I wonder is Lear ever tried to meet up with her Noonien Singh relatives?

With Tuvok’s comment about using his position to advocate for augments, I wonder if they’re considering a Tim Russ/Christina Chong spinoff.

I think I agree with your overall sentiment - not the greatest thing I’ve ever heard, but I’m glad they made it.

The highlights for me were the semi-rehabilitation of McGivers, and the fleshing out of Khan’s cult followers. And I’m glad they didn’t go down the “Khan wasn’t so bad” road, instead going with, “Khan was a pretty bad guy who maybe could have turned it around under different circumstances,” which…is a pretty Star Trek message, even if it’s not one I was very interested in exploring.

Despite being absolutely terrible for half the game, the Bombers managed to make things pretty interesting before the end of that one. But in the end, they suffered the fate that they deserved this season. See you next year.

Montreal is a very good team, but I’m going to hop on the BC Lions bandwagon for the remainder of the playoffs. I like Buck Pierce, and Nathan Rourke is a good Canadian story.

I’m kind of stunned to see that MTL and WPG have identical records. I guess the fact that a couple of Winnipeg’s wins felt like losses has something to do with it.

The Bombers lost Chris Streveler to a potentially career-ending injury in a fairly meaningless game.

Streveler has had serious limitations as a quarterback, which have been on full display this season, but he seems like a great dude, and it sucks to see him go out like that.

And with the BC win over the Riders, Winnipeg is set for a rematch (of sorts) against Montreal as they cross over to the East…

Klingon society is also deeply patriarchal. Women are denied direct inheritance and cannot sit on the High Council.

This seems to have been a relatively recent development (in TNG terms), as Azetbur seemed to be an uncontroversial pick for Chancellor.

And I think it does a disservice to omit Discovery’s take on the Klingons, if we’re taking about them growing with the audience. They took the feudal aspects and sprinkled in a healthy dose of xenophobia, which directly reflects cultural shifts over the last couple of decades.

Noted?

It bugs me a bit too, but I guess there’s nothing really wrong with it being “the exception that proves the rule” - something extraordinary happened in that case, unlikely to repeat.

And the pre-existing time travel rules weren’t exactly clear-cut, either - my original response glossed over bootstrap paradoxes like “Time’s Arrow”, where the characters travel back in time because they found Data’s head in San Francisco, which was only there due to said time travel.

But then, from the perspective of people in the future, I suppose all time travel events look like bootstrap paradoxes…

the Prime timeline holds together no matter what happens to it.

This isn’t quite true. Most of the time, Star Trek asserts that time travel to the past can and does alter the “prime” timeline - this is directly observed in “Past Tense” and “First Contact” (the movie, of course), when crew members who are protected from the alterations see reality warp before their very eyes. In those cases, the time travelers are forced to do what they can to “repair” history and get events to play out reasonably similar to how they orginally had. I assume things are still different, but they’re considered “close enough”.

The Kelvin event doesn’t just make a new branch going forward. The ripple hits both directions.

This is a little contentious, but I agree with this interpretation, even though the actual films are pretty vague on exactly how the alternate reality came to be. It’s certainly a contradiction of basically every other depiction of time travel. But hey, it was a unique circumstance.

TNG’s “Parallels” deserves a mention as well, since it states that their are infinite parallel realities (and we see a bunch of them).

In general, here’s what I think is true:

1. An infinite number of quantum realities exist. These have nothing to do with time travel, and simply…are.

2. Time travel to the past can, and usually does, alter the future. Separate quantum realities are not created. These are the situations that the 26th century Federation time cops are concerned with.

3. The Kelvin Timeline seems to be an exception to (2), though I suppose there’s a possibility that Spock and Nero simply tunnelled over to a different quantum reality, in addition to travelling through time. This is 100% pure fanon, though.

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I do hope the league is able to find some lessons that can be applied in other cities to boost attendance.

Rosalind Lear appears to be hiding some kind of alternative motivation for investigating into Khan and Ceti Alpha

I didn’t find this surprising in the sense that she’s seemed…biased, to say the least. But the scene with Tuvok was nice, even though in the moment I was wondering if it was Lear or Delmonda that was meant to be the liar. Context suggests it’s her, though.

The song the young augments were listening to was Your Touch released in 2021.

Interesting. I wonder if it’s a favourite of Kirsten Beyer or something - I’m a little surprised that they went to the effort of clearing a pop song of any kind.

Khan’s odd mercy towards him

I see it as a means to an end - looking like he’s living up to his end of the bargain with Delmonda. A dangerous game to be playing, though.

the inevitable loss of McGiven’s to the Ceti Eel.

I know this is consistent with the film, but part of me wishes she had met her demise more directly as a result of some choice that Khan made, if only to reinforce just how foolish she had been to join his little cult in the first place.

The Lego thing was officially announced a while back.

I think Star Trek merchandise is decent…when it comes to the high-end, ridiculously-priced market.

When it comes to affordable stuff…less so.

Well, they won ugly, and clinched a playoff spot thanks to BC taking down Edmonton.

I have little faith that this team is going to get anything done in the playoffs. But…how cool would it be if the Bombers somehow crossed over to the East and hung in there long enough to play a home Grey Cup game against the Riders?

Sure, it’s almost certainly not going to happen, and if it did they’d probably get stomped, but…it would be fun to see.

The more I think about it, the more I feel like the decision to add these aliens to the story was a good one. It gives Khan someone to be tyrannical toward, since his cultist followers don’t really give him a reason to do monstrous things.

My hopes couldn’t be lower!

But…the Riders aren’t exactly sending their best and brightest, so we’ll see what happens.

Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace will perform at the Grey Cup Kickoff Show, while Niverville, Man. native Catie St. Germain will sing ‘O Canada.’

That’s a pain. I guess a delete and repost might do it, or on desktop you might be able to set a different thumbnail URL.

Wrong link?

The Bombers haven’t given up on their season, which I suppose is good. I’m just about ready to. I can only hope the Riders take their foot off the gas now that they’ve clinched the top spot in the West.

EDM/BC is an interesting matchup, with some potential playoff implications (I think? Math isn’t my strong suit). The Argos also have an opportunity to play spoiler a bit.