You’re ascribing a lot of emotional baggage to what I typed on my phone while pedaling a stationary bike that doesn’t exist.

I’m not here to argue the finer points of plot holes in these productions that have been under spotlights for years and detailed far better by people with enough time to make hundreds of videos on the subjects like Robert Meyer Burnett, Nitpicking Nerd, and Red Letter Media.

If you enjoy these shows, fantastic, more power to you. Just don’t tell me they’re amazingly well-made and just as good as previous incarnations of Star Trek when they can and have been analyzed ad nauseam, displaying exactly how they aren’t.

I’m not expecting everyone agree whether or telling anyone whether or not they should or shouldn’t like it, but there are many more demonstrable issues with writing and plotting, let alone canon, that exist in excess throughout Discovery, Picard, and SNW. These are objective issues that actual writers have taken issue with, and they’re consistent issues with the executive producers involved.

Absolutely TNG or DS9 aren’t some pantheon of perfection, but from an overall standpoint of consistency, narrative continuity, and proper handling of characters and their development? They’re lightyears beyond the juvenile handling of characters and plots in the post 09 FMV shows. It’s just fact.

Fervently disagree, it has squandered all it could have been and the writing is still absolutely awful. Granted, it’s a notch above Discovery and Picard.

“No bloody A, B, C, orrrrrr D.”

They’re not “too political” or “woke,” they’re written by terrible committees and the executive producers / show runners are hacks.

Lower Decks (and Prodigy, I’m told) excluded.

I’m going to call him Markardies now.

He is busy having an entirely heterosexual dinner date with his heterosexual female Christian girlfriend.

That’s a stupid question!

*Struts away like the important Admiral I totally am for really real

Yeah, in-universe, Winn was a true patriot in the Bajoran resistance against the Cardassians.

She was absolutely an insufferable c-word and ultimately undone by her rampant ambition and desire for recognition; she was a terrible, terrIble person, but was not responsible for the deaths of millions (granted, she ultimately would have been, at least in part, if not for Sisko).

Inaros comes off much more like a mustache twirler. He’s utterly uncaring about life in general. Maybe Winn could have reached his level of despicable and worthiness for removal from the land of living, but by both of their ends, Inaros wins the universal shitbag award by far.

All that said, while I’d more readily rid the universe of Inaros, it would feel like removing a tumor. I’d have a celebratory pile of hasperat and spring wine over Winn’s departure.

LOL

“continued political polarization”

Weird way to spell “flagrant GOP obstructionism and dysfunction.”

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But but but corporations are people, too!!! 😢

I’m not an optimist. I’m a realist with experience in the the legal system that is absolutely fucking sick and tired of unbridled cynicism from people that fundamentally do not understand how the legal system works.

I don’t care what you “believe.” You don’t understand the justice system. This isn’t a critique, it’s a fact.

I also don’t give the slightest shit about polling. Polls have been consistently incorrect for the last decade, and are incessantly spun to create controversy.

I’ve long expected him to run off to Russia and I’m continually surprised he hasn’t. Maybe he still somehow thinks he’ll skate or otherwise knows he doesn’t have a way in? Maybe that’s why he’s been buttering them up in his speeches.

And to the other point, absolutely agree. That’s been the one thing that’s kept me more optimistic, that once he’s put away or buried under a piss-covered headstone, there’s no one capable of controlling the cult. The craziest of the crazies will go on with doomsday conspiracies with miraculous returns that never happen, but the head of the magatshitsnake will be cut off.

He’s never making it into that office again, one way or another.

“They let him get away with anything.”

“Ok he’s under investigation but they’ll let him slide.”

“Ok, he’s been charged, but they’ll never convict him.”

The Trump organization is already criminally convicted of fraud and Weiselberg already spent time at Rikers Island.

Trump has already been found liable for rape and defamation, and another case for that act is going to add to his millions in damages that he will have to pay.

His business in New York is already a dead man walking. He’s going to have to liquidate nearly everything to pay off the damages that the Judge will decide from this trial in December, if not earlier, depending on witnesses the defense calls.

There are likely going to be criminal fraud charges brought for the same actions and intent being uncovered in this case.

In March, the Federal criminal case begins for election interference and obstruction. Those charges will put him in prison before the '24 election. After that, Fulton Co. GA and Federal docs case will go forward and he will get more convictions and more time.

We all want the wheels of justice to turn faster on blatant fucks like this, but that’s not how the system works.

Trump is going to die in prison if he doesn’t off himself first.

Nice, this is one of the primary reasons I haven’t used Safari in my Apple noobness, relying on Brave and another browser for YT ad blocking. Going to give this a try too.