I feel like the whole “wait, how does all of Starfleet know about Section 31?” thing could be easily explained: just expand on the hints in the very beginning of the first season that Discovery was originally a Section 31 project. Remember how that black badge confused Michael when she saw one on a guard in…

I think that’s a perfectly fair opinion to have. I’ve thought the same thing myself at times, but I have a couple of friends who are fungus nerds (not as a career thing, mind you - they just really geek out over anything fungus related) who are just so perpetually gleeful about it that their enthusiasm has spread to…

A lot of people have already mentioned the real Paul Stamets, but it’s worth noting that we’ve learned a lot about fungi in the last few years that we didn’t really know before (see also: tardigrades).

Vonnegut didn’t have much use for the American two party political system, but he didn’t have much use for people who are deliberately cruel, either. Coulter’s whole persona is based around gleeful cruelty.

Wow, that idea is so good it seems like it should be obvious from the get-go, but I’ll confess I hadn’t even thought about them going a Harry Potter-esque route. It’d be a great way for Disney to integrate the X-Men into the MCU in a way that’s different from most of what they’ve done so far (Spider-Man: Homecoming…

Right?? One of my favorite space battles of all time happens later on in the series when the Rocinante and the OPA assault Thoth station. I’m still picking up new details in the effects each time I watch this, which at this point has been... way too many times to admit to publicly.

The Rocinante reveal in The Expanse season 1 (okay, it’s technically the Tachi at the time). I watched the series before reading the novels, so I had no idea at the time that this was going to be the starring spaceship of the show, but I was positively gleeful when the its first appearance involved it shooting its way…

My partner had managed to get to her early 30s before finally seeing Star Wars (I finally convinced her by not constantly pressuring her to see it the way every other nerd in her life had), and she was floored by how unapologetically assertive Leia was.

All of these images are reaction shots of each character finding out that Jon and Dany are a) related and b) fuckin’.

Sometimes I feel like the victory lap we all took (hell, I know I’m still taking it) is going to make it more likely that he actually does shut everything down again in a few weeks. He’s given himself 21 days to get driven into a frenzy from all the mockery.

Good point! I remember when the DS9 uniforms suddenly changed all at once to the gray design that it was a bit jarring (though they were MUCH better designs than the old ones), but then realized that First Contact probably absorbed most of the costs.

Funny enough, Babylon 5 canon really does have angels turn out to be glowing tentacle things.

Beth Elderkind, who did the reviews last season, hated the show. Idk for sure who’s doing them this season, but if it’s James Whitebrook, he hates the show too. They’re like every whiny Trekkie ever.

Counter-cliché: Sturgeon’s law. More opportunities for good Trek that can be remembered nostalgically 10-20 years from now while all the bad stuff is forgotten or downplayed, like how we talk about TNG/DS9/etc. now.

When it comes to shear absurdity, no fictional casting for the presidency is ever going to beat the reality we now live in.

Thank you for this, I’ve always wondered what the hell Solomon’s deal is. I mean, reading articles on the Hill for its (usually) decent reporting typically means having to navigate a minefield of shrieking conservative opinion pieces masquerading as ‘breaking news,’ but the bug up Solomon’s ass always seemed to have a…

Good to see She-Ra getting some recognition! I worry sometimes that the endless debates regarding the art style and the emphasis that positive reviews put on the diversity of the show are both giving people the impression that the show is only interesting for its controversial elements, when it’s actually just a great…

I still remember how fan forums at the time kept on derisively referring to him as ‘Dumbar.’ The writers could have easily killed him off early on and gone back to the drawing board, but the DS9 team really did know how to make seemingly failed ideas and characters work with thoughtful, patient development.

My Name is Mudd

Even if you adopt a purely cynical view of the Democratic party’s motives, a lot of this stuff is handy for getting Democrats elected (particularly expanded voting rights) and undercutting Republican power (like scaling back big money donations - Democrats have had a distinct advantage for awhile now when when it…