Lack of time is definitely the enemy of table top gaming. I feel very fortunate that I’ve managed to have an ongoing [mostly] weekly STA game for two and half years now.

If you’re paying, you can spell his name any way you like.

My excitement at having Paul Giamatti in Trek is significantly tempered by the idea that he’s going to be the season villain for “Starfleet Academy”. Unless he’s going to be the hard ass dean of the Academy that doesn’t want to put up Tilly’s students putting Orion pheromones in the environmental system, and kidnapping the Klingon Military Academy’s targ mascot before the big game, I’m not interested in a villain.

So did ‘Farscape’.

Not surprised there wasn’t a close-up on that one; I wouldn’t have recalled that Janeway has a microscope in her ready room.

I think Burnham was referencing Book, not Tyler, when she said she knows what it’s like to lose someone but got him back.

I suppose you could interpret it that way, but I just don’t see it myself.

Book died during the final events of 10C, but they magically zapped him back into existence, if I recall correctly.

Book didn’t die, he was transporting out, and the 10C were able to capture his transporter pattern, and then later resolve it.

Yeah, I never thought it was anything deeper than that they’re working Canadian actors who probably had other projects. I looked both of them up because someone in another group I frequent was chirping about it, and Emily Coutts recently wrote and directed her own short film, and Oyin Oladejo got to play the lead in an indie thriller.

A tour de force

I guess I mostly think of Frakes as the director of the TNG episode, “Sub Rosa”.

It is nice to see Nhan is going to be in the finale. Hopefully they Owo and Detmer are back from their adventures aboard the ISS Enterprise and able to show up as well.

Right now there are two ongoing series, Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant, and there’s frequently a number of mini-series happening as well.

They’re pretty fan service heavy, which works for me but I know some people find that to be a hurdle.

If we’re being honest, the whole post may or may not have been an excuse to just share that image.

My current completely unfounded theory is that he’s going to use the Progenitor tech to evolve himself – in the Star Trek (derogatory) sense of the word – to the point where he sees the koala and is able to use his powers to stop whatever final confrontation there is.

Yeah, that one was new to me as well.

The Paul Pope art is as gorgeous as one would expect, though.

Assuming that actually is Eric J. Robbins in the comments on that article, he’s the co-writer on the episode, and he’s claiming the librarian is an Efrosian.

I want her book pendant.

I considered suggesting “The Last Outpost”.

I don’t disagree, but I do believe that when we think about what Star Trek is, what it boils down to is an episodic procedural, despite how serialized it can be at times.

My first thought whenever the topic of what episode a person should to introduce Trek to someone comes up is “The Measure of a Man”. Though perhaps a courtroom drama, while certainly something Trek dabbles with on multiple occasions, is not typical enough to fall under the umbrella of conventional.

Maybe something like “Children of the Comet” from season one of SNW. There’s a strange mystery that’s going to spell disaster for a pre-warp civilization, an alien of the week antagonist whom the Enterprise crew needs to figure out how to deal with without getting into a fight, and everything’s neatly wrapped up by the end. The biggest mark against it would be the subplot where Pike’s dealing with the knowledge that he’s going to end up in a beep chair.

Well, I double dumbass on me, I guess.