I'm in New Plymouth for the second week of the school holidays. And haven't done much. I spent about 16 of the last 24 hours sleeping as I've got some sort of cold. I wonder if it's the same thing.

I've spent most of the 8 waking hours watching Star Trek Lower Decks. I've heard people talking about it on Lemmy, and have now watched the whole first season. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, because normally (at least in my experience) Star Trek takes Star Trek seriously, and if you want a non-serious Star Trek then you watch The Orville instead. But Lower Decks doesn't take Star Trek seriously at all, and I've been enjoying it 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me, I still need to watch Lower Decks. And Strange New Worlds. And Prodigy. Not sure which series I should start with...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Depends what you're looking for! Strange New Worlds is a more classic Star Trek experience, generally a story per episode like the old days.I'm not up to date on it though, I think I've only seen the first season.

Lower Decks is almost satirical, making fun of Star Trek in a lot of ways.

I hadn't heard of Prodigy, sounds like it might be a Star Trek version of The Clone Wars series?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love Lower Decks so much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's certainly been a pleasant find. I'm really surprised at the amount of new Star Trek content out in the last decade or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah? Sounds fun, will give it a go sometime. (We're currently only watching one show a night and it has to be Forbryndelsen or I will riot). I quite enjoy silly space shows like Red Dwarf and Lexx though it's probably not quite that far along.

The virus I had wasn't a cold, it mainly involved severe vertigo, though it then turns into a respiratory infection as a complication in pediatric patients, apparently. I guess if your kids start throwing up, ask them if the room is spinning!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's just on the level of making fun of stuff that happens in star trek from the point of view of low level staff on a not important ship. I think it's worth checking out, you'll get a feel for it in the first episode and quickly work out if it's your thing. But if you only get to have one episode per night then maybe picking a show with 20 min episodes won't be your best bang for buck!

Oh man I have heard severe vertigo is terrible. I've known a few people that have had it badly and it was not a fun experience. One of my kids used to throw up whenever they got a cold, I'm glad that phase is over. Probably down to once per kid per year now, because kids are just not very healthy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought it's just that they have smaller bodies?

Yeah viral vertigo was kind of horrendous. If you've ever been knocked out by a blow to the head, at one point it felt like that only for hours not seconds. Glad it's gone!

Cool, I'll put that show on my list. Forbrydelsen isn't going to last forever.

I miscounted my caterpillars btw, there's at least 7!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't smaller body kids get sick less because there's a smaller target for germs to hit? 😅

I know someone who spent months with on and off vertigo and still gets dizzy, something about crystals in their ear? My Dad also had vertigo for a while, and that was off and on for months as well. Someone he knew had it so bad for so long they had to stop work. I'm thankful to have never had it (and to have never been knocked out!).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But the germs aren't smaller, I mean if a kid gets attacked by a bear...

The crystals thing is sweet as, BPPV, it's when crystals land on these balance-sensing hairs in your inner ear and give you vertigo, but there's this short maneuver exercise you do that dislodges them and shifts them somewhere else. I've had it a few times in my life and always shifted them no problem.

Some people get recurring BPPV and apparently you need a physio to help with some other manouver if they're in a hard to reach place.

But with a virus its when the actual part of your ear with the hairs in it gets inflamed and messes them up, can be for weeks, an unlucky few never recover properly. The manouvers don't touch it. Then the third cause is this thing called a vestibular migraine some people just get.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For that person they didn't do the exercises as often as they were supposed to and it didn't get better, but also it turned out they had a brain tumour so it's hard to say if it really was the crystals 🫤

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe it was the brain tumour, that poor person! The crystals usually get dislodged in just a few iterations (sometimes 1), it's not like building up muscles. As far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Might be the brain tumour, but it was cut out and the balance issues didn't go away so hard to know.