I always assumed that ships would be outfitted with enough concentrated anti-matter to last the expected lifespan of the ship, or at very least the mission they’re on

I was thinking something like that, too. Kind of like how nuclear submarines are outfitted today.

I’m more curious how they store the antimatter

That one we do have answer for. There are antimatter pods that have built-in containment fields to prevent it from reacting with normal matter. In today’s tech, it would basically have the antimatter inside a magnetic field in a vacuum chamber.

That’s dark matter rather than antimatter, but I still lol’d. Unfortunately, joke answers aren’t allowed in Daystrom (otherwise I’d have posted to the main Star Trek community).

Not that this makes any of the other answers wrong, but the actual answer is that it was probably a 30-day temporary instance ban.

When a remote account is instance banned, it’s automatically banned from any communities on the instance it has interacted with and uses the same expiration date and reason as the instance ban. Lemmy does that automatically in the backend.

If you’re viewing the modlog from another instance, however, you don’t see the instance ban (only the community bans federate) so it makes it appear the mod is having a hissy fit.

Again, and given the instance involved, this does not mean any of the other answers are wrong, lol, just incomplete.

I can’t believe I’m tacitly defending Reddit, but I’ve seen equally or more disgusting questions in the “Ask” / “No Stupid Questions” communities here. Thankfully they got modded.

I believe the Demon planet was deuterium. Prodigy I did catch on the second watch through (and confirmed in Memory Alpha). I guess my question is most related to if there’s anything canonically stated as to where they get antimatter. AFAIK, PRO was the only reference to actually sourcing it. Otherwise it just seems like it’s “there”.

I’ve only glanced at the technical manual, but I must’ve missed the part about the tankers. Makes sense and isn’t far off from my assumption about generating it at starbases and refueling ships when they’re docked.

On-board antimatter generation is possible, but is extremely inefficient, consuming 10 units of deuterium to produce one unit of antimatter, and is generally a last-resort option.

That part I do recall. Which is why I was thinking that, in Voyager’s case with it being a more advanced ship, that the efficiency might have possibly improved to the point it was viable as a primary source. Or maybe “stranded 75,000 light years from home” counts as a last resort and why they seem to ration their deuterium supply.

I like this stuff a lot - I think it makes the universe seem a bit grittier and less “magical” - and it’s a shame we never really get to see it.

Agreed. Deuterium can be collected from just about anywhere in space (nebulae being the most useful), dilithium is mined, but antimatter is just “there” as far as on-screen explanations go.

glorify the rich & exploitation/objectification of women for massive profits.

I get it. I almost feel like some of that was both lampshading the practice as well as exploiting it. Every time that would come up Maya would have commentary on it.

They also mention Trump several times.

Yeah, that made a modern-day rewatch kind of difficult. I intentionally skipped those parts. Having re-watched several old shows somewhat recently, sadly, the orange T-bag comes up quite a bit. Just is what it is (or was what it was?).

Also ignore my other comment. I accidentally hit submit before I had anything typed out lol.

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So true. And I’m confident it’s not just nostalgia making me think that.

Literally my first thought every time I see David Cross in any role (past or present).

My 'shop skills are terrible, so just use your imagination:

Dennis (as Worf): I am not a merry man.

All of them. Let’s make Danny DeVito the next Jeffrey Combs.

Good memory!

Startrek.website :)

Glad my instance isn’t either :)

Though it’s pretty quiet with .world and quite a few others being down.

It’s pretty great and mostly holds up.

How dare they not screw over their customers?

Gawd. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t around here.

I’m pretty sure it’s that Dwazoup bot (?) and they’re just spraying out posts.