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I have a personal policy of not altering headlines, but the style that Radio Times uses is awful on many levels.

I'm the first aboard the "Star Trek contains multitudes" train, for sure.

Discovery never had a connection to Abrams/Bad Robot, unless you were to count Alex Kurtzman, but he's been involved with every series of the new era, so...you kind of can't?

In any case, I agree - the D&D movie was a lot of fun, and while I wouldn't want a ST movie to strike that tone, I'm interested to see what they cook up.

After breathing new life into high-profile IP like the Spider-Man franchise and Dungeons & Dragons, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are looking to boldly go where no directors have gone before with a very popular franchise. Sources tell Deadline, the duo are coming on to write, produce and are attached to direct a new original Star Trek film for Paramount. They will produce under their GoldDay banner.

Based on this, it seems like they've completely broken from JJ Abrams/Bad Robot - they were seemingly always connected to previous projects.

That's been a pretty common commentary, and I get it, but I think there's room for just about all genres - they've done their fair share of horror-tinged episodes over the years.

Agreed - it's pretty unlikely that you'd be able to prove something like that.

I suppose you could try to apply precedents surrounding HIV disclosure, but I think it'd be a tough sell.

Edit: And to be clear, even in that situation, we're talking about disclosure, not actual treatment-related choices.

Are the Als still at McGill

They are indeed!

is their ownership situation stable

As far as I know, but it's not exactly my neighborhood.

what kind of weird run did they go on to make the Grey Cup at barely over .500?

When their starting QB is healthy, they're possibly the best team in the league. For a lot of the season...he was not healthy.

All that said, there’s no doubt a degree of disappointment in the Bombers failure to make it to a hometown Grey Cup, which was undoubtedly imagined locally as a coronation for one of the greatest eras of Bomber football there’s ever been.

"Coronation" is an overstatement, but there were certainly high expectations.

TSN reported Monday that the Argos have received permission to speak to O’Shea and those conversations have begun.

Mmhmm...

The commissioner’s annual state-of-the-league address is always a barometer of sorts about where the league sits and where it is going. Johnston’s first time at the podium this week will be closely studied for clues about what may be on the way.

I look forward to The Discourse.

Strictly speaking, there's no formal rule - you won't find a CBS/Paramount definition of "canon" anywhere that I'm aware of.

In practice, they stick with the tv shows and films.

But they've also worked very hard over the last few years to keep the tie-in novels and things like that "canon-ish," in that they flesh out backstories from the shows, and the shows mostly don't step on their efforts.

It sounds like the podcast is getting that treatment - as far as they're concerned, this is what happened, and they have no plans to contradict it (and, considering the nature of the story, it's not likely to come up one way or another).

The Als do seem like they might have momentum on their side (Alexander's injury notwithstanding). The Riders...maybe it's wishful thinking, but it seems like they might have peaked a little early?

After an all-too brief amount of time on the Lions bandwagon, I have no choice but to throw my full support behind the Als. The Riders winning a Grey Cup in Winnipeg is not a tolerable outcome.

Not a big shock - there have been allegations surrounding the guy for years.