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    Star Trek: Discovery launched the franchise’s streaming renaissance. When I read that, at first I though it read steaming... As in 'pile of...' And I love how proud they proclaim themselves to be about a show that has almost no audience... Maybe now they'll stop shot-gunning new seasons of shows that haven't proven themselves, and end up not going anywhere. Of those three choices, I'd be all behind a Legacy series with Captain Seven of Nine and Co, as long as it has a better show runner and writing team. Or finally getting a season 3 of Prodigy. Or a live-action reboot of Prodigy! I'd take any of those three alternatives!
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    Fortson has some plump cheeks, though she should be a redhead. And nary should there be a brunette in the bunch. But. as long as it is better than the gawd-awful live-action movies... And it has Mckenna Grace, so that's cool!
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    Another stop at Wally World, and another Micro Galaxy purchase. This time it's the Razor Crest from the upcoming move. Nice little toy. You get a removable side and top, a side door and rear ramp, opening canopy and deployable gear. Also have Djin and Grogu, though Grogu falls easy off of his back, has no clear place to put him inside, and when putting Djin in the pilot seat, he sits like he's drunk. He'll need to be glued in. All in all, I nice little 'model' that could easily take some extra detailing, and at a nice size. Far bigger than the Bandai model and far smaller than the Round2/Revel kits, so it'll be easier and nicer to display. Nice.
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    Oh damn it! Use to love his action movies as a kid. Well, here we go... Chuck Norris didn't just kick the bucket. He kicked the bucket's ass. NASA has reported the bucket has now passed Pluto and appears to be accelerating.
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    I am so sorry, Robert. PM Sent.
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    Real good looking mech @Papa Rat! Should change your name to Big Papa! And a lot of god looking models in those cases @derex3592! Quite the collection, and I love that big Zentradi ship.
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    The question pops into the head as to what Ep6 was even for..? Braka's ships are apparently far more powerful than anything in the Federation's Glass Jaw Fleet, so why the need for subterfuge? It's clear, two ships could have easily handled the Sargasso and raided the research facility, and probably without anyone knowing who did it. Which turns that episode into even more of a waste than it already was. They could have used the confrontation dialogue between him and Ake in the finale, and probably to better effect. Unless, it was just a vehicle for Braka to monologue, and to show how this new Federation is willing to put millions of lives at risk for the sake of a dozen cadets.
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    And.... ... the Ghost. It was on the CLEARANCE shelf at Wally World for about $25. It'll stay in its box until I get a spot to display it. Need to find the shuttle now...
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    Two new purchases for me. The last one (for now) of my sword purchases, is this one from Swordier. Full tang, spring-steel blade, the largest of swords I've bought so far. Trying to think of a good name for it.
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    That looks really cool!
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    But there are people who do understand what she is saying in that scene, and if that is a large number of people then it's not just some weird 'blip' in TV history. It becomes something very notable, esp if it is turning up in other places as well.
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    The thing is, there are any number of 'hand-wavium' explanations that could be used to 'fix' subspace. The Omega particle could have been a less powerful, artificially created version, keeping the damage repairable with time. (And some 800 years into the future, they could have written the Federation as having devolved into a despotic mirror of the Empire, that eventually destroyed itself while developing such a super weapon. A subplot then post season 3 of STD could have been to convince the old member planets that the resurgent Federation was of the earlier TOS/TNG variant.) They could also say that Discovery actually had the means to fix subspace. They had the Sphere data, which was apparently so important and comprehensive that they had to travel across time to keep Control from using it. The writers could have pulled a solution from that archive of data, and had one of Discovery's primary missions to be that of sealing up the ruptures in subspace, thus basically 'stitching' the Federation back together. (Of course, after arriving, reference to the Sphere data just seemed to vanish.) Or, by the time Discovery returned, most ships were using the slipstream drive anyway. IDK if it would suffer do to ruptured subspace, but visually they were already getting away from the standard Star Trek design layout, and could have left subspace damaged and just worked around it. But, I guess this is us just giving this more thought than the Discovery's writing team ever did.
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    Okay, so now I'm kinda hooked on Korean 'historical' dramas... After Alchemy of Souls, I looked for something similar, with magic and sword-fights, but shows with magic are pretty rare. Still, I've now watched 100 Days My Prince, Dear Hongrang, The King's Affection and now I'm into Love in the Moonlight. They do follow a 'formula.' What you think will be a romance piece quickly evolves to political intrigue led by the nefarious 'first councilor' or whomever, and some suspension of disbelief is needed, such as when the female lead is disguised as a man, such as in the King's Affection and Love in the Moonlight. I mean, some of the male leads can look pretty effeminate, but sometimes it's a bit of a stretch. TKA did it better, but Park Eun-bin was a little too short which would blow the 'illusion' when seeing her beside any male counterparts. Still, I'm enjoying them! They can start a little too silly and there are an inordinate number of times where the female lead stumbles and is saved by an intricate catch and twirl move (though it was nice seeing it reversed in TKA,) but I just chuckle when it happens. Some fun stuff!
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    What Braka was trying to do here should have been the real reason behind the Burn, as it was intended in the first iteration of the idea. They need more straight-forward and less convoluted stories rather than trying to do complicated ones that they cannot pull off. I imagine them ever trying to do something so beautifully simple like Wrath of Kahn and shudder! How does a series connected to SNW pull these scripts off so dang badly?! (Granted, SNW's last season was not the best, but still!) I will say, you guys are taking one (of many) for the team! I've since moved on to more entertaining (and intelligent) shows. Like Korean dramas... (not kidding)
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