Deep Jace Nine ✨🖖

HIS NAME IS NAZGUL THE BEST BOI

Enjoying how much the USA ice hockey uniforms this Olympics look like something Steve Rogers would wear.

ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics

Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.

1) Bobby Drake or Jubilee

2) Gimli

3) Hawkgirl

4) Charles Tucker III

Not really sure how that adds or detracts from my point, I was merely commenting on the abundant reuse of the same name.

And I'm sure some people don't like the 32nd Century Constitution-class.

The 1967 Impala familiar from Supernatural is already the fourth iteration, and looks noticeably different from the 1958 model less than a decade earlier. Nine years versus nine centuries for the Constitution.

People seem irked that there's yet another version of the Constitution-class, but I kinda like it. It's not unheard of in the Navy, plus it makes me think of American cars. How many different incarnations of a Dodge Charger or Chevrolet Impala have there been, updating the aesthetics and the tech?

I do think it could have been clearer in the episode (it was framed as something novel/special, not centuries old tech), a "didn't the Romulans use these?" throw away line might have pointed the less nerdy in the right direction. A fascinating tidbit of potential Ni'Var lore too.

It's super interesting that Braka is a combo of two major species (Klingon/Tellarite) the same as the Emerald Chain (Orion/Andorian). Both are a combo of a Federation founder with a traditional adversary with conquest/slavery/Empire vibes.

Heck, Ni'Var is the same formula too. 🤔

DWP forced to admit 1 in 5 privately contracted benefit assessors aren't safeguard trained Labour need to stop blaming the Tories and face up to the fact that they're using the DWP to make disabled people's lives worse

Labour need to stop blaming the Tories and face up to the fact that they're using the DWP to make disabled people's lives worse

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Benedict is just being Lois Lane, torn between loving Clark Kent and loving Superman. People seem to be able to handle revisiting that dynamic every few years just fine

They may have just left. My point was more than Netflix has other things that young folks would want to watch. They discover Trek while subscribed for other things. P+ (in the UK at least) is mostly NCIS and Yellowstone/etc. New Trek (not classic) is meant to be the hook to draw new subscribers.

Discovering a show is a lot easier when you have that streaming service already, though. Classic Trek is still on Netflix in many countries, which many potential fans already have. New Trek is being used to draw in new subscribers, and that's not necessarily a create new fans strategy.

Aye, and both Discovery and Strange New Worlds had the advantage of big streaming launches in the US and Europe respectively (plus the added Netflix money for DISCO), so that baked in extra novelty value. Academy is very much in that DS9/VOY niche as new but also not.

😂 Took a second but

It sounds dumb, but Strange New Worlds is a prequel with New in the name. We grumble about prequels a lot in fandoms, but prequels (usually) don't feel like they require homework; we're several generations deep in a 60 year thousand-hour franchise. Paramount's branding isn't the only mountain here.

I wonder if the name makes it seem too spinoffy? On paper, Cadets should be a great focus for new/casual viewers, but a Discovery spinoff with legacy characters named after an in-universe institution might imply some MCU style connectivity that new viewers think they need to have watched first?

Do you see Sisko in the top middle cloud or am I just seeing what I want to see?
I need @gaghyogi49.bsky.social 's input

My new favorite reaction to ignorant comments. 😌 #StarfleetAcademy

My random inconsequential headcanon is that this is a young John Harriman, eight years before he becomes Captain of the Enterprise-B. They have the same thirst for adventure and lack of preparedness for it.

Update on how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK. According to the DWP, which is pushing them into work.

All Jobs: 111,317
Fully Remote: 666
Of which are disability confident: 71
Of which are part-time: 5

Note: all of these jobs require specialist training/ experience

today is a wonderful day to love and support trans people and trans artists 🏳️‍⚧️

You think Starfleet Academy is woke because it has lesbians. I think Starfleet Academy is woke because they just did an episode about recognizing the colonialist attitudes underlying their white savior complex and pivoting to center the experience of a marginalized group instead. We are not the same

I am disabled; communicate with me

(too real 😭)

Fanart of Jester from Mighty Nein

Finally working again on this illustration 💙 #criticalrole #mightynein #jester

It also fits the Soviet/Russia vibes of the Klingons. Seeing a K't'inga shaped ship in use from ENT through DS9 is reminiscent of Russia still using the Soyuz capsule after half a century.

Older ships surviving The Burn because they were mothballed or in museums/etc kinda makes sense too.

A dark polaroid of Catherine O’Hara in her yellow shirt and black jacket from the film "After Hours." She is looking off to her left.

Catherine O’Hara 💛
Polaroid from the set of "After Hours" (1985)

This show is such a messy web of ships, I love it 👀