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    East-side although I’ve bounced around all over the GTA. There are some evil landlords out there who will take advantage of anyone anyway they can and I’m on ODSP so I don’t usually have the best choice of landlords. Current one is amazing though. I lucked out.

    The Dyson Sphere gets explored a LOT in other media but TNG left it alone. Star Trek Online, a free to play MMO that was released in 2010, explores the Dyson Sphere a lot. There’s a whole series of missions and an arc based around it. The game can get obscenely complex in stats and builds but only if you want it to be. Otherwise it’s really easy to sit back and blast shit while hearing Trek actors. However the game is in ‘temporal flux’, shall we say. It’s both canon and non-canon. In Picard Season 3 we saw the Enterprise-F for the first time on screen but that ship was debuted in Star Trek Online years ago. Also it shows Harry Kim gets promoted to Captain so dope.

    I mean it would but I’m just not great at accepting compliments, nevermind much else. Also I don’t drink anymore either. I also don’t get out much either for a whole bunch of reasons. Although when I do I usually do something stupid and go to Ripley’s Aquarium or down to fucking Hanlans. I’m an all or nothing idiot.

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      Nice! I am west end / Parkdale-adjacent. I’ve been renting for a long time in this place, and it’s an older building, so the property management probably hate me and my rent-controlled ass.

      I did actually play STO briefly in the early 2010s, but don’t think I encountered any stories involving the Dyson Sphere. It’s cool that they picked up on it in a quasi-canonical way. I do wish TNG returned to the sphere in the series run, though. I’m surprised Berman didn’t tackle it in an episode of Enterprise, although they would’ve made that a season long arc, and it would have turned out the sphere builders were actually the descendants of Porthos (who became enlightened and sentient beings after all of the space-cheese Porthos ate) who travelled into the distant past to build the sphere. Or it would end up being a Barclay holodeck simulation, one or the other.

      Hey, whether Ripley’s or Hanlans there’s usually a lot of stuff to look at 😂

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        Similar sort of deal for me. My landlord is my roommate but she’s been here for ages and is also rent controlled. Gets it dirt cheap. Even with ODSP I’m still able to afford half the rent and be fine. Mostly because the rent, while being so cheap, also includes utilities (minus internet). I don’t want to leave this place.

        I would totally be down for a Porthos focused series of animated shorts or something. I miss that adorable bastards. Captains need to have more pets.

        Difference is that at Ripley’s i’m looking at Marine Life. At Hanlans i’m the marine life in the form of a beached whale. Everyone else pretty though.