They are undeniably a domestic enemy and a clear and present threat to the public good. “Murder” is not an appropriate term for it.

I like to do my part with a healthy dose of fucking profanity. Cunty LLMs can ram it up their asses if they want to emulate my comments.

Just fucking close the museum if you’re going to comply with this shit. He has no authority to do this, so why are people always just bending over to get fucked by his tiny dick?

Good for him for at least having th balls to face his constituents.

Now he should have the sack to listen to them and either resign or dedicate himself to fixing the problems he helped create.

Specifically, yes, though it is also specified for emergency use and is limited to thirty days. So basically he’s just doing whatever the fuck he wants and nobody with authority or means is stopping him. These are unlawful orders being followed by FUCKING COWARDS.

This is a stain on the armed forces. Anyone in the Guard should be fucking embarrassed to admit what they do for a living.

That also goes for any other member of a military organization or agency that complies with orders like this.

A shithole state is as a shithole state does.

Life is a mystery.

All of them.

La’an saying “fascinating” makes me wonder if Spock is rubbing off on her.

Uh, phrasing

I suspect Batel’s fate is foreshadowed in her mindmeld with Spock. The hybridization will give her a Gorn aspect that she can’t live with, but it will also grant her the ability to communicate with the Gorn, and she’ll wind up sacrificing herself.

They are definitely doing this without Starfleet approval. Pike’s ship prioritizes individuals over regulations, an ethos that carries forward when Kirk takes the chair.

When he started snapping to change things I was like oh, okay, I see what this is. I think Trelane did that too, but it became such a trademark of Q that it was hard to ignore the similarity. And then the voice was just delicious icing on the cake. They didn’t make a big deal of it or make some weird tortured commentary to try and tie it into continuity. They just let it be as a story on its own.

I was impressed with their restraint in not mentioning either Trelane or Q by name. I mean they dressed the entity in the same costume as Trelane, and his behavior and MO are identical, so we’re clearly meant to conclude they are one and the same. But they didn’t burden the story with continuity, and that’s smart.

One of the writers talked about it on Open Pike Night and said it was a deliberate choice to give La’an and Erica opposite trajectories from last season, where now La’an is finally able to move on from her trauma with the Gorn while Erica is dealing with it for the first time.

I like to think that wolkite is a predecessor or a component of the viridium patch that Spock tracks Kirk with in Undiscovered Country.

It would be a simple matter for Trelane to make them all forget about him in “The Squire of Gothos” so that he could have more fun with them. I also like the idea that the Q wore the raiment of “energy entities” at this point in history just as fashion.

They were already doing that from their social media accounts from inside their cells, but now they can hold meetings.

He did this deliberately because he needs an extralegal militia to do his bidding.

Accidental like Strangelove, perhaps. Just an involuntary spasm revealing his true nature.