I think it was probably an accident (I believe Global has since pulled it?), but a happy one.

Bonus Round: The Black Path Crisis of 3069

This might turn out to be more relevant than your average comic book:

Kelly: And the third reason for the Klingons and their inclusion in The Last Starship is connected to Starfleet Academy, so we can’t really talk about it except to say that we’re laying some exciting groundwork for that series.

I'm not super comfortable with a lot of what he's saying, but it would be pretty tough to make the case that "not enough action" isn't an accurate statement.

According to new data released from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the country will fall well short of its 2030 climate goal — just halfway to its target of a 40 to 45 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels.

I'm deeply skeptical that his approach is going to do any better, but I support the idea of boosting investment in clean(er) alternatives. And he did get Alberta to agree to increase their industrial carbon price.

I've gotta say, with the exception of DS9, "traditional" Trek was fairly allergic to character development. Growing and learning were rarely a priority, to put it mildly.

I mean yeah, those days are gone and they're not coming back.

I don't think there was any "tradition" to it - it was just the dominant model at the time, and is now on its last legs.

Oh, that's a rare treat - you don't see full transcripts very often.

Define "traditional."

I suppose it will be 46 when all is said and done.

He elaborates a bit that is a thin margin, but he loves the hell out of DS9.

He also describes the vibe of his SFA character in a fairly spoiler-free way.

The interviewer has seen the first episode and says it's real good, and Giamatti says episode six is a highlight.

Casualties include injured, don’t they?

They do, but equating it to "fatalities" is a pretty common mistake. Unfortunate.

everyone’s mouths looked like they were moving kinda weird during the action shots.

I didn't notice that, but it may have been a playback issue.

As far as the character introductions go, there's not much to them. Genesis seems like an arrogant tryhard. SAM seems like a...cheerful Data-type? Jay-Den just seems like a Klingon. Darem seems like...another tryhard, but less arrogant than Genesis.

Caleb's is kind of odd, as it features very little Caleb. I guess he seems kind of cocky, but it's hard to say.

Oh cool, GFR has finally gone mask-off.

This has always been the case, but I'm going to take this opportunity to state that links to that site are not allowed here, and will be removed on sight.

I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.

Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):

“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’”

I think a story being a little too "inside baseball" and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we're talking about ideas like this:

The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.

The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.

The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series' biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.

And regarding the Jurati Borg...I don't know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.