StillPaisleyCat

It seems logical that anyone who’s been alive eight centuries would have a unique way of speaking.

Works for me.

In the Relaunch novelverse, Kirsten Beyer did a great job with the post Nemesis return of Voyager to the Delta Quadrant starting with her book Full Circle.

The books exploring the post Dominion War Gamma quadrant on the other hand seemed to have promise initially, but petered out.

I think that this is a spoiler that I don’t want to know before the premiere.

I can see why they need to market it every way they can though.

Their rollout is definitely showing progress compared to the last five years. The ViacomCBS/Paramount management of the shows seems to have locked everyone down but the showrunners and provided them virtually nothing for promotion.

They really are having to push back against the naysayers though. There’s been nothing but complaints on other social media that the injured cadets couldn’t use their transporters to flit themselves to sickbay.

No one seemed to have heard The Doctor say the holoemitters were out so they were short of medics.

When I hear the same complaint over and over again, it’s clearly brigading copy pasta. I doubt most of them even watched the video clip.

Oooh, so much further to go…

I hope this clip helps to calm down all the fans out there who were outraged that Paramount’s marketing put out one key art poster targeted at another demographic.

Sea lioning

Looks like you’re using a “just asking questions” approach to try to stir up frictions.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/sealioning-internet-trolling

It’s hard to know until someone reviews it.

This evokes a lot of mixed feelings.

On one hand, I have no interest in wrestling and cringe at anything related to it. I’m also super uncomfortable about anything related to WWE making its way into the aspirational Star Trek franchise.

When the early wrestling shows were on local television in my childhood, my parents explained it was all performance and not real sport. So, I have always associated it with a kind of fraud and grift.

I’m always extraordinarily uneasy when young children talk about wrestling heroes as it seems an unhealthy influence. It always seems to represent a demographic that we have nothing in common with. While I’m sure some of our kids heard about WWE at school, they never expressed any interest so there was no pressure to bring anything related to it into our home — for which we were very grateful.

So, the other hand, having this strong aversion to ‘professional wrestling’, when ‘The Rock’ Dwayne Johnson first made his dramatic acting appearance on Star Trek Voyager, I was so annoyed that I didn’t watch the episode.

I realize now that I let my strong bias against the performance of ‘wrestling’ get in the way of assessing an actor on his own merit.

I also recognize that Secret Hideout has been doing its best to bring in actors that will appeal to demographics that are likely to be critical of Starfleet Academy while retaining true diversity.

So, I’m going to try to swallow my aversion and wish this woman performer success as she tries to break out of the WWE circuit.

(I still think Paramount+ senior executives are trying to do everything they can to make our household drop our subscription.)

Even my GenZ kids ask for they physical media not the digital.

Our youngest was just this afternoon sincerely explaining to me why they want their Nintendo games as cards not digital copies.

I’m not sure why anyone ever thought it would be?

Other than the naysayers who were looking not to like it and had to be ‘shown otherwise.’

Even Prodigy ended up an ‘all ages’ show.

Not saying you’re one of them, it’s unfortunate that the new shows seem to have to push against negative labels and narratives that are brigaded before the first casting announcements.

In this case, despite the idea of an Academy show kicking around since the 1970s, it was fairly clear that no senior network/streamer executive were ever going greenlight it until someone came up with a concept that was more than a college soap in the Star Trek universe.

What I didn’t expect was for the other perennial ‘failed to make it to pilot’ franchise idea of a hospital show also got rolled into it. That’s one that Roddenberry first tried to spin off with M’Benga in the second season of TOS.

I agree. These folks have no perspective or are dishonest with themselves.

I can acknowledge that it can be jarring, and it can take time to accept a major visual design update.

I felt that in 1979 as I sat in the theatre watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

I had no heads up whatsoever that the Klingon design had changed. I was completely confused in the opening scenes with the Klingons. I couldn’t figure out what species they were.

But I got over it. Quickly.

I still think TMP is disappointing, long boring movie that rehashes the Nomad plot from TOS. The Klingon redesign wasn’t its problem though.

It seems more that Larry Ellison is giving his adult children amounts of money to invest to learn how to run businesses.

Amounts that for most others would be an inheritance in themselves are less than a year’s interest on Larry’s overall fortune.

David and his sister both started out with a certain amount.

His sister’s firm got into financial difficulties so Larry appointed a co head and hasn’t invested more.

David made his investment in creating Skydance profitable and so his father is investing more.

It’s a better solution than Trump taking his cut of the inheritance and bankrupting it, and then getting full control and bankrupting again.

That’s not to say even so that Larry isn’t taking advantage of the CBS part of the purchase to reshape its news to his own vision.