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Couples with opposing political views face higher risk of separation
  • And yet, you’ll see many people posting elsewhere on social media that it shouldn’t be relevant.

    Can’t imagine trying to share a life with someone who didn’t share my values, but there seems to be a contingent that think that other things should be more important.

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)
  • At 22 episodes total, and only 6 in TAS second season, it could go either way.

    I am willing to concede so that those who don’t love TAS much as I do can get their proper closure to the 5 year mission.

    And then there’s part of me that very much wants Vanguard to be the new, darker station-based serialized ensemble show to fill the DS9 niche we haven’t quite had in this era.

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)
  • TAS is the 4th season of TOS - with some of the scripts adapted from the prep for a live-action TOS season 4 that never happened. (Yes, TAS IS canon!)

    Now, we know that Arex and M’Ress are difficult to bring to live action, but who’s to say that their rotations on Enterprise aren’t done, and Chekov isn’t back, as year 5 begins?

  • SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up
  • Indiewire has a less positive review - “Brings the Fun — and Zombies — but Misses Chances to Go Deeper”

    https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/shows/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-3-review-1235132207/

    As I share this reviewer’s opinion on Tomorrow-cubed, I think I’m at the point of wanting to stop myself from reading more reviews now…

  • SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up
  • I’ve been wondering how much of the decision to wrap SNW with a short sixth season might have to do with Goldsman’s contract with Paramount coming to an end and his new one with another franchise and major studio.

    SNW really was his project, regardless of Alonso Myers being the co-showrunner.

    There’s a possibility that this is also about a change in leadership as the show transitions to a true TOS show, perhaps hopping to a time post-TAS but before the movies, and even shifting somewhat in tone.

    All of this would make sense of casting an older actor as Jim Kirk.

  • SNW Season 3 Early Review Round-Up
  • Ryan Britt had a good review for Inverse, and an interesting take on the show overall.

    It’s tempting to say that SNW succeeds because, of all the newer Trek shows, it's the one that feels the most like fan fiction. Or perhaps, to put it another way, it’s Star Trek version of Marvel’s What If? In this case, the “What If?” scenario that is floated in nearly every episode is “What if the 60s Star Trek show were made today?”

    Given how much of a OG fan Akiva Goldsman is, this seems a fair assessment - even if other, mostly younger fans, have different ideas about where the show should link up with the original.

    https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-3-review

  • Where are you purchasing your yarn?
  • I try mainly to work through my stash.

    But I try to buy independent from stores in our region.

    Fortunately, Wool-tyme is within driving distance. They have a great selection of quality yarns.

    Their store offers classes and has knowledgeable and helpful staff. Their clearance section carries a lot of Diamond Yarns (major distributor) discontinued and overstock but is only accessible in-person.

    For those not aware, Wool-tyme is also Canada’s largest online yarn store.

    They do ship to the United States and other countries. You can select US$ and other currency pricing at the bottom of the page.

    It’s a family-owned business, now in its fifth decade. The original owner passed it down to her niece.

    It’s got a fiesty history — the original name of the store was Wool-mart and they ended up in court when Walmart came to Canada and tried to force her to change the name.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/owner-of-beloved-ottawa-yarn-shop-hanging-up-the-needles-after-40-years-1.6938283

  • And what's with the hats?
  • Ah, the true predecessors of bumpy-forehead aliens!

  • Spaceballs 2 Announcement
  • Losing a spouse and choosing to focus on raising your kids when you have the financial resources seems a value-based choice.

    Martin Short, another Canadian comedian of the same generation, also stopped working for many years when his wife died in 2010.

    His return to work in Only Murders in the Building has been enormously successful - and has reportedly led to a romantic attachment with Meryl Streep who also lost a spouse to cancer and had a hiatus in work.

    One has to wish Moranis similar professional and personal success.

  • Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  • I was hoping that SNW would focus on Pike and his crew and less on the legacy characters.

    But it seems Goldsman has had his ideas about it since the early 1970s and he’s fulfilling his fan dreams, as an EP and writer, of filling in the backstories of the characters he and we love. I can’t naysay that and it certainly sold the suits on 5 seasons of an excellent show.

  • Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  • We have to keep in mind that we’ve only seen 20 of 46 episodes, less than half the full run.

    I believe that the new benchmark for selling a licence for reruns on other streamers and linear has dropped from over 70 episodes to a bit over 40 based on various industry reports. So this definitely puts SNW above that threshold.

    This does raise the question though whether there is a plan to morph this into some kind of TOS continuation past year 5 and TAS.

  • Paramount+ Announces Fifth and Final Season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  • So a half season + a one-hour series finale?

    Having only 5 seasons seems the new normal since they haven’t been able to actually produce one season per calendar year and actors’ contracts run 7 years.

    But having a short season seems weird, like some kind of negotiated compromise.

    This is just going to feed the ‘Kurtzman is done when his contract expires …’ speculation.

  • Who wore it better?
  • News flash: the original TOS gold shirts were green but the film processing didn’t give us that. Somehow that specific alternate tunic fabric came out on film closer to the actual fabric colour.

  • Close the mathematics gender gap: huge study prompts urgent call to action
  • I would argue that a lot of the computational based problem solving , from middle school through early undergraduate years, focused on topics historically oriented to boys’ interests, aren’t a good measure of innate math talent either.

    But those have historically left a lot of female students behind.

    Male or female, most students are really looking to get through math requirements with plug-and-chug replication of algorithms to get to an answer - not genuine problem solving or abstraction. However, being able to reproduce an answer on a very slightly different problem, or just one with different numbers to plug in, does very little towards using mathematical as a means to model problems independently and find solutions.

  • EXO-6 Revisits "The Cage," Master Replicas' Next Action Figures (and a Talking Moopsy!), and Much More Star Trek Merch News!
  • Now I wish I had preordered Spock.

    The one I want most is Number One but it would have been great to have the set.

  • Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought, McGill study suggests
  • Garbage dumps are close to the grid and the users.

    Many of the worst offenders are very old wells, as much as a century old. Their original owners are long gone which is how governments ended up being burdened with capping them.

    Like many old toxic mines, the creators of the problems have evaded legal liability by going out of business. Legal frameworks may be more rigorous now but the old wells and mines remain.

    Some of the oldest wells, like the ones near Petrolia in SW Ontario, might be economically viable for methane power generation. Others in Saskatchewan and Alberta are likely not.

  • [Insert Trek episode of choice]
  • That one was a budget shortfall actually.

  • Fewer Americans travelling to Canada
  • You’re welcome. The Bjorkquist decision implications aren’t that well known. I wouldn’t be aware if we weren’t trying to help some extended family figure it out z

  • Bruce Horak On Catching That Carrot On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ And Painting Over 600 Portraits
  • One of the things in the interview, that’s super interesting, is that the original script had a scene that would have made it absolutely unequivocal that Hemmer was killed.

    And it was shot, with some significant Sfx challenges.

    The interviewers asked Bruce if there were any scenes left in the cutting room floor and he responded that there was.

    :::The actor was in harness for a falling scene in which he would have been fighting off young Gorn. He had been pleased to have the opportunity to have a heroic on-screen:::

    But the scene was cut despite it being challenging production-wise, all the more so with a blind actor in prosthetics.

    So, one has to wonder if the showrunners decided to keep the door open for Hemmer to return…

  • Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15)

    Several Star Trek licensed games are on Steam, now at a significantly discounted price for the annual Star Trek Day celebration.

    These include the MMP Star Trek Online, but also single player games Star Trek Bridge Crew and Star Trek Resurgence (a choose your own path role play game).

    We’d waited until Resurgence came to Steam, because we did want to buy it from Epic, but decided to be even more patient and wait for a sale so we could get it for our teens as well. I’ve been playing in parallel with one of our teens and debating the impacts of our very different choices.

    I have had Bridge Crew since 2022, but we got copies for the teens yesterday. One is into it. It requires running an Ubisoft account synched to Steam which can be annoying, but otherwise G2G.

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    Confirmed! - CTV has the Prodigy season 2 licence

    Having reached my exasperation on the total lack of information from Bell Media on a Canadian release, I asked @GoodAaron@mastodon.social if he or the Hagemans could share any information. Here is his reply on Mastodon.

    It’s great to have EPs who will engage with us.

    I’m still gearing up my recipes for a Star Trek Prodigy Soirée for the premiere!

    In case you haven’t seen this, CBS entertainment sponsored a social media influencer to develop watch party ideas for the Prodigy Season 1 finale Supernova Soirée .

    I’ve been experimenting and building on some of these ideas for the premiere of season two. One of Canada’s favourite ice cream brands has this interesting suggestion for A triple-berry yogurt sorbet float punch that seems very Star Trek Prodigy themed.

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    Variety - Top Marketing & Communications Executive leaving Paramount Global
    variety.com Paramount Global Head of Marketing, Communications Julia Phelps Exits

    Julia Phelps, Paramount Global's executive VP and chief communications and corporate marketing officer, is leaving the company.

    More departures of former Viacom senior executives from Paramount Global in the wake of Baklish’s firing.

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    'Ivory Tower', likely aka 'Starfleet Academy' preproduction rumoured to start in March

    The Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario) ‘Hot List’ compilation of Ontario-based production information has been updated with a new CBS Studios show ‘Ivory Tower’ to begin Accounting & Art Department preproduction in March.

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    Friends don't let friends try. . .

    While all TAS episodes had some kind of moral lesson, S1 E10 was an outright criticism of substance use.

    M’Ress and Scotty, unwittingly exposed, end up enamoured then incensed with one another. One is never sure how different that is from a Caitian’s usual romantic style.

    Chapel comes off badly in this one. As Spock puts it “A few moments of love, paid for with several hours of hatred.” It’s all the more poignant given SNW’s deepening of their backstory.

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    James McKinnon confirms creative differences likely a factor in Kelvin 4 failure to start production in 2022
    trekmovie.com ‘Picard’ Makeup Designer Reveals ‘Star Trek 4’ Pre-Production Shut Down In 2022 Over Script Issues

    James MacKinnon has doing one more feature film as the last thing on his Star Trek bucket list.

    ‘Picard’ Makeup Designer Reveals ‘Star Trek 4’ Pre-Production Shut Down In 2022 Over Script Issues

    As much as most of us have long had any remaining interest in a fourth Kelvin movie long exhausted by the endless repetition of hype and failure, there does seem to be more confirmation of significant creative differences on the script that was in development in 2022.

    James MacKinnon, longtime makeup designer, shared some context during an interview on his work on Picard and future ambitions. He explained that he was hired by Matt Shankman in 2022 to work on preproduction but was fired after a week when the work shut down.

    > “We were supposed to shoot in the middle of [2022] and it was supposed to come out the following year [2023], but I think a script rewrite went in a different direction.”

    This aligns with previous comments from Zoe Saldaña that creative issues around the script were a factor in the movie not going ahead.

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    'The Trial never ends . . .' Global premiere! Migleemo - Hemmer : Fix that which is broken #1

    I have realized that I need a new editing tool that will let me use panels with more than 6 frames.

    A private message with a recommendation would be appreciated sincerely.

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    Tired of 'Car Talk' with Gowron? Here's the podcast c/risa really needs...

    Anyone interested?

    I can see so much potential for guidance from a telepathic Aenar engineer & an avianoid counsellor.

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    Paramount+ confirms series order for 'Starfleet Academy'
    www.startrek.com New Series Order for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Announced

    The all-new original series from CBS Studios will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets!

    New Series Order for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Announced

    While there was an announcement shortly before the WGA strike, and Alex Kurtzman confirmed the writers room is back up and at work during an NYCC panel, Paramount+ is moving forward on promotional information about the forthcoming new ‘Starfleet Academy’ show.

    Will be keeping an eye out for information about preproduction design work starting up in Ontario.

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    What kind of weird really engages and trends with Trek fans?

    My contribution to the fediverse’ #MakeYourOwnMoopsyMonth challenge.

    Be gentle, I’m a novice meme-creator.

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    Kevin + Moopsy meme challenge - because why not?

    It’s October, and Trek’s new adorable horror is being unfairly usurped in trendiness by a character who appeared in all of two TOS episodes (even if the grimness of his personal backstory rivals La’an Noonian-Singh’s).

    So, Moopsy + Kevin memes. . . I dare you.

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    Yeoh's S31 movie preproduction complete?

    We know from Kurtzman’s messaging at NYCC recently that Michelle Yeoh put her Academy Award star power towards ensue that her Section 31 ‘movie event’ moves forward on Paramount+.

    Checking in on the Director’s Guild of Canada Ontario round up of information for its members (Hot List), there’s been an interesting update.

    While ‘Dovercourt’ (working title alias for the direct to streaming movie) still has a bold ‘POSTPONED’ due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, it’s moved from the ‘Preproduction stage’ section of the list to ‘Production.’

    What does this suggest?

    It would seem that the key preproduction production design work in Toronto has been able to be completed since the WGA strike ended.

    Like SNW, the crews in Toronto are basically ready to go into production once the actors’ strike is settled. Logistically, it’s not entirely clear that both could shoot at the same time as they share some of the same crews, but it is encouraging.

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    Question - Star Trek Explorer Presents short story collections from Titan Bookstores - are they simply compilations from the magazines or new content?

    I’ve been enjoying the very short stories by Treklit authors in the recent issues of Titanbooks Star Trek Explorer magazine.

    I see that they’re promoting anthologies of short stories, with a new third one due to be released soon. However, it’s not clear if these are just compilations of previously published stories from the magazine, new content or a mix of both.

    Anyone have the earlier releases?

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    NYCC Starfleet Academy confirmation

    StarfleetAcademy ‘will be funny’ according to Alex Kurtzman.

    He’s also confirmed at the NYCC panel today that the writer’s room is back at work after the WGA strike.

    Given the heavier #thriller background (Absentia) of one showrunner Gaia Violo, and youth supernatural CV (TheMagicians; NancyDrew) of Noga Landau the other, sounds as though Tawny Newsome is there to bring some lightness and fun.

    I’m really looking forward to seeing more in the 32nd century StarTrek.

    I’m also pleading 🙏 let David Cronenberg’s Kovich be involved.

    I would love so much to have some of The Magicians mysterious vibe with so true humour mixed in. Glad to know that they’re going for something less earnest than the tone of Discovery for this show, it didn’t seem to be working in the Discovery episode with Tilly and the cadets.

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    Star Trek, including timeloops, meets Hallmark

    StarTrek actors have a strong showing across the Hallmark movie offerings this year.

    — Jonathan Frakes & Robert Picardo have supporting roles in ‘A Biltmore Christmas’

    — Dan Jeannotte (Sam Kirk in StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds) is the lead in ‘Our Christmas Mural’

    — Ronnie Rowe Jr (Lt Bryce in #StarTrekDiscovery) leads in Christmas with a Kiss’ (working title), a Mahogany Presents romance (Hallmark’s Black-focused line)

    — Mira Kirschner (Amanda Grayson in #Discovery and #SNW) is the principal in a romance about a woman discovering her Jewish heritage in a 2022 movie ‘Love, Lights, Hanukkah! that will be rebroadcast this year.

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    Another spoken word album is coming from Bill Shatner
    www.udiscovermusic.com William Shatner Announces New Spoken Word Album, ‘BILL,’ Featuring Joe Jonas And Brad Paisley

    William Shatner has announced a new spoken word album, ‘BILL,’ with guest features from Joe Jonas, Brad Paisley, and more.

    William Shatner Announces New Spoken Word Album, ‘BILL,’ Featuring Joe Jonas And Brad Paisley

    Not sure we needed another album from Shatner but you have to admire his indefatigable creativity.

    This one will feature Brad Paisley and Joe Jonas.

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