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Damn, I liked that character… also, this is going to go down as the best first season of Star Trek after S01 of the original, isn’t it?

Taunting people with thinking disabilities is usually wrong… but in this case I think we can make an exception, or at least grant a waiver.

“We want to apologize to the LGBTQ community for using homophobic rightwing propaganda images from Eastern Europe, maybe, to promote our virtually nonexistent gaming business in the US, which, admittedly was a weird flex on our part.” Our branch of the Free Library hosts a Drag Queen Story...

Have you seen The Big Sick? He’s fantastic in that film. Granted he is playing a character based on himself. But if that was easy… ummm… everyone would be more compelling!

I was partially kidding. I thought someone would reply "Charles Xavier was no prize himself!". Child endangerment is practically his brand. Seriously, though, I think people swinging between good and bad in comic book stories is fundamentally a positive thing (exaggerated as it must be, given...

Doesn't Charles give his school to Magneto when goes off with his space girlfriend (into space)? Doesn't the White Queen end up running it for a while? Isn't this kinda par for the course with Marvel?

Caught up last night. Yeah... not sure what I can say about "Gently Falling Rain" here other than it was a very strong episode, Krill looked great, and... ummm... it was nice to hear President Sheridan's voice on TV again. Another fine example of how subtlety and science fiction do not mix...

Oh no! Are they ruining a show inspired by Star Trek with politics? Note: sarcasm. Lots of it. Haven’t seen the latest one yet. Maybe tonight, with a nice rye cocktail…

I have to admire how hard nuTSR is working to ensure they do not have a salable product.

Welcome to Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space 9: The Next Generation! It’s really close. Closer than I would have expected. The writing on The Orville really feels like its source, 90s Trek. But is there a season of TNG that opened with 3 episodes as strong as New Horizons (haven’t seen this weeks yet)...

Amir and Tyesha’s wedding approached Sense8 levels of pure joy at being human & alive. Bonus points for not scoring the scene to Four Non Blondes! (full disclosure: I like that Four Non Blondes song)

Or Thought Leader.

I found the writing sample evocative, in that it evoked the following response from my brain: “The author was pilloried by his own lack of talent.” Maybe I should write for the new Star Frontiers? I can spell ‘Dralasite’ and ‘Vrusk’ - not that nuTSR has the rights to use them. I’m not a...

I polished off Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society in 3 days. Charming fluff. I figure I’ll blow through a few more books with named swords or spaceships before I have another go at (a long book by) Nabokov again.

You totally get razzed by your peers if you don’t engage your ship‘s auto-destruct at least once. You know, this episode didn‘t feel like an adventure story or an action movie, which is kinda implicit in the premise “space pirates”. It felt like a screwball comedy. In space. With pirates. And a...

Probably not. But there are in the 21st century, where the audience is. It's called 'taking cover'. They have this thing called 'subspace radio'. Its signal propagates at around 52,000c. Chapel tried to access the ship's comms but was locked out. To a meeting at the edge of Federation space...

Wow I didn’t get it until I saw written down.

Was not expecting the latest episode of SNW to namecheck both Maggie Nelson and Sybok. Color me surprised. So far they’re 7 for 7. Loved how Pike fizbinned the pirate crew and the bittersweet Gilbert and Sullivan scene where Spock and Chapel kissed.

I kinda want a Reva series now. I thought this last episode was great. Really put the opera in space opera (where ‘opera” = Wagner).

Ok that sounds better.