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For those who care: this is the tenth anniversary of the launch of Agents of SHIELD and the sixth anniversary of the launch of Star Trek: Discovery. That coincidence shared by two TV series that I favour is worthy of some celebratory attention.
Trek: An Ending for the Discovery
Mar. 2nd, 2023 07:03 pmI was thinking we might have another couple of years left.
https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-conclude-fifth-final-season
https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-conclude-fifth-final-season
RIP: Sally Kellerman
Feb. 25th, 2022 07:22 amThere was a strange symmetry for at least this Star Trek fan last night, learning of Sally Kellerman's death just before watching Discovery revisiting "The Galactic Barrier"...
Trek: DSC: But to Connect
Dec. 30th, 2021 10:05 pmDone watching "...But to Connect" on Star Trek: Discovery.
That wasn't exactly a bottle show. Close, but not exactly so. There was still a sense of grand scale, scope, stakes on multiple fronts, and events moving at speed. Everyone being true to themselves...and I think this chapter worked. My thanks to the performers and production team!
That wasn't exactly a bottle show. Close, but not exactly so. There was still a sense of grand scale, scope, stakes on multiple fronts, and events moving at speed. Everyone being true to themselves...and I think this chapter worked. My thanks to the performers and production team!
DSC: "Choose to Live"
Dec. 2nd, 2021 10:19 pmOne word I was most pleased to hear this week:
arie'mnu
And there were other moments as well throughout the story. A story that's being given time to "breathe" properly, as far as I can see.
Spoilers in the comments...
arie'mnu
And there were other moments as well throughout the story. A story that's being given time to "breathe" properly, as far as I can see.
Spoilers in the comments...
At the risk of spoilers, two observations about tonight's episode of Star Trek: Discovery
1, SEATBELTS, people!!! After a thousand years, you'd think that Starfleet would have finally taken that lesson to heart, right?
2. It was an excellent meditation on two themes: grief, and the art of mutual support in times of crisis.
1, SEATBELTS, people!!! After a thousand years, you'd think that Starfleet would have finally taken that lesson to heart, right?
2. It was an excellent meditation on two themes: grief, and the art of mutual support in times of crisis.
Starships and Railroads
Jan. 20th, 2021 08:25 pmSeemed like a good mix of reading material while I had supper tonight.
2021: First Entry
Jan. 2nd, 2021 03:53 pmA day and a half late with this entry. But it's here now. It doesn't feel all that different so far, of course.
Stuff I've been doing:
Stuff I've been doing:
- Watching "Revolution of the Daleks" on Doctor Who.
- Reading The Art of Star Trek: Discovery.
- Buying fonts in Comicraft's annual New Year's Font Sale. This year: revised edition of Wiccan, along with Doohickey Lower and Ultimatum.
- Checking in with Canadian Conrunners Central on Discord.
- Grocery errands for the household.
- Sketchbook practice on actual paper.
- Assorted house chores.
I am impressed.
Again, spoiler warnings in effect if you read this before watching the episode...
Co-executive producer, and director of the two-part second-season finale for Star Trek: Discovery, Olatunde Osunsamni discusses the processes of making this episode in the link below:
https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-finale-olatunde-osunsanmi-bts
To everyone who worked on that story, my thanks for work well done.
Again, spoiler warnings in effect if you read this before watching the episode...
Co-executive producer, and director of the two-part second-season finale for Star Trek: Discovery, Olatunde Osunsamni discusses the processes of making this episode in the link below:
https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-finale-olatunde-osunsanmi-bts
To everyone who worked on that story, my thanks for work well done.
TREK/MAPS: Doctari Alpha Thoughts
Mar. 31st, 2019 07:29 pmYes, I'm citing Discovery episodes "The Vulcan Hello" and "Perpetual Infinity" here.
The Xarantine Sector-Stack, with Xarantine orbiting Zeta Leporis (per ST: Star Charts)...and I am wondering about Doctari Alpha and HD 38382...?
It's about 83 ly from Sol away per HIPARCOS, 85 ly per GAIA DR2. Spectral type: F8.5V. There *is* a direct line-of-flight possible between HD 38382 and Zeta Lep less than 15 ly...
http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-50&y_c=-50&z_c=0&xy_zoom=20&z_zoom=160&m_limit=20&select_star=19279&image_type=normal&image_size=2000&max_line=15&trek_names=1
Trekmapping exercise continued: If we stick with HD 38382 as the primary of Doctari Alpha...
All distances derived from the planetariium-ware program Celestia v. 1.6.1 (2009). I would dearly love to have Gaia Sky working properly on any of my computer gear right now for this...
Sol-Alpha Lupi - 465 lightyears
Alpha Lupi-HD 38382 - 488 ly
HD 38382-Zeta Leporis - 15 ly
HD 38382-Sol - 83 ly
The Xarantine Sector-Stack, with Xarantine orbiting Zeta Leporis (per ST: Star Charts)...and I am wondering about Doctari Alpha and HD 38382...?
It's about 83 ly from Sol away per HIPARCOS, 85 ly per GAIA DR2. Spectral type: F8.5V. There *is* a direct line-of-flight possible between HD 38382 and Zeta Lep less than 15 ly...
http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-50&y_c=-50&z_c=0&xy_zoom=20&z_zoom=160&m_limit=20&select_star=19279&image_type=normal&image_size=2000&max_line=15&trek_names=1
Trekmapping exercise continued: If we stick with HD 38382 as the primary of Doctari Alpha...
All distances derived from the planetariium-ware program Celestia v. 1.6.1 (2009). I would dearly love to have Gaia Sky working properly on any of my computer gear right now for this...
Sol-Alpha Lupi - 465 lightyears
Alpha Lupi-HD 38382 - 488 ly
HD 38382-Zeta Leporis - 15 ly
HD 38382-Sol - 83 ly
TREK: "Project Daedalus"
Mar. 15th, 2019 05:39 amDamn.
That was brutal.
Spoilers in comments, please...because I do want to discuss this episode.
That was brutal.
Spoilers in comments, please...because I do want to discuss this episode.
TREK: "If Memory Serves"
Mar. 8th, 2019 05:47 amWell, that explains a few things about several people.
Good "previously on..." sequence design and execution.
Interesting that they chose to reduce the distance between Talos and Starbase 11. It makes sense, looking back at "The Menagerie" and its "Kirk and 'Mendez' chase the Enterprise' sequences, mind you, but reducing that distance to two lightyears was still a surprise in the moment to this owner of copies of Star Charts and both editions of Stellar Cartography...
Good "previously on..." sequence design and execution.
Interesting that they chose to reduce the distance between Talos and Starbase 11. It makes sense, looking back at "The Menagerie" and its "Kirk and 'Mendez' chase the Enterprise' sequences, mind you, but reducing that distance to two lightyears was still a surprise in the moment to this owner of copies of Star Charts and both editions of Stellar Cartography...
Trek: Meditation on Quotation
Mar. 4th, 2019 06:04 amInspired by "Battle at the Binary Stars".
Danby Connor's last words before being vented out of the USS Shenzhou by Klingon fire: "Why are we fighting? We're Starfleet. We're explorers, not soldiers."
The last newsflash of Danby Connor's life: you don't always get to be believed regardless of how much truth you tell and live.
Bigotry doesn't care.
Danby Connor's last words before being vented out of the USS Shenzhou by Klingon fire: "Why are we fighting? We're Starfleet. We're explorers, not soldiers."
The last newsflash of Danby Connor's life: you don't always get to be believed regardless of how much truth you tell and live.
Bigotry doesn't care.
TREK: Star Naming
Feb. 13th, 2019 05:37 pmI agree with this complaint about "DSC: Battle of the Binary Stars" as published by Spacedock on Twitter. That system has to have a few thousand ID tags in star catalogues published across the Federation and beyond. Some of the "inhabited-by-indigenous-and-intelligent-species" worlds close to that system and known to the Federation probably even gave that system *actual names*. The system deserves more than "six light years from Gamma Hydrae" as an identifier.
https://twitter.com/SpacedockHQ/status/1095193479997804546
https://twitter.com/SpacedockHQ/status/1095193479997804546
TREK + MAPS: "Point of Light"
Feb. 2nd, 2019 03:54 pm
Okay, this is the map I thought I saw in the first act of "Point of Light". I want to say those are Federation Outposts Delta-4 through Delta-8 along the UFP-Klingon border per Star Charts and Stellar Cartography...?ST: Discovery: A Crew Question
Jan. 29th, 2019 10:23 pmI am thinking of the "round table" introductions of the bridge crew in "Brother" at the start of the current season. Something came to mind: being in the alpha-shift bridge crew doesn't always translate to being head of whatever department/division they're in, right?
So, I'm still wondering who's in charge of what aboard USS Discovery NCC-1031. Our roster is incomplete on this point.
So, I'm still wondering who's in charge of what aboard USS Discovery NCC-1031. Our roster is incomplete on this point.
...is with Sheila McCarthy on "Discovery: New Eden".
Could someone with a contributor account at Memory Alpha remedy the lack of mention of Little Mosque, please?
Could someone with a contributor account at Memory Alpha remedy the lack of mention of Little Mosque, please?
DSC: "Brother" - An Astronomical Note
Jan. 17th, 2019 10:03 pmAs for the neighbourhood of the bulk of the episode's action: if we go by the Starbase 36 reference...and adding 150 lightyears along the Z-axis "above" and "below" Arbitrary Galactic Equatorial...
http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-90&y_c=-130&z_c=0&xy_zoom=20&z_zoom=150&m_limit=&select_star=&image_type=normal&image_size=2000&max_line=0&trek_names=1
http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-90&y_c=-130&z_c=0&xy_zoom=20&z_zoom=150&m_limit=&select_star=&image_type=normal&image_size=2000&max_line=0&trek_names=1
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Jan. 17th, 2019 05:56 amThis morning I read about how one of the hostages of the Vulgarian right now is Canadian food safety as well as that of Americans. Surprise!
No, I'm not thanking the Vulgarian and his cronies and enablers for this. I'm cursing them and their political fortunes and their "freedom"(!) to endanger the rest of us humans.
Tonight, I will salve my pain and fear with the second season premier episode of Star Trek: Discovery.
Meantime, I've still got a day job to report to.
No, I'm not thanking the Vulgarian and his cronies and enablers for this. I'm cursing them and their political fortunes and their "freedom"(!) to endanger the rest of us humans.
Tonight, I will salve my pain and fear with the second season premier episode of Star Trek: Discovery.
Meantime, I've still got a day job to report to.
