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Only read the first two books, seen all movies and miniseries. I’m hoping the answer is out there.

So the spice is necessary for FTL travel.

Spice can only be found on Arrakis.

Arrakis is over 300 light-years from earth.

So … how the hell did they find a planet that far away without FTL? And how did they figure out that a drug allowed for FTL travel?

The vast majority of Star Trek exists in the TNG era ... While TOS was under 100 episodes and Strange New Worlds will clock in at under 50, the 3 shows of the TNG era comprise around 525 episodes.

This has to be recognized as the core of Star Trek going forward.

But the idea of the Kelvin universe as a setting to remix the elements of these 500+ episodes gives us the ability to do better storytelling. Because we know the general direction it should go, we can set things up better, and make decisions in advance that let us tell better stories.

Some things I would do:

• Picard's trauma would take center stage from day one. We're talking about a man who lost a ship, and lost a best friend under his command, not to mention the childhood trauma, and probably some shit that went down fighting Cardassians. The reason the ship's counselor is such a prominent position on his ship is because he needs help, and he does not hide it. And he wants his entire crew to be unafraid to seek help. He's also so guilt-ridden over Jack Crusher that he tries to be a surrogate father to Wesley, rather than stand-offish. He's just bad at it.
• Riker's actions on The Pegasus should come to light pretty early, undermining his credibility
• LaForge's growth from helm to engineering should be shown on screen.
• Worf probably wasn't orphaned in this universe, due to different diplomatic dynamics. Instead, Mogh and his wife defected to the Federation to live in a Klingon colony within the Federation that believes that the Klingon Empire has lost its way and is without honor. This can be basically a Klingon version of Taiwan, a breakaway republic that considers themselves to be the true followers of the Klingon way. But his brother Kurn returned to the empire when he came of age, while Worf joined Starfleet to show the Federation what it truly means to be a Klingon.
• There's two directions to potentially go with Data. Either he can be "young" and on his first assignment, an Ensign, or keep him at Lt. Commander but he's more well actualized coming in since he has spent 27 years in the fleet before becoming second officer. Either he needs to not be "born yesterday" or he's got to have life experience coming to the enterprise.

Have better-formed ideas of the Cardassians and Ferengi from day one. Basically jump straight to the DS9 quality of Ferengi, but I'd actually shift the timeline of the Cardassians to show their fall from a republic to oligarchy to fascism within the show. Both would be allegories for different parts of the United States.

We could plot out a story over the seasons where Cardassia conquors Bajor, the Federation fails to protect it, and the occupation eventually ends from Bajor's actions, not the Federation's.

And we could introduce DS9 and Voyager characters and interweave stories. Assign Lt. Chakotay to the enterprise for a season, have Beckett Mariner be a midshipman/cadet on rotation for a while, meet Janeway when she was a science officer on another ship, deal with Terrok Nor and Odo and Kira when dealing with the occupation of Bajor, bring in a Dax ... lots of possibilities.

So I’ve just uploaded simple black cards with growing text for all the two of the Star Trek shows for the 60th anniversary

I really don’t know which fonts to use for Star Trek enterprise and Picard.

I’ve already done TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, STA, SNW, DIS, PRO and Lower Decks, all on MediUX with appropriate fonts

Which trek fonts are best for those two shows?

Bob Odenkirk as Jason Statham.

I don’t care how untrue it ends up being. Make it absurd AF.

I’m feeling like that’s a thing more people will be wanting.

EDIT: I am specifically wondering about dining out, but knowing about butchers is good.

Like the actual on-screen cards, but in a larger font than actual screencaps for increased legibility.

https://mediux.pro/sets/58889

So on all 3 of my FireTV sticks that auto-updated plex, I noticed a lot of pausing to buffer; and then I notice that the progress bar is basically showing no significant buffer while playing.

Is there a setting I can adjust to make it read ahead a bit more so it stops pausing?

I'm talking about Alain DuPetit. The only suit company that's decided to charge a low price for low quality but still give it their absolute best effort within those parameters.

• Their seersuckers are top notch for the price. $139 full price, as low as $89 on clearance. For the past 4 years, they have reliably pumped out summer seersuckers at low prices. Prices low enough that I felt I could experiment with putting that suit in the gentle cycle and hanging it dry on a wide plastic hanger to support the shoulders. And that did indeed work. I have two from last year, picked up two more this year. And their lining is of lighter weight than most other seersuckers, making a full lining tolerable in the heat.
• Sizes. OMG do they have sizes. While Quince is out there saying jackets come in SML, Alain DuPetit has 51 freaking sizes. Who else has that?
  • Sizes ranging from the unheard of 32S all the way up to 64R, with longs topping out at 54L. And most of the middle range of chest sizes is available in both regular and slim fit. They have 50S, in both regular and slim. Longs are available as small as 38L.
• Suits with hidden elastic side tabs. Where has this been all my life? Their pants, which all have belt loops, all have an elastic version of those slide buckles rental tuxedo trousers have. No fuss, no muss, and not visible under a belt. Hardly visible without a belt.
• Surprisingly stylish formalwear. Satin on their lapels is better than the satin on my iTailor tuxedoes, and their black poly/rayon is so dark it almost disappears into the night. Only complaint is that they put belt loops on them (which you can hide with a cummerbund or vest).

Every once in a while, they throw up some 100% linen or 100% wool for under $200, but they generally have a Tetron/Rayon/Spandex material that can look half decent. Especially if it's anything other than a solid flat weave. The herringbone weaves are particularly plush and look much better than the flat ones. I'm probably going to try the sharkskin weave next.

And the price is low enough where you say shit like Y'know, I guess a mauve suit might be fun for casual.

I'm sure I'd overheat in the Tetron/Rayon/Spandex blend in the summer, but I'm saving the two I just purchased for autumn.

I think we forget how timey wimey The Doctor and Mel are.

The Doctor is first shown a video of his future self with a future companion that he has not met yet.

Then, Mel is brought in to testify. She has a memory of the events of Terror of the Vervoids, so she is even older than the version The Doctor just watched.

So when The Doctor first meets Mel, she has already been through multiple adventures with him.

And then, at the end of The Ultimate Foe, they just leave together in the TARDIS with Mel acting as if they're picking up where they left off at some point but the Doctor has only just met her. He has not yet picked her up and gone on adventures with her.

So at some point, he's going to have to drop her off somewhere so that he can go and meet her for the first time.

Why in the world would they blow off Scotty's thumb when they could have done his middle finger on his right hand just like James Doohan?

Woulda been the goriest easter egg ever.

EDIT: upon response and consideration, if I were in production I would have asked his estate if they had a preference, or wanted such a scene omitted altogether.

Here's my thinking of where the pieces fit together.

• Human Best Friend
  • My guess is that we're getting Kirk two weeks in a row, and that this is where the Kirk/Spock hug comes from.
• A Case of Chiaroscuro
  • This is probably going to be the episode with the Black & White "silver nitrate" look. We know it involves Klingons.
• Level-Five Transporter Accident
  • This has gotta be the puppet episode, right? Because they become puppets via a transporter accident.
• Off-Hour
  • Maybe this is where we get Ortegas and Scotty spending time together and becoming friends? Nothing jumps out from this one.
• Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass
  • I'm assuming this title itself is a cheeky nod to the soap opera Days of Our Lives, which uses the tagline "like sand through the hourglass". Which means pure relationship drama. Spock/La'an/T'Pring/Chapel is the most soap opera that Trek has ever been. This guess is based upon the title alone.
  • But we do have to circle back to T'Pring eventually ... Griffin was just a setup to remind us she's important.
• Orders of Magnitude
• Once La’an a Time
  • Here there be dragons. And fantasy. And Trelane, since we know he's coming back and it's the most logical reason for there to be a dragon attacking the Enterprise while breathing fire in space. So a Trelane episode probably focusing on La'an.
• Tomorrow's Enterprise
  • The Enterprise in 2 time zones. We know that we're going to see Captain Kirk. We know that Uhura's TOS-inspired dress last seen in the season 1 finale will make a return, and she will have TOS-inspired hair, and that she will, in some way, cross her own path. I'm guessing that Uhura ends up being a bridge between time zones.
  • Think they'll hit us with Sulu and McCoy in the season 4 finale instead of Season 5?

Here's the big one: since we never saw the origin, this evolution is going to reveal that his power is derived not from radioactive spiders, but from a symbiote such as Venom.

This actually occurred to me while watching Friendly Neighborhood SM, where I thought the spider was going to be portaled from symbiote world (why did they have to do a bootstrap paradox). And it would make the evolution into Venom emerging from within him, changing him, giving him more power and speaking to him.

The other theory is that Sadie Sink is Mary-Jane Watson. Multiversal Mary-Jane Watson. Probably slipped through the cracks in No Way Home and stuck around.

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The idea that it picks up subtext that you can’t express in your own language and shares that is truly amazing. Brilliant little detail.