Star Trek: The Enduring Legacy
Dec. 9th, 2020 10:54 pm
So there's this website called d3.statosio where they promote a product you can use as an add-on to d3, which is a library for programming trendy live-updating charts for dopamine junkies. I imagine the typical visitor to this website would be a 20-something.
Their example charts use Star Trek character-names for the discrete values on the x axis and unlabelled numbers for the y values. Any such use of familiar-but-irrelevant groups (such as fruits or alphabet-animals) as example values causes the person creating the examples to seem to be expressing an opinion or a ranking of the canonical characters, which (in an in-fandom setting) could possibly be fightin' words.
What exactly is it about Nyota Uhuru [sic!] and Benjamin Sisko that causes them to have exactly zero (of whatever it is) on both "Mobile" and "Desktop"? How could Natasha Yar have a roughly average amount (of, you know, it ) considering that IndieWire ranked her as the 15th best character on Star Trek: The Next Generation while Screen Rant ranked her the 16th most attractive person in the entire Star Trek universe? I mean, come on!
I don't really have anything to say; I just thought it was surprising that some TV show from the 1960's is still considered relevant to the "with-it" young programmers of today.
The Tasha Yar character was killed off in 1988, which is closer to the dawn of Star Trek time in 1966 than it is to today. Feel old yet?