I’m looking forward to this and love seeing Boyega... but I also find it really jarring that we’re now told Mako had a foster brother who was never mentioned before especially since she and Stacker’s relationship seemed very special in the sense that they were the only people who could depend on one another.

Yeah, I have to say he’s probably the best director to touch the series in decades. Would be good to see him in the director’s seat again when Craig retires.

My understanding is the script is itself basically just a bunch of fancy glyphs (or, at best, a cipher for the Roman alphabet) and was never actually designed by Okrand so it doesn’t actually conform to any meaningful orthography (as opposed to say the Tengwar script for Quenya in Middle-earth or the various scripts…

That is something I did not know. Bravo!

More or less yes 🙂. And as always I welcome your expertise in the field.

Closer yes, but in monopyhletic taxonomy it’s a difference that essentially makes no difference since all organisms with a shared ancestor go in the same category. So necessarily lungfish and humans (and dinosaurs) would have to go in the same category and if lungfish are in the same category as salmon, ditto.

I was thinking Thane from Mass Effect, but yeah I can definitely see Zora as well.

Also, if you classify fish monophyletically (by shared ancestry) instead of paraphyletically (by shared characteristics) than humans are technically fish ;-).

I see what you did there.

:P Well not all, obviously.

The other important thing to realize is that Roddenberry had way less control over TOS than he did over the first two seasons of TNG (or even the third one really, despite the fact that he was dying and off-set). It’s part of why TNG was constructed the way it was: he was afraid of Paramount taking control from him…

I was surprised to learn recently that Return of the Jedi was actually the original title, before Kasdan persuaded Lucas to change it.

Interestingly enough it was apparently Return of the Jedi first but Lawrence Kasdan thought that was too passive and convinced Lucas to (temporarily) change it to Revenge of the Jedi when they announced the movie.

I think Louie knows that, hence “James S.A. Corey” instead of James S.A. Corey.

Ah, but what if you have a 13 episode show? I think there is a pretty good argument for shows to have a mix of serialized and episodic stories. I prefer the former, but I think variety can be good.

RDM actually has always been kind of upfront (going back to his Star Trek days) that while he likes to plot big arcs he also likes the spontaneity that comes from writers’ rooms and doing things on the fly. The “they have a plan” thing was more of a Sci-Fi marketing push.

It’s not the Kelvin timeline. We know for a fact this is the Prime universe.

I feel the “everything is peaceful” issue really isn’t a big deal. Romulus just exploded after all and there’s no reason you can’t set it a couple generations later (say 50-100 years after TNG) when things have become more volatile again.

It certainly lives in the universe of the five films that were made.

Anno and Khara acquired the exclusive rights to Evangelion some time ago. If you buy the latest manga volumes they only list Khara as the licensee.