CeruleanRuin @ CeruleanRuin @lemmings.world

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I totally called Kovich being a time traveler, but them folding him into Daniels was a neat surprise, and felt like a naturally revelation. "Oh, of course he's bloody Daniels." It expanded both characters without diminishing their mystery at all.

Knowing that Calypso was meant to be the whole focus of season 6 is a hard blow, though. We'll likely never get that story now. I'm glad they were able to at least tie it firmly back to the show, but man, it would have been fun to see how it played out. Why does Kovich need this Craft, and why does it require the ship to be de-refitted? Maybe now that the show is done they'll give it a proper continuation in novel form. One can only hope.

This is an excellent distillation of what makes Tilly great. Imho she's the best written character across the board in any Trek of the past two decades. I missed her sorely in season 4.

It's definitely a a nice nod to the character. If bar patrons 600 years later still get the reference, that speaks well of her lasting influence on the Federation.

I don't really see it with Paris, but I've often thought Anthony Rapp and Alan Tudyk should play brothers in something.

I wonder if they ginned these up for Section 31 or Starfleet Academy (if that's still a thing?) and figured they could use them here, similar to the First Contact uniforms being ported over to DS9.

I really think they just overplayed their hand, and he really did overdose by accident - or because he thought it was the only way for Moll to get away. I don't believe either of them are basing a strategem on the Progenitor tech actually being able to resurrect him, but Moll is desperate now, so she's willing to believe it might work because it's the only hope she has left.

I don't think Reno was referencing The Littles, as she referred to the treasure hunt as sounding like something out of a holonovel "for the littles". Unless there's something specific in Peterson's stories relating directly to this, I'm pretty sure it was just a cutesy way of saying "for little kids".

Thanks for making these posts every week. I come here after every episode to see what references I missed.

You think he knows those are two different people? He probably thinks "Hunter" is one of Joe's nicknames.

St. Patrick's Day in America has always been more of a celebration of Irish-American immigrant culture than it is of Ireland itself.

Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.

I used to get up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons, and remember being really bummed when they weren't on because Saddam Hussein was invading Kuwait.

And I can sort of mentally mark when I started to sleep in later because by the time I got up all I managed to catch was Saved By the Bell before the broadcast switched to a golf tournament or a fishing show.

And ATMs charge fees, which you don't pay if you use the teller.

"Real old heads"? Blu-rays are older than Silly Bandz.

My bluetooth headphones still do this when I use the microwave at work. I have learned to stand back from it when it's in use.

Apple IIe's in the computer lab at school, magazines with whole programs in basic that you could type in to make the computer draw something.

Road trips with Prairie Home Companion on tape, Dad was at the wheel, and Mom flipped the tapes. I didn't quite grok that there was a big plastic case full of cassettes, so hearing "turn to side eight" mystified me, because surely tapes could only have two sides, right?

That smell is Christmas to me. That was the only time we typically got new NES or Super NES games, and lord I loved that smell of fresh print and plastic.

I remember always resenting Prince Valiant for taking up valuable page space that could have gone to Calvin and Hobbes or something else that didn't suck. Good lord, Prince Valiant was fucking terrible.

One of my first vehicles came with an aftermarket ten-disc cd-changer someone had installed in the back and hooked into the sound system, with a separate control panel up front. It was such a pain to use (and would skip constantly) that I usually just listened to the radio anyway.

And you didn't have to update it constantly with patches that might change its functionality.