Krypto was adorable in the trailer. Give me all the Krypto.

We’ll never stop standing with Quebec. No foreign power is going to dictate our culture. Canada strong.

The cinematography is definitely a high point, as is the sound design. And Williem Defoe shows up about halfway through, if that sweetens the deal for you!

There were, but perhaps Picard cancelled them all after this exchange.

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Whoo, we have extremely different taste in movies. I adore Robert Eggers, and Nosferatu just might be my new favourite vampire film. I’ll have to give it some time and more viewings to be sure though.

Agreed on Dracula 2000. Some good ideas there, but overall pretty weak. Also a criminal underuse of Jeri Ryan, who could have killed it as a vampire if given something to do.

I’ve actually given this some thought myself!

If we can accept Galaxy Quest as a “names and details have been changed” tale based on real events that were experienced by the cast of Star Trek, then those events must have actually happened between the end of TOS/TAS and the release of TMP.

The franchise is essentially dead, but conventions keep it alive for the hard core fans. Nimoy, represented by Rickman’s character, is completely burnt of the franchise, having recently published I Am Not Spock. Also recently published were Franz Joseph’s blueprints, allowing the young fan in GQ the necessary information to lead the cast through the ship’s engineering decks. And the whole thing ends with an ad for a revival series - Star Trek Phase II, which would evolve into TMP. It even features the introduction of a new female crew member, secretly a Thermian (so I’m proposing that Persia Khambatta was in fact an alien).

So while a literal approach would mean you watch it before any Star Trek entry as a present day story, my preference would be to watch it between TAS and TMP, as a meta narrative of how the cast became triumphantly reunited before the production of the feature film series. Just pretend that all the characters are their closest Star Trek script analogues, and that the action takes place sometime in the late ‘70s.

AIDS thinks Reagan is killing the right people?

Except Canadian tariffs have, so far, been targeted so as to cause maximum harm to red states and minimum harm to Canadians. Unlike Trump’s sloppy across-the-board approach.

Premature birth induced by the high stress situation? Kelvin must have been planning to get back to Earth in pretty short order if so.

It’s no more limiting to TNG era stories than the TNG era itself was to TOS era stories. They can’t blow up the Earth or genocide any major races, but beyond that we’ve been given very little information about any character’s future. I didn’t find Star Trek VI any less exciting because I knew the Klingon empire would still be around 80 years later, and I’d say SNW is flourishing under far tighter restrictions.

You need to have your hearing checked. Carney has declared that he will not waste his time talking to Trump. You agree talking to Trump would be a waste of time. Where’s the problem?

I certainly don’t think they’d continue to move at a high speed. Inertia wouldn’t really apply, because the objects were never really “moving” at all. Space was moving around them, but they were stationary relative to the space inside the bubble.

So I’d say that if they survived crossing the threshold from the space inside the bubble to the space outside the bubble, they’d basically instantly become stationary.

The question is can you survive exiting the bubble like that, or would the bubble’s edge tear you apart. But I think we might actually have an answer to this, from Discovery’s last season. Didn’t Burnham survive exiting that enemy ship’s bubble in that first episode, before Discovery beamed her back aboard?

What about social media? The news media isn’t censoring Lemmy, why aren’t protestors at least sharing photos and videos here to get the word out?

Tom Hanks at his finest.

I have to agree, his delivery really doesn’t work for me. It feels like he’s elbowing me in the ribs with every gag.

That said, it’s not enough to spoil Airplane for me. Airplane is a masterpiece.

FOUR! LIGHTS!

Uup. You can’t “don’t blame me, I voted for the other guy” your way through a trade war. They’re part of this, and if they don’t like it then they’d better find a way to hold Trump to account.

If they don’t like it, they need to find a way to hold their president accountable. Trump can end this conflict with a word. Until then, we do what we have to.

Ferengi in TOS:

Always striking to me how many Star Trek fans are so dismissive of Star Trek. I know its of it’s time, but TOS didn’t take its place in history by accident. Wonderful storytelling, iconic characters - absolutely a must to watch, at least to try it out.

Voyager, by comparison, is pretty mid. The writing is super inconsistent and it absolutely squanders its own premise. Notable for Janeway, Seven, and the Doctor, but it’s definitely rough going.

But it’s still a good watch. The only ones I don’t think I could enthusiastically recommend are TAS, Enterprise, and Picard.