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I think I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 seasons of Picard, minus the pieces of plots that apparently went absolutely nowhere, and I presume they probably were things that ended up getting cut, but their plot threads weren't completely cut.

hmm. fwiw, if this message doesn't appear on one's home instance, you can click the multicolored star looking thing to see it on the originating instance.

Not exactly what you're getting at here, but the first scene in the last episode, where we see Kirk on the UEF Enterprise, as La'An enters the bridge, and he turns to her, and talks, that is absolutely channeling TOS Kirk in virtually every aspect.

And then, outside of that, In both of the episodes we've seen him in, we've explored aspects of Kirk that are both the same as the Kirk we know, as well as very different from the Kirk that we know.

I thought it was Cuyahoga? correct me if i'm wrong pls

Outside of Pike and Batel's relationship, are there any points in this episode that look to connect to anything else in the currently ongoing plotline in SNW? I didn't really notice anything, it seems like this might be the most standalone episode.

If I remember correctly, the very first scene of S1E1 was Batel waking up in Pike's bed, so.. yeah :D

and subverting the "hero goes back in time to kill a mass murderer" trope, with "hero goes back in time to save a mass murderer"

La'An fell head over heels for someone who had never heard of her. Absolutely makes sense. An entire lifetime of being treated differently, because everyone knows. Even if they don't treat her negatively, they still know.

This Kirk was the first person since grade school that she met someone who didn't know.

Absolutely makes sense.

So.. La'an goes back in time to bootstrap paradox Pelia into becoming the engineer she is in the current timeline, and saves Earth's next Hitler from being killed, because without that, humanity never really gets it's shit together. And ::speculation alert!!:: maybe her leaving that gun there begins his murderous spree, so maybe she bootstrap paradoxed Khan into being the tyrant he becomes, too.

What a wild ride.

I just ... this series.. is just so consistently enjoyable. I love it.

Just click into the gun advertisements community, and hit block

might want to change your default sort order in your settings to "Subscribed" too

One time to refresh everyone’s memory of how SNW does things, here are the stardates mentioned in season one:

so.... how do we reconcile figuring out how stardates work here? it would seem to not be linear.

For sure. If this community stagnates, it will eventually die of attrition.

While Musk very quickly turned into an obvious shitheel in the time between that episode being filmed, and that episode airing, I think it seems obvious that without his influence in power generation and space travel spheres, assuming no one else took on that role in the same time, we'd be in a world that is largely changing in those aspects right now.

I think without his influence, we have much less innovation in energy or in space tech in the last several years.

Especially related to space travel -- without Musk's influence in space travel, the US space business basically died with the Shuttle program. MAYBE something else state sponsored might've replaced it, or some corporate/government mix, but .. my guess would be that putting it all in perspective in the Star Trek universe, there's probably a reasonably direct line that can be traced from Elon's influence with SpaceX in the early 2000's to Cochrane's warp drive.

Of course, that's all speculation because we don't know what would've happened without a SpaceX.

I'm not defending him, I'm defending that he put significant influence into things that are affecting our world right now, and that would also be relevant to the mid 2000's era of Star Trek.

I think in that particular case, it's quite fine to pass judgment that this was a very bad thing.

plenty of people do watch it just for the lasers and/or technobabble.

eh, it is what it is, and i'd say not really either. For now, probably nearly everyone that's staying here is probably a contributing member, but if we continue building and promoting this community, then it will get to a sizeable number of lurkers. As long as we don't attract bad actors, or bad actors are dealt with swiftly, it's all good.

Splinter the community, I'm going to stay with the people who went through the mess of setting up a new place that isn't beholden to Reddit. It may be forever smaller, but of the 600,000 subscribers, how many of them contribute?

I believe one of the admins said that it was hosted in Germany because of their data privacy protections

cool, have fun