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Written by: Dana Horgan & Davy Perez

Directed by: Marja Vrvilo

 

Based on a story by Nicholas Meyer.

Written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack

Additional writing by Mac Rogers

Directed by Fred Greenhalgh


A couple of people wanted a central place to discuss these episodes, so here it is!

Future threads will go up on the day of the release.

If you're not normally a podcast person, the series is available on YouTube.

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

stardates

Why do you do this to yourself?

 

The first episode has dropped, and should be available on your podcast app of choice.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's been a pretty poorly-kept secret - an Enterprise-D set with the TNG character figs. It looks like the official announcement will finally come soon-ish.

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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"It becomes a profoundly difficult thing to scale that infrastructure in a way that allows you to scale growth in the retail sector," he says. "So can it work? I think it could, but it would be a very difficult and painful process to get established and to grow."

One of the Federated Co-ops, Red River Co-op, ceased grocery operations in 1983 - it wasn't until the Sobeys/Safeway merger in 2014 that they were able to pick up four of the Winnipeg locations that the new megacorp were forced to sell, and re-enter the market. They now have nine grocery locations in and around the city.

It's hard to take a lesson from that, since you can't count on those circumstances to repeat every often, but inheriting existing infrastructure certainly seems to help.

There was a little Metron twinkle in the distance right before it happened.

Well I'm happy for her - it sounds like it's a good thing that she reconsidered her life goals, and found something more fulfilling.

I really think you're putting words in her mouth.

"It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family" has absolutely nothing to do with the process of transferring credentials to Canada, and everything to do with the job itself. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician" speaks for itself.

There are plenty of stories about the challenges of transferring credentials. This, by her own account, as quoted in this article, is not one of them.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If the process were easier she wouldn’t have been “led” to reassess those priorities.

How does an easier process change her conclusion of, "I would be happier as a nurse?"

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Not exactly.

When Tretiak first arrived in Canada in December 2022, she looked into obtaining a license to practice medicine, but the complexity of the process and volume of paperwork led her to reassess her priorities.

That doesn't say she thought it was "too much." It says she decided it wasn't what she wanted to do.

You can argue that the process is too much - and it probably is, at least in places - but she pretty directly states that it led to her deciding that she didn't actually want to be a doctor, and would rather be a nurse.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (8 children)

She says she sees nursing as an opportunity to engage more deeply with patients through communication and empathy. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician,” says Tretiak, who currently works in a retirement home for Ukrainian-speaking older adults.

“I had lost a lot of people already – including many of my friends – and I no longer connected my happiness to my professional goals. It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family.”

I'm going to suggest we shouldn't force her to do something she doesn't want to do.

I thought there was a bit of a missed opportunity to delve into her training and experiences during the Klingon War. They've used that as part of her backstory, but have given the meatiest stuff to M'Benga and Chapel.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had an idea for what I would have done with a Disco musical.

Rather than having everyone be forced to sing, the episode would be an actual stage musical put on by the crew in the shuttlebay or someplace.

The plot? The story of first contact with the Vulcans...but the "official," Borg-free version, with a glorified, square-jawed version of Zefram Cochrane.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sometimes, she crashes the ship!

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