He’s with the Prophets now

you extremist

It’s lashes all the way down.

It’s the internet. There’s going to be “backlash” regardless.

Though to be honest, people seem pretty high on SFA, both here an in other online spaces I visit.

I think there’s a lot of potential in the concept, and the trailer looked great.

Either way, I’d much rather talk about the show than the people talking about the show.

Much has (justifiably) been said about the merger, and the path to how we got here, but everyone seems to agree that David Ellison is in the business because he loves movies - the whole company was practically a vanity project, rather than a moneymaking scheme.

Yeah, I think the new Paramount TV Studios is basically the Skydance studio, renamed - the Old Paramount shut down their version of Paramount Television Studios about a year ago.

This is barely Star Trek-related news, but we now have confirmation that the franchise will remain under CBS Studios (which is pretty much the only division that hasn’t had a change in management under the new regime).

With that bit of business out of the way, the next step will be for them to make a decision on the renewal of the Secret Hideout deal, which is set to expire next year.

Memory Alpha has a breakdown that must be pretty comprehensive.

I’ve used it a bit. It’s fine, though these things that act through browser extensions are understandably met with skepticism. The e-transfers seem pretty useful to those who use the service.

I’m all for the Alto project being a runaway success and spurring nationwide high-speed rail development, make no mistake.

I like Stashwick well enough, but I didn’t think Shaw was handled well at all. He abandoned his post for a significant chunk of the season, sacrifices himself, and then in the end we find out he secretly respected Seven all alone, and just didn’t tell her, because he’s kind of an asshole?

And while his origin story is interesting, it’s also a warmed-over Ben Sisko plot point.

If they were to ever proceed with some sort of *Enterprise-*G series, I’d rather they do it without Matalas. I’ve had enough of his vision for the franchise.

Yeah, the article doesn’t make it sound like an appealing experience.

One of these latest routes is a trip between the Calgary International Airport and Banff. While Boysan said the company targets customers from all walks of life, most passengers on this trip were backpackers in their early twenties who’d chosen the bus for one reason only.

“We’re kind of like broke college students, so we just got the cheapest thing we could,” Leo Fritsch, 18, said, adding his tickets cost about $25.

That would make sense - I was thinking there were probably some viable BC options, but I honestly never hear people talking about them.

It is, and maybe it will change some day, but there’s a reason intercity rail is concentrated almost entirely in the Toronto - Quebec City corridor - nowhere else in the country has the population density to justify it (though maybe the Calgary-Edmonton route will get to that point one day).

Outside of the major commuter routes between large cities, the demand isn’t really there.

There’s a new CBC Radio article that OP may have forgotten to link to.

It does seem like there’s not much of a use case if you don’t have the requirement to cover a large change in elevation in a relatively short distance - mountains, or to get up and over a shipping lane, or something like that. The article argues for them to be inexpensive, which…I’m sure they are, but they seem to be relatively low-capacity, and pretty limited in terms of the number of stops you could include on a route. But I’m not an expert, and maybe I’d be surprised.

I was told to go talk to Garrett Wang. I went to his both and introduced my costume. He loved it. He asked for a photo and a video of me explaining it.

Amazing!

“I learned so much. I learned so many canon things that even I had no clue about, from one of our wonderful writers, Kirsten Beyer, who’s just the godmother of Trek. She’s the Trek Wiki. Her brain is Star Trek. And I got to co-write my episode with her. That was such a dream, because I could just text her in the middle of the night and ask her just deep cut, nerdy questions that I won’t allude to right now, because it’ll spoil things. Just just imagine having a little Trek Wiki that you can text who’s a human being, who’s your friend. And that’s what it was like working with her. So it’s great.”

Upon further consideration…

“Federation political drama” is a popular dream show for a lot of people. I’ve never been one of those people - the Federation is built on decades of contradictory nonsense, and anything they came up with would be under immense pressure to be a perfect political system - something that’s never been designed IRL, and probably never will.

But…setting it in the very early days of the UFP, as the characters themselves are trying to figure it out? There might actually be something there…

I’m under no illusions that this will actually happen - it’s just nice to know he’s interested.