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Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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364 points metalman | 4 comments | 26 Aug 25 23:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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erulabs ◴[26 Aug 25 23:57 UTC] No.45033813[source]▶
Unbelievable! Watched with my 4 year old, he was full of questions about why the ocean was turning to nighttime, what satellites are, about going to another planet, about the earth being so blue and if we “ever even knew that before”.

Just wonderful stuff. So excited for the future.

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hliyan ◴[27 Aug 25 05:40 UTC] No.45035811[source]▶
This is the same age when I started watching Star Trek (original series). To say it had a profound impact on my interest in science and ethics is an understatement. English wasn't even my first language, but I think I picked up a lot of the themes, and my interest in science, tech and ethical philosophy continues to this day. I actually wrote this bit about introducing children to Star Trek (answer is a bit dated now): https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6719/what-is-the-r...
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1. ffsm8 ◴[27 Aug 25 10:28 UTC] No.45037706[source]▶
Dated indeed, as nobody is interested in Star Trek anymore since they've actively ruined the IP.

Heck, the person spearheading star Trek vision has gone on public records essentially saying he never liked star Trek and that's why he's gonna make it more like star wars....

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2. bamboozled ◴[27 Aug 25 12:33 UTC] No.45038772[source]▶
In hindsight, I don't feel like the lessons in ethics have done wonders for the USA either...
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3. hliyan ◴[27 Aug 25 13:28 UTC] No.45039391[source]▶
The "Yangs vs. Comms" episode comes to mind.
4. jfengel ◴[27 Aug 25 16:07 UTC] No.45041531[source]▶
You're talking about the movies, and yeah, that has failed. They're talking about yet another one, and I'm baffled, but we'll see where (if anywhere) it goes.

But the Paramount+ stuff is doing pretty well. Strange New Worlds is very popular. So was Lower Decks. The last season of Picard, at least, gave fans a lot of what they had been looking for. They've got a new series coming out, and what little we know is that it has a bang-up cast. (Not that that's sufficient; Discovery did very badly by some very talented actors. But it's a good start.)

So Trek: The IP is still going pretty strong. At least as well as Star Wars, which has also been hit-and-miss.