Maybe the Monks are wearing Remain badges, while the soldiers are elderly Boomers with UKIP flags as capes.

Hey, I’m not a hardcore Discovery fan. I’m just delighted that there is Star Trek live on television for the first time in over a decade, and I’m willing to give it a chance rather than crap all over it for not being what was in my head, or season 8 of TNG.

This wouldn’t be one of those ‘manly’ states where the roads close and people clear the stores of non perishables whenever the temp drops below 25 is it? :-p

Yeah, this isn’t dry heat. Its probably also like 80% humidity

In totality, sure, which is what happens when the format is different and you’ve got 26 episodes to play with. Discovery has never had any absolute stinkers though, like Second Sight and Melora, which were basically Hallmark melodramas in space.

Didn’t they decide to keep it hidden at the end of DS9 to prevent the symbionts becoming a commodity?

There appears to be two schools of thought re: Discovery hate. One is the girls n’ gays route, where the absence of a square jawed white guy at the helm is too much to handle. The other is that it’s not a shot for shot remake of TNG, and they want to crawl back up into that womb again without being challenged by new…

Ugh. That was fun and silly enough to explain a dumb thing once. Let’s not keep running with it!

Yeah, they seemed like dicks. I can only imagine that they are some kind of Trill sub-species or a relative of the main Trill species. It would also explain why nobody seemed to know what they were. The Federation knew about the Trill we know, but didn’t know that these other Trill had symbionts too.

Plus, if the Trill are a fairly small species and joined Trill are a tiny fraction of that species, it could just be that it’s not well known that some of them are joined. Not because it’s a secret, but because it’s an obscure bit of trivia to most people in the Galaxy.

Yeah, I think Zack is a little harsh on Discovery in this regard. Sure, it’s not always perfectly plotted, but this DS9 story basically unraveled the entirety of Trill society by accident in an afternoon and nobody ever mentioned it again. It’s as if somebody showed up on Earth one day and said oh, by the way, I can…

The Trill have always been fairly poorly sketched out in the lore. The first Trill we encounter in TNG had face ridges and nobody knew about the symbionts, then in DS9 they don’t have ridges and joined Trill have been on Earth since at least TOS days.

I don't know if it's the same in the US, but anything that folds up like an accordion is called a concertina in Britain, after the accordion-like instrument.

I can think of no better way to encourage global peace and understanding than to have everyone rigidly segregated by race and nationality under pain of social media pillory.

Diagonas, from all Star Wars games ever, but specifically the ones in Shadows of the Empire.

Weird that Phillipa Gregory would endorse this book, given that the shows based on her books, The White Queen and The White Princess, lean fully into all of this and actually depict Elizabeth and Margaret Woodville performing sympathetic magic (or, at least, trying to).

You can see how it happens though. On Jezebel they’re talking about how pumpkin spiced lattes are slavery and crappy 90s boybands are internalised misogyny. Too much of that stuff can mess with your perception of reality.

It’s about efficiency isn’t it? A normal M/AM reaction is something like 25/1 in terms of work to useful energy, which means you quickly need a ridiculously large engine and vast amounts of fuel to go into higher warp speeds.

Goddard's Pie & Mash in Greenwich. Heaven.

England has one of the best road safety records in the world, from memory. I have no idea why, because many people seem insane.