This away mission could have been an email.

Once. In a TNG episode.

We need to make more electrons.

"We need more electrons" is placeholder Geordie LaForge dialogue before they can get the science advisor in and write some proper technobabble.

Here's the story. Basically a publisher unnecessarily burned a shitload of goodwill because it used a product that wanted to hype itself by calling it "AI", when it really didn't need to: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com/angry-robot-...

For more Missed Conference Room opportunities, take a look at these early designs for the Enterprise D bridge: forgottentrek.com/the-next-gen...

That's because TNG knows how to use a conference room.

They could have filmed from the window side! They'd have only had a door for the background!

This is what I get for trusting the Google result rather than clicking through to a direct source.

Was screaming this when Angry Robot got themselves in trouble for their "AI powered submission process". If they had said "We've got a key word search and a database to direct manuscripts to human editors" nobody would have given a shit!

Die by Kieron Gillen. I've actually been reading a lot of comics this year and I'm not dissing them by including this but not them, but this was something special. The fantasy (it's all fantasy) writer's equivalent of *that* sequence in Sinners. I'm still reverberating from it. It's everything.

A love a spaceship powered by anti-gravity helium metal curtains. Totally leaves Verne in the (moon) dust.

First Men in the Moon?

Maybe if you made the small cup water interesting by putting brightly coloured toys and perhaps some bubbles in he'd consider drinking that too?

They didn't. Despite some objections from Harlan Ellison inparticular, sci-fi writers have a long and proud history of just nicking ideas they think are cool.

They didn't use it properly though. That's the problem, these other people using it incorrectly, differently from the way I use it, which is in someway better.

Either, so long as I can use an LLM to predict the outcome!

Sometimes I wonder if it's a problem that all these sci-fi stories are having a really great time at the expense of one Ursula Le Guin short that's left to suffer in a hole.