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Guess we came a bit late to this news, our subspace receiver must have failed..
After a promising 1st episode were produced of this Star Trek, the producers are looking towards crowdfunding again to expand the series with a further two episodes.
ST:Renegades follows the same universe set out in DS9/Voyager and pick up in year 2388 a decade after Voyagers return.
Many well loved trek actors return to reprise their roles in the ambitious fan production incl. Walter Koenig(Chekov), Terry Farell(Jadzia). Robert Beltran(Chakotay), Tim Russ(Tuvov). Just to name a few.
You can watch the first episode on Youtube here and judge for yourself is this is a worthy alternative or supplement to CBS new paywalled series.
The first episode is available on Youtube.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:59PM
$10k is nothing to many people. Just because you think it's a lot of money doesn't mean others do. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4700148/City-banker-spent-43000-on-champagne.html [telegraph.co.uk] for example.
You spend $6 on a coffee every morning. That's a week's wage for many people.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday November 16 2015, @01:53AM
You spend $6 on a coffee every morning.
Why does everyone say this? Many of us do not spend $6 on a coffee every morning.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday November 16 2015, @03:04AM
No, but many people do. It's an amazing feat of social engineering from Starbucks that made it happen.
You might spend $6 on lunch instead, someone else will spend $100, someone else $1000, and someone makes sandwiches at home for $0.50
The value of lunch remains mostly the same, but the value of a dollar, or $10,000, is entirely related to how many dollars you have. If you earn $50m a year, or $1m a week, or $100 a minute, your opinion on the value of a dollar will be different to that of someone earning $50k a year, or 10 cents a minute.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday November 16 2015, @01:14PM
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday November 16 2015, @02:00PM
No, I know many who do, and judging by the queues at Cafe Nero when I do go into the office I think that a lot of people do.
Most people at work seem to have at least one of the following:
1) A coffee in the morning
2) A pint at lunchtime
3) A pint in the evening
All cost about $5-6, and are are less meaningful than lunch with Chekov.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2015, @05:32PM
Yes, but jdavidb's point is that the vast majority of people don't earn $50M/year.
Other than garnering bragging rights among a certain small subset of the population, I'm not sure how "meaningful" the lunch would be, and in fact your mythical $6/coffee/3-times-a-day person probably gets much more social "meaningful" interaction out of those coffees with their co-workers spread over the course of the year than spending an hour with an actor known primarily for being on a short-lived TV program 50 years ago.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Monday November 16 2015, @03:31AM
Well anyone who has 10k to blow on lunch probably has better things to do than have lunch with Chekov :)
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday November 16 2015, @11:09AM
What like lunch with strippers?
Anyone who has $6 to spend wouldn't spend it on a coffee you can get for 2 cents.
Is it beyond the realms of possibility that some obscenely wealthy people may be Trekkies?