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That cat ain't coming back - RTD has always been a rather bloodthirsty showrunner.

Couldn't agree less - I think the 32nd century is a fantastic setting, especially for a show like this.

CBC is reporting this as fact, not an allegation - it's safe to assume that they know exactly who these campaign workers are.

There are also decent reasons not to name them just yet - if they're low-level staffers, it's worth trying to get a comment from the Party first, and/or try to determine how far up the ladder this goes. No sense in scapegoating the grunts until the higher-ups are ID'd.

On Friday night, in two Ottawa bars, campaign workers shared how the party was behind this move — how two Liberal Party staffers attended the conference intended for conservatives and placed these buttons in areas where attendees would find them.

One of those conversations was in the immediate earshot of this journalist. A Conservative source overheard the other conversation.

Great, it just became easier to dismiss legitimate criticism of the Conservatives as a false-flag operation.

Brilliant move.

Watching it back, I think I was bumped by the fact that Belinda decides to turn herself in while the area is being shelled, and they then cut immediately to her going to the polishbot, but the attack is over by then.

#notallalans

Okay, paintball guns that create sparks on impact are rad. I wonder if they're widely used in the industry - this is the first I've heard of it.

Also rad? That Unleashed isn't a BBC/iPlayer exclusive any more.

One thing I forgot to mention: is it just me, or was there a very confusing edit in the middle of the scene in which the rebel base was under attack. They were taking fire, shit was going crazy, and then...it was dead calm while we saw Belinda reactivating the floor polisher. Which I guess was a flashback?

I thought that was a very solid season opener - it certainly surpassed my modest expectations.

I didn't think much of the retrofuturistic stylings in the previews, but the robots won me over with their absolutely ridiculous arms.

It's interesting that the Doctor was on the planet for six months - wasn't that also the length of time he and Ruby went on adventures between "Space Babies" and "The Devil's Chord". This episode has to take place after "Boom", though, so it might be a coincidence. It's just in my head because it does sound like we're going to get a glimpse of those six missing months later this season.

Making the villain a manosphere chud was rather timely (or maybe just evergreen over the past decade or so), especially on the heels of the discourse around Netflix's "Adolescence".

Ni'Var in Discovery does seem to be on that path, particularly with the Romulo-Vulcan faction.

Among the legal organizations’ expressed objections and flaws they contend mar the proposed regime in its application to legal professionals:

• IRCC’s proposed broad powers to inspect and search, based on an IRCC officer’s determination that there are “reasonable grounds to suspect” a violation, and to demand documents from lawyers, without safeguards, as well as the lack of any mechanism to allow lawyers to fully and effectively defend themselves, without breaching established principles of solicitor-client confidentiality;

• unfairness, expense and other negative impacts on legal professionals, and the risk of inconsistent results by needlessly subjecting them to dual regulation;

• failure to respect the fundamental principles of independence of the bar as well as solicitor/client privilege/confidentiality, which are protected by the common law and the Constitution;

• the lack of procedural protections and accountability;

• IRCC’s lack of neutrality vis-à-vis immigration and refugee lawyers who advocate for clients, often in opposition to IRCC and its counsel, including representing in court those accused of offences, including misrepresentation. “Granting the same entity the authority to discipline the very lawyers who challenge it creates a glaring conflict of interest — comparable to allowing Crown counsel to oversee the discipline of criminal defence lawyers,” the CBA asserts in its submission to IRCC; and

• Ottawa exceeds federal jurisdiction by purporting to regulate and penalize lawyers and paralegals doing paid immigration and refugee work, including by naming violators and publishing particulars on IRCC’s website, an interference with a lawyer’s ability to practise law, which is the exclusive preserve of law societies.

Yeah, it's definitely possible that Picardo could play both versions of the character, even if it's just for a single episode.

But the full-time version on "Academy" will be the original, not the "Living Witness" backup.

The Captain America comics have gotten some good mileage out of that theme over the years - what do you do when the ideals you supposedly represent no longer reflect the actual nation?

If done thoughtfully, it can be an asset, rather than a liability.

Oh, are names important? What were the names of the Klingons?

Well, the Cerritos is also transformed into a *Galaxy-*class ship by that anomaly, so by your logic, there's an equal chance that TNG took place in a different universe.

Which is...definitely a thing you could say.

where the Klingons started turning in to discovery type Klingons suggesting that discovery was not set in the main trek universe.

I'm not sure you've given this line of thought full consideration.

I just take it as a given that RTD finales are likely to be pretty messy, but hopefully it will at least be a fun ride.

Thank you for making me aware of the article!

"The Well" is probably the most interesting to me, given the non-description. It looks like it'll be the season's "Midnight", and I can't be mad about that.

"Lucky Day" - it didn't occur to me that the big Ruby episode might be Doctor-lite...it has potential to be interesting. Maybe a bit of a backdoor pilot for "The War Between the Land and the Sea"?

Okay, I don't have much in the way of thoughts about the others. They all seem perfectly fine, and I don't mean that in a backhanded sort of way.