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The stuff I read so far suggest that Paramount overall isn't doing so well, and trying to sell of Prodigy to someone else might be a kinda desperate move to make some money. Would be sad if Paramount ends up struggling when a new generation of Star Trek shows are hitting their stride. And if...

Trope #421: Star Trek Tribunal episode. I enjoyed it a lot. Maybe the defender's monologue went on a tiny bit too long, but they kinda kept me guessing on how it would resolve and her final gambit was really nice. I really expected that it would be Pike that would do the final monologue, when...

I kinda think that this is really overall the best thing to go forward. Instead of trying to "reimagine" anything, just jump forward, and have another Star Wars story where the details of the past don't matter as much. The name Skywalker, Mothma, Solo, Vader, Palpatine could be as vague and...

The Engineer, they named her species twice but each time I couldn't quite make out what they were calling it and I wasn't using subtitles. Is it a new species or are they just El-Aurians? I am a bit surprised Spock at this place in his life would be ready to steal the ship, but I guess I keep...

I remember reading something about the "Whills" as a microscopic lifeform that was part of George Lucas' ideas. I found this right now: Whills Doesn't really jive that well with me, and if Lucas really would be writing more Star Wars stuff, who knows if that is what he would actually go with...

It kinda feels though like the writer(s) forgot that, too, because it is barely ever adressed (certainly not in the movies). It might have been even a good motivation for some Seperatist or renegade Jedi or something that sees the use of clone soldiers as abhorrent and evidence of the...

The thing with consent is that you can choose to give it or not. You have a choice. But it's suggested Droids generally don't choose, somehow they are innately servile and want only this? Is that still a meaningful form of consent? And the rationale of "they are programmed to be this way" -...

It's been a while since I was there, but it was fun, especially for meeting all the EN World and CM people I knew. I did one of those True Dungeon thingies, which was fun, but not quite my thing because I am not really good at puzzle-solving. But traveling overseas to the US for it... I don't...

Cool. Are we there yet?

That is a pretty meaningless exercise. Without the TNG characters, you can't tell a story about it, because it involves knowing how they used to be and where they are now, how they and their relationships with each other changed. That doesn't make it weak! Very likely if someone were to tell a...

I guess it's closer to Skynet than we'd like, inventing time travel and teleporting pieces in that don't exist into the fight. And .

I think one way to look at the damage type is that you're using a weapon that is most likely going to deal piercing/slashing/bludgeoning damage. If a target has special protection against piercing/slashing/bludgeoning, certain things that would normally be dangerous strikes are a lot less...

Yeah, it is entirely unrealistic for it to happen that fast, but hat said - IIRC, there are probably 1-3 TNG episodes where someone is undergoing some visual physical changes (like aging or turning into an alien) and it gets undone with nothing more than an injection of the antidote. No surgery...

Eric's Grandma will prove an important influence on our future machine overlords.

I enjoyed this season, and the finale. It is satisfying to think the characters are still around, the D is restored for museeum purposes. I didn't mind Data's now-not-so-final death in Season 1, at least we got some time to dwell on the moment. But I prefer him alive, hopefully for many more...

I am not sure I entirely agree - the whole season was also about getting Grogu to "his kind" - the Jedi. Didn't they even have some force antenna apparatus in one episode to call the Jedi? So at least they strongly hinted that maybe the Jedi will come to them. That the Jedi comes might have...

Yeah, that sounds famililar. "Oh, right, if the players do it like that they can just walk past all that. Oops. I kinda feel stuff like that keeps my tension high as DM. (Though I am kinda more tense before than during the game.) I didn't really worry about that, but it is a honored tradition...

It probably is. Even though some would argue that the invention of the Borg Queen (which was never alluded to before) in the movie changed the Borg for something less unique. Suddenly there is an evil "individual" steering it all, someone you can actually talk, reason, beg, argue or flirt with...

The reveal of the Gideon clones and his plan for them was a bit... well, pointless. Okay, here the are, let's blow them up, by the way, they were force sensitive, and now I am really angry that I didn't acutally send my troopers to hunt you down and instead decided to wait around so my enemy had...

It kinda feels almost like this is a trend in current movies. Maybe we're just getting old and the average movie and TV enjoyer has moved on. They just fill in the gaps, just as we fill in the gap between someone saying he's going somewhere and a cut later him being there. But now we just fill...