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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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I’m intrigued by Gwyn’s uniform - it looks almost, but not quite, Starfleet-issue.

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I guess we’ll see how it all plays out…

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Oh yeah, that makes sense!

The other unique aspects are interesting…

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Well, there was the FASA game from the 80s, and Decipher had one in the 2000s.

Modiphius is the current license-holder, and has published both the First Edition under discussion here, and has a Second Edition coming out later this year.

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It is a pretty gorgeous book - my biggest complaint is that it can be hard to quickly find and reference specific rules during gameplay. I’m hopeful that the Second Edition will have some imrpovements on that front.

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I think the secret to its success is that it puts narrative first, which makes it adaptable to all sorts of Star Trek nonsense.

I just wish the rulebook didn’t embrace that ethos quite as much as it does!

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TNG’s costume department had a lot of…interesting ideas.

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I’d wager it’s the dreadnought, and it’s not particularly close.

The Breen ship absolutely dwarfs Federation HQ.

The Enterprise-J is huge, but I find fans often exaggerate its size even further.

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Either way, their dimensions are so different that I guess it would be pretty hard to determine which has the greater internal volume.

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Personally, I’m just excited to see their li’l sailor suits in action.

Edit: Canadawatch continues, as references to CTV no longer appear in the description of availability.

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The new uniforms look pretty white to my eyes.

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Honestly, I don’t think it’s looking good.

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And in Prodigy’s case, Paramount’s press releases have never mentioned the Sci-Fi channel - just the website and app. And now they’re not even mentioning those…

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Yeah, as recently as June 4, Prodigy-related content on StarTrek.com said the following in the footer:

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 is available to stream on Netflix outside of markets including Canada where it is available on CTV.ca and the CTV App, France on France Televisions channels and Okoo, in Iceland on Sjonvarp Simans Premium, as well as on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Central and Eastern Europe.

This latest announcement says:

Star Trek: Prodigy will stream on Netflix globally (excluding Canada, Nordics, CEE, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Belarus and Mainland China) and Season 1 is currently available on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe with Season 2 coming soon. Season two has launched in France on France Televisions channels and Okoo.

They’ve completely dropped the CTV reference, even though season 1 is still available there.

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While I absolutely do not want to defend Rick Berman, I also think it’s important to acknowledge that his brand of assholishness was not unique (and, frankly, still isn’t).

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Resources and means of production are both things in the Federation. We see mining operations and manufacturing facilities well into the 24th century.

And with only one unfortunate exception that I can think of, matter replication is treated as a net energy loss - it isn’t free.

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as they are cut off from that free energy

They were “cut off” because they no longer had access to the supply lines that provided them with fuel. That’s not “free energy” at all.

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I don’t think what they were doing in the Delta Quadrant would meet many (good) definitions of “capitalism.”

And it’s difficult to say how “martial law” could be imposed on a command structure that was already militaristic.

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Very cool - am I to understand you drew this poster?

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Did Eaglemoss get to any of those before they went under? Maybe they’re trying to avoid duplication.

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I suggest cross-posting this to c/startrek to get maximum eyeballs on it.

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That rather ignores the fact that Adira was an amnesiac stowaway at the time, with some pretty understandable trust issues.

It also ignores that the characters in the scene in exactly the way you’re saying they should have.

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What, in your view, was “exceptional” about Stamets’ acceptance in that scene?

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Again, though, that completely removes the context of Adira’s character arc.

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They were amnesiac following being joined with the Tal symbiont - they only sorted out these identity issues after Discovery took them to Trill.

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By far Pike’s most noticeable feature in TOS.

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I disagree - you dislike TNG for completely different reasons.

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Sorry, I’ve already imagined the backstory of Discovery Season 3-5. Those centuries are now off-limits.

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Programmed in just the one technique, but if you do it right, that’s all you need.

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I mean, Alex Kurtzman hired the guy, and is EP if “Lower Decks” along with all the other shows…

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Dave Filoni/Kathleen Kennedy situation but in Star Trek.

I’m not sure what, exactly, you mean by this, but both of those people have had pretty acclaimed careers.

I find it hard to imagine looking at the Trek series since 2017 and making a convincing case that the franchise is being mishandled.

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Okay, hear me out:

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