I am unbelievably excited about possibly seeing Alanna, Keladry, George the King of Thieves, and all the rest on screen. Even just mentions of them while the show focuses on new characters would blow my mind.

Could we please get someone who likes Star Trek Discovery reviewing the next season? 

I love Discovery and you’re right, it’s a gorgeous show. I wouldn’t want to curse it by putting it on the big screen though. I think all Star Trek is suited best to the serialized tv format that lets them explore characters and the universe.

That would be pretty funny. Every year the Discovery crew waits with baited breath to see in what terrible thing happens to their new captain. After a few more they start taking bets about how long the next one will last...

Rep. Marsha Blackburn is a visitor from a horrific dystopia in whicimmigrants and gay people are shot on sight, all women are forced to bear as many children as possible until they die in childbirth, and your employer can beat you at will. The sooner she’s kicked out of our Congress and sent back to her creepy…

Nah, that ad is from a Democratic-leaning PAC. Plus, there are a million billion things wrong with Blackburn. She’s one of the staunchest advocates of forced pregnancies in congress, she wants to burn the environment to ash, she hates immigrants, she votes against civil rights protections for women or LGBTQ…

I like the supporting cast, but you’re right—Burnham was such a great, intense character. I’d watch the show just for her.

Yeah. And I have to say, I really like getting to know a ship’s crew over the years. They need a bit of time to be fleshed out and reveal themselves to the viewers. By the end of every Star Trek show (except Voyager) I’ve come to love all the characters far more than when I started.

Ooh, I hadn’t even thought of that before, but that sounds like so much fun. I wouldn’t want an entire show about it, but a single episode about her spacing annoying crewmembers and blasting her enemies to smithereens, all while maintaining (or perhaps even changing?!) that absurd hairstyle, would be right up my alley.

Yeah, I’m really excited to see him in a show again. I went from excited about these shorts to SUPER excited. Plus--human and AI try to survive on an abandoned ship sounds rife with dramatic potential. I have so many theories about how he ended up on board already.

NYT did a piece on the debunked crack-baby myth almost a decade ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27coca.html and here’s a piece talking about how the “crack baby” urban legend was reported on and what what little it was based on: https://fair.org/extra/the-myth-of-the-crack-baby/

Absolutely agreed. We need more of Chicago covered by the El, not yet another way to get to O’Hare. Huge areas of the population have to take a bus just to get to a train stop and have been calling for rail service for decades.

Hey, thanks for linking to the urban.org site. I’ve been clicking through their various pages and interactive datasets and it’s fascinating!

I’m upset about both!

By your logic, if Tucker can’t be a “woman hater” because he has daughters, then surely no feminist with sons or husbands could be considered a “man hater.”

Exposing ACORN for what? The House Judiciary Committee found no evidence ACORN broke the law...but evidence that Project VERITAS broke state laws in decieving and recording ACORN workers http://www.capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/2009/12/crs-acorn0912221.pdf

That tension between the high ideals of the Federation and how to behave in very difficult situations is I think even in TOS. I love when they’re presented with basically a no-win scenario and somehow find a way around it, whether through a logic loophole (TNG’s Ensigns of Command) or action.

I think your point about Saru and Tilly acting like Federation officers is a valuable one, not least because it’s one I was going to make too. I’d add Philipa Georgiou, Hugh Culbert, Peter Stamets, and Ash Tyler to that list. Even Michael acts like a Federation officer aside from her first interaction with Klingons,…

Oh, that’s an interesting distinction! So by Federation ideals would you mean things like an emphasis on peaceful communication, non-interference, or exploration? Whereas by Star Trek ideals you’re talking more Roddenberry’s assertion that 23rd/24th century humans would be beyond all “dark” emotions (including grief)?

I could see that rebuttal, except that we’ve seen that most of the characters espoused and embodied Federation ideals from the get-go. From day one the main characters (excepting Lorca)prioritized protecting the innocent and exploring new life and new civilizations. The very first scene is the lengths the Shenzhou…