I thought it was pretty clear that I do, for the reasons already stated.

we shouldn’t be doubling or tripling our military budget to satisfy Trump’s demands

I simply don’t think many people would agree that that’s the reason we’re doing it.

It’s disappointing, but at the same time I don’t have a big problem with the government stepping up subsidies for the industry.

I just wish it was a “why don’t we have both” situation.

Gabrielle basically used the church as an experiment in altering history.

Time’s motion depends on the observer, on the action. The people I was able to move from Earth to Terralysium, as they call my planet, are thriving. Their survival means that time is fluid. The future can be changed. Maybe the past, as well.

It’s technically not canon anyway, and I don’t really like it as an explanation, since we don’t see variable-geometry nacelles on other ships of the era.

Best to assume they solved the subspace damage problem through some other means, IMO.

Trump demanded increased NATO spending and the countries did it. This isn’t rocket science.

No, it’s not rocket science. Trump continually threatens to abandon NATO and its allies, so everyone else has to pick up the slack. Not because he wants it, but because it’s an absolute necessity. I really don’t see a credible argument that Canada shouldn’t be investing in defence.

MAGA is a white supremacist phrase through and through. There is no excuse for repeating it.

A defensible position to take, but I think Carney’s intent in using it is fairly clear, whether you agree with it or not.

And Carney did cancel the DST

That’s why I used it as an example. The article should have, but didn’t. There are a number of things that could legitmately be held up as examples of “appeasement,” but I don’t think the article did so.

That belief stems back to the publication of the Star Trek Chronology (2nd edition), and it might be true, but I’ve never actually seen direct confirmation from any of the writers involved.

Even TNG is weird about that, since their method of attacking colonies is called out as being identical to the attacks along the Neutral Zone at the end of season one, so the Borg had been operating in the Federation and Romulans’ back yards for a while.

I think the article’s “appeasement” angle is pretty bullshit.

No one in NATO is boosting military spending to appease Donald Trump - it’s the inevitable response to the realization that the largest NATO contributor is unreliable.

The recent “MAGA” line was an appeal to American investors to spend money here. It appropriated Trump’s language, but that’s the opposite of what he wants.

Carney campaigned in decreased reliance on the US, not on severing all ties.

Actual examples of appeasement would be things like ending the digital services tax, and I’m sure we’ll see more like it when the CUSMA talks get started.

It’s all in past tense until he shows up in the flesh.

“Emissary”: How about letting me cook dinner for you tonight? My father was a gourmet chef. I will make for you his famous aubergine stew.

“A Man Alone”: Every night in my house, my dad insisted that we have supper together as a family. He would try out his new recipes on us. He used to call us his test tasters.

“The Alternate”: When my father became ill, I can remember how small and weak he looked lying there in the bed. He’d been so strong, so independent. It always seemed to me there was nothing that he couldn’t do. But in the end, I realised that there was nothing that he could do, and nothing I could do to help him.

“Paradise”: Well, my father was a chef. He grew all his own vegetables. My brothers and I were sent out to the gardens every day.

And sci-fi is the first against the wall.

Obviously you’re going to keep the facility where you keep their most hardened criminals in plain sight.

I enjoyed a couple of seasons of Ben Sisko’s heavily-implied-to-be-dead dad.

Obviously you’re going to cloak the facility where you keep your most hardened criminals.

Yeah, I just find it weird that even when they’re able to license the classic series internationally, they’re licensing it out to third parties, rather than the streamer they’ve licensed the new stuff to.

I had to watch the Sutekh and Rani episodes on Tubi, of all places.

One would think.

But then I still don’t understand why they’re keeping the classic and “New Who” licenses separate, so I’m obviously a terrible businessman.

I think that was just the Digital Services Tax, which applied to a lot more than just online streamers. This is related to the Online Streaming Act.

I do wonder if its increase is being set up as a bargaining chip for the CUSMA talks, though.

Something may have failed to federate properly, but OP did make a list.

I choose to believe someone in the band is one of us.

We should be so lucky as to associate with those genius weirdos.