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Honestly, I've never paid attention to fan productions, so I didn't even know this thing existed, but you're right about one thing - if nothing else, it looks gorgeous.

I find it wild that they can use actual footage from the shows to promote this thing. Is this just the BBC being less litigious?

She married Saru in DIS’ series finale.

That was President T'Rina of Ni'Var, not Rillak.

I thought the various chyrons were a lot of fun, and very consistent with Braka's unhinged energy.

A pretty solid finale to a pretty excellent season.

I liked a lot of it - Reno and the cadets having to solve the problem using their wits alone, Nus Braka's ridiculous show trial, and the ultimate resolution of de-weaponizing the minefield (which one would think has long-term implications, if they've truly found a way to permanently stabilize Omega). The cast was stellar, which we've come to expect at this point.

I'm not completely satisfied with the resolution of the individual story arcs. I don't think we got enough of Sam 2.0 for her inner conflict to really land, and while I assume ther and Genesis' made-up language is a callback to something, but I honestly don't remember it clearly. And I thought Anisha came around to Nala and the Federation too quickly at the end - I would have liked to have seen her a little angstier in that final scene.

The overall theme of the season has been identity, and choosing who you want to be. The cadets all went through that coming-of-age process, but so did the Doctor, and arguably Ake as well. I do hope we get to know Genesis better in season two, and Darem deserves more as well.

And I do hope they find Ocam - I assume he wandered off into the woods or something after episode 8.

My Winnipeg Transit days are behind me, but the overhauled route system remains pretty unpopular, by all accounts. Fixing that should be the top priority.

Beyond that, they desperately need to commit to additional rapid transit corridors beyond the Blue line.

I think there's a lot of potential.

You get a couple of episodes to get attached to the Deltan character before she gets killed off. You get about four episodes to get attached to Fuzz before his betrayal, which would actually give it some weight. You can actually spend some time exploring what it means for San to have crossed over to the Prime Universe, and how it affects Georgiou (and maybe explain why isn't way older than he appears to be, that'd be nice). You get enough time to make Garrett's arc actually work.

It really seems like ten hours of story stuffed into a two-hour bag.

I...enjoyed the S31 movie on its own terms. I wouldn't call it particularly "good" or recommend it to anyone. Mostly, it just made me sad that we didn't get the full 10-episode season, since it seems apparent that they didn't really change the story - just compressed it to an extreme degree.

a personal preference for flash over substance

The wonky camerawork that people like to single out definitely seems to be a trend that he set. In interviews, he talks a lot about letting the emotion of a scene guide the direction, but I can't really say it shows.

It’s all positive city here, man, I don’t know what to tell you. [laughs]… Yeah, we’re always positive about the future. We never know what the future will bring. But there’s no reason not to be positive about it. Skydance has been terrific, and CBS has been terrific. Paramount plus has been terrific, and we’ll just see what happens.

They got spanked hard in the last election, and I think a lot of them have lost the taste for it.

They're also contending with the now-traditional tug-of-war between the halfway sensible Tories, and the conspiracy-mongering loons. So far, the halfway sensible ones are winning, but with a lot of them choosing to step down...hard to say what will happen next.

It did not - I tried not to get too offended!

Here are a few places that come to mind, of varying levels of prominence.

Riding Mountain National Park

Spruce Woods Provincial Park and the Spirit Sands, our only not-quite desert

Gimli (I just think it's a nice town)

Camp Hughes National Historic Site) (no one seems to know this exists, and it's pretty cool)

The Narcisse Snake Dens (I've never been, personally)

I've also got a link to Travel Manitoba in the sidebar!

Well no, not yours.

My money’s on the red wall of omega-47 being a grossly gigantic con where the isolation of the Federation is not quite the threat it seemed at the end of episode 9.

It would be very funny if Braka only had two omega molecules, and detonated them both last week as a show of force.

Yeah, my motivation for calling it "assorted thoughts" was releasing myself from any pressure to remember anything, and just do a stream of consciousness!