{"id":25955,"date":"2022-04-06T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T23:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25955"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T23:37:47","slug":"star-trek-craptinuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/04\/06\/star-trek-craptinuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Craptinuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1502,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theverge.com\\\/2022\\\/4\\\/6\\\/23013716\\\/paramount-nft-marketplace-star-trek-collectable-ships&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302193712\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.theverge.com\\\/2022\\\/4\\\/6\\\/23013716\\\/paramount-nft-marketplace-star-trek-collectable-ships&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 13:47:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:15:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 01:39:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 01:39:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1503,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/shop.eaglemoss.com\\\/us\\\/hero-collector\\\/star-trek\\\/star-trek-official-starship-collection&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302193645\\\/https:\\\/\\\/shop.eaglemoss.com\\\/us\\\/hero-collector\\\/star-trek\\\/star-trek-official-starship-collection&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 13:47:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:15:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 01:39:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 01:39:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1504,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/djwudi\\\/status\\\/1511845612651573254&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/djwudi\\\/status\\\/1511845612651573254&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s more mind-numbing: That Paramount is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/6\/23013716\/paramount-nft-marketplace-star-trek-collectable-ships\">doing this with Star Trek<\/a>, or that there are probably enough people willing to spend their money this way to make it worthwhile for Paramount to do this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Paramount is aping what\u2019s worked for big NFT projects in the past; the Star Trek NFTs will depict \u201calgorithmically-generated starships\u201d and can be purchased at the low, low price of $250 per pack. Packs, by the way, contain a single ship \u2014 which only has around an 11 percent chance of looking like the Enterprise. You can (but absolutely should not) guarantee that you\u2019ll get a cool ship by buying the \u201cAdmiral pack\u201d instead of the \u201cCaptain pack,\u201d but you can only get those if you\u2019ve shelled out for a Recur pass \u2014 another NFT that costs at least $290.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean, yes, I&#8217;m occasionally willing to drop some money on a nice Star Trek collectible (evidence attached, and thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.eaglemoss.com\/us\/hero-collector\/star-trek\/star-trek-official-starship-collection\">Eaglemoss<\/a> for the beautiful work on these). But they&#8217;re actual physical models, not $250 JPGs of weirdly distorted versions of the classic ships.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8178-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25956\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8178-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Two models of the USS Enterprise, one the original TOS version, one the Next Generation version, on a desktop.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8178-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8178-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8178-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8178-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8178-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It just baffles me. Even without getting into how horrendous the underlying technology is, why would anyone pay that much money for an image of a &#8220;Constitution class&#8221; that apparently doesn&#8217;t include the nacelle struts?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25957\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of a promo image showing a badly rendered image of the original Enterprise, apparently with its nacelles attached directly to the secondary hull.\" width=\"455\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution.jpg 455w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or a &#8220;Constitution refit&#8221; &#8212; theoretically, the ship we see in The Motion Picture, an absolutely gorgeous upgrade to the original Enterprise &#8212; with the nacelles attached <em>upside down<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution_refit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25958\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution_refit.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of a promo image of the upgraded version of the Enterprise, only the nacelles sit below the secondary hull instead of above.\" width=\"680\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution_refit.jpg 680w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nft_constitution_refit-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, sure, if that was a cheap plastic knockoff toy that I saw at a random roadside stop in the midst of an ill-conceived <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/em>-style roadtrip, yeah, I&#8217;d be amused and drop $5 or $10 on it to laugh at with my friends.<\/p>\n<p>But $250? For a digital file? That I now already &#8220;own&#8221; by virtue of, hey, I saved it from Twitter, and now it&#8217;s right up there in this very post, where I can mock it without paying for the privilege? And without all the backend BS? Just&#8230;no. So much no.<\/p>\n<p>(Originally posted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djwudi\/status\/1511845612651573254\">on Twitter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, sure, if that was a cheap plastic knockoff toy that I saw at a random roadside stop in the midst of an ill-conceived _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_-style roadtrip, yeah, I&#8217;d be amused and drop $5 or $10 on it to laugh at with my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}