Academy has the best elements of every single series to date.

Objection. I’ve seen very little professional behavior from anyone except maybe the Doctor and the Commandant, and of course Admiral Uncle. Some leeway can be granted, given the setting, but it’s something I very much miss from the TNG era.

For what is worth, they are doing a much better job of it. It’s never gonna be my favorite trek, but it’s not bad.

My wife, who is a Trek fan for the past 15 years or so, likes it. She didn’t care for Picard or Discovery.

Unless you’re a MAGA influencer. Then you get evacuated.

Isn’t that the guy that played Unicron?

I’ll admit outright that I’m just not interested in most people.

But I’m terrible with names, even with the people I am interested in. I can tell you all kinds of things about a person, just not their name.

It’s kind of bizarre.

I mean, as long as you don’t lose the stick, the rest of it is just frozen water. Uncomfortable, certainly, but I’d be amazed if you could make it to the ER before it melts.

I got Councillor Troi for my ship computer. Good times.

It’s important to note that this specific Nazi is a US Senator, though. Helps illustrate how deep the rot goes.

In this case, I’m referring to the description it had during and before WW1, “the sick man of Europe.” I’m not 100% clear on what happened, but it was collapsing on itself, and wound up fracturing.

And I see your point, since I didn’t specify a time period. For a while, they were serous badasses.

I think things could get better, if the democrats take back power, and then display a level of virtue and resolve they we have never seen from them in the history of ever.

I think it more likely that we become the Ottoman Empire.

the whole political system will lose its credibility

I think that ship has sailed.

Our government isn’t quite a case of Trump’s word is law. And it was only two years ago that we had a nearly functional government. When Trump finally does the only good thing he will ever do, we have something to fall back on.

Always has. Always will. (for a given value of “right.”)

Civilization is an effort to be better than that. Occasionally, we succeed.

Eh. There’s a few people I want to kill. What stops me is not fear of god, but the secret service.

Thank you for saving me the trouble.

Also, that one didn’t seem to leave any scars.

I think that refusing to hold her hand was unforgivable.

I mentioned to my wife, after Sam had asked, that the Doctor had, in fact, been in love at least once, and maybe three times, but I wasn’t sure one of them counted.

Seems I was wrong. That one did count.

I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?

I’m a TNG person myself. One thing that I very much liked about TNG, DS9, SNW, and to an extent VOY was the competency porn. (And then totally inverted in LDK)

This show doesn’t have much of that. It doesn’t even have what ENT had, which learning to be the professionals we want to see. This is still kids learning to be adults. That’s a different journey entirely.

Don’t get me wrong, I quite like it. But it has issues. But then, don’t they all?

I’ll stop picking nits when I’m cold and dead. We trekkies have a reputation to uphold, after all.

But I’ve go nothing of substance that I object to. It’s a bloody good show.

I used to be Catholic. Every Sunday, they performed the transubstantiation on the hosts and the wine. Every Sunday, I subjected both to analysis by one of the most sensitive chemical sensing device in the world.

Every week, it came back as Styrofoam and wine. Never once was it meat or blood.