There are some drinks that humans like which are more viscous than others. This includes items like port wine and hot chocolate. You also have stews and gravies which use various thickening agents like okra or a roux.

I kind of think that Kanar is like an intoxicating gravy. You know, that might help out with American Thanksgiving.

Yeah, the movie definitely deserves it’s accolades as one of the best Star Trek movies. It is just that you can tell, with this movie, there really wasn’t anywhere good for the original cat to go from there.

while continuing to grow as individuals

Only one person really grew, and that is Captain Sulu.

It kind of doesn’t make sense for Kirk to still captain the Enterprise, especially given the disdain that the admiralty seem to have with him. I also feel like he doesn’t really have a mission any more like he did during the show. Given that Starfleet wasn’t desperate for officers at the time, I would expect that Captain Kirk should be captaining a desk and only getting pulled in because Spock wants Kirk.

Spock shouldn’t be a captain in this movie. He is doing high level admiralty/government work here. It was already accepted that Spock would retire from Starfleet and become an ambassador. Now is the perfect time to do it. It also gives a way for Spock to outrank Kirk in making decisions while not being an admiral, something which is kind of banked into the premise of the show.

Chekov was a first officer in Star Trek II, he should be a captain by now.

Scotty is slumming it as chief engineer of the Enterprise at this point in his life, especially as the Enterprise isn’t the most up to date ship.

McCoy displays what appears to be incompetence in letting the Klingon Chancellor die. A doctor on the front lines of the Klingon Cold War should know enough about Klingons to be able to treat Klingons.

Uhura should know how to speak Klingon, also because she was on the front lines of the Klingon Cold War.

The only one who progressed in his career is Sulu as he is has a prestigious Captain’s chair, but it makes sense given his age and experience.

I didn’t like it.

The premise was interesting and kind of seemed to be TNG’s Undiscovered Country, so that by itself wasn’t bad.

Tom Hardy as a Picard clone was dumb. I don’t know what the obsession is with having Picard become a father when his character was written to have his lineage end with him. It would have worked better if Hardy was a Romulan who was manipulating the Remans for his benefit.

Outside of Worf, the crew felt oddly in status. Giving Riker the Titan in this movie could have justified shaking up the crew. Bring in Crusher and La Forge as technical experts instead of crew because going to Romulus it’s going to be a big deal and the two have credible experience with Romulan biology and technology.

Ditch the whole daddy/son thing and focus on the Enterprise and a small fleet trying to establish better diplomatic relations as invited guests and get attacked given how the sneaky Romulan politics is.

The final ship battle was cool.

I honestly have a problem with how the Undiscovered Country treats the original characters. Great story, but it did the characters dirty.

Yeah. They likely equate LLM with all AI and a company with software which is more than just a chat bot gets lumped in with everyone else.

DS9 also makes it clear why the populace accepts martial law so cleanly and that part of it comes from a people who live in paradise and aren’t used to threats in their security.

That this episode was made 5 years before 9/11 is astounding in what it gets right about the populace of a democratic system filled with comfortable people accept a loss of liberty due to a perceived external threat.

The Maquis Episode 1.

Technically it is paradise, but it feels equivalent enough.

It technically goes back to Roddenberry.

First, Roddenberry still wrote the Federation as having some faults. A major plot point in Star Trek VI is that Starfleet is attempting a coup of the Federation to keep the cold war going. In early TNG, the Federation is seen as entertaining ending Data’s rights and allows a Federation colony to deteriorate to the level of drug wars.

Roddenberry had also written a treatment for a post-Federation time where a Federation ship goes into the future and rebuilds the Federation from scratch. That show became Andromeda, but the concept ended up being used in Discovery and Starfleet Academy.

By DS9, it was bluntly stated that Earth was a utopia.

Nog has been more highly regardrd outside of the wall than on it. He was considered to be capable as a captain both in STO and even in DS9 when they had some future episodes.

I’m just noting the goddamn wall.

The problem is that promotions were given to other characters off screen, including Admiral Harry Kim.

Earth has been known to keep Starbase 1 around for centuries and that space station has nowhere near the historic significance as Deep Space 9 did for Bajor.

I doubt it would have been kept as the space station serving the Bajoran wormhole, but I could see it kept in the system preserved as a historic ship.

That is of it didn’t blow up due to the Burn.

It depends on if the station survived that long bring operational and if it survived the Burn.

I doubt that DS9 would be the main station serving the Bajoran wormhole even if it was preserved.

That Nog is listed as a lieutenant…

You have to watch out about that. Star Trek loves the Klingon like they love the Vulcans.

Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.

The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.

That’s typical for most construction projects.

If I’m going to build a building or a bridge, the number of people required to build is far more than the number of people required to maintain.

It looks like we’re starting to hit the same issue with websites. You need a maintenance staff for websites, but no where near the level of staff required to build the thing.

The person is writing from a business prospective. If people are replacing their phones less often, it means that fewer phones are being purchased each year. If your company makes phones, that means adjusting to a shrinking market no matter what your company does.

In this case, private equity isn’t the only villain.

Print journalism has been decimated over the last generation as it has become the expectation that the articles should be free. The money that used to support journalism is mostly gone.

The writer is focusing only in their own experiences, but the industry as a whole can’t support many people who blog as is it is their job.