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I find that with French too. The dubbing is adjusted to match the lip flaps while the subtitles are more of a direct translation.

I’m finding all the pilot episodes and most season premieres in the current era rough. It seems a pattern with all the shows

One definitely gets the sense that there are so many senior executives at Paramount and CBS Studios giving notes as they seek to differentiate the shows that the creators’ ideas get muddied.

As they get into the seasons and get more seasons the EPs and writers find each shows voice, I suspect that they suffer fewer notes telling them to adjust to some executive’s idea of what the show is supposed to be and who it is targeting.

The song was originally written for Stewart as ‘Faith of the Heart’ and for another recording.

It’s worth reading the article for the history. It was another British singer, who was briefly popular but past his peak, who did the recording.

I had understood it to be more like a year. There was a significant period of several months, for example, when Boimler served on the Titan between seasons.

I’m relieved to hear that the group will be promoted. 3 years is a fairly long haul as ensigns, even on a second tier ship. The humour and credibility would begin to wear a bit thin if they at that rank throughout the show’s run. (… yes, I know about Ensign Kim and that was inexplicable - he should have been given an acting promotion to lieutenant at minimum.)

It’s interesting that TrekMovie has this article up before the news release has been posted. (I checked the Paramount+ press site and the most recent posting for Lower Decks is for the trailer release July 22nd, and these details aren’t in that one.)

I posted this because it is incorporating the oral history, and puts to bed some unfounded speculation.

The full books are reportedly excellent, but not that many of us have read them as yet.

And no matter how great some fans found it, the song really contributed to the perception that the franchise shifted to be very American oriented over the course of Berman’s leadership. It was a real barrier to growing the international audience.

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I’m going with Vulcans using APL*. Why create a language that makes you do more than just write the equations?

Are you sure? They might have learned something then. Or did they get stuck with a turtle-logic compiler instead?

There was a reference in Discovery season one or two to SQL, as if it was cool. Sigh.

I find these kind of articles that validate Rotten Tomatoes (RT) audience scores as a quotable source are a problem, objectionable. Especially for Star Trek fans who embrace IDIC values.

Why? Because the RT audience ‘stats’ give a false credibility to a very biased and unscientific sample.

Many folks here on the fediverse are very cautious and savvy about how bias in AI training data leads to bias in the AI, but still quite RT stats as though they are somehow credible or scientific.

Rotten Tomatoes base of users has been established to be even more male, white American and older than even Reddit (that itself is 2/3 male). (The critic score is biased to American sources but some major ones from other countries do make it in there.)

When we look to RT’s audience score as some kind of authority, and share that, we’re giving weight to the voices of that specific demographic group over the rest of the audience.

DeCandido’s ‘A Singlular Destiny’ follows directly from Mack’s Destiny Trilogy. Then, the main Relauch novelverse moves through the Typhon Pact books.

Ezri Dax starts evolving as she integrates Dax’s former hosts and wrangles them in some earlier DS9 books. But she really takes off as one of the 4 hero captains of Destiny.

For those who want to start the Relaunch books from some of the deep political turning points, Mack’s two books in the ‘Time to…’ series are the key ones. They take place between the TNG movies Insurrection and Nemesis, putting dynamics in play that run right up to the end of the Relaunch novelverse in Coda.

(And yes I’m still grieving the end of the Relauch alternate timeline.)