalmAndNeedle@norden.social
2025-12-19T00:58:42Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin Most of my sea time sailing tallships was with the three watch merchant marine system, 4 hours on, 8 hours off, twice a day. 0-4, 4-8, and 8-12. But I've also done six on six off for one shorthanded, storm battered trip, and a few in a kinda homebrewed 4 watch rotation, where the deck crew is doing three hours on, nine off, and the officers are doing six on, six off. All have their benefits and drawbacks, don't really have a strong preference.
(DIR) Post #B1OHKRQkKOJ5AdU3ay by PalmAndNeedle@norden.social
2025-12-19T01:07:07Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin 4-8 is nice because you're on watch for sunrise, and you can catch the sunset off-watch without loosing too much sleep. Does mean you're on deck and off-watch right when the bosun starts to hand out tasks, so if you're shipping with a driver you end up working through the day when you really should be catching at least an hour or two of sleep, otherwise you're existing on 6 hours day at best.
(DIR) Post #B1OHKSLSvVg20Y1M0G by PalmAndNeedle@norden.social
2025-12-19T01:11:36Z
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@futurebird @JeremyMallin 8-12 is the cushiest. You're up at a reasonable landsman's hour, have breakfast, then four hours watch, off before lunch. Off watch, coffee time, catch a nap before dinner, sail into the sunset, midnight snack, go to sleep.0-4 is the only one with four hours of night sailing, unless you get close to the poles. Night watches are fun. It's a bit sleepover vibes. The rest of the boat is asleep, it's dark, lots of stars, everything feels both crisper and less real.
(DIR) Post #B1OIx7AxfSZFbG6abA by eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo
2025-12-19T01:30:28Z
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@futurebird @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin any time I pass any sort of construction vehicle, I have to suppress the urge to run over and plead for a chance to operate it 😛
(DIR) Post #B1OIz87l73HL7WZISe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T01:30:53Z
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@eigen @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin ... mom?
(DIR) Post #B1OJQuah1TbbFvLidM by eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo
2025-12-19T01:35:52Z
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@futurebird @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin If I am, I've picked a very good disguise…😜(huh, you've suddenly made me realize that, if my parents ever joined the Fediverse, I'd probably have to vacate immediately 😝)
(DIR) Post #B1OOVMjep6xTTRUAKW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T02:32:43Z
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@mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin And let's not forget the power of a special hat. I think there are a great many people who have strange conservative and regressive urges that could be satiated if only someone would give them a special hat. A little silk beret, or a pointy hat with tassels... anything really. They might feel sad to look on a world of equals, they might feel lost, but if they only had a hat... it would be OK.
(DIR) Post #B1OOu1vvIoH6CFz3E8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T02:37:11Z
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@JeremyMallin Of course, there is danger in a simple hat. It can get very much out of hand. https://youtu.be/we3Wkw23aRM
(DIR) Post #B1OPxIIV18OblvfD8q by conniptions@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T02:48:56Z
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@futurebird @mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin OB Girl Genius: https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Magnificent_Hat
(DIR) Post #B1OR30BDOGwnH0XfcG by lemgandi@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T03:01:10Z
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@futurebird @mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin Oh yes, I feel much better in a funny hat.
(DIR) Post #B1ORCFsyMlPqaeQCsC by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-19T03:02:51Z
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@futurebird @mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin You can buy hats! Even special funny hats! I have no less than THREE hats that I wear on different occasions on a regular basis!
(DIR) Post #B1ORfzgf9lF32SqPhI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T03:08:16Z
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@mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin Of course, there is danger in a simple hat. It can get very much out of hand. https://youtu.be/we3Wkw23aRM
(DIR) Post #B1OS7TSkYkbFClRMaO by wtrmt@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T03:13:06Z
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I concur, @Popehat has always been a menace @futurebird @mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin
(DIR) Post #B1OYSeyVYHOEiQmQxk by mcc@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T04:24:12Z
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@futurebird Exactly!
(DIR) Post #B1OwXjFvScnSLAsS36 by darkling@mstdn.social
2025-12-19T08:54:06Z
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@futurebird @mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin Hats are good! I have a panama and two fedoras (one navy blue, one bright red). I regret to inform you that none of them have tassels, though.
(DIR) Post #B1Ox2Jou53LUQhp9nc by kaced@infosec.exchange
2025-12-19T08:59:36Z
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@futurebird @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin Get her a trip to this place for a special occasion. The big ones are great. https://digthisvegas.com/
(DIR) Post #B1PPoEH6nVgDqfePAX by Ehay2k@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T14:17:49Z
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@futurebird @mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin It didn't work with Curtis Sliwa. The hat made him worse. 😉
(DIR) Post #B1PTJz3RDpnplw5clk by JeremyMallin@autistics.life
2025-12-19T13:21:29Z
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@mcc @phooky @futurebird I love the idea that rather than Starfleet being the best, most evolved of the Federation, they are actually the oddballs and outcasts who need their own space apart from everyone else.
(DIR) Post #B1PU51jR5M27gcAL4a by sinvega@mas.to
2025-12-19T13:26:23Z
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@JeremyMallin @mcc @phooky @futurebird I always imagined that every other ship is normal and nothing happens. Mental image of an admiral realising that Picard's reports are not, in fact, elaborate stories he makes up because he's bored and nobody reads the reports anyway
(DIR) Post #B1Peh0ByG1wJSNG9B2 by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-12-19T17:08:44Z
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@futurebirdThose little earth movers do look fun to operate. I've never had a good excuse to rent one, but I hope it comes up!@weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin
(DIR) Post #B1RTA0IyNEprXUGvCq by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-20T14:08:59Z
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@futurebird @mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin ...anyway, this seems like a lost opportunity in the Star Trek world in particular, because for some mysterious reason hardly anyone in it wears a hat.Except on the 1920s gangster planet... and the Nazi planet. See, the unfulfilled need for special hats drove them astray.Guinan wears hats all the time, though. She just walked into the hat vacuum.