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Chris Farnell
@thebrainofchris.bsky.social
I've written the Crew Handbook for Star Trek Lower Decks, the Prospectus for Life is Strange's Caledon University, the joke book for Doctor Who and the continuing misadventures of the deadly starship Fermi.

https://chrisfarnell.com
Personally I've been fighting the good fight in the family group chat.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
They do!
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
You know what Deep Space Nine did wrong?
They gave us the dream - a shuttlecraft with its own conference room, and yet we rarely, if ever, saw people having Runabout conferences.

Biggest missed opportunity in Trek.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Only Zoomers will get this.
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Is this the real Rod Stewart?
I suppose the real question is, do you have faith that it is?
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

FERMI'S PROGRESS opens...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Guys, I've got a plan *does massive bong hit* hear me out *snorts a Scarface-sized pile of cocaine* I've sorted this. What will really fix us up *rubs ketamine into my eyeballs* What we need *chugs an old White Lightning bottle refilled with LSD* is a candidate who can be "the grown up in the room".
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Just in case you need some credentials for that biggest continuity wanker claim, here is the correct chronological viewing order for the James Bond movies.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This is my opinion that has me like
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Iain M Banks: I created the Culture as a queer communist techno utopia.

Musk: At last Capitalism has created The Culture from Iain M Banks's famous series "Capitalism Will Never Make a Queer Communist Techno Utopia".
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Did some writing today.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
TFW it's the Masque of the Red Death and the beat drops.
(hat top to @musicologyduck.bsky.social)
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
You might wonder why @mrjalco.bsky.social has never drawn the Fermi from this angle before.

It's because as a rule everyone who sees the Fermi from this angle is already dead.
chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...

scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...

www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...
November 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Just saying.
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I stand by the Lower Decks Handbook's description of the Ferengi.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"When"=1642-1651
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
As Halloween looms, the Fermi crew consider why humans subject themselves to stories of horror...
scarletferret.com/books/fermis...

www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Wake-...
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I know we like to think that bsky users are the only ones who read the news, but I don't think the demolition of the literal White House is the kind of story that has "containment".
October 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
My personal favourite from the Alphablocks.
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Just been alerted by @hannahchutzpah.bsky.social that the streaming version of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call has changed the stripes on the uniforms from orange yellow fluorescent (practical workwear for people operating in hazardous environments) to red and white (brand congruent, hideous). WHY?
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If we are all going Heist Mode today, it seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone we still need a movie based on the failed heist that gave us this sign.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM