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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 2h

Even in black and white (I'm not that old, we were just that poor) this scared the crap out of me.

Screenshot from "The Lights of Zetar" where a dying Memory Alpha researcher makes garbled sounds as her face glows green.

David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Read a ridiculous article that Apple is "locking your iPhone behind a paywall" because the most advanced AI stuff is restricted to the newest phones and the "productivity feature" of running 2 apps side-by-side is only on the Duo. Two things: 1. The newest AI features aren't useful to regular humans

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TrekRanks =/\= EnterpriseExtra @trekranks.com · 01/10/2026

"Infinite growth" is literally the dumbest thing all of these morons are beholden to. Just complete "stock market" brain disease. An idiotic 50-year world development Like Nike & Coke have to grow ever quarter? They haven't done enough? Haven't sold enough? Nope! Grow every 3 months or you're dead!

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why would anyone voluntarily install this? You might as well drink a bleach cocktail, or whack your own personal region with a hammer.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was only 4 years old when they made this eerily-accurate likeness of the way he looks today.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Saw someone say that all fraternities should be “disbanded” but I think that’s way too soft a term for what needs to happen.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wanna see the most Oregon thing ever?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody has heard “Choosin’ Texas” because the Billboard charts are like the NIT in college basketball. Relevant in the past, not so much anymore.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whatever you may think of Strange New Worlds, Celia Rose Gooding has always been one of the best parts of the show. Just an amazing talent who can handle whatever is thrown at her and make it completely believable.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No cheating (unless you really, really want to) post your lock screen!

An iPhone lock screen with a tall Liquid Glass-style clock and a wallpaper with a wavy blue and orange pattern

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why does the Holodeck even have safety protocols that can be turned off? Like, if you’re running the Dixon Hill program, why would the computer replicate metal bullets for the guns? Why would that even be in the code?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People will say this looks like the Discovery, and that's interesting because the reason Discovery looks the way it does is because Bryan Fuller's original plot for Disco's 1st season included a beat where the ship jettisoned the saucer and passed itself off as a Klingon ship.

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Phil Murphy @crashtesterx.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy Threshold Day to the loving family #StarTrek

Family picture: Paris and Janeway drawn in lower deck style with their Lizard Baby.

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Hauntworks Boo-dio Noir Illustration-Erik J Kreffel @jauntworksstudio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And this is how half-truths & misinformation get spread. Admire Lucy for being a tough businesswoman in a man’s world but she had very little to do with Star Trek other than be head of Desilu. If anything, Herb Solow, DC Fontana & Gene Coon should earn more credit for its success not Lucy.

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Fraize @fraize.com · 23/09/2026

“INTERPHASE: Transwarp Drive’s Mirror-Universe Secrets and Why the Technology Was Abandoned” It wasn’t Montgomery Scott’s sabotage of Excelsior that doomed transwarp drive, but that Interphase encroachment and Mirror Universe crossovers led Starfleet Intelligence to ban its development.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Why, the Very Name is Racist": The Politics of Human(-Centric) Rights Universalism in a Sentient Galaxy

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Michael's reanimated corpse @thepmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“We Told People About That, Right? The Breakdown of Post-Crisis Communications in 24th Century Starfleet”

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The alt text here contains my favourite bit of wormhole trivia.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

PROPOSAL: Anyone who writes the line "It's bad luck to see the bride before the wedding!" into a script receives an electric shock to the personal region. If it's a Hallmark production, they get two shocks.

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Tracie Mauk @maukingbird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#HappyBatmanDay from this 10 year old drawing of George Clooney Bats.

Batman from the movie Batman & Robin holding a Bat-Credit Card and also his suit has nipples.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Isn't this the Talisman from the Red Sonja movie? The one that jump-cuts out of existence any man who touches it?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am not totally sorry that the writer of Batman and Robin won’t get to remake TOS.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BREAKING: The Oneders and their opening act, Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters, have pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If a computer is made up of chips, why can't I eat it? How do I "boot" my computer if I'm not a cowboy? If I want to put my computer in sleep mode, do I have to sing it a lullaby?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People keep making Mitch McConnell jokes by posting pictures of Captain Pike in the beep chair, but OG Star Trek fans know the more apt comparison:

Screengrab from the Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force" where the drugged-up John Gill is delivering his "Final Solution" speech. In the episode, John Gill is the elderly leader of the Nazi planet who is being kept as a drugged-up figurehead by his young lieutenant who actually wields all the power.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s always fun to see a presentation for an expensive tech product I don’t want.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A number of years ago an online Star Trek TOS fanzine held a writing competition for a short story set entirely aboard the Enterprise bridge. This was my entry. It didn't win, but I'm proud of it. archiveofourown.org/works/50500318

archiveofourown.org

Nova Olympic - 4gottenfuturist - Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Tadeo D'Oria @rekkert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary Star Trek! Please enjoy this little preview trailer for our next update from The Roddenberry Archive! 🖖❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcMOIXGZ7To #StarTrek #TheRoddenberryArchive

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just saw someone describe the show Yellowstone as Taylor Sheridan winning arguments with himself in the shower.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So my wife has dragged me into this Disney pin store in Winter Garden

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If “City on the Edge of Forever” was a TNG episode they’d have brought Edith Keeler into the future instead of letting her die, and it would have totally cut the story’s balls off.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Chik-Fil-A was behind it this whole time?

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've lived in North Florida my entire life and my dad's people have been here for a little over 200 years, so it's weird that it said Kentucky. But the area where I grew up is in the dark orange area, and where I live now is just slightly outside it.

Dialect map with the dark orange area stretching across the South from North Florida to North Carolina and Southern Kentucky to Western New Mexico. Text says "You talk most like someone from Kentucky, about 55% of your answers match a typical resident"

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What is the 20th century's greatest piece of art and why is it this?

The legendary "box battle" scene that appeared on the back of Generation 1 Transformers packages from 1984-1986. A group of Transformers including Optimus Prime, Starscream, Jazz, Sunstreaker, Ravage, Laserbeak, Megatron, and Prowl are firing lasers at each other in space.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's weird to see emotional online tributes to Tim Cook. I mean, Steve Jobs had the whole cult of personality thing going for him. Cook has the charisma of drywall. If he was up against a canned ham for Mr. Personality, the ham would win. It's like over-the-top mourners at a dictator's funeral.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Lance Hunt wears glasses! Captain Amazing DOESN'T wear glasses!"

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Anyone who says the next Star Trek needs to stick to "Gene's vision" needs to go back and watch the first 15 or so regular episodes of The Original Series, because Gene did uncredited rewrites on pretty much all of them to bring them in line with his original vision, before he lost his mind.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We lost Peter Cullen but we still have Dr Smoov, whatever he's doing now. youtu.be/NntV5hLnVM0?...

youtu.be

Autobot Alert

YouTube video by DR. SMOOV

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jason Bateman has been really busy lately. I mean, I'm sure Conan O'Brien is grateful that Bateman has lost interest in his immediate family but it's a real bummer for the rest of us.

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David Landon @4gottenfuturist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm starting to think the Grim Reaper is on the badguys' side.

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