I would say that the creators need to learn the lesson that GOT teaches: that audiences appreciate greater complexity and a show that doesn’t talk down to them… but then I feel like if they did try to emulate GOT, they’d just assume the lesson is that audiences want grimdark, and they’d make Discovery again.

It’s not explicitly stated, but the obvious implication is that this was the only time Kirk met Pike.

Fortunately, there’s just enough wiggle room to accept the alternate explanation that Kirk is saying “I’ve known him since his promotion to Fleet Captain”.

The other slightly odd bit of mild discontinuity is that half of the main TOS characters in The Menagerie Part I (Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Scotty) know Captain Pike very very well, but none of them aside from Spock act like they do, nor do they display any dismay at discovering what’s happened to their dear former captain (which Kirk only learns on visiting the base). Spock evidently has known for some time; long enough to have concocted his scheme and write the necessary route into a computer auto-navigation program, at least. But it’s not clear whether anyone else found out before the episode. In any case, there isn’t enough dialogue for these other characters in the episode to draw any concrete conclusions either way.

The show definitely wants us to consider it a possibility that the reason La’An isn’t on the Enterprise in TOS is because she died. However, we also don’t know why Una isn’t on the Enterprise in TOS. For Una, I’d consider the most likely explanation to be that she got promoted and now commands her own ship. In such a scenario, it could just as easily be that she took La’An with her as her first officer. In that case, Kirk being sad at the mention of La’An’s name could be that they broke up and he took it badly. But we just don’t know.

I do consider it to be quite likely that they’ll stick with Ortegas leaving to become a flight instructor, especially as that was shown to be the case BEFORE Future Uhura’s time displacement.

Remember, the Kirk that was talking about her like that was also the Kirk for whom Scotty had died a year ago. By changing that, it’s entirely possible that Uhura changed whatever Kirk was avoiding talking about. Therefore nothing is certain.

The fact that you don’t like me is just about the only idea that you HAVE expressed clearly. I’m still trying to figure out wtf the point of your original comment was (if there even was one), and you keep ducking every opportunity to clarify. I’m 100% not being disingenuous when I say that if you did indeed have a point you were trying to make, then it didn’t come across.

You were talking about France at first, then you switched to talking about Germany, and in both cases you seemed to express unhappiness with what they were doing (in France’s case you seem to think nuclear power is a bad thing despite not being fossil fuels and you make some weird comment about the arms trade; in Germany’s case you say it’s too late). I ask do you want them to not do it, you seem to say no. In case you mean that it’s good but they could do more, I ask you to express this in the form of “I think that what they should do is <insert point here>”, you don’t like that either. It seems like you never had a point to make.

That is very obviously not what I am saying, as every honest person can tell.

I don’t think you’re as good at communicating your ideas as you seem to be convinced you are. For example…

Replacing one bad thing with another bad thing, is obviously not good.

…this seems like a non-sequitur.

According to the article Germany is going towards renewables, so it sounds like Germany is moving in the right direction, albeit obviously far too late.

Far too late for what? To be useful? Should it not bother, then? Because you said that that’s not what you’re saying, but then you keep implying it.

Just make your actual point and stop dancing around it. “I think that what they should do is <insert point here>”. Simple. Direct. Constructive.

Wouldn’t it be something if in 2060, the lottery numbers were 12, 17, 22, 24, 35 and 36?

Are you saying that these roadmaps are bad developments and that you’d prefer if they weren’t happening?

Non-proliferation isn’t about protection from other countries with weapons. It’s about protection from the weapons themselves in disarmament and collectively deciding that their use is a war crime.

Except the world is very evidently incapable of collectively deciding anything. Just because you think the world SHOULD work some particular kinda way, doesn’t mean it DOES. If you’re incapable of seeing the world for what it is and dealing with the reality you see, that doesn’t make you more moral than people who see a deeply flawed world and decide to make it, even if not perfect, at least better.

Abdicating responsibility for the concrete planning of how people who want peace should protect themselves from people who want war, is not the same as building peace.

Unfortunately the previous plan, i.e. non-proliferation in the expectation that the USA will provide the deterrence, thus reducing the number of “fault points” as you call them, AKA the “Pax Americana” plan … has failed. Or at least, is in the process of failing, with no way to stop it while Trump is in office.

So we’re definitely getting a season 2, then? Last time I checked, it was still being negotiated

Whatever happened to that rapprochement Turkiye and Israel were attempting a few years back? I mean, obviously it didn’t last, but I don’t remember why not exactly.

Well, if he’s just in there for a broken leg and he’s conscious, I think I’d ask him to volunteer. Is there a reason we can only use his organs and not mine?

Your scenario seems overly complicated when field surgeries already exist, where medics frequently have to make life-or-death decisions already via triage.

What about you? How do you save the five million patients?

Five? It’s five million. There are five million people on the trolley tracks. The correct answer is to pull the lever and then run to try and save the one person on the other set of tracks. Any decent person would at least TRY to save everyone, even if they’ll fail.

The solution that causes more death is the correct one?

Define “manage”? Are you saying that another doctor would have cured the child?

I can confidently predict, then, that your solution to the Trolley Problem would be to not pull the lever.

Yeah, now that you mention it, it would have made a lot more sense if Hysperia and Elysian were the same place.

If Caster had been there, it probably would have become an Uhura episode.

This isn’t to say that we should dismiss this video’s claims out of hand; only that I question its objectivity. At more than one point in the video, a person-on-the-street who is speaking is cut off mid-sentence once they’ve delivered the soundbite the video’s editor wants. I’m sure that many of the points made in the video are correct and valid, and I’m sure that the AES had and has legitimate grievances against France and the USA that shouldn’t be downplayed, but the video clearly avoids any discussion that might provoke any response other than uncritical support of the AES. I would certainly like to see more discussion of the pro-AES position, as I feel there’s a lot more to learn, but I would prefer a discussion that is confident enough in the strength of its position to address its failings too.