I’ll bet they’re also blueberry bagels.

::Hello, Alex Kurtzman! We were just talking about you.::

While supply chain issues are worldwide, mostly when it comes to construction materials or computer chips, the UK does have it worse. I can’t get a fucking PS5, but I have no problem getting eggplants and lemons. They have definitely had problems that Europe and the US have not had to deal with. For example, it turns…

It’s important to pit the working class against the middle class so they don’t join forces against the rich.

Uh... bagels are supposed to be chewy and dense.

Even the skirt-chasing is highly exaggerated. Most of the time, he’s using his masculine wiles to confuse the enemy. I can only think of three times that Kirk “dates” a woman for fun (not counting “The Paradise Syndrome”): Helen Noel in “Dagger of the Mind”; Edith Keeler in “City on the Edge of Forever”; and Drusilla…

Agreed.

Also, was Kirk really a Han Solo/Poe Dameron rogue? Where does that reputation come from?

That is the exact opposite of my experience. I thought season 1 was pretty rough. The early episodes really suffered from confusing Star Trek references with actual jokes. The S2 premiere was awful, but it’s gotten much better, I think in part because they’ve moved away from the Beckett/Boimler vs tendi/rutherford…

I found this episode surprisingly good. The Cleons storyline continues to be more compelling than it has any right to be, the scenes of Gaal sparring with the Hari Seldon hologram were fun. Even the Hardin/Anacreon storyline was more entertaining than usual.

I don’t really disagree.

First, sometimes you have to let the text speak for itself. Insight into what authors were thinking (especially dead authors) is necessarily limited and partial.

It can be two things.

I don’t understand this objection either. It’s 12000 years from now and some characters have recognizable names, not just “Duncan Idaho”, but what about “Paul Atreides”? I mean, if you’d never read Dune and met someone with that name, you wouldn’t blink at it. And his mom is named “Jessica”. The Baron Harkonnen is…

Trivia: The first people to settle Arrakis were Janet Jackson’s tribe. They didn’t last long.

I always assumed that the themes were picked in advance of knowing who the actual bakers would be. It’s just luck that there was a German guy for German week. 

The Great Squid Bake Off!

Me too. Giuseppe is not difficult to understand, but Lizzie is sometimes incomprehensible.

Not that part. That’s creepy.

Liet Kynes. He’s the Imperial Planetologist, he shows up and tells the Fremen they can turn Dune into a paradise if they do as he says, and they re-orient their entire culture around his dream. And of course he is adopted as a full Fremen.