Watching Chain of Command part 2 because apparently that’s how j unwind after a long day at work 😂 Warning: Jellico bashing will continue but there will be less of it. #StarTrekTNG

Ok, my work is done, Easter is coming, and I’m watching Chain of Command. And I’m going to make you all suffer with me. Warning: there will be Jellico-bashing. Lots of it. #StarTrekTNG

Andy Weir, author of "The Martian" and "Project Hail Mary," has replaced Alex Kurtzman as the overall senior executive producer for the Star Trek franchise. Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison announced that Weir will be leading Star Trek "back to its roots in non-political middle America."

Watching “The Quality of Life” and realising that every time I see an Exocomp I want to yell “Peanut Hamper!” I can’t lie, I could do without it 😂 #StarTrekTNG Out of interest, are peanut hampers a real thing? Hampers full of peanuts? (Or baskets of almonds?)

The best response I’ve seen to the whole Weir thing 🖖

🚨 BREAKING - Fan Petition To Renew #StarTrek: #StarfleetAcademy Gets 25K+ Signatures! After surpassing 10k signatures on March 28th, the fan petition calling for Season 3 has now surpassed 25,000 total signatures on Change(dot)org! 🖖 Full Details & Sign: trekcentral.net/star-trek-st...

Since it’s #nokings. If you see this, drop a monarch better than Trump.

After trying to cut back on my arguing online about Academy, I’ve just seen a Facebook post about UKIP’s latest failed attempt to import Christfascism to the UK. Someone commented “Christianity does not mean being tolerant of other cultures that seek domination.” HOLD ME BACK.

Watching “Man of the People.” There’s a ship in this episode called the Dorian. This is obviously because the episode is based on Wilde’s “A Picture of Dorian Grey.” Except, when my brother & I first watched this, we didn’t know that story. We did, however know this Dorian: #StarTeekTNG

So, I argued with someone on Twitter who didn’t like the way Ake read her book on the Bridge, and he told me my handle was an apocalyptic figure? So I Googled it and apparently I’m the Whore of Babylon? I thought the worst anyone would say about me was chaos monkey 🤷‍♀️

I was going to delete my original post because the sarcasm obviously didn’t work. But now someone has attached a Save Starfleet Academy petition to it and I’d it gets one more signature because of me, I will happily take the hit. #SaveStarfleetAcademy TREK IS GAY AND DIVERSE AND VERY VERY WOKE! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

So apparently I shouldn’t have come straight from arguing with a “NuTrek is WOKE” guy on X & tried to be sarcastic over here. Some people seem to think I was being serious or that I was arguing in favour of heterosexual Star Trek. So to be clear: STAR TREK IS GAY! EVERYONE IS BI AND I LOVE IT!

Ok part 2… WHY IS CLEMENS FIVING SUCH AN INACCURATE SUMMARY IF HIS OWN BOOK? “A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court” is not about how a present-day man ruins Arthurian times with modern tech! I mean yes, he does technically kill a load of people. But Arthurian times aren’t a Utopia. The…

Watching “Time’s Arrow.” TNG continues its traditions of Frenchmen who don’t seem very French (though tbf at least Data is lying.) Hang on, that poker player does seem a bit French though I’ve got this weird feeling he’s really from another planet. #StarTrekTNG

So apparently I shouldn’t have come straight from arguing with a “NuTrek is WOKE” guy on X & tried to be sarcastic over here. Some people seem to think I was being serious or that I was arguing in favour of heterosexual Star Trek. So to be clear: STAR TREK IS GAY! EVERYONE IS BI AND I LOVE IT!

I am so tired of Star Trek shoving people’s sexuality down our throats. Riker always has to have a love interest. He went to a planet of androgynous people & STILL found a woman to snog. Why couldn’t they focus on the big moral questions & space adventures? That’s what Trek’s meant to be about!

Watching “The Cost of Living.” Watching Lwaxana talking to Alexander about being alone, I realised for the first time that this episode was filmed the year after Gene Roddenberry’s death. And suddenly it all hits differently. #StatTrekTNG

Watching “The Outcast”: this episode has aged… I could say badly, but I’d rather say weirdly. The weirdest part being that I don’t remember anyone at the time ever using the word “trans” in connection with it. It was famously “the gay episode.” And to be fair, for people like me… #StarTeekTNG

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“New Geound” written by Michael Rosen (with additional lines by Lt Cmdr Data.) Oh no! A soliton wave! A wavy, bumpy, soliton wave! We can’t go under it We can’t go over it There is insufficient time remaining for us to circumvent it We have to go through it! #StarTrekTNG

Politics in the UK: Trump: (invades Iran) Trump’s wannabe MiniMe Nigel Farage: Yay Trump! We should join in! British public: We don’t want to join in Farage: Er, we shouldn’t join in… Farage: (Fumbles for new populist subject) Farage: They’re replacing Churchill with a beaver on baknotes! WOKE!

So apparently now I’m in perimenopause I have to be miserable and tired from today until next Thursday when I will be in pain and tired instead 😞 And I’m somehow also supposed to eat less chocolate?

#StarTrekAcademy thoughts: 1. The Athena is a very complicated ship with all its different bits. 2. Amazing to think this was written before this year of Trump being Trump, considering Ake’s description of Braka is such a perfect description of him. 3. WE WANT SEASON 2 NOW!

SAVE ME I LOOKED AT TWITTER FOR 2 MINUTES AND ARGUED WITH PEOPLE ABOUT STAR TREK BEING WOKE ITS A SICKNESS Walking away from my phone now…

Rewatching The Game: if Riker had just been a bit more responsible about going and picking up his communicator after she threw it out the window, everything would have been fine. Maybe. #StarTrekTNG

I HAVE HUST FOUND OUT THAT IN THE NEW 2024 VERSION OF STARLIGHT EXPRESS, GREASBALL IS FEMALE! This is the wrong place to be shouting about it but I’m unreasonably excited.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

I’ve done a crash course in Our Town, rewatched this week’s #SFA, and have many thoughts. But it’s the middle of the night here, so I’ll just say… Ake explicitly takes over the role of Stage Manager from the Doctor. Interesting. #StarfleetAcademySpoilers

“The path to homeownership looks different for everyone.”

There are people in the Gorton & Denton area with blocked toilets and dripping taps who are getting absolutely no sympathy today, and I think that’s unfair.

Everyone else is on here crying their eyes out and I’m in the corner howling I I DIDN’T DO THE READING 😂🤦‍♀️

Bloody American culture…I did an entire English degree in the UK without having to know Our Town. And now I’m going to have to bloody read it or find where I can watch it because that’s what I do. I have to understand the references. It’s a compulsion. Ok, if I can read Moby Dick, I can do this.

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Watching TNG’s “Identity crisis” for the fist time in years. Dr Crusher has just told a female officer that she might have had an anxiety reaction but she is going to run multiple detailed tests to make sure she not missing anything. Wow.

I am still thinking about this. She was telling him the hard part of being a female professional is you’re still expected to do the childcare. He thought the most difficult thing was coping with hormones.

Tired: HoloJaneway loved Chakotay but for years on Ysida he couldn’t bear to be around her Wired: HoloJaneway hated that she’d been programmed with affection for Chakotay, but developed a deep friendship with Adreek which eventually turned to love. HJ & C eventually bonded through their grief.

Happy Valentines! Here’s the sexiest reason not to vote for Reform UK 😜 youtube.com/shorts/10BXa...

I’m watching “The Captains” documentary only 14 years late and I *think.* I just saw Shatner trying to mansplain feminism to Kate Mulgrew.

Fear the Janeway.

Monty Python?! #StarfleetAcademySpoilers (I am being crazily careful about tags, this really isn’t a spoiler.)

@paramountpictures.bsky.social Star Trek: Prodigy’s gorgeously cinematic art design deserves a proper art book! #StarTrek SHARE if you agree! @goodaaron.bsky.social

Well I can’t find the figure skating anywhere (I’m in the UK.) can anyone else see it?

Age verification? My pram is on Call the Midwife.

Can someone help me understand what the “Mil” in “Series Acclimation Mil” means? After this week’s episode I get the “Series Acclimation” bit but not the Mil. #StarfleetAcademy

I always thought that Jake would continue to be a journalist as well as a novelist. He’d want to cover controversial subjects like, say, holographic rights. Just a random thought I thought I’d share today. #StarfleetAcademySpoilers

I know this was on an American show so everyone is thinking Trump, but to me it feels like Ian McKellan is talking directly to Reform and the flag-wavers in the UK who are protesting outside asylum hotels.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.