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The longtime Conservative, who served in provincial politics before being elected to the House of Commons in 2019, said Canada's challenges demand people lead "not with complaint" — a thinly veiled swipe at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre — "but with confidence in a strong future."

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I took it from a news article from last week, which suggests pretty strongly that that proposal is exactly what was implemented, and they never produced an updated graphic.

But again, I'd welcome a genuine correction.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (12 children)

If you have additional information that contradicts it, I'd happy to see it. I don't live in Quebec, and only know what I know.

Deadline is actually an American Hollywood/entertainment industry trade outlet, so it's definitely not a Canadian thing.

Weird metaphor to have in your style guide, though.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Rosalind Lear appears to be hiding some kind of alternative motivation for investigating into Khan and Ceti Alpha

I didn't find this surprising in the sense that she's seemed...biased, to say the least. But the scene with Tuvok was nice, even though in the moment I was wondering if it was Lear or Delmonda that was meant to be the liar. Context suggests it's her, though.

The song the young augments were listening to was Your Touch released in 2021.

Interesting. I wonder if it's a favourite of Kirsten Beyer or something - I'm a little surprised that they went to the effort of clearing a pop song of any kind.

Khan’s odd mercy towards him

I see it as a means to an end - looking like he's living up to his end of the bargain with Delmonda. A dangerous game to be playing, though.

the inevitable loss of McGiven’s to the Ceti Eel.

I know this is consistent with the film, but part of me wishes she had met her demise more directly as a result of some choice that Khan made, if only to reinforce just how foolish she had been to join his little cult in the first place.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I doubt they're "done" with any particular demo, but they've been pretty up-front about being concerned about an aging/dying fanbase, and wanting to make some stuff for younger people.

But I do think that they've been pretty good at giving each series its own time and vibe, so hopefully something down the road will appeal to you if this doesn't.

I think it's a decent evolution of the ENT aesthetic - the warp delta in particular - at a smaller scale.

Not exactly awe-inspiring, but as a glorified commercial transport...

The way they've been talking, it sounds like they're playing with the idea that Kirk seemed pretty comfortable on the Enterprise in his first episodes, so there may be unseen stories to be told before TOS season one.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah...it would be nice if they could give it a permanent home, or maybe do a touring exhibit.

Paramount got rid of its theme park division back in 2006, but is some Prodigy(!) content at a theme park in Turkey, and there were plans for a Paramount park in China that included Trek content, but I have no idea if it's still in the works.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It was temporary, after regular park hours - they had a bunch of IPs that aren't normally part of Universal.

They're already planning one for next year, but details on what it will entail are scarce.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As the series continues, I find I'm a lot more interested in the worldbuilding than the story itself.

There's a lot of cool stuff in there - I hadn't considered the fact that Khan and his people were unfamliar with Federation technology, and the fact that McGivers uses that to her advantage is a lot of fun. I enjoy listening to them go about the day-to-day business of survival - maybe it's the Naveen Andrews of it all, but it reminds me of the first season of "Lost".

The framing story continues to be pretty irrelevant, but it's nice to hear them diving into the burning questions surrounding TWOK. How could the Enterprise crew have missed the fact that one of the planets in the system was about to go critical? How could the Reliant crew not have not noticed a missing planet upon their return? Now that these questions have been raised, I assume answers will be provided...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

we don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here

I would say this is the part that's unreasonable. Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn't exactly a point of pride.

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