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I blame Joss Whedon.

The Enterprise finale is… not good. If you’re a big Tucker fan like I am, it will really piss you off. Frankly I think it’s worth skipping entirely, something I wouldn’t say about any other Trek finale except of course for TOS’ “Turnabout Intruder” (which wasn’t intended as a grand finale but sadly ended up as one). The first half-ish of season 4 was actually pretty good, which just made the latter half feel even worse than if it had been all bad from the start. “Chef” in the series turns out to be Commander Riker reliving the historical events on the holodeck while stationed on the Enterprise D. He’s cosplaying as the NX-01’s chef so he can interact with the historical characters.

Sometimes I think about doing a fan edit of the entirety of Enterprise to whittle it down to a good miniseries on the birth of the Federation. There’s enough in there that one could probably get a solid 12 episodes from the series. It’d jettison the entirety of the temporal cold war of course. I’d focus only on selected scenes from the better character-building episodes, keep much of the Vulcan stuff, and keep the events surrounding the nascent Human/Vulcan/Tellarite/Andorian alliance and a hopeful-tone ending.

And you can be damn sure that I’d keep as much Shran as I could. Jeffrey Combs is one of the best damn things to happen to Trek and I wouldn’t dare disrespect his love of the franchise or his work ethic.

Tell it that it should get EMP’d.

Why do you think that 100 mile number was chosen in the first place?

I fondly remember bringing an extended-family thanksgiving dinner conversation on current events to a screeching halt a few years back. Lots of Canadian MSNBC-addicted libs talking about how the glorious Winter War where the brave smol bean Finnish soldiers repelled the mean old Russkies. I immediately piped in with “Why are you celebrating Nazi Finland fighting against our allies in the Soviet Union in WW2?”

I haven’t gotten any invitations back from that side of the family in years. Thankfully.

I’m starting to wonder if we’re in a more 1900-1910 type of situation.

For some reason, lots of Japanese companies are in love with hydrogen despite it being the dumbest possible solution for compact mobile energy storage. The auto companies in particular keep trying to push it. I’ve been wondering if it’s a combination of trying desperately to recoup some R&D spending before the patents expire, the Japanese corporate culture of “the boss is always right”, and senior leaders who won’t risk the personal embarrassment of having backed the wrong horse for their entire senior management career and admitting that hydrogen fuel is a dumb idea.

Now watch the US government go the extra mile in cruelty and force that kid into the foster system rather than leave them with the stepmom.