Just curious, are you a non-native English speaker? The phrase “who knows why X (or “god knows why X”) is a pretty common phrase. It is common enough where if the author had meant nippori knows why they would have rephrased the sentence to avoid the reading that nippori knows.

I completely agree. I’m of the TNG generation, but when I was a kid, I watched TOS and the TOS-era movie series and for whatever reason, I was more attached to those than I ever became with TNG. I feel like too many people who grew up with TNG expect that to be the defacto Trek. I still love TNG, but it’s just another…

II always kind of looked at this problem in a similar light to the United States in the 1950s. Everything seems amazing and fantastic and, (shhhh.... don’t worry about the fact that Great Britain is still on severe food rationing, most of Europe is in rubble, we dropped atomic bomb just a couple years ago in Japan, rac…

Gene did try to keep it as a Utopia, the problem was the writers knew that you can’t really make a show interesting without conflict. In his vision for Star Trek, Gene did not want ANY character to hate each other or be self-serving, he wanted every race to get along. War with Klingons? No! In crew fighting? No!

Star Trek has always played fast and loose with non-scarcity. It’s evident that Earth is a utopia, but not everyone can just roll up with a starship, those have always been a commodity. What was Cassidy Yates doing as a trader if she wasn’t earning a living? Even Starfleet struggles to get more ships together after…

I mean, an actual perfect utopia where everybody acts selflessly for the common good would make for some awfully boring storytelling. Of course there are good and bad actors in the Star Trek future. A show with a bunch of space hippies singing kumbayah as they explore space in a pacifist environmentally sustainable…

I’ve always looked at these shows as presenting the best of the Federation. Picard has always been the moral ideal of Starfleet, the soul who held sense of right over sense of duty.

“post-scarcity, utopia-adjacent”?

Absolutely. If anything, the movies show just how non-Utopian the Federation is. There were always political side agreements - I mean, hell, one could easily argue that STIV’s ending was a giant political maneuver, as the “accountability’ to Kirk’s actions for disobeying a direct order, theft and destruction of…

Thank you! I’ve been a fan of yours for quite a while (Ask a Clean Person and I go way back), so to get the official Jolie Kerr stamp of approval means a lot! You are wonderful!

Thank you! I’ve been a fan of yours for quite a while (Ask a Clean Person and I go way back), so to get the official…

You fuck your enemies?

You fuck your enemies?

One of my friends suggested adding Listerine strips to the dish for me to hand to my Brads’n’Chads. “What’s this for?” “So you can kiss me after you lick my ass.”

One of my friends suggested adding Listerine strips to the dish for me to hand to my Brads’n’Chads. “What’s this…

If anyone comes for your parenting choices, email me and I will take them off this site/planet forever. This is wonderful. You are wonderful!

If anyone comes for your parenting choices, email me and I will take them off this site/planet forever. This is…

I love you right now! You’re my sister from another mister for sure, and the first mom I’ve ever spoken with who has openly said what I’ve also said to my kid. I live in the Bible Belt, and most other moms I’ve encountered IRL just aren’t willing to go anywhere near there with their kids (sons or daughters). I’m not…

I love you right now! You’re my sister from another mister for sure, and the first mom I’ve ever spoken with who…

Thanks, we had all those other conversations that you mentioned as well. The head etiquette one that was funny as hell too. I know your probably thinking, head etiquette. Lol Yes. He told me something that he was doing when receiving that I wasn’t pleased with. The girl wasn’t either because she told him she wasn’t…

Thanks, we had all those other conversations that you mentioned as well. The head etiquette one that was funny as…

Ohemgee, this made me laugh so hard my dog just looked at me funny! Good for you!!!!

Ohemgee, this made me laugh so hard my dog just looked at me funny! Good for you!!!!

I didnt do the jar thing but we definitely had the talk and I personally purchased condoms frequently for him until he was like, “Ma, I got this. I can buy my own condoms now.” Me. “Ok. I just want to make sure your safe.” Lol.

I didnt do the jar thing but we definitely had the talk and I personally purchased condoms frequently for him until…

I am an old monogamous married lady whose husband is getting a vasectomy in five days, but I am totally stashing this idea in case I am ever an old promiscuous widow.

I am an old monogamous married lady whose husband is getting a vasectomy in five days, but I am totally stashing…

Ok, so this will probably sound a bit controversial, but when my son was at the age when he started dating and was approaching the need to buy condoms, I bought him this Jonathan Adler Condom Caddy, filled with condoms.** He laughed, I laughed; it was a funny gift. I also took the opportunity to reinforce the…

Ok, so this will probably sound a bit controversial, but when my son was at the age when he started dating and was…