To be fair tho, Gates told the writers a lot of things and got her ass fired as a result.

I guess the one thing we “missed out on” (I say this sarcastically) is that the teardowns of screen-worn skants indicate that there’s kind of a half-underwear thing there.

The way that the TOS uniforms “worked” is that they seem to have just declared the Space Cheerleader Shorts as clothing instead of just underwear in much the same way that actual cheerleaders have and therefore it’s totally OK for the ladies to kick or crawl around in such a way to expose the Space Cheerleader Shorts.

And, like … damn, people. I thought that a fanservice-y 90s anime aimed at teenage boys had a lot of upskirt, then I watched TOS reruns.

But, because it was very quickly relegated to background characters only, we’ll never know if the skants were hiding a genuine advance in upskirt technology and only have Marina’s word to go on that they probably … weren’t.

Which, well, I think mostly I just wanted to say “genuine advance in upskirt technology” and so therefore I think it’s OK that the skants didn’t get used more in TNG.

I don’t think I’d categorize that as “better” just pickier about wardrobe?

Then again, at least later on in life I’m a boudoir and fine art photographer so all of that concentrated miniskirt vs catsuit energy went somewhere more positive than … wherever Berman went with it, LOL.

I approve.

Pretty much every “show off the attractive female main character” outfit that they’ve invented for Trek has not worked for me. Troi’s outfits, Seven’s outfits, T’pol’s outfits… I think that actually the only exception is the Farpoint miniskirt and even then it just looks attractive but I don’t like what it meant for Troi’s brains so all things being equal I actually like her the most in the standard uniform jumpsuit which is, quite frankly, already designed to make people look good.

Now that we’re decades away from the show and everybody involved has been interviewed a bunch of times, what I actually wish we could have seen was Troi as the diplomatic counselor instead of the vague psychological lead / poorly utilized character that we got. Because if she was the ship’s therapist the long dress would work because it is tasteful and different yet still professional, but then we’d not be seeing her on the bridge the way we did.

So the conundrum with the Voron world is that the Trident and 2.4 are basically as good as you are going to get for the constraints. You can add the Monolith gantry but that’s an involved mod. You can add a toolchanger or a filament changer, that’s another involved mod. And there’s a bunch of really great mods but each of them adds complexity to the build, makes the BOM larger, etc.

The one thing with the Voron is that if you want the highest accels, you probably need to ditch the extrusions. But then you can’t make it as an open source printer because you’d need to do a lot to get a rigid metal frame and there would be minimum orders, etc.

And, overall, if you look at Qidi, they’ve been making Klipper-based cube printers with active chamber heaters for quite a few years now, so the more recent Qidis are really just mods atop the ur-Qidi, kinda. So a lot of the new hotness, outside of a few Bambu things, exists as mods for the Voron. We’ll ignore that Prusa had problems delivering new printer designs for a while.

Allegedly the INDX that looks actually pretty neat that’s going to be on the Prusa is also going to be available as a kit for the Voron.

Neither of my Vorons are stock. The Trident came from Formbot so it already was a CAN-bus design with some Formbot tweaks. You definitely want a filament motion sensor, there’s a bunch of options there. I swapped to the DragonBurner toolhead, I’d probably try the A4T instead if both of them were full-sized printers. My Trident has the inverted electronics mod, that felt pretty handy. My 0.2 has the electronics compartment rearranged.