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I’ve recently become aware of mulesing, an appalling practice used on Merino sheep in Australia and NZ due to a specific fly problem. The problem is that most merino wool is from those countries.

Also, most fabric generically labeled ‘wool’ is mostly merino from mulesinged sheep.

Ethics conscious knitters, crocheters and weavers are aware, and merino yarns certified as mulesing-free are on the market now.

Knowing country of origin and wool type is another reliable way to avoid endorsing this practice, but again most manufactured clothing or even fabrics will not give the necessary information.

Not sure that it blew minds that much as much of its core audience would have seen two great submarine movies - ‘The Enemy Below’ (1957) & ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’ (1958).

The episode takes and translates the submarine warfare and beats of these these movies into a space setting. It’s still marvellous television.

Recommend both of the movies BTW if you can find them.

$16,000 for the credited writer of a one hour episode of a ‘big budget series’ of $30 million or more seems incredibly low. Most writers get only one or two script credits out of a 10 episode season, and many EPs take shared credit with the junior writers in the room.

And the rates for streaming residuals seem to be based on domestic uptake in the first 3 months, ignoring ‘sleepers’ and shows that sell well globally. All to say, this doesn’t get around the ‘Suits’ problem.

Yes, the writers get a base pay for being in the room, but it’s still not a lot out of a major property.

Who can live in LA on a couple of script credits a year?

Suder - thanks for the correction. 😁

Good question.

TNG had very few Vulcan interactions, mainly with Spock and Sarek. So, no Vulcan and Betazoid ones.

In DS9, I don’t believe Vulcan guest characters interacted with Betazoids.

I don’t recall Vorik and Sutter interacting on Voyager in any significant way.

So, we’re left with Tuvik’s attempts to help Sutter control his psychopathy. Really not the kind of ordinary Vulcan vs Betazoid interaction we might get in Lower Decks.

I’m not sure that they would want to give that much of a spoiler for Coda, or may be like many of us and decide that we’d rather pretend it didn’t exist.

I think Mack, Swallow and Ward are super writers, and understand why they thought Coda was needed, but it’s brutal.

I think this is a misread. Management is getting the blame in this article for making everyone worse off including themselves.

The unions aren’t being blamed at all in this for the strike. If anything their commitment is credited with bringing AMPTP back to the table early.

The article links back to earlier reports from May that AMPTP had a deliberate union-breaking strategy, and planned to refuse to negotiate or to come to the table before late October.

It’s not anti union to point out how management bad faith behaviour and refusal to negotiate is negative for an industry and the broader economy that surrounds it.

Strikes are a blunt and costly tool, but an essential tool. When they last for months as this one has, and one party has been refusing to negotiate on many terms for even months before the strike, everyone in the industry suffers. One of the key points in this article is that AMPTP has managed to lose the PR war of this strike, as they very much deserved.

CNN has been consistently reporting on how the AMPTP has been refusing to bargain, and it’s in this context that it’s weighing the costs of the strike. In comparison to the Hollywood-based media that are owned by the content conglomerates (e.g., Deadline) this is much more neutral reporting.

I really appreciate how Goldsman and Myers have taken a sibling who was only ever seen or referred to in TOS in order to drive James’ T’s anger, and turned him into a three dimensional character that we value in his own right.

Credit also to Dan Jeanotte for a consistently great and subtle performance.

In addition to the STLV group guide, Inhave found the flowchart created and maintained by the Trek Collective super helpful.

Here’s a screenshot of the current version to give you a sense of it. Suggest bookmarking the link embedded above.

The Fall ‘event sequence’ crossover is quite late in the Relaunch novelverse. It pays off some storylines that had been building for quite awhile.

I didn’t jump in that late, but still found it better to jump quite a ways back to where the Relaunch took off between the later TNG movies Insurrection and Nemesis.

One doesn’t have to read everything, as there are definitely some core books and ‘event sequences.’

Most Relaunch fans consider the two David Mack books in the TNG ‘A Time to …’ series (A Time to Kill & A Time to Heal) as key foundations, then Keith DeCandido’s ‘Articles of the Federation’ set after Riker takes command of Titan in ‘Taking Wing.’

Mack’s Destiny trilogy is fantastic and is the pivot point of the Relaunch novels. DeCandido’s ‘A Singular Destiny’ then bridges to set up the Typhon Pact sequence.

Who better to be a foil for a Vulcan trying to button down and gain the respect of Vulcan Exploratory leadership than a bunch of Betazoids who know what T’Lyn’s feeling and have no patience with her attempts to cover up with logic?

I can understand the journey, what I don’t understand is the lack of self-awareness around it.

Early trauma and the violation of the Borg explain the change in emotional regulation, but the arrogant lack of ability to take a step back and evaluate his behaviour from the perspective of his own values and previous expectations about behaviour are what I find surprising.

I’m more disappointed that ‘Movie Picard’ and then ‘Picard show Picard’ abandoned, or at least lost the emotional regulation that enabled him to hold onto, many of the principles that made him so admirable and exasperating.

It doesn’t seem like Picard in season three of Picard would have had any of the same qualms, or at least his emotional attachments would have overtaken them.

I wonder what Ben Sisko’s reaction to Picard’s choices in season three would have been. I definitely think he would have called him out, and made Shaw’s critiques look tame.

Here’s a bit more cautious perspective in a round up of reports from The Daily Beast:

But sources familiar with the matter told NBC News, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday that one major sticking point was the language surrounding the use of artificial intelligence. According to Variety, those negotiations had largely come down to matters of fine print, signaling that a breakthrough may be close.

But sources familiar with the matter told NBC News, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday that one major sticking point was the language surrounding the use of artificial intelligence. According to Variety, those negotiations had largely come down to matters of fine print, signaling that a breakthrough may be close.

The article mentions that the SAG-AFTRA negotiators and leads have been kept in the brief by WGA.

So, it sounds as though the writers have been conscious of the precedents they’re setting and there shouldn’t be surprises when the negotiations move onto the actors.

How are tights not the best thing, even for Jeffries tubes? No less appropriate than track and field athletes training in compression tights.

A scant is really just a long tunic.

@gaghyogi49@tenforward.social has this covered.

See his post.

It looks like the Orion alphabet and language has a one-to-one correlation with English, just for laughs.

“Weird is our business,” sayeth Janeway.

Moopsy!

I would love to see the Breen taken on seriously, and had hoped they were the big bad in Picard S3. This doesn’t have the feel of them at all though.

Perhaps Matalas can take a lead out of the Relaunch novelverse Typhon Pact books and give us some serious Breen machinations.