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I saw the original (grayed out) part around Nicoles's death and couldn't take take it seriously. Therefore, here is my addition to make all of this more accurate.

Some of my favorites:

• Snapping Turtles (Bangs Demo) - I like the lyrics better than album.
• Man It's So Loud in Here (Demo 1) - I prefer this arrangement over album.
• Half a Boy - I'm a little mad this one was never on an album. It deserved a spot in Misc T or Then at least.
• We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime - Pleasantly depressing.

I feel like it is often called one of the band's worst albums despite it having a lot of good songs: Certain People I Could Name, Reprehensible, and Counterfeit Faker.

As said in LD 2x07 Where Pleasant Fountains Lie, Billups is from Hysperia and there is still the technicality that can force him on the throne.

This kind of condition makes me wonder what Hysperia's political status with the Federation is. What stops Billups from e.g claiming asylum with the Federation, especially considering the Hysperians are not a powerful force?

I have three theories:

• Hysperia is a Federation colony, so they are able to apply their throne law on Billups and Billups is unable to claim asylum with a political entity he was already born into.
• Hysperia is not a Federation member, but has a scare resource (like dilithium) that makes Starfleet want to maintain good relations with Hysperia.
• Alternatively, it could be some sort of weird prime directive thing.

It is believed he entered an anomaly with a shuttle in mid-2385. Upon returning, he said, "I guess I basically missed the late 80's."

Seriously, though, it surprises me how naturally Starfleet this guy sounds, especially after knowing him from another role. It just feels like he could be edited in to be some Ensign at Conn on a TNG-era bridge and no one would notice.

A severe temporal anomaly during a transporter accident lead to this abomination, Kai Winkomaskix, child of Mogh.

The transport officer on duty almost phasered them on site. During the manhunt, Gul Dukat got the closest he ever did to getting a statue on Bajor.

Luckily, temporal investigations got everything sorted out.

Kai Winkomaskix, child of Mogh was a spiritual successor to Needole. https://startrek.website/post/12514221

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In LD 1x08 Veritas, Rutherford is rotating some "EPS Capacitors" (These seem to have little mention outside this episode) to prevent them from overheating.

Before I ask my questions, I first want to establish what makes sense to me here. Although not previously mentioned, like electrical capacitors, EPS Capacitors probably help to "smooth out" plasma flow. As these are high-power systems, I am sure there is risk of overheating in these capacitors that is not as present in current electrical capacitors, which usually don't have a rotating mechanism.

Now, for the questions:

• Why do the capacitors rotate, and what does this do to prevent overheating?
• Why do they have to do this in the 24th century in a post-scarcity society?

For the first: My first theory is these are variable capacitors. Assuming the mechanics work similarly to electrical capacitors, Rutherford could be changing the capacitance of each capacitor to rotate the load. This doesn't feel completely right, though (for instance, how to keep the array within specification).

A better theory is that although its function is analogous to an electrical capacitor, the physical mechanics used behind it are different, and somehow wear in the internal materials is uneven unless rotated, somewhat like tires.

For the second: We practically mastered rotating crap with electricity in THE 20TH CENTURY and have only gotten better since. I don't understand why Starfleet couldn't just give each capacitor a servo motor running off an EPS tap that does the randomization automatically, or at the very least mount them all on a belt. Heck, if heat is the problem, why not a liquid cooling loop? The worst that can happen is an ensign has to go get a mop.

It could be possible that maybe it was kept there as a task to bully ensigns/make officers feel useful, but I feel that kind of thinking wouldn't necessarily exist at the Cali class drawing board. It could be possible that somehow the magnets in the motor interfere with the EPS containment field, but I feel like that would mean a lot more crap would have to be banned on board if the EPS conduits were that vulnerable.

Ultimately, I really can't make full sense of this second point, and would love insights on this and my first question.

I'm writing a program that wraps around dd to try and warn you if you are doing anything stupid. I have thus been giving the man page a good read. While doing this, I noticed that dd supported all the way up to Quettabytes, a unit orders of magnitude larger than all the data on the entire internet.

This has caused me to wonder what the largest storage operation you guys have done. I've taken a couple images of hard drives that were a single terabyte large, but I was wondering if the sysadmins among you have had to do something with e.g a giant RAID 10 array.

Let me know if I missed any!

Edit: Here’s the link: https://www.opentierboy.com/rank?state=N4IgLglgpgTgziAXAbVBJ5owLQIDQgB2GAyiAWEqiOoiDAKwDsAnhALYDWAHJ+SAGMMAMSgBDGAAISAGzEtYkgBIB7GSoDmMMe0kApMYSgB3eSAC+eNBgAOANgBmYB9ygBXAMz8hdVeq06+oYmZpbWdHAAHgCObgBWTAAWGlDeIjBQhAKJkgBKUHAQcGCGAlCSANJiYDAQRhYAumE0GJCw2GL8xHQAgvyUKOEgDHYAnDYwkdwyMmm9ACbsENoykoA4BAAqHOUb2gBuUKsAMmLGcAD8gLgEQUamLBZWLXSRAAyjbsbGDsZ8BD4gBlu8kkKgckgAQioYBoHkNoRAWA4xNFuEI-hgAMLaABeLEkAFk3DB5ooAGp1Ao3EL3Zq0EAARg0KkgiRYcRUcxAJDcACM4DYxGVJAARCAHaGZIWA6mNWmtLDYHldDDg-pUIacYzsaKcHlMbGUdF0ACi7BUyjUmm0umld1hTxAACZuBp2C8xDZuPcjSAAJriKSg5SHVa20JNR50to4NFETFqwYOuDGAQqQijJgaSKctbgtxgSTGcpiGQZMTzPGJMQHSRiKl3WsFxIqdhQACEl3tdL2dk4AmihAgEBsnJIEBk4oh6hU83r4bldGj2AcyrowgT1Dp8xgiTg2J5Gjc2M5+OWMChc5pkYwPLicUdSJediVPoA6hI4Ilh5fZde6G4smqKAmVqbEoHmVcQA3JoGgoCAwBkVI6DDPFSQkCBDALLZFCOIpKHMIA

Edit: Updated Linux with Resistance, Year of Hell, and Borg Janeway

Weird. It seems like the images failed to save. So here’s the who’s who.

• Fear Slayer Hologram Janeway: From the end of VOY: The Thaw as a decoy Janeway to trick the digital embodiment of fear.
• Hologram Janeway: The one from PRO.
• Admiral “Time Travel Laws?” Janeway: The one from VOY: Endgame
• Crazy Murder Vines Janeway; From PRO: Terror Firma
• Subspace Divergence Janeway: The one that blows up her Voyager to save the other Voyager from that one organ-harvesting race in VOY: Deadlock.
• Emo Hologram Janeway: The evil act Hologram Janeway puts on for the Diviner in PRO: A Moral Star
• “But We Already Have a Janeway at Home!”: Dala, the scammer that pretends to be Janeway in VOY: Live Fast and Prosper.
• Silver Blood Janeway: The duplicate Voyager from VOY: Course: Oblivion.
• Mirror Janeway: From somewhere in PRO season 2, which I haven’t watched yet.
• Warship Janeway: From VOY: Living Witness.
• Borg Janeway: Undercover Borg Janeway in VOY: Unimatrix Zero
• French Resistance Katrine: That one time the Hirogen made the whole crew think they were holodeck characters in the WW2 French Reistance. Janeway was a bartender.
• Year of Hell Janeway: From the Year of Hell Timeline. Died almost immediately.

In LD 4x06 Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place, Ransom mentions that there are no married officers on board. However, way back in LD 1x02 Envoys, when trying command in the simulation, Rutherford accidentally kills all the ship’s children via destruction of the pre-K and Kindergarten decks. I am thus wondering, are there actually any children on the Cerritos? I do have several theories (some of which could co-exist together), none of which I am certain of:

For No:

• Due to their longer-term mission, Starfleet legally requires schools on the California class in case officers with kids transfer on. These sit empty on the Cerritos.
• Perhaps during Envoys there were some kids, but they transferred off the ship before the Ferenginar visit.
• Alternatively, the training simulation (which seems to represent the Cerritos due to the bridge, LCARS colors, and addition of officers like Ensign Casey) drew upon a generic ops division Cali class configuration for the rest of the ship, thus falsely assuming there were children.

For Yes:

• Birth out of wedlock is common in some Federation cultures, including United Earth.
• It could be possible there are married officers that serve on different ships, with the kid(s) of that couple living on the Cerritos.
• There could be married couples on the Cerritos, but only ONE is an officer (a la O’Brien and Keiko); for instance, Lt. Holly has a husband who is a botanist. The Cerritos cannot allow her husband to do travel guide duty and must assign someone else.
• Similarly, maybe non-commissioned couples exist on the Cerritos, but an officer is required to do the duty.
• Maybe Ransom wasn’t totally literal. Officer couples may just be very rare aboard the Cerritos, and the only ones that are aboard include officers doing a duty so vital they can’t do travel guide duty. Ransom didn’t feel the need to fully explain this and went with the simple version when giving the job to the Beta shifters.

Update (8/23/2024): I was rewatching Lower Decks 2x10 First Contact and the mentions of Captain Freeman probably thinking the Captain Freeman Day decorations were for children implies that at least during season 2, there were children on the ship. I feel that the Archimedes incidents could be impetus for the ship being declared too uncomfortable for a family. I'll see in my rewatch if I come across any other implied children on the Cerritos in later seasons.

Another update (12/27/2024): In 1x07:”Much Ado About Boimler”, there are kids aboard the Rubidoux, which suggests at least some Cali-class vessels have children.

Risa’s Dental ”You’re on a pleasure planet, so why shouldn’t your teeth be a pleasure as well?”

Although I imagine dentists don’t exist in the 24th century like they do know; I imagine instead of braces or fillings, a general doctor just replicates chompers like they did for Ransom that one time, albeit hopefully the right size.