The fucking worst

Even Key Grip #2?

It’s not a “mystery” with historians. DNA samples of the remains of the other descendants of the Ptolemaic dynasty have concluded they were not subsaharan and were solidly eastern Mediterranean. This with ample other evidence does not a mystery make except for the few hopelessly ideological as well intended as they…

Does the ministry release statements demanding changes to all the “documentaries” that say the pyramids were built by aliens?

“Jada Plinkett Smith”

If you meet actual Egyptians from Egypt, and not just Americans with lots of opinions about what the rest of the world will like, they are all very clear on this issue and very tired of being drawn into what is, essentially, a political argument made by some African-Americans.

They, and north Africans generally, are an…

It’s only a mystery if you insist that the actual images of her made at the time are all wrong.

But if we’re tossing out any evidence we don’t like, everything is a mystery.

I mean, we actually do. Because ancient Egyptians actually depicted themselves in their art and hieroglyphs. They span all kinds of colors from brown skin, light skin (not white like Nordic white, but fairer like you see in other places in the Med), and black skin (especially the period of time when Nubia had more…

There waa no racism in ancient times. The concept did exist. The Romans and Greeks didnt care about skin color but only if you were civilized.

Also ya know, Jada Plinkett Smith is a scientologist so there’s a real mixing pot of fringe cult like beliefs in play here.

Hotep.  The word hotep needs to be used more often.  Its this bizarre assumption that due to Egypt being in Africa everyone in ancient Egypt was black and white people are lying to you.  Well """they""" are lying, there's a lot of antisemitism in hotep movements, makes sense they are closely related to Black Hebrew…

“seemingly that it was more likely for her have been Black than Greek or Arab.”

“The renewed debate is unlikely to solve this centuries-old mystery.” Correct, because there’s not a mystery.

Recasting reality, the latest progressive fad. 

Will the artist make a sticker for a new Kang?

The Titan being refitted to Enterprise was the biggest meh for me. Like really? It wipes away Riker’s whole legacy with it

Oh, I forgot to mention the Anton Chekov nod to Anton Yelchin was very sweet. 

-I feel like Data’s 35 year character arc was to finally become...Brent Spiner. Hell. Yes. Hello chair.

It wasn’t a bad episode, I’d give it a solid C, but I certainly wouldn’t describe it as “satisfying”. It felt like 30 minutes of (beautiful but bloodless) fighting followed by a frenzied 5 minutes of wrapping things up without really answering any compelling questions.

Remember Dr. Pershing? Remember Lizzo? Did those really add much in the end?