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Mark 2000 Farinas

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Bay Area artist and animator. Comics, sketches, and articles about Star Trek and Sci-Fi. Co-Host of Ship Full of Jerks podcast.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · Jul 13

Time to glue parts together starting with the engines. I first needed to thread through the wires for the running lights. Then I soldered red and green lighting 2mm tower LEDs in place. They’re clear when unlit. I did this for maximum brightness. Clear paint blocks some light.

A Daedalus class model’s engine and strut sit on a green hobby mat. A brass support rod and a set of green and black wires jut from the support. The wires are fed through the engine and out it’s front section.

A 2mm tower LED is clamped with a green wire about to be soldered together. The lower portion of the LED is painted silver to block light anywhere but the tower and to also reflect the blocked light up through the tower. Below is the Daedalus class secondary hull and two attached engines.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 13h

While the rich sit in opulence and think of no one but themselves.

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Spy Fi 🇺🇦 @spy-fi.bsky.social · 1d

Art by Lou Feck for cover of Bantam’s “Star Trek 4” James Blish episode adaptations.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 2d

Michelle Phillips, best for her role as Picard’s old flame, Jenice Manheim, in the Star Trek TNG episode “We’ll Always Have Paris” (1988).

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Trek Marry Kill Podcast @trekmarrykpod.bsky.social · 2d

🍇🍾NEW EPISODE🍇🍷Bryan and Kristen play TREK MARRY KILL with TNG's "Family." Jean-Luc Picard returns home, Worf's adopted parents come aboard and have got jokes; and, Beverly Crusher finds a message from her dead husband meant for their son.
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Podcast Episode · Trek Marry Kill · 10/07/2025 · 1h 7m

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 2d

It has been a long time since I saw this one, so I immediately watched after listening to your show. You’re completely right, it does go over differently as an adult. I was actually shocked how not cartoonish the Rozhenkos come off. They’re just regular parents worried about their kid.

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Ship Full of Jerks Podcast @shipfullofjerks.bsky.social · 2d

Every season of SNW has to have a Spock high jinks episode, and this one came sooner than expected in Wedding Bell Blues. We'll discuss why Spock is only allowed to be funny in silly episodes and how disturbingly one sided Pike/Batel is. Then we'll tell you what we're binging lately!

One Wedding and a God Spanking

Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 10/07/2025 · 42m

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 2d

There are people who like Tron Legacy?

Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 3d

Considering she didn't say a thing I didn't already know (and like) about him, I though this was satire at the point where she's fake typing on the keyboard. But you're telling me it's real?

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 3d

Trois judging you throughout the ages.

Nine line art depictions of Counselor Deana Troi looking judgmental. Two are from season one, then one each from each consecutive season, then one from Generations.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 3d

The warning should really be the US and UK will leave themselves vulnerable if they embrace 19th C pseudoscience, fill their universities with yes men, and deny anything discovered by certain ethnic groups. Fascist ideology is the actual barrier to advancement.

Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 3d

Love that he frames this as a “warning”, but every act of pushing the “Nazis had better tech” myth is pro-Nazism. It normalized the idea that on some level they were, in fact, superior. But they politicized science. They didn’t believe in the principles that could actually make superior tech happen.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 4d

I see the sauce poking out through the cheese everywhere. That looks so gooood

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 5d

"In a way, the Enterprise and the optimistic future in which it exists might be thought of as a reminder of what we can achieve when we really try." - Gene Roddenberry

Happy future launch day to the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701-D. Model credits in the alt text of the image.

An image showing six versions of the starship Enterprise models from the game Star Trek Online. The NX-01, NCC-1701, and NCC-1701-A were modeled by Thomas Marrone. The NCC-1701-B was modeled by Tobias Richter. The NCC-1701-C and 1701-D were modeled by Donnie Versiga.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 5d

From what I’ve read some studio heads are taking it seriously, but I think its performative. Either they’re dumb as rocks or they’re pushing it to have a leg up during the next negotiations. The MSM’s obsession with this boring tech demo is only helping them.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 5d

Good luck to them getting it to look the same from shot to shot (it doesn’t) and getting more than a few seconds of footage of it before it visually falls apart (they can’t). This is really more of an attempt to devalue talent into submission than to make an actual product. Let’s not fall for it.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 5d

That site is great. I believe the panoramas of the Enterprise D are from the TNG Interactive Tech Manual. I’d love it if someone reconstructed the whole thing.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual is an in-depth description of the technology and equipment used aboard the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The CD-RO...

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 6d

I was in junior year of high school when the bronco chase happened and freshman year of college when the verdict hit. Someone got a text and the professor was like “just tell everyone”. Somehow I don’t remember the classes reaction.

Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 6d

Futzing around with Corel Painter with my favorite Golden Girl.

Pastel rendering of Luwaxanna Troi from the Star Trek the Next Generation episode "Haven".

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 7d

I just got a bottle of mastic liqueur while I was in Greece and I'm shocked you could drink a soda can worth of it. Not because of the alcohol content, but because it's so intensely sweet.

Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 7d

Come on. She knew. She just didn't care.

Line drawing caricature of The Romulan Commander and Mr Spock sharing a drink and little hors d'oeuvres on tooth picks. From the TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident".

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 8d

Well, I mean, the kid is happy about it. She’s the one who spotted it. I’ve never seen it in the wild.

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s the original color picture.

Am infant strikes a thoughtful looking pose in front of an orange chair seat.

Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 8d

Well, this is kind of insane. A pic I posted of our newborn on Flickr in 2006 is now a meme. I had no idea. At least KYM correctly credits me…

Thinking Baby | Know Your Meme

Thinking Baby refers to a black-and-white photo of a baby with her hand on her chin, looking to her left as if contemplating something. It became a reactio

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 8d

I'm honestly surprised to see you like it. It's still giving "rehabbing mass murders" vibes to me.

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Ship Full of Jerks Podcast @shipfullofjerks.bsky.social · 8d

We're starting a new run of episodes reviewing this season of SNW. This week we take on the conclusion to Hegemony. Then Ryan watched Murderbot and Mark watched Alien:Earth but neither of us wanted to sit through the other. So, we spoil them for each other while discussing their similar themes!

And Now For The Conclusion…

Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 10/01/2025 · 1h 9m

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