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Are you the one on the left or the right?

In addition, items from the Prodigy Lock Box are joining the Infinity Lock Box with this update!

This isn't related to lock boxes, but I do hope they re-release the Prodigy uniforms when season two drops - I apparently forgot to claim them the first time around.

Marvel at the two whole photos (okay, one whole photo and one heavily-cropped photo) that they've provided this week!

But hey...Nhan!

That's an interesting interpretation - like Richard, I assumed the Progenitors created both the portal and the container it was in (though not necessarily that the container was generating the portal, just encasing it).

It sounds like it will be released in the UK for sure - we might be more details in the future.

It sounds like it was somehow intended to represent that only one House holds the Holy Rings at a time - it's not clear if the symbol was meant to change depending on which House possessed them at the time.

It's really quite simple. No one was watching it, which is why it was cancelled.

But they had to keep making it because CBS All Access needed those viewers, which I remind you did not exist, to prop up the streaming service.

See? See?

I'm pretty ambivalent about her, but I agree it was an interesting performance, particularly for a woman at that time in television.

She was horribly underused - it's downright criminal that she doesn't pay a significant role in "The Measure of a Man."

The greatest discovery of all was within us all along is still out there somewhere!

No way is the event itself going to be as good as that banger of a title.

Suddenly realizing that Keiko and Vedek Winn could have resolved their differences very differently...

The effects are so good overall, and used so creatively, I kind of feel badk for taking them for granted.

This show is at its best when they just let Wil be Wil, and go a little off-script. I feel like those moments have been edited out of the final product all season, which made TRR feel kind of soulless.

Until this one - his (seemingly) unscripted chatter with Frakes is great.

This season is really shaping up to the the Summer of Rhys, which is an unexpected surprise.

I was glad to hear the bit about the Breen using transwarp tunnels - it was bugging me that they were seemingly able to zip around the known galaxy nearly as quickly as Discovery.

This is really the kind of Trek-adjacent topic that c/quarks was set up for, but since this should be a definitive indiation that "Legacy" is not going to happen any time soon, I think we'll allow it.

Yeah, my simplified headcanon explanation is that the Kelvin universe was always there, and Spock and Nero happened to tunnel into it.

If you want to add the wrinkle that the red matter implosion somehow created it (which the original film seems to suggest)...well, it's more complicated, but it works, too.

Oh make no mistake, I'm on record as not really caring whether we ever see another theatrical Star Trek film. In my opinion, it's a TV franchise at its core, and it can stay there as far as I'm concerned.

But I'm pretty sick of the tedius "will they/won't they" shenanigans at Paramount.

I never pass up on an opportunity to share Simon Pegg's thoughts on the matter - he wrote one of the films, so I think his opinion should carry some weight:

Sure, we experience time as a contiguous series of cascading events but perception and reality aren’t always the same thing. Spock’s incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe. I don’t believe for one second that Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t have loved the idea of an alternate reality (Mirror, Mirror anyone?).

This means, and this is absolutely key, the Kelvin universe can evolve and change in ways that don’t necessarily have to follow the Prime Universe at any point in history, before or after the events of Star Trek ‘09, it can mutate and subvert, it is a playground for the new and the progressive and I know in my heart, that Gene Roddenberry would be proud of us for keeping his ideals alive. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, this was his dream, that is our dream, it should be everybody’s.