StillPaisleyCat @ StillPaisleyCat @startrek.website

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I can understand the journey, what I don’t understand is the lack of self-awareness around it.

Early trauma and the violation of the Borg explain the change in emotional regulation, but the arrogant lack of ability to take a step back and evaluate his behaviour from the perspective of his own values and previous expectations about behaviour are what I find surprising.

I’m more disappointed that ‘Movie Picard’ and then ‘Picard show Picard’ abandoned, or at least lost the emotional regulation that enabled him to hold onto, many of the principles that made him so admirable and exasperating.

It doesn’t seem like Picard in season three of Picard would have had any of the same qualms, or at least his emotional attachments would have overtaken them.

I wonder what Ben Sisko’s reaction to Picard’s choices in season three would have been. I definitely think he would have called him out, and made Shaw’s critiques look tame.

How are tights not the best thing, even for Jeffries tubes? No less appropriate than track and field athletes training in compression tights.

A scant is really just a long tunic.

@gaghyogi49@tenforward.social has this covered.

See his post.

It looks like the Orion alphabet and language has a one-to-one correlation with English, just for laughs.

“Weird is our business,” sayeth Janeway.

Moopsy!

I would love to see the Breen taken on seriously, and had hoped they were the big bad in Picard S3. This doesn’t have the feel of them at all though.

Perhaps Matalas can take a lead out of the Relaunch novelverse Typhon Pact books and give us some serious Breen machinations.

Canada is economically integrated with the United States in a way that Australia is not. Meta and Google understand that precedents weigh differently here.

In addition to restrictions on sharing intelligence from Five Eyes allies beyond the group, let alone publicly, there are also issues with the admissibility of evidence in courts that is gathered under intelligence legal exceptions.

Ensuring that the judicial court process isn’t marred by inappropriate release of intelligence would seem to be a significant challenge in this case.

I think they are, but understand that the dynamics of the situation are different within the North American context.

Here’s the key issue and principle buried deep at the bottom of the article.

She said a main area of discussion at the confab is how globally-minded digital companies had “really revolutionized our industries for a lot of good reasons” and added: “No one is saying to get Facebook or Google out of Canada — Canadians love and appreciate these services.”

Tait said Canadian broadcasters and services were required to pay taxes and services and invest in Canadian content, meaning companies as powerful as Alphabet and Meta would simply be paying into a existing system. “We all have requirements regarding local news so that there is a provision in a country of only 40 million to support our own domestic industry,” she said. “We would ask Facebook to be held responsible in the way we treat our own companies.”

Thanks as always.

This episode will take a few watches to catch all the jam-packed Orion details.

As Prof Noor is the biological science advisor for the show, it seems likely that he’s the one that gave the SNW Showrunners this specific option for a deep background of the Gorn.

Oh, I completely misunderstood the promotional copy for the comic then. It sounded like the EP for the animated videos was the lead for the comics.

In that case, I will give the preview a view. IDW has delivered some good comedic Trek content.

The videos have made me completely disinterested in even looking at the preview first issue comic.

I don’t want to reward the behaviour in any way. One viewing per very short Trek is all they will get from me.

Paramount can gauge the success from how much repeated viewing these the narrow slice of the mostly American male population of an age to have loved 90s humour. Maybe they think it’s got high overlap with Berman-era fans. I’m dubious but data will tell the story.

I hesitated to watch this one.

The humour is very 90s colonic irrigation level and sensibility.

This one did make me smile at one point though.

To see Riker, who would bravely take on fresh gagh to show openness to other cultural expectations, find the limit of his tolerances, is amusing.

I just wish the humour got beyond school age.

4k physical media to future proof your collection is a great choice.

Some of these truly sound to be remastered versions, built from the original source art.

Fascinating approach.

Yoon Ha Lee really plays with fun math concepts. Great stuff. The Ninefox trilogy was a real entry point for me to begin to appreciate Korean mythology.