I choked I was laughing so hard.

He needs to bury the horse, dig it up and beat it some more. Remember, there are people on this planet who believe the Earth is flat or that it’s only 6,000 years old and...I could go on, but yeah. Not beating the horse enough, IMO.

Nice catch. The Eyes of the Dragon was the first SK book I read.

Isn’t Randall Flag another character in the King universe who appears or is reference in different books (The Stand, The Gunslinger, etc.)?

And the trailers for WW were fucking great too.

I can agree with her opinion but respect her? No. fucking. way.

Yep. He’s the manager at the office that you only hope and pray you never get stuck in an office with the door closed.

Bullshit. It’s an attempt to intimidate.

Nah. Come on. Dude was digging his fingertips into the table while crouching and lurching forward. He has no control over his anger.

And Janeway could give two shits about preservation of the timeline. She broke the prime directive more than any other captain.

Heh. Or on the back of their pants.

While we’re nitpicking:

I don’t think anyone believes that. I’m more surprised that the admiral wasn’t killed immediately.

“Mainly cause having her as an adopted family member in that family just seems weird to me.”

And don’t forget the Vulcan extremists (I mean, the MAJORITY of Vulcans) on Enterprise who felt mind melds were deviant behavior.

Yeah, I gave up on DS9 initially because the space station sucked. Once I heard they were able to move it AND they added some super sick defensive systems, then I rewatched it and yeah, it’s pretty terrific after that. Although I will say that initially I detested Kira and hated Sisko.

“I’ve definitely been closer to the opinion that the show needs to adapt to a television landscape that’s lousy with complicated, cerebral prestige storytelling in a way the old episodic Trek formula struggles with.”

“If only they had set this 20 years after the dominion war.”

1. There can be more than one mirror universe.

You asked “What is it specifically that compromises earlier parts of the Star Trek universe?”