Hugh

• “Genocide is fine sometimes, and the entire bridge crew just gets on with their day”
• Vulcans are just genius humans with autism
• All traces of the previous species are just gone entirely on Mars?
• “I should have broken not only the prime directive but also all the time travel rules and immediately told you everything about me so you would trust me, my bad”
• ”we have discovered a new weapon, we must immediately right this second do a genocide in a suicide mission, destroying not only an ecosystem of species including a presumably sentient one, but the entire planet they live on, and we must do this without concern for:
  • any orbital stability modelling
  • where the debris of an entire planet might go and what it might do to the other planets
  • our own ship
  • any consultation with leadership of any kind”
• “I don’t want a promotion, but give that promotion to my first officer”

This episode was duuuuuuuuuumb! Hoping for better from subsequent episodes.

It’s really refreshing to see a gay relationship happen organically on screen in a context outside of the contemporary stereotypes - and indeed, outside of human culture altogether. I realize Trek has done this a bit in the past with Culber/Stamets, and Reno - have you had to think about how LGBT culture exists in a multi-planetary society in the 4th millennium? Is it just plainly a utopia to strive for, for everyone? Is Jay Den’s family’s Triad House a non-issue in Klingon Society post Qu’onos, or was that something that happened out of necessity to preserve Klingon culture?

Thanks for your perspective! I absolutely don’t think trade work is easy, it can be extremely demanding, and I don’t think I’m physically capable of it now. My back was destroyed for a week after putting up ceiling panels recently. I’m not romanticizing it, just comparing it to most software development roles that involve finishing tasks that are not very useful to anyone and exist mostly in service of either shareholders or making things a little easier for their employees, often at the expense of the users. If you build a wall, that’s a real useful thing for some people. I’m sure there are a million other examples of jobs like that (care work, teaching, arts, governance, etc) but trades was the subset I personally wish I had done instead while I still had the physical fitness.

I was unemployed for over a year. Recently got a job in SWE. I regret it. Waste of my life. It’s worthless work, I don’t do anything that matters to anyone but shareholders. Contemplating quitting during my probation period and learning a trade (it would be a no brainer if 10 years as an SWE at a desk for 16 hours a day hadn’t physically destroyed my body) or getting more involved in political activism.

In your situation, if you insist you want to get into tech, I would recommend applying to jobs that closely match your skillset and then spend some extra curricular time making friends with the in house programmers, finding ways to collaborate, and showing that having you spend time with them is valuable.

Never underestimate the sycophantic idiocy of individual tech workers. One developer does not make a corporate policy. I’m not defending Plex though, if I used them I’d switch away.