Either a sriracha mayo with a bit of a kick, or HP sauce.

Her name is Dr. T’ana!

You ever been trapped in a sentient cave? That’s a dark place that knows things.

I typically stick to recipe websites with a good reputation rather than random blogs that come up in search results. But that can be tricky if you’re looking for a specific dish.

< CMO asking persistently enough until they can become Acting Captain and hijack the ship.

Naming the writer TK was such a fun touch.

Don’t you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!

You didn’t forget anything, the universe is just wrong again.

Another recommendation to take a look at the Sofle. It’s got a lot of the positives from the Corne, but it also has a number row and plenty of mod keys to help ease the transition.

I went off script a bit with the flatbread. My grocery store usually has a pretty good pita or naan, but they recently started carrying an onion missi roti that I wanted to try. I believe it uses whole wheat, so it started off darker than your usual pita straight from the jump. I may have left it on the grill for a minute too long, but rest assured it was far from cracker-esque.

Wait, so stories with completely new characters and ships are bad, but stories using existing characters and ships are also bad?

Ceiling Picard is watching you replicate.

Alright, while Jeremy processes that, what did y’all think?

Picard and Strange New Worlds muddle things a bit as well. The date and details of the Eugenics Wars get pushed back a few decades, but time itself seems to always make sure the events happen.

Enterprise at a certain point just stopped engaging with the mechanics of the Temporal Cold War, but small changes to timelines were apparently are hard to detect and take a while to ripple out. The Temporal Prime Directive seemed to be less about making sure things played out exactly the same, and more concerned about the arc of history. A few time loops and predestination paradoxes weren’t enough to break history.

Yesterday’s Enterprise and Star Trek (2009) show that history eventually can hit a breaking point. The Enterprise-C going missing at a crucial moment or Vulcan exploding are hard to correct for.

As for the aesthetics of the Kelvin prologue, I’d just chalk that up to the presentation of the film rather than time rippling out in both ways.

Every sci-fi show with a budget eventually does, “Alien tech, but organic.”

If you want to talk about Star Trek borrowing from Mass Effect, the final threat from the end of Picard Season 1 is a way closer plot beat than the surface level Gorn aesthetics.

At the end of the day, fiction is a reflection of the time it was written in, and some elements are just going to echo throughout genre fiction.

Tea. Earl gray. Hot.

That’s Beth Toussaint in the TNG Season 4 episode “Legacy”. She’s playing the late Tasha Yar’s sister in that episode. Beth apparently gets mistaken for Linda Hamilton a lot though.

Mastodon and Bluesky have very different architectures, and go about their decentralization and federation strategies very differently. Bluesky don’t really have the same concept of “instances” as Mastodon. Unless you recreate Bluesky’s entire technology stack, their decentralized bits typically run into some centralized linchpin that Bluesky still controls. There’s some efforts like Blacksky trying to create meaningful alternatives in the Bluesky ecosystem, but they’re still largely just proof of concept.

Season 3 was excellent as well! I wish 4 and 5 had a bit more futureness to them, but Discovery overall was good in my book.