Tom Nichols

The Gorn exist only in Tommy Westphall's snow globe. 🤨

Feh

I wanted to love TNG. Watched the premiere with friends. And I was like

Why are they flying around in Barcaloungers?
Why is a teenager at the helm?
Why is there a "counselor" who keeps saying obvious things?

Love Patrick Stewart, but it was like group therapy in space.

All Trek nerds (including me) are curious how SNW is going to square this particular circle.

I wrote an entire book titled "No Use," which should tell you how I feel about nukes, but your evaluation of the decision in 1945 is just randomly emotive and ahistorical. People living back then, as David McCullough once said, didn't know they were living "back then."

"Yesterday's Enterprise" is the best TNG episode, because it got rid of the children, the dumb living room setup, the "captain, I'm sensing emotions from the people on the viewscreen" and all the other dull stuff that made being the Federation's top ship seem like an RV in space.

Again, what point are you trying to make? That Stalin was bad? So stipulated. But Truman did, in fact, take into account the alliance with the Soviet Union, as "rube" like as you might have found that, as a sensitive 2025 moral judge of a decision 80 years ago.

into the cornfield with you

Okay, SNW respects the canon while still updating the series. TOS didn't know it would be a canon, and SNW does what it can around that. But "A Quality of Mercy" was the greatest canon-respecting episode ever. (Disclosure: I never liked TNG.)

"maybe strong emotions...."

This makes no sense. Your response to Truman treating Stalin like an ally was "Stalin was bad." Yes, he was. But alliance politics mattered in the Grand Alliance, as distasteful as you might find that.

I bet you have some very cross words for William the Conquerer

It was a brilliant episode

The first real red/blue culture war

Wait a minute. Go to Russia? Interview people?

What next, write a book?

What exactly is your point here? That nuclear weapons are bad? Bold stance!

Folks who've seen episode 2 of this new season of #SNW are getting some of the obvious references to later TOS episodes, including "What Are Little Girls Made Of," but there's even a quick nod to "This Side of Paradise."
Really nice that SNW respects the canon.

ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED IN SEASON 1 OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES

Also (without spoiling) the voice actor they used is a sign that they've resolved a longstanding canon question

*rubs temples*

My view is that the people who demanded that we believe that Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk and such genuinely believe in free speech have done catastrophic damage to the credibility of the free speech movement, which is always delicate.

Look, if you're going to drag facts into a moral temper tantrum, we're not going to get along

Well, when you put it that way, we totally should have lost World War II just to teach Stalin a lesson

Yes

The finale of season one is one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever made

This series is so respectful of canon that it actually includes Robert April

You’re confusing moral repugnance with nuclear weapons, which I share, with the decision to use them in 1945, which I think was unavoidable. Judging people by what we know now is ahistorical and pointless.

#StrangeNewWorlds ep 2 - multiple shoutouts to the Trek canon, and a nice Twilight Zone reference.

So far, Season 3 does not disappoint.

You seem unfamiliar with the history of WW II

THIS IS A PADDOCK VIOLATION