Could you cite a case for "prisons that allow sex slavery"? I know it's cited in prison labor cases.

It's a funny joke, but there is probably an explicit list of characters, settings, plotlines, etc. that are included in the license.

Yeah, and we already know they changed other aspects of the station to be more suitable for humans. But the real reason was aesthetic, obviously. Even the Federation ships were frequently a bit darker than on TNG (or they found an excuse to make them really dark, like the Defiant's cloak).

Me too. I actually would prefer that to releasing it all at once. MST3K is not really a show one "binges".

My problem isn't that the new look is inconsistent (although TOS at least had the excuse of a significant increase in their makeup budget, which this doesn't). It's that this design for the Klingons sucks. They look like smooth space orcs. Their faces lack contrast and without hair it's harder to give them…

Yeah, as skeptical as a lot of this stuff makes me, I also remember (a) a lot of people saying "ugh, Star Trek on a space station? Whatever happened to 'boldly go where no man has gone before'? Why is there a Ferengi and no Vulcans?" and (b) people saying "a ship with a split Star Fleet/Maquis crew stranded in the…

It's also possible that they'll buy it in smaller chunks. Since each one is so long, they're almost more akin to the comedy specials Netflix also runs. I guess the big question is how much of an economy of scale they get from doing multiple episodes at once.

Are they using any actors from the movies? This isn't in the same universe as the JJ movies and it's technically a different company making it, so my assumption would be that they wouldn't hire any of the same actors. (Which makes one wonder what the deal will be with the mentioned Spock plotline…)

TNG is pretty well-lit — on TV, at least. DS9 has an in-universe excuse (Cardassian station, and they like it dark). No idea why Enterprise was so dark all the time.

We knew they'd met, but Sessions claims it was in his capacity as a US Senator, not related to the campaign. This is especially important because that's his only defense for claiming not to have had contact with the Russians during his confirmation hearings. If there's evidence he discussed the campaign, that's…

Zardo'z.

I've never heard of it, I don't know what kind of food they serve, but I'm angry to know they're in the same city as me. What does that even mean?

Louie's good out here.

The podcast Tweet Me Harder had a pretty funny bit about "Comprehensive Family Feud" that was along these lines.

I like cheese biscuits and I like shrimp but I don't really want my shrimp to taste like cheese biscuits. I want my shrimp to taste like shrimp and to have biscuits on the side.

Jefferson Davis and the rest of the traitors in defense of slavery were responsible for those deaths. Beyond that, actions speak louder than words. The Corwin Amendment didn't end up being ratified, but Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and without him there wouldn't have been a postwar political situation…

There's several million enslaved people who might have been inclined to dispute that yardstick.

Churchill wrote right in the middle of the Dunning School era, when Lost Cause nonsense was at its peak, Grant's reputation was in the toilet, and Lee was regarded as a tragic hero. Even foreigners weren't immune.

Sexual assault in prisons (by guards and inmates) is a huge problem, but it has nothing to do with the 13th Amendment. The 13th Amendment does potentially shield exploitative prison labor programs, but considering what a mockery the Supreme Court has made of the 4th Amendment in recent years I have trouble believing a…

The North bent over backwards accommodating the South's fetish for slavery. Hell, Lincoln was willing to sign the Corwin Amendment, which would have enshrined slavery as a permanent constitutional institution. The South was fundamentally unwilling to accept coexistence in a nation where some states were free and where…