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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing I forgot to mention when we reviewed Mando and Grogu was how irked I was that they were using playing cards for wanted Imperials like Bush Jr. did in Iraq 2. I think comparing the New Republic's Nazi hunt to an illegal, botched invasion is bad form.

Someone shuffles though a deck of alien looking playing cards.

A gloved hand holds a hexagonal card with the silhouette of a human head.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I used to have a 400mm mirror lens that I paired with that 2x teleconverter to take insane shots of the sun and moon. I regret parting with it. Though, Minolta stuff is still shockingly cheap despite its glass being on par with Leica (and, in some cases, Minolta made glass for Leica).

A Minolta X-700 equipped with a 400mm mirror lens.

The sun with the moon eclipsing it. Several sun spots are visible.

Six pictures of the sun as Venus transits it.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm making the next couple of Fridays #FilmCameraFriday as I catalog my collection of old cameras with some photos I took with them. This week: the Minolta X-700 which was my father's camera growing up. I have a standard 50mm lens for it as well as a 35mm, 100mm macro with extension tube, and 200mm.

A Minolta X-700 outfitted with a 50mm f1.8 Rokkor lens and a Auto 360PX flash. Around it sit a 35mm lens, an MD 2x tele converter, a 100mm macro with extension tube, and a 200mm lens.

A photo of two women dressed in matching red coats behind a metal barrier.

A sidewalk next to a park. @mauricemolyneaux.com walks on a divider between the two.

Aerial view of North Beach. The Transamerica Pyramid stands to the right. In the center is Saints Peter and Paul Church over Washington Square.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would be wild to look out the windows around the deflector.

A close up of a clay model of the proposed Enterprise D showing a number of windows around the deflector dish.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#StarTrekTheWebComic #NoGoodDeed 17-20 6 September, 2013 trekcomic.com/comic/2013-0...

LT. GRABES (INTERCOM)
Captain to the bridge! All decks, alert!
CAPTAIN MADISON lifts himself up and wanders to a view screen. He flicks the screen on and a squints at the bizarrely fresh and mildly pleased face of LT. GRABES.
CAPTAIN MADISON
What the hell’s going on GRABES?
LT. GRABES
We’ve spotted an enemy vessel, Sir. It appears to be disabled.
CAPTAIN MADISON
I’m on my way.

EXT. DEEP SPACE
The Stalwart approaches a drifting Bird of Prey. Sparks softly vent from a hole in its midsection.
INT. STALWART BRIDGE
The turbolift doors open and CAPTAIN MADISON and LT. COMMANDER JORDAN step out. They take their positions as the night shift vacates.
CAPTAIN MADISON
Status report, Mr. Grabes.
LT. GRABES
The Romulan vessel is damaged and adrift, Captain. It’s engineering section is exposed to space. Several heat signs aboard indicate survivors. Readings show they have enough battery power for minimal life-support.

CAPTAIN MADISON (MUTTERING TO HIMSELF)
We’ve never seen a Romulan ship this close up that wasn’t firing on us or blowing itself up. (ALOUD TO JORDAN) You’re thoughts, Commander?
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN turns to face CAPTAIN MADISON.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
Could be a trap, sir. In four years of war no Earth vessel has ever experienced a situation like this.
CAPTAIN MADISON clasps his hands and rests his chin on them. He looks intently at the view screen.
CAPTAIN MADISON
Without warp drive a sneak attack would be impossible. We’d see them coming a light year away.

LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
It could be a suicide mission. Wait for us to get close and then self-destruct taking us with them.
LT. GRABES
That’s definitely a possibility, sir. But they would require one hell of a power build up on very short notice. Their fusion reactors are cold.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
(TO GRABES SMILING) If that’s the case then we have ourselves a real prize! (TO MADISON) A Romulan ship with real Romulans on board. Even dead we’d finally get a look at them face to face.
CAPTAIN MADISON stares at the view screen even more intently. His eyes squint in deep thought. We see the Romulan ship grow larger in the viewer, her damage becoming more apparent.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We both feel that way. One thing touchscreens taught us is that they lack muscle memory and digging through menus to get to important features takes time and attention. That's why cameras and car dashboards are reverting to physical controls. And video games and real spaceships never adopted them.

The Artemis II cockpit covered in buttons and switches.

A Fujifilm X-T5 digital camera covered in buttons and knobs like an old film camera

A playstation 5 controller with the same joysticks and buttons made standard 30 years ago.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean, it’s not any worse than the actual dialogue.

Kirk and McCoy are speaking on the bridge. The caption reads: she's a woman. All woman. One day she'll find the right man and off she'll go, out of the service.

Kirk and McCoy are speaking on the bridge. The caption reads: I’d like to think I’m not so much losing and officer as gaining…

Kirk and McCoy are speaking on the bridge. The caption reads: actually, I’m losing an officer!

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Adam and the Sevrins will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran. When asked for comment Adam said he ”wasn’t going to let some rich man put his mind in jail.“

A bunch of hippies serenade the enterprise crew on the rec deck. From TOS:The Way to Eden.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Vesuvio’s Cafe. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Let’s celebrate 60 years of Star Trek warning us about the prisons our false effigies lock us in.

Captain Kirk stands angrily over a nervous Dr. McCoy and Dr. Crater in the briefing room. The subtitle reads: this thing becomes wife, lover, best friend, wise man, fool, idol, slave.

Captain Kirk looks wistfully upward over a pensive, Dr. McCoy and Dr. Crater the subtitle reads: it isn’t a bad life to have everyone in the universe at your beck and call.

Captain Kirk looks down judgmentally at a sad eyed, Dr. Crater as Dr. McCoy listens in. The subtitle reads: and you win all the arguments!

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Look at his "fuck this shit" face as he doesn't remotely hesitate to blow the computer up.

Jim Kirk has had a rough day and it shows.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What’s interesting to me is that the images are standardized. Multiple artists made different sets, but they all created the same poses for their sets.

Roman coin depicting a man and woman on sheets. The woman is on her hands and knees looking back at her partner who is in a sitting position as she lowers her rear onto his lap.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yeah, TOSR repurposed what is clearly a running light as the pod.

rear view of the TOS Enterprise model with a its rear strobe light circled in purple.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In looking for scripts I found this little test animation dated 2007. I made it in an ancient app called "Swift.3d". It was able to export toon shaded 3D renders as vectors directly to Macromedia/Adobe Flash format. A wildly invaluable tool that I don't think has been adequately replaced.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#StarTrekTheWebComic #NoGoodDeed 5-8 2 April, 2013 trekcomic.com/comic/2013-0... Alt text is now taken directly from the original script. Some descriptions and dialogue may vary.

EXT. DEEP SPACE - STALWART
The Stalwart fires two rocket propelled torpedoes, the right one a single beat after the left. The first one detonates behind the Romulan vessel sending it into a slow spin. The second impacts directly, blowing the ship in two.
INT. STALWART - BRIDGE
From the captain’s chair we see the helm and main viewer. The Romulan ship’s remains explode into dust on screen. LT. GRABES turns toward the camera with a look of excitement.
LT. GRABES
Direct hit, sir! Target destroyed.
The ship’s first officer and helmsman, LT. COMMANDER LANDON JORDAN, turns toward LT. GRABES.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
Fourth one this week, GRABES. Nice job.
CAPTAIN MADISON remains unmoved by the situation.
CAPTAIN MADISON
If there are no more hostiles within scanner range proceed on previous reconnaissance course, mark 2-8.

EXT. DEEP SPACE - STALWART FLYBY
INT. STALWART - MESS ROOM
We pan across several tables in a not quite sanitary looking cafeteria. The tables are full of crewmen and women eating and talking. The camera stops at the back where the officer’s table is. LT GRABES, LT COMMANDER JORDAN, and ENGINEER STILES sit together talking in muted, shameful voices.
ENGINEER STILES
Listen, if it wasn’t for you guys on the bridge pulling more than your own weight we’d all be dead by now.
LT. GRABES looks down disheartened into a metal cup she’s holding in both hands.
LT. GRABES
It’s true, Captain Madison has been a little out of it lately.
ENGINEER STILES smacks his hand forcefully against the table and yells the loudest whisper he can.
ENGINEER STILES
A little?! He has to be badgered and prodded into any kind of decision making whenever one of those buzzard ships come into sight. He freezes!

LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
It’s not so much freezing. It’s more like... disinterest.
ENGINEER STILES
Whatever it is he’s going to get us all killed one day. We’ve got to do something.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
We’re all tired, Stiles. Several years of combat takes its toll on the best of us. We’ve both known Madison a long time now, and we have to trust he’s capable of pulling himself out of this kind of battle fatigue.
ENGINEER STILES
I’m just saying I know how my engineering crew feels. They’re worrying Madison is loosing his grip, and possibly even becoming a Romulan sympathizer. We have enough of those peacenik traitors back home. We don’t need one leading us into battle. If you were to challenge his actions I know the crew would...
An off screen crewman yells out something over the crowd’s noise.
CREWMAN
Captain on deck!

The camera slides over a room full of crewmen once relaxed and eating now standing at attention. It stops at the doorway with the figure of CAPTAIN MADISON standing in it. He steps forward and the door closes shut behind him.
CAPTAIN MADISON
As you were.
The crew sit and resume their chatter. Madison walks over to the officer’s table and sits down at the end, several seats away from the three conspiring officers already seated there. He addresses each one as he sits.
CAPTAIN MADISON
First Officer, Navigator, Engineer.
All three nod and respond with a muted “Hello Captain”. A mess crewman approaches MADISON with a tray of food and a cup. MADISON begins picking at his food the officers nervously resume a different conversation.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A LOT of stuff was left from Tippett’s Mad God movie which pI personally was not able to finish watching. It’s a very violent and bleak film.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I was legit going to buy the Marlon Brando life cast but it was sold by the time we got in. I am more than a little pissed.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Waiting in line for the Phil Tippett studio sale with my pops.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s like, if it’s on camera is it part of the ship? Also, maybe not because you can see the external power wires on the TOS Enterprise and also that there’s no detail on the starboard side of the deflector.

Aft view of the TOS Enterprise. Power cables on the neck and secondary hull are visible and circled in green.

Forward view of the TOS Enterprise. The lack of a block detail on the starboard side of the deflector is circled in green.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nothing like stepping on your own flag. What's especially funny is, you know what kind of absolute ghouls shamelessly put their logos on everything, including missiles and the bottom of shoes? For profit corporations.

An orange air to somewhere missile strapped to the wing of some plane. On the side is written "Raytheon".

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yup. There’s zero livery on the actual canister. Just a model and serial number.

A Mark VI torpedo tube lies on the forest surface of Genesis. Form ST:TWOK.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry was a fucking force of nature.

Tim Curry among ground burrowing aliens in Earth 2.

Tim Curry as an alien spider clown thing in It.

Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We know there were similar mounts on the NASM's top because we can see the wires in shots of the model being filmed. The NASM might have had a mount on the top of it's conning tower as well. Ed Miarecki seems to have mistaken it for a running light, as he put a green one there in his restoration. 4/

The D7 studio model taken while filming. Three wires are pointed out with red arrows.

Topside of the D7 head as seen in the NASM workshop prior to the Ed Miareki restoration. A gouged out hole on the conning tower is circled in red.

The post restoration NASM model with three points, including two holes on the read wings and a green running light on the conning tower are circled in red.

Topside of the head of the NASM model post restoration showing two original red running lights on the hat and a new green one on the conning tower.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My guess is it was a wire hanging mount so that the model could be hung upside down. There are what look like two other mounting points on the underside of the wings. There are also three mounting points still on the MOPOP topside, two on the wings and one behind the hat brim. 3/

A shot of the underside of the D7 from TOS:Enterprise Incident. The chin dimple as well as two other dimples on the back of the wings are circled in red.

The MOPOP model shown on display. A dimple on the back of the head top and read of the wing tops are circled in red.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The shooting model was donated to NASM after TOS ended. It was then loaned back to Paramount for Phase II where it was painted a three color scheme and then sent back to NASM. At that point the chin dimple is gone and patched over. Yet, Greg Jein puts in on the Trials and Tribble-ations model. 2/

Underside of the D7 head as seen in the NASM workshop prior to the Ed Miareki restoration. A patched spot is circled in red.

a side view of the Tribble-ations model held against the sky. A recreation of the chin dimple is circled in red.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I said I would talk about the chin dimple on the Klingon D7 studio model. It isn't on the MOPOP or NASM models, at least currently. But it's on nearly every on-screen shot of it. What is it? 1/

Underside of the D7 head with the chin dimple circled in red. From TOS:Enterprise Incident.

Underside of the D7 model with the chin dimple circled in red. From TOS:Enterprise Incident.

Front view of the D7 with the chin dimple circled in red. From TOS:Elann of Troyius.

Side view of the D7 with the chin dimple circled in red. From TOS:Elann of Troyius.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On its 13th anniversary and on Star Trek’s 60th I thought I’d bring #StarTrekTheWebComic to bsky for the first time. I’ll run 4 strips every Monday starting with #NoGoodDeed 1-4. I’ll also add commentary when useful and the original URL of the first strip in every post. trekcomic.com/comic/2013-0...

A Daedalus class ship passes by. Explosions go off around it. It approaches a romulan bird of prey. The captions read “July 2061. The height of the Earth-Romulan war”.

Title card reading “No Good Deed written and illustrated by Mark Farinas”.

Grabes: Torpedo room! Where the hell’s my ammo?
Torpedo guy: We’re all set down here, Grabes!
Grabes: Torpedoes are locked and loaded, Captain Madison!

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

She’s less Yeoman Janice Rand, more Lieutenant Caroline Munro.

Caroline Munro with an inscrutable, perhaps smug look.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today I was reminded that Michael Dorn once played a weasel with a baboon friend who fought with the devil every episode. I wish I could forget again.

A still from the cartoon network show “I am Weasel” showing a weasel driving a convertible car with an elated blonde woman in the passenger seat.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Wholesome himbo” is a perfect descriptor for a guy who considers this porn.

Two holographic women in shiny, metallic togas play harps. Off screen Riker is sitting back and smiling ear to ear. From TNG:Haven

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How come Romijn’s puppet is so short? She’s the same height as Mount and taller than Olusanmokun.

A puppet of T’Pring, Pike, Number One, and M’Benga look expectantly at flesh and blood Spock who sits on a med bed in front of them.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

35mm cameras. I just got this one. Isn’t it cute??!!

Front of a Minolta AF-C with lens cover in the up position turning the camera off and exposing the film ISO setting dial.

Front of a Minolta AF-C with lens cover in the down position uncovering the lens and viewfinder window, allowing the camera to take photos.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Kor was suggested for A Private Little War, but Bob Justman wrote one of his sarcasm riddled memos saying it would be ridiculous to have him because of the impossibility they’d run into each other again in a big universe.

Memory Alpha bullet point describing a Robert Justman memo about Kor being in A Private Little War. It reads:

In Don Ingalls' original story outline, the Klingon antagonist was Kor from the episode "Errand of Mercy". In a May 26, 1967 memo, Bob Justman criticized this point, writing, "Here we are in the outer reaches of our galaxy and who should Captain Kirk run into, but good old Kor – an adversary that he has encountered before and with whom he has been unable to get very far. Just think of it – billions of stars and millions of Class M-type planets and who should he run into, but a fella he has had trouble with before. No wonder Kor doesn't recognize him at first. The coincidence is so astounding, that he must feel certain that it couldn't possibly have happened." In Don Ingalls' second draft story outline, the character's name was changed to Krell.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There’s some pics of the Enterprise in Drexler’s folder that I’ve never seen in the wild. Mostly of its arrival and display at NASM pre 1992 restoration. Boy does everyone hate Ed Miarecki’s work. Must have felt great to undo all that in 2016.

Picture of the TOS Enterprise 11 footer arriving at NASM with the engine domes removed. This is a lower angle shot than the one most of us are familiar with.

A rear view of the TOS Enterprise with a thickly insulated wire running on it’s nacelle strut and spine. A hook in its neck hangs it to the ceiling.

A Drexler finger points to the hangar overhang in a picture of the TOS Enteprise.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That would be telling, wouldn’t it, Nero?

Silas Greenback, and large frog in a suit and ascot, holds a finger up as if to say something important. His pet, a white caterpillar named Nero, sits on his desk and looks unimpressed.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am not a number! I am a free mouse!

Danger Mouse holds his finger in the air as if to say something important.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And now a choice of Klingon D7 power pods. The top one in each picture is from the MOPOP model. The bottom ones are from the NASM, which you'll recall was the screen used prop. This gives you a better idea of why the MOPOP version would be impossible to do a straight pressing of in a mold.

CG render of two Klingon D7 warp nacelles, one on top of the other.

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