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Daniel is kidnapped by an Unas, who takes him across the land. They stop and rest, the Unas closes its eyes, and begins repeating something like a mantra, "Kullljhaka". And after Daniel suggests it's a meditation of some sort, he suddenly says, "Chaka? Is that your name?"

I don't get it. Why would this creature be chanting its own name? Is that common among aboriginal people? It seems like such a weird assumption to make. And I'm surprised that it was never mentioned (that I know of?), even after they were able to communicate more effectively.

Was this a strategy Daniel was playing, where the words don't matter if it establishes some kind of communication? I would think "Me Daniel you __"

This came from a recent re-binge of TNG.

No one denies the skill of Geordi La Forge. He was the chief engineer on Starfleet's flagship for years, and even improves on the engines and power distribution networks on his own, without help from others. He is a mathematical genius, with several scenes where he is able to do complex calculations in his head faster than most other crew. He has an intimate knowledge of all of the systems on the ship, including the computer. However...

• In "Elementary, Dear Data", he asks the computer to create an opponent capable of defeating data, and because of a few misplaced words, the computer creates a sentient being that threatens the ship.
• In "Booby Tra

So in Solitudes, the first Antarctica episode, it is established that an explosion on the side of the originating gate can cause the wormhole to hop to a nearby gate.

Then, in A Matter of Time, they use the trick when the gate is connected to the black hole planet. Sam explains that a large bomb directed at the gate will cause the destination to 'hop' and they could just shut it down normally.

Later, in A Hundred Days, an asteroid hits the stargate, but the gate survives completely intact, only buried. Sam even references the fact that, "We've seen a stargate survive a direct asteroid impact."

So in 48 Hours, Teal'c takes out Tanith's ship, and it crashes into the gate just after

Troi never mentions the fact that the computer sounds like her mother. Riker never makes a joke about it, none of the crew who are familiar with Lwaxana seem to notice it either.

Troi could prefer to use the tappy interface instead of voice commands because of it. Picard could ask the computer to mute voice responses when Lwaxana is on board and he doesn't want to hear her voice. Riker could make a joke about the computer sounding like his future mother-in-law. And of course they could always have a technobabble reason why the voice couldn't be changed.

It just seems like such a great running gag.

I've been re-binging all of the series, and loving it. I think seeing the episodes back-to-back makes some things more noticeable, like how everything unknown is "some sort of" something. Anyway, during this rewatch, I've been trying to think of things from the perspective of the rest of the crew, and I noticed something.

The gist is: The ship runs into some strange anomaly, the captain calls to Engineering, or Sick Bay, or Astrometrics, and the officer there is able to respond as if they already knew what was happening. No explanations, they just immediately jump into a response.

Because this happens so often, I thought maybe the main departments had an always-on audio feed from the bridg

I've logged in for several play sessions today, whenever I had a spare 30 minutes to a couple hours. I knew I had a few things to do through the day, so I decided to test out PES.

I did a few things around Orison, and hopped in my Carrack. I set my respawn point, and placed some bottles of water and food in a few places. Eventually flew to Yela to an outpost with a vehicle pad, but the airlock door didn't work. I needed to go, so I bedlogged with my Carrack next to the outpost.

Logged back in a few hours later, I was in the same place, and my landing gear was still down and my respawn point was still set to the Carrack medbay. I loaded my Pisces and STV. Parked at an OM around Daymar a

This came up in a recent thread, and a couple of people asked me to post what I found. Hoping it leads to some good discussion!

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I've been binging all of the movies/series back-to-back, and in the process I've noticed a few things about droids that stayed surprisingly consistent. I apologize for the formatting, but I couldn't think of a better way to show the consistencies.

First, all of the droids seem to have fairly deep personalities. They aren't just copy/paste AI, but seem to have their own preferences, their own sense of justice, etc., and it seems largely based on their chassis type. This isn't an exhaustive list, of course, but the ones that came to mind:

• Protocol droids hav

I find myself visiting the same SC-related sites regularly, and I often see sites recommended in global chat, but I haven't been able to find a good list of what sites are really useful to augment gameplay.

We have a talented community, so I know there are a lot out there. I thought it might be nice to put together a list for those new to the 'verse, but I'm sure plenty of the veterans could learn of sites they haven't seen before too.

Here are the ones I find myself visiting all the time:

• sc-trade.tools for planning trade routes
• erkul.games for checking various loadouts and finding where to buy components
• [StarShip42](https