I appreciate the record-straightening here. You’re doing good work

But of course the anti-war protests were also inextricably tied up with civil rights protests happening at the same time.

The people who actually make these games have said that the timeline in Hyrule Historia is little no more than elevated fanfiction, because they don’t follow it when making their games. It’s all retcon and forced connections.

People who want them to have some shared continuity as if they’re a real history might as well make a timeline for Mario too. It’s silly, and misses the point

Headline is misleading. There is no canon timeline and never has been, regardless of what officially-licensed book it was published in.

The game designers have said many times that they don’t take any sort of timeline into account when designing a new Zelda game. They nail down the mechanics, and the story comes next, and if it happens to match up thematically in relation to another game, that’s just a bonus.

Honestly, Brave New World needs a post credit scene where Nick Fury wakes up startled, and it’s Maria Hill knocking on the door.

“I just had the weirdest goddamn dream with you in it,” Fury says. Hill replies, “You know, sir, Dr. Strange says that dreams are windows into other realities.” “Dammit I hate this multiverse shit. Get Colonel Rhodes and Talos on the phone.”

Somebody really wants to drop a hard R.

A better analogy might be shutting off their water because they were using it to make naughty ice sculptures, which are forbidden by the HOA.

Computer, reactivate Emergency Engineering Hologram

Holo’brien: Fuck off! Computer, delete program, command override O’Brien six-six-gamma-seven.

Idunno, old man McCoy in the TNG pilot was pretty memorable, as was Picard in the first episode of DS9. It’s a fun tradition.

Lower Decks is the best one of all the post kelvin Treks, for sure, but that might be because it’s borrowing so heavily from TNG/TMP.

It looks like Kelley’s head photoshopped onto a stock image of a magician.

Edit: Yup, found the magician. Now to see if I can find where that headshot is from. It’s definitely TOS era.

Edit 2: Couldn’t find it with a simple reverse image search, so I looked for “DeForest Kelley smiling” and found the original image of him on this delightfully old-school web page dating back to 2001. (Bless him, the page is still active and has a counter and everything.) The image makes it clear that it is indeed from Star Trek, but he has on a unique formal looking tunic with a split collar, which should make it easy to narrow down to a specific episode.

Edit 3: Some reverse image searching on the full image led me to the ever-useful site getyarn.io, which provided a clip of the exact moment of this image, in which Bones is saying “a teddy bear?” It’s from TOS S02E10, “Journey to Babel”. Here’s a longer clip with the amusing context:

https://youtu.be/TvT-hWOt63w?si=TZenf1cKA36E3xiA

Far more likely that whoever installed the clock just forgot to change the units.

If it’s anything like its reddit equivalent, it will just be a place for people who unironically use the words “woke”, “SJW”, and “DEI” as perjoratives. No thanks.

Geeze, Wowbagger the Infinity Prolonged must have gotten bored.

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I’ve read the exact opposite, that they always wanted a pop song for the credits, but nearly waffled on it just before it aired.

I can understand not vibing with the song, but the montage and what it represents is peak Trek to me. I love it to death.

This is what I wanted from this. It’s the same device that worked for Captain America. You give them a standalone period piece and then at the end they fall through time and do a big team up movie.

The contemplative and slower tone of the coda really highlighted what was lost in switching to shorter seasons with a long serialized arc to babysit. Imagine if we had those arcs but with a handful of bottle episodes peppered throughout.

I wonder if they cut down the Moll resolution a bit to make room for the series wrap up. It did feel a bit abrupt.

I totally called Kovich being a time traveler, but them folding him into Daniels was a neat surprise, and felt like a naturally revelation. “Oh, of course he’s bloody Daniels.” It expanded both characters without diminishing their mystery at all.

Knowing that Calypso was meant to be the whole focus of season 6 is a hard blow, though. We’ll likely never get that story now. I’m glad they were able to at least tie it firmly back to the show, but man, it would have been fun to see how it played out. Why does Kovich need this Craft, and why does it require the ship to be de-refitted? Maybe now that the show is done they’ll give it a proper continuation in novel form. One can only hope.