Nathan Hanson

Bree Crossroads - 13th Edition Part One Welcome back to Bree Crossroads, friends!

Dropped a new edition of the Bree Crossroads newsletter today... and it's Part One of two. 🙈😅

Anywho, enjoy?

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#Tolkien #LOTR #Luinellë #middleearth #LOTRO

I thought that was Odo at the helm for half a second!

It's giving me "women are too emotional to lead" vibes. And I'm not even sure he's right about the "incredible finals".

a man in a sombrero is playing a trumpet while another man plays a violin ALT: a man in a sombrero is playing a trumpet while another man plays a violin

Ooh yeah, those are good ones!

Ooh those are lovely choices, thank you!

Can anyone recommend what they consider the most positive, uplifting, or optimistic episode of Star Trek out there? Current events in Minnesota have me down and I could REALLY use a boost.

It is criminal that Star Trek Prodigy hasn't gotten a third season!

@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

once again I must tap my own sign

I love #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds, but I really wish they had brought back Cadet Sidhu from Short Treks, not to mention that engineering set!

Yes please!

I kinda want to see Jabba the Hutt inserted so it would be a more accurate rendition!

That is an incredible line up!

Congratulations!!

"The Planets" by Gustav Holst really is an underappreciated musical suite.

Some of Jerry O'Connell's iconic lines from Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Starbase 80" have become favorites of my littles. Favorites include:

"The power of stairs!"
And
"All I can smell is gel!"

@mikemcmahan.bsky.social and his team have truly given us a gift.

Hey, @mikemcmahan.bsky.social, a question that came to me while watching #StarTrek First Contact. Did you discuss, or do you have any thoughts about, whether the Lily that showed up in Lower Decks had a similar experience as we see in the film? I love the idea of her going to see Jean Luc.

Watching Fellowship of the Ring with my family: "But the hearts of men are easily corrupted." My Eight-year-old: "That's not true for you dad!" That's right y'all, according to my kid at least, I could resist the One Ring! #LordOfTheRings

Just finished reading my first issue after joining, it was great!

I'm helping moderate this live-stream today with readings of various Tolkien works, raising money for the Pasadena Humane Society! Please tune-in and consider donating!

I'm hoping to register this weekend! Only six hours away for me so I'm just going to drive.

Same!

I really enjoyed the movie, but I do feel like it would've been better as a series. I found the idea behind Fuzz's species to be super interesting, and would've loved to see an episode about them. I feel like Lower Decks could have had fun with them as well!

I'm sorry you didn't like it! I went into it with really low expectations after seeing what everyone was saying on social media, but my wife and I both really enjoyed it actually.

Looking forward to listening! It's funny, the general consensus seems to be that it's terrible, but my wife and I both really enjoyed it! I feel like that must say something about me...but I'm not sure what it could be lol

Definitely A, I don't generally feel like I have tons of thoughts that are worth sharing!

Were you ever tempted to have one of the bots show up in Lower Decks?

Does Section 31 count? Haha

That's fantastic!

Thank you!