I am in the US and subscribed to P+, and I just checked: Paramount+ presents Farpoint as a single episode (noting in the title that it is Part 1 and 2) and includes the recap scene at 38 minutes into the episode.

First, head to the Anomaly station and buy all of the blueprints, if you haven’t already. That is always the right way to start upgrading any of your tech.

Next, have you claimed a settlement yet? If not, do that. After working a few cycles through the settlement questline, you’ll get something interesting for your Minotaur.

And of course, always check the exocraft salesman on the stations; they don’t always have the same upgrades, but you should eventually find some good options that’ll make your Minotaur more useful. I personally recommend only buying S class upgrades, if you can afford it.

And if you haven’t already discovered this: there are two exocrafts that can navigate underwater… not just one.

I don’t know why this is, but I have always been able to raise my right eyebrow independently… but not my left one. It’s kinda funny, because one of my son’s friends just randomly asked me if I could do that earlier this evening. I did so, and he made like it was this really big deal.

I’m just glad I could amuse him.

Of course, nobody with two brain cells to rub together who reads that answer is sitting there thinking to themselves, “Huh… I guess I’ve had it wrong all this time, focusing so much on money.” Rather, they’re instinctively blurting out, “Yeah right – I call bull!”

But I’ll give them partial credit; frequently it’s about money. Sometimes, it’s just about a work environment that used to be great going to crap. And sometimes, it’s about the employee coming to an epiphany, and realizing that their work environment was actually crap all along.

That said, it may be true that not every job that I’ve ditched was entirely because of money… but it should go without saying that it’s always a factor in where I went for the next job. Also, it’s never the only factor – but it’s certainly one of the more significant ones.

I’m a long time Trekkie; I wasn’t alive yet when TOS originally aired on TV, (I mean, that was the '60s – I’m old, but I’m not that old!) but I grew up watching it in syndication. I also watched TNG, DS9, Voyager and (ahem) most of Enterprise, back when these shows first aired on broadcast television. The notion of binge watching wasn’t even a thing, yet. That said… I’m somewhat in the same boat as you for some of the newer shows, simply because I haven’t taken the time to sit down and consume all of “NuTrek” quite yet, so I do get where you’re coming from. (The rest of “life” sometimes gets in the way of good entertainment, eh?)

But at some point you have to a acknowledge that you’re fighting a two-front war. You say that you don’t want to watch a series that is incomplete or at risk of an abrupt cancellation, which I certainly get… but at the same time, you say that you don’t want other people who have watched it to spoil it for you, while still having the option to discuss the shows you have watched with those same people. These are largely incompatible whims; you’re kind’a going to have to just choose a path and accept that there will occasionally be thorns in the bushes along that path, regardless of which one you choose.

That is to say, as I see it, you have three basic options:

• Either watch things according to your preferences at whatever pace suits you, and accept that the occasional spoiler is going to be inevitable,
• Or binge everything that’s ever been released as quickly as you can, and accept that you’re going to end up watching and investing in some shows that may not last as long as you’d like,
• Or simply pull out of the discussions as soon as you realize that a spoiler is coming… or maybe even isolate yourself from those discussions entirely, until such time as you’re comfortable with your level of Trek knowledge.

Some combination of those options is probably going to be more or less palatable to you. (Personally, I go through spurts of all three modes at different times.)

As an aside: shows being cancelled prematurely is by no means unique to the Age of Streaming. The original Star Trek series is a prime example… but more modern examples exist as well, including non-Trek franchises, like Firefly.

Lol. I think Lemmy would benefit from “categories” of up-votes/down-votes. This comment got my up-vote entirely because I found it amusing.

There are a few different types of base part limits – but the specific limit which obviously matters the most is the upload part limit. (Uploading is what you do to share your base with the rest of the NMS community.)

The “I don’t know how to…” questions are mostly answered by doing exactly what you’re already doing… playing through those main questlines at the top of the list. But don’t hesitate to explore the secondary quests; there can be some good stuff there, too.

One of the things I like the most about NMS is that there’s no real sense of urgency to any of it, other than what you imbue it with yourself… so picking and choosing whichever quest strikes your fancy at the moment can be quite satisfying.

Also, I suggest that you don’t stress too much about units; if you can’t afford something right now, just look into it later. Even if you never read a single spoiler, in time you will no doubt discover a few methods on your own to obtain an overabundance of units.

As spoiler free as I can make this, (in deference to Dinodicchellathicc) while still kind’a answering your question: Start looking into Quicksilver tasks on the Anomaly.

A while back I started a Permadeath save specifically for the purpose of finishing off that last Steam task… so lately, I’ve mostly just been beefing up that save. Got a crap-ton of upgrades to my primary ship and Multitool, started a settlement, upgraded my Minotaur and got an S-class freighter – which I don’t even have on my original save with >500 hours!

So now, I’m actually finding it next to impossible to repeat the process, and find an S-class freighter for my other saves.

I’m glad you found your way back – but here’s a few little nuggets for the future: there are several different well-trodden shortcuts that can help you reduce the time it takes to get from one galaxy to the next. I have one save with base computers in every (ahem) accessible galaxy; once I got my stride, I think I was speeding through galaxies in as little as twenty minutes each or so. (Click on the spoiler below, if you’d like to read more about how to do that – but be warned, those spoiler tags are there for a reason!)

There are also strategies you can use to reduce the repair costs of each jump. (Care for another spoiler?)

Would you like a jelly baby?

I can’t speak for everyone, but personally I enjoy both finding things myself and using glyphs shared by others. As I see it, they are simply two different kinds of “play” that NMS enables. I have a “Batman” themed Interceptor that someone else shared which amuses me, but – like you – I often default to an exotic that I happened upon myself. (Unfortunately, I can’t share the location of that particular exotic, because I didn’t know anything about glyph sharing at the time, and now I have no idea where I found it.)

If you don’t get any pleasure out of one mode of play, no big deal. Just enjoy the journey!

For the uninitiated in the room… what would “volunteering to run it” actually look like, on a lemmy community? Because I’m not sure that I would have the time to do something overly involved… but I wouldn’t mind contributing glyphs for a few of the ship locations that I’ve found, that just somehow never quite made it into a Reddit post.

There are competitive PVP events?