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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    Kelsey Grammer (Captain Morgan Bateson) would like a word! Though in today's television, you're probably right.
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    Just did a bit of googling and found this: In the season finale, the return of an old enemy forces Nahla to confront her own mistakes as the cadets and instructors undertake a seemingly impossible mission to save the Federation, while defining the future of Starfleet So, hopefully nothing...
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    While I sincerely hope they don't, I'm willing to bet the season ends with Caleb having to choose between the academy and his mother. More than likely, it will be some kind of situation where he will be forced to betray Starfleet in some way to be with his mom. Hope I'm wrong on that one!
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    I agree the writers clearly get Trek, and I loved the Doctor's storyline here. My one quibble with this episode - I felt Tilly was shoehorned in - like "we promised an episode with Tilly - and here you go." I don't recall theater being remotely her thing, or her having any training whatever in...
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    That makes sense, but would make it MORE likely the references would be glowing not damaging. Would references the admiral arranged REALLY disparage the daughter in any way (Star Trek admirals are not known for their kind and forgiving nature)? Of course one of the points was the references...
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    Certainly agree it wasn't much of a twist, The second they called Braka as "their best chance.." I knew he was behind the whole thing.
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    I really like how Braka is given a good amount of complexity while still being a REALLY bad guy. Initially I was a bit put off by the twist, thinking Star Fleet would never do that! But then thinking about it, governments (and higher ups in the government) do that all the time, where they...
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    Do you have kids of your own?

    When my son was in 1st grade (6 years old), we got a note from his teacher to please work with him on toning down the sarcasm, the other kids didn't get it. He's 18 now, it was not toned down!
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    I really liked the episode and that again it was relatively low stakes (Well not for SAM - but nothing earth/universe/federation shattering). Considering how they are portraying her makers, I'm REALLY wondering if the writers ae going to go the same route the Orville went!
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    Cosmere picked up by Apple TV

    This is a legitimate worry! But Sanderson already employs a massive team of people to help with his work. I don't think he'll have any trouble adding people who are VERY familiar with the process and fully accepting their input. This part, I don't think I'm worried about. The man's work...
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    Apparently episode 5 will be a love letter to DS9. Whatever that means.
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    For me, I like everyone except Caleb enough to stick with the show for now. If they make the show too much the Caleb Mir show (like Discovery was too often the Michael Burnham show), I may bail. But I really liked this episode being 1) mostly focused on the other cadets 2) being low stakes. I...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards.

    Interesting, but misleading. Are you saying the numbers from Amazon were somehow faked? 2014 wasn't that long ago. I remember the popularity exploding from day one. Now, considering where they were exploding FROM, it certainly makes sense that 5.24 would start stronger (bigger base), but to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards.

    You keep saying that, but 5e was huge upon release. The 5e PHB hit #1 on Amazon, #1 OVERALL not just in games, on the day of it's release. And it went even more gangbusters from there. Your link just shows that 5.24 was prepared for a bigger print run, not that 5e didn't sell exceptionally...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards.

    5e had very strong initial sales numbers, larger than 4e's very strong sales. But while 4e couldn't maintain the numbers, 5e numbers just kept getting stronger. And this was BEFORE Critical Role was a huge hit. Source Also worth mentioning. Critical Role deliberately switched from Pathfinder to...
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