As a reminder, this plan would offer $4.6 trillion in tax giveaways, mostly for the very rich. Then these same folks will turn around and say our deficits are out of control and the only solution is to cut Social Security and Medicare. A vote for Trump is a vote for this plan.

honestly kind of sick to watch a tech company build a product for the underserved niche of edgelords who have public personas

How did it take me until this week to place that Ava's mom on HACKS was Niles's vindictive ex-wife on FRASIER?

This is funnier without context

Bitter Script Reader My friend made the documentary about the making of this film, and it’s probably the proudest achievement of his life.

I will never get tired of reading retrospectives of this project

Oh, I had a Thomas Guide too. used it during the year that I was a runner.

I've found my new mantra for beating impostor syndrome: would this make George Lucas happy?

Bitter Script Reader New Frontier was a lot of fun.

Hey, there’s some good stuff in that era - Q-Squared, Dark Mirror, Crossover, the Shatnerverse, Vendetta.

Yeah, you’d get some books that would follow up on obscure threads, but most of the books were better than licensed fiction often gets credit for

I agree. There were some great authors and some really well thought out stories, but I did also think that after almost 2 decades, the status quo had evolved so much that there was less and less remaining from the dynamics that fans first fell in love with. Reboot was inevitable

Okay, re-posting this last one and creating a thread, because this gets really weird. Ready? Fifteen minutes after I took this photo, I get up to leave. An American guy walks up to me and says, 'Are you Robert Weide?' I answer affirmatively, and say, 'How could you... 1/5

Hugh on STAR TREK: PICARD. The story generated by his death is substantially dwarfed by the stories that his continuing existence would have generated

Bitter Script Reader To bounce off of this, I think fan obsessing over canon makes conversations about any franchise entry incredibly uninteresting.

This article by James Whitbrook is really good.

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It doesn’t mean any of that stuff released in the 20 years sucked. It just means that all new material has to be consistent with what’s on screen, lest some new reader be completely confused by material that doesn’t reflect the official continuity

For 20 years, there was no new canon TREK material that dealt with the post-NEMESIS era. That allowed all the novels and tie-ins to go in their own direction continuing the story.

Then once PICARD came out, suddenly there was new canon and all future tie ins were bound to it

Yep. Fans don’t get to decide what’s canon.

ALSO, a projects “canon” status is in no way a correlation with or commentary on its quality. It’s merely the material that any other official stories are bound to.

Saying something wasn’t canon isn’t equivalent to saying “it sucks.”

Dear Lord, please shut up.