The thing I enjoy about Lower Decks is that, up until now, the wiki curators who are determined to shoehorn every piece of Star Trek lore into a single coherent universe mostly only had to do bullshit worldbuilding gymnastics to make that work when dealing with the Original Series, a couple of the more egregious Star Trek: Voyager episodes, and some of the novels, and in a pinch they could get away with declaring the novels "secondary canon" – but now Lower Decks is throwing them multiple unhinged curveballs in every single episode, and the wiki articles are getting interesting again.
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Fallout Series: Star Trek Actors
Were you previously aware that, along with Michael Dorn and René Auberjonois, over 20 actors that played a role in Star Trek also voiced a character in Fallout?
Examples include Alan Oppenheimer, Clancy Brown, Wil Wheaton, Malcolm McDowell, Roger Cross and Richard Herd, Jr.
Speaking of Star Trek, you should check out our affiliate wiki, Star Trek Online Wiki, which you can find here:
https://stowiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
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To anyone in the position to edit future non-fandom wikis, from a blind fan
I have run up against this issue on the Star Trek Fandom wiki (I know Fandom is bad, if there's an alternative wiki for the Star Trek franchise please please point me to it), but I hope anyone else who edits/will edit any wikis for (particularly live-action) fandoms will hear my plea.
On behalf of all blind fans, I implore you:
When creating/editing a character's page, provide a physical description of them.
Yes, even if there are pictures. Blind people can't see those. Alt text for those pictures would also be nice because screen-readers can read alt text, and it's not always visible to a sighted person who just wants to check a thing real quick.
Yes, even if they basically look like the actor playing them. We also cannot see what actors look like, funnily enough.
Yes, even if you think some things are obvious. You never know what someone might have missed when watching the show/movie or playing the game/watching a let's play. Especially if they're blind/low-vision viewers.
Yes, even if you personally find it annoying. Wikis are an excellent reference if done well, and can be very helpful for reminding people of stuff, and for helping blind fans like myself know what something looks like, so long as the description is there. We find it annoying when there isn't all the information on a wiki page there could be.
Sincerely, a blind Treky who has looked up the pages for several characters on the Star Trek wiki this past week to try and find out for suresies what those characters looked like, only to find there was no physical description section. The races get them, which is great and mostly helpful (but why do they talk about Cardassians having grey skin most of the time instead of scales? I got tripped up by that—though not in anything I've posted yet thankfully!). But that only gets you so far for specific characters! I can't keep relying on fanfics and the kindness of sighted friends with lives who can't always be reached when I need the information to find out for certain what colour Miles O'Brien's eyes are, or Kira Nerys's hair, and sometimes fanfics aren't accurate about descriptions, and I could be basing my entire perception of a character on something I read in a fic once! And I won't know if I can't look it up!
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Alien sapphires, that happen to be a very lovely shade of brown, v appreciated on Vulcan for the aesthetics
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Ah yes,, the famed Vulcan Sapphire (named after the colour of fired Sap) is well beloved for its hazel brown colour and used in several heirlooms- in this image, you can see Sarek wearing two pieces featuring it.
Because of its unique and logical shade of brown, many Vulcans choose to wear it for meditative purposes.
(i believe this ask is referring to this post)
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I legit just spent 2 and a half hours reading memory alpha articles it's so good I just love accumulating knowledge that is objectively completely useless
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Recent update to the Memory Alpha page of PIC S01E10, "Et in Arcadia Ego, Pt II" (red is the text that got deleted, green the one that got added):
I don't know why this is so funny to me, but it is really funny to me...
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