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Hanging on with 1.70E-31 health.

Timothee Chalamet as Data (he’s in everything).

For me it was just the emotional tone. I only watched the first 5 episodes, but one of the things that makes Star Trek enjoyable for me is its optimism about the future. Discovery was really bleak (at least to start) and I couldn’t keep watching it. I’ve heard it gets better, so maybe I should give it another shot.

It’s a promotional photo for the 1989 movie Loverboy.

Ah. That makes sense, I wasn’t thinking about proper names and split the word in the wrong spot. Still i think german compound words aren’t that big of a deal once you get used to parsing them.

Ok, so without looking (and forgive me my vocabulary is really lousy from disuse)

My strategy for compound words is usually to try to break up the word, starting at the end, since mostly they are nouns with a bunch of adjectives stuck in front.

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

So kapitän is easy since it’s a near cognate for captain.

Gesellschaft looks like a word i used to know, but I can’t remember it.

Schiffahrt - i don’t know this one, but it looks like schiff (ship) plus fahren (to go) - shipping?

Ampf - no clue

Donaud - I feel like this must be modifying ampf, because it doesn’t look like a word on its own, but since I don’t know ampf I am stumped.

So my guess is someone in charge of something to do with shipping.

I didn’t know the term for that kind of screwdriver in German, but I speak it enough that if someone asked me for one, I’d know what they meant because the name is descriptive. In English, not so much.

It worked too, Q never came back to the station.

Of all the big scary things in the universe, this one scares me the least. Even if it does happen and is the worst-case scenario you just cease to exist at the speed of light before you even know something is happening. No pain, no dread at your inevitable demise, you just are living your life normally and in a nanosecond you are gone. Not a bad way to go, imo.