Fascinating and informative article. Thanks for posting.

Yeah, the word “siege” is a little weird to repeat several times. I’d have said “attempted coup” at leat one of the times.

I cringe in horror at the idea of children using stainless steal straws. There’s so much potential for horrible accidents.

Church tithing doesn’t count as donating to charity, IMHO.

I don’t think that’s how it works

You can’t be truly “business friendly” without being worker friendly too.

*all drive times based on 6am, Sunday morning, June 23rd 1982

First Longhorn, now Outback. Is there a decent family steak house is the Sterling area?

In that vein:
Romeo and Juliet II: Friar Lawrence Strikes Again

That’s a more recent phenomenon. These folk were retiring just as that culture was taking off.

They are already choosing fascism over Christianity. https://digbysblog.net/2023/08/14/gradually-and-then-suddenly/

The only candidate trying to stop him has been Christie. And I’m grateful to him for his effort.

Extraordinary classic fantasy books provided ignition for inspired creativity.

Caveman like enough?

While I think it was too early in the run for a musical episode, they pulled it off pretty well. Generally speaking, series should wait until at least season 5.

I suspect that there will be new characters and small subplots that will arise in future seasons that will never be set to music.

A little bit of Kirk us enough for this show. I’d really hate to see home become a major character. I also wonder why they cast a Jim Carrey doppelganger as James T. Kirk?

You have a point, but it got lost in the assholery of your reply. I too long for a little more of the hard SciFi and morality tales of Star Trek. The writers/producers try too hard to explore characters & relationships rather than the cool things that we can see/learn while exploring the galaxy - - all those strange new worlds.

I’m a bit older than you and gotta disagree one one point. The 50s was NOT an optomistic time for American SciFi. With the exception of “Forbidden Planet”, which heavily influenced TOS, 50s SciFi was dominated by paranoia, repression & fatalism. There were monsters under every rock. Our inability to control ourselves and our technology was dooming our future. The early 60s TOS was an optomistic breath of fresh air. Maybe we wouldn’t blow ourselves up after all

Longer seasons would allow them to throw in a few SciFi oriented episodes that don’t necessarily advance character arcs. Where would SNW be if TOS didn’t have the “Arena” (Gorn) episode that was based on a completely unrelated SciFi short story?

Mirror, Mirror was a SciFi episode that not only gave us the foundation for Discovery, but cemented the evil-twin-goatee trope into pupular culture.

Space Seed (Botany Bay/Khan) was also a one-off SciFi episode. Where would the entire franchise be without it?

I really hope SNW makes room for exploring the sort of SciFi ideas that Star Trek was originally based on.

We thought the /s wasn’t necessary on Lemmy. But this comment disproves it.

Yes. Too bad he had all those guns within easy reach.