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I'm not much of a fan of Enterprise Season 3. They took a great concept, and allowed themselves the freedom to do serialized storytelling (such as DS9 positively mastered), but it stayed in that limbo for far too long. If the arc lasted maybe just half the season, I'd probably have better...

I can't speak to your last sentence, so forgive my ignoring the comparison. Perhaps you have something on that "proselytism" thing (although, if true, it strikes me as massively misplaced), but I just can't imagine how having a single episode of an otherwise non-musical show (whether Buffy...

Sadly, a mention is all that's likely to be possible, now that Nog's actor has passed away.

That's largely my reaction to the comments I've seen elsewhere vs. here about the upcoming musical episode. Seriously, people who don't like musicals REALLY seem to hate them, don't they? Glad reactions here haven't been like that.

I'll happily join you in that blasphemy. Never liked Shatner, and don't particularly care for Pine, but I actually like this Kirk, which really isn't something I thought I'd ever say.

Yes, clearly we're too far apart at this point. You seem to ignore what Star Trek IS.... You say we know all about the CE, when that is demonstrably NOT the case, according to the information (not the emotional manipulation, which I'm happy to posit as a concern) in Silicon Avatar itself. They...

You didn't respond to what I said, even a little bit. I'm stipulating that the CE knows what it's doing. I'm GIVING you that argument. The question isn't whether Picard and company might have been able to determine sentience. Its whether a non-violent option (including incarceration) might have...

Even if we assume that Lore's conversation proves that the CE was irredeemably evil (and I'd dispute that, but we're stipulating here), Picard and company still can't possibly know that. This changes nothing.

I did not say that MAGA would die without Trump, but HE won't be riling them up anyone once he's dead. They'll be doing that all on their own.

I think I may have said before, as much as I'd love him to actually be arrested for his crimes, I see little to no chance of that happening. I'll be happy if he's somehow barred from ever holding political office again. NEITHER scenario stops Trump from actively riling up his base, but nothing...

It bears repeating, I don't dispute that the CE likely needed destroying. The dispute is in this "kill first, ask questions later" attitude certain people are employing. I will never agree to that kind of morality. Such deadly force should be used if and only if other avenues have been explored...

Given that they'd just determined it might be possible to communicate with the Crystalline Entity (coupled with the fact that Lore seemed able to communicate with it), the possibility of it being sentient was very definitely placed on the table.

All that scenario demonstrates is that a (non-Trump) person, once charged with insurrection, would have trouble winning an election, even if acquitted. It doesn't prevent them from running.

I don't think that's a necessary conclusion. The 29th century holoemitter was certainly beyond the 24th century capability of Voyager, but there's been decades since then to study that 29th century tech. It's not implausible that they cracked the code by the 25th century in which Picard takes...

Again, I agree that they wouldn't ignore a surprise hit. I just don't assume that has to mean a second wave of Machine Wars, specifically.

That's kind of my own thinking. To play the hypothetical "what if it had sold really well?" game, I could suggest that, even in such an unlikely scenario that sales were astonishingly high and thus couldn't be ignored, the result wouldn't be "more Machine Wars toys," but rather "a revival of...

I'm assuming that, even if a charge for insurrection bars one from running for (let alone holding) an office, an acquittal would restore that privilege.

I'm breaking my "never respond to you" mantra because this is so important to say. I wholeheartedly reject the premise that "justice" for murder can only exist if the perpetrator is killed. I cannot state this strongly enough.

Seems possible, but I wonder if MW was always going to be just this one wave, even if it had sold better.

The question, in my mind, is not whether or not the crystalline entity needed to be destroyed. It's whether they should have done so without trying to find another way first. They'd only JUST discovered the possibility of communicating with the creature. They HAD to try to do so, if only on the...