As the extended Newfoundland family on my in-laws side would have it, there are cousins in every corner of North America.
It’s great to see people owning the ties.
BTW there’s another connection to Pike’s 1701 - Lt. Amin the Enterprise navigator in Discovery season two was played by Samora Smallwood, grand niece of Joey Smallwood, the premier who brought Newfoundland into Confederation as a Canadian province.
Like most Star Trek shows, it took a bit find its own strengths and to settle into its own groove. At 22 minutes an episode, getting through the ground establishing first half season isn’t a big time investment, and by the end of the first season, you’ll know if it’s for you - although it keeps getting stronger and more grounded in its own lore as it goes.
In case you weren’t already aware, fan-favourite Star Trek tie-in fiction author shared the script credit for Only a Paper Moon.
His other DS9 script credit is for Starship Down.
If you haven’t tried Mack’s tie-in novels, you’re missing some of the best.
I’d always inferred that Tilly would have been on a different track with a PhD. She would have been the kind to have her first degree by 18 or earlier and do the combined Academy-PhD program.
That was established by Roddenberry himself in the TNG pilot Encounter at Farpoint.
TOS fairly clearly implied that the Eugenics wars fed into WW3. Roddenberry insisted that WW3 was situated in the late middle 21st century as of TNG.
All SNW has done make this clear and give a reason why. Otherwise, we’re stuck with the Eugenics War and Khan ruling over a quarter of the planet in the 1990s being some kind of secret cabal thing.
He was fine singing Gilbert and Sullivan in the Short Trek Q&A. So was Number One.
Appreciate the follow up.
A couple of reactions:
I have seen it elsewhere that the story of Jonathan Frake back issues was misunderstood or exaggerated in fan wisdom about the ‘Riker manoeuvre’ and that Frakes himself has refuted it. Not sure where the truth lies on that one at this point.
Nausicans of all species had working temporal technology thousands of years in the past!!!
This is worth an entire reflection on its own. Do we know anything else about a rich and deep history of Nausican science and culture? (Let’s not let Picard’s personal trauma colour our views of them.)
Have they, as a species, been set back by intertemporal conflicts? How is it hat two very violent species - Klingons and Nausicans - are the ones who have longstanding knowledge of time travel mechanics?
I have the sense of a smoking exceedingly nonlinear Chekhov’s gun having been dropped in and carated for us.
If the audience can roll with the Naked Time and the Naked Now, why not an ‘everyone breaks into song and dance’ episode?
If you don’t like musicals, it’s likely best to pass on this one. Many of us do, and welcome them.
For me, the key factors are whether the main cast have the musical theatre chops to pull it off well and whether the music is written by people who know what they’re doing in that specific form.
In this case, there is an award winning Broadway musical performer and others who have significant experience in touring companies. Likewise, the songwriters are both experienced alt musicians but also have written musical episodes for DC. I expect the quality to be high.
It appears that episode 8 will drop next week given Subspace Rhapsody, episode 9, is announced for August 3rd.
Which does make for an earlier end to the season m.
Here’s @GoodAaron@mastodon.social‘s side by side comparison of the Pike’s Enterprise and Save Prodigy petitions breaking 30k.