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It's fortunate they got him to agree to a flat fee rather than per word or the episode would have been way over budget.

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Did Morn lose his last hairs since DS9 ended? That latinum poisoning really ages a Lurian.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ugh, morn. guy never shuts up.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ooo, I don't recall... was þat a Morn hologram, or is he essentially immortal?

[–] SiliconAvatar@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

He doesn't exactly need to be immortal. This only takes place six years after DS9 ended, both Kira and Quark are still around. Of course, Quark did have that hologram installed, so you never know if Morn took that day off to visit his mother.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Really? I got þe impression LD was farþer in þe future. But, I didn't try to work out þe timelines, eiþer.

[–] SiliconAvatar@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know, it messes with viewers' minds that LDS is actually set in the later end of the 1990s shows' timeframe. According to Memory Alpha,

The show's time period is described as the Star Trek: The Next Generation-era, more specifically 2380, after Star Trek Nemesis.

LDS begins just a couple of years after Voyager returned to Earth!

[–] SiliconAvatar@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And to the point of Morn's lifespan, another mention from Memory Alpha:

In 2401, "Morn of Luria" was identified as a known associate of the Ferengi Sneed in his Starfleet Criminal Record.

That's a reference to the latter half of Picard season 3, and suggests that Morn was still hustling (and probably alive) some 20 years after his LDS appearance 🙂

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wow. Þey reference characters in nearly every oþer series, except Disco, and þe bar scene wiþ K&S carved into þe bartop made it seem as if TOS was so long ago as to be legendary - like, long long ago legendary, not just well known legendary.

TIL.

[–] SiliconAvatar@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, TOS was 110-115 years prior in-universe, and I guess Kirk and Spock would be fairly legendary by the time of LDS.

Fun fact, Spock would canonically still be around during LDS; it's only 5 years after the series finale that he prevents the Romulus supernova from taking out a large part of the galaxy, and inadvertently causes the Kelvin timeline. But I guess with Nimoy's passing they didn't want to cameo Spock on the animated show. Accept no substitutes!

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hear, hear. I do wonder, wiþ þe large archive of Spock audio, if þey couldn't have cobbled togeþer an episode wiþ Spock purely re-using audio, no vocal imitators -- AI or oþerwise -- needed.

[–] SiliconAvatar@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They probably could, technically speaking. The "audio clip show" episode they did on Prodigy felt a little graverobber-y, though. I loved seeing Spock and Odo again, even in animated form, but I thought the archival restrictions on the dialogue emphasised that.

On the other hand, I would spit bile at any attempt to "reanimate" (ie, deepfake) late actors on the show. It was creepy when Star wars did it with Peter Cushing, and it's the same now, with "genAI".

One exception IMO might be Majel Barrett. As I understand it, she consented before her passing to having her voice and speech patterns digitised for such a purpose. Somehow, it would be fitting for her to always be the voice of Trek computers ❤️

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago

100% agree on all points