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If I were an overworked teacher, I’d still rather award the point. Just throw down a checkmark and move on. I don’t need to write an explanation, and the kid/parents are not going to complain.

Maybe elsewhere - in Toronto, The Sun is just a piece of trash. Definitely down with calling that one out.

Postmedia owns a lot of Canadian papers listed at that link, but Toronto Star isn’t among them.

This and a couple other comments in this thread point to an aspect of Star Trek’s world building that hasn’t sat right with me for a long time. It’s supposed to be an utopianistic, egalitarian future. There’s no scarcity or need on Earth so everyone is supposed to be here because they want to be, out of a love of exploration and scientific advancement. So why is there such a disparity in treatment based on rank? Why does an ensign get stuck with a bunk in a hallway while Captain Picard gets a cushy executive suite? O’Brien at least had real quarters to raise his family in, but they were a comparative closet next to the bachelor Captain’s. Doesn’t seem right to me.

All to say that, in my mind, if an ensign needs to stick to a manner of dress, so should an officer of rank. They’re all part of the same fleet and deserving of the same respect.

I don’t love the TOS one. The “everyone met as cadets at the academy” is Abrams, not TOS. Only McCoy and Kirk go way back like that.

But the DS9 one captures the vibe perfectly.

The humour in The Orville was shockingly weak, but that doesn’t speak to sci-fi in general. Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Galaxy Quest, Spaceballs, and Futurama are all great space based comedies.

nuTrek has been pretty great for me, overall. Prodigy never managed to win me over, though. I’m well out of its target audience, so that’s no surprise.

I think your comment could reasonably apply to early Discovery and Picard, but not so much to the rest of nuTrek. It could equally apply to DS9 and Enterprise - but not so much to the rest oldTrek (Voyager might straddle the line).

I think it’s most accurate to say that Star Trek as a whole has generally shown alternating waves of reifying and challenging the utopian future concept. Overall that gives a message that a better society can be achieved, but the work of living up to that vision can never end. It works for me.

Your thoughts more or less match my own. Some really good concepts and actors were mostly wasted on lacklustre execution. As a Trekkie, I’m especially disappointed that Jeri Ryan was so underutilized. She could have killed as a vampire if she were given a little more to do.

I did catch the first sequel, and appreciated its use of some of the less celebrated lore like

though how that’s supposed to tie into the

backstory I really don’t know.

What?

You need three shots of tequila and a swig of “the good stuff”.

No, he’s a good boy. My pup would have pulled that boot right off and ran away with it.

Krypto was adorable in the trailer. Give me all the Krypto.

We’ll never stop standing with Quebec. No foreign power is going to dictate our culture. Canada strong.

AIDS thinks Reagan is killing the right people?

You need to have your hearing checked. Carney has declared that he will not waste his time talking to Trump. You agree talking to Trump would be a waste of time. Where’s the problem?

What about social media? The news media isn’t censoring Lemmy, why aren’t protestors at least sharing photos and videos here to get the word out?

Tom Hanks at his finest.

I have to agree, his delivery really doesn’t work for me. It feels like he’s elbowing me in the ribs with every gag.

That said, it’s not enough to spoil Airplane for me. Airplane is a masterpiece.