#startrekday

[emilylorange]

😮 It's #StarTrekDay?!

[sapphicsandscience]

Star Trek: Picard | Final Season Sneak Peek

[citizenkampbell]

De Kelley as Dr. McCoy in The Man Trap! Another episode where he was absolutely gorgeous!!!!

[adafruit]

Come as we explore strange new video codecs 🔍🖖🎥

Our last few experiments with playing video+audio on the ESP32-S3 involved converting an MP4 to MJpeg + MP3, where MJpeg is just a bunch of jpegs glued together in a file, and MP3 is what you expect. This works, but we maxed out at 10 or 12 fps on a 480x480 display. You must manage two files, and the FPS must be hardcoded. With this demo https://github.com/moononournation/aviPlayer we are using avi files with Cinepak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak and MP3 encoding - a big throwback to when we played quicktime clips on our Centris 650. The decoding speed is much better, and 30 FPS is easily handled, so the tearing is not as visible. The decoder keeps up with the SD card file, so you can use long files. This makes the board a good option for props and projects where you want to play ~480p video clips with near-instant startup and want to avoid the complexity of running Linux on a Raspberry Pi + monitor + audio amp. The only downside right now is the ffmpeg cinepak encoder is reaaaaallly slooooow.

[numenskog]

Happy Star Trek day! :D

[nikmen69]

[girlactionfigure]

Today, on #StarTrekDay, we remember Leonard Nimoy and his famous Vulcan hand greeting.

It is actually the physical representation of the Hebrew letter “shin,” and comes from a Jewish prayer ceremony Nimoy remembered witnessing as a child growing up in Boston with Yiddish-speaking grandparents.

He was rehearsing a scene where Spock meets a fellow Vulcan for the first time. Rather than have the aliens shake hands, a very human gesture, Nimoy felt the pair needed to do something different. His thoughts went back to a powerful moment he had experienced with his father in shul.

During the High Holiday services, the Kohanim, the priests, bless those in attendance. As they do, they extend the palms of both hands over the congregation, with thumbs outstretched and the middle and ring fingers parted so that each hand forms two V shapes. This gesture symbolizes the Hebrew letter shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, “Lord.”

Humans of JNF

[ascender56]

Happy 56th Star Trek!

[sirtt]

"Las'hark t'nash-veh..." [my sun]

Vulcan kiss for my fic "Star ripples and the path of the moon" ("Рябь звезд и дорога луны") https://archiveofourown.org/works/40277922/chapters/100888410

[weerd1]

[commandermeg]

Excuse me while I scream from Joy

[operationhammond]

Happy Star Trek Day! On September 8th, 1966, sci-fi history was made when the original series premiered.

Are you doing anything to celebrate today (cosplaying, marathoning your favorite Trek series, etc.)? Let us know in the comments! As always, to learn more about our charitable mission and how you can help nerds in need, please visit our website at www.operationhammond.com

[freezecrowd]

Happy Star Trek Day! Any college student Star Trek fans in the crowd? Join us on FreezeCrowd.com to freeze with your favorite Star Trekkie moment. ❤️❄️😀 

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2023.09.08

Friday, September 8th: ~ National Service Dog Month ~

(exclusive): Underdeveloped (TUBI, mockumentary series premiere, all 4 eps), Tiny Toons Looniversity (MAX, animated series premiere, all 10 eps), Burning Body (netflix, Spanish limited series, all 8 eps), A Time Called You (netflix, Korean romantic fantasy, all 12 eps), Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: "To Be a Pokémon Master" (netflix, spinoff, all 12 eps), Spy Ops (netflix, intelligence reality insider stories, all 8 eps), Star Trek: "very Short Treks" (at startrek.com online, all 5 animated shorts)

(movies): "Blood Flower" (Shudder, Malaysian horror, ~100mins), "Rosa Peral's Tapes" (netflix, Spanish true-crime documentary, 80mins), "Sitting in Bars with Cake" (amazon, friendship dramedy, 2hrs), "How to Date Billy Walsh" (amazon, teen rom-com, delayed until 2024), "Self Reliance" (hulu, genre-bending comedy-thriller, delayed until November)

(streaming weekly): The Changeling (apple+, series premiere, first 3 eps), Foundation (apple+, penultimate), Shelter (amazon), The Wheel of Time (amazon), Dreaming Whilst Black (Para+, series premiere, first 2 eps)

(specials): "Star Trek Day 2023" (COM|MTV2, special, ~30mins), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (CBS, broadcast premiere, first 2 eps), The Last Drive-in (Shudder, "Live From the Jamboree" with Joe Bob Briggs)

(original made-for-TV movies): "The Kept Mistress Killer" (LIFE, 2hrs+), "Guiding Emily" (HMM, 2hrs)

(hour 1): Power (Book IV): Force (Starz)

(hour 2): Minx (Starz, 35mins, season 2 finale)

(hour 3): Heels (Starz)

[adafruit]

ESP32-S3 Mini TV demo for Star Trek Day 🖖📺🔊

This Mini TV demo

by moononournation is perfectly themed for Star Trek day, playing the TOS and STNG intros at 480x480 12fps MJpeg and 22KHz I2S MP3 audio. We'll try Cinepak next, but this was an easy first start, and it looks and sounds great. There's a little tearing effect due to the low frame rate and the display being single, not double-buffered, but considering this is a $4 microcontroller module running Arduino, it's very impressive! This may be the first time we've seen reasonable size-and-quality video+audio playback! This was our last 'test' for the ESP32-S3 TFT Experimenter board. All functionality has been tested, and it's ready to go out for manufacture - only one blue-wire fix is needed to change the default I2C address of the GPIO expander :)

[rabbitcruiser]

Star Trek Day

“I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity; I know nothing.” ~ James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Long ago, in the depths of the cold war, America had a prophet arrive. He spoke not of religious texts and damnation, but instead provided us with a vision of the future so hope-filled, so compelling, that it has indelibly marked the imaginations of man-kind ever since. Star Trek Day celebrates that vision, and the man who created it, Gene Roddenberry.

History of Star Trek Day To today’s audiences, the original Star Trek series can seem hackneyed, corny, and even incredibly racist when viewed through the modern lens. To view it in this way overlooks the incredible strides that were made during it’s production, and how unthinkable some of the elements found within were. Consider if you will, Lieutenant Pavel Andreievich Chekov, a officer of Russian descent serving on board an American starship. In the days of the ‘Red Communist Threat’ this concept was inconceivable, but Gene dreamed of a day where it would be possible.

Then there was Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, who stood out not only by being a female officer on the deck of a naval vessel (since all starships are considered part of the Navy) but by being of African-American descent. Both of these elements created an incredible story for her, her position as fourth in command of the USS Enterprise not undermined by her position as a glorified telephone operator.

Star Trek speaks of a hope-filled future where our nationality no longer matters, and yet each of our personal heritages is still something we can be proud of. We are all citizens of the same universe, and at the end of the day that’s all that matters.

How to Celebrate Star Trek Day The best and easiest way to celebrate Star Trek Day is simply taking the time to marathon the original series. Take care on the first episode, it is easily rated as one of the most spooky and unnerving of all episodes, and Spock is to blame. They hadn’t established that Vulcan’s lacked emotion at that point, so there’s a shocking surprise for those unfamiliar with the episode. Put together some themed snacks and pull your old uniforms out of the closet, no better way to get in the spirit of Star Trek Day!

Source

The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered with “The Man Trap” on September 8, 1966, launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.