It was great. I had a ball doing that. And I mean, again, during the “Star Trek” world, it’s lovely people, and it was nothing but pleasure, and it was a dream wish fulfillment for me to be able to be in “Star Trek.” I play a very interesting, complicated guy, bad guy, I suppose. I’m a bad guy. Yeah, I guess I’m a bad guy. But yeah, so I dunno what more I can say about that without giving too much away.

I’m in more than one episode. I have a little arc through this season. I reappear and become more problematic as the show goes on.

I think the only path forward is for journalists to get serious about defining and protecting their job. No government is going to step in to do it because of the optics, but many sectors have colleges that define and enforce standards of behaviour.

It’s time for journalists to step up and do the same.

I don’t doubt that this is true on balance

I know the questions keep coming up (and it’s totally fair play), but…I don’t have the impression that it’s had any sort of impact on the electorate. Maybe I’m wrong.

Presumably a hint that there’s a crossover with “The Tick” coming up.

I don’t doubt that this is true on balance, but the Danielle Smith jokes practically write themselves…

Yeah, I’ve never been about “ratings” posts - they’re not banned from the community or anything, but they seem to mean whatever the beholder wants them to mean.

The franchise will be fine, one way or another.

I guess it’s possible that it was a Liberal plant, but it has big “man vandalizes own house” energy.

I am glad they did keep follow on with Belinda really wanting to go home

Belinda’s character seems a lot more nuanced at this stage than, say, Martha Jones was in her second episode. She was very open to a little adventure…as long as it didn’t delay her trip home.

They had no time at all - filming was already complete.

They were given a short amount of time (3 days IIRC) to film the epilogue, and by then most of the sets had been dismantled.

In terms of the makeup, I prefer the season two refinements. But I really like the cultural depiction of the Klingons in season one.

I think the word “movie” is a little misleading, but it makes sense that they would have wanted to do a full 2-hour “event” episode.

I’m pretty certain Who could have gotten around the Disco Klingon redesign much easier than Trek did.

Why do you have to give me flashbacks like that?

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SirPatStew has shared the anecdote, but it’s reportedly something that Roddenberry said.

Interesting perspective, and one that I think is much more applicable to Classic Who, which was made very differently than the '05 iteration. RTD’s first era shook things up with its “companion first” approach and single-episode stories.

Some of the issues weren’t exactly unique to DW, though. Star Trek: The Next Generation started in the late 80s, and its characters are largely cardboard cutouts, especially in the earlier years. Depth of character was very rare before the late 90s.

Just the flexibility to get it done on your own terms, really.

I mean, is it any COINCIDENCE that this episode was set in FLORIDA?

I thought this was a very mild, even gentle depiction of Whovians.

Oh it was, but…Reddit’s gonna Reddit, and the internet’s gonna internet.

In terms of the “American” accents, I’m not a native English speaker, so a lot of that detail goes by me unnoticed.

Honestly, it’s not even the accent. I think the guy’s accent was…adequate (full disclosure, I’m Canadian, so I can’t judge US accents too harshly). But the dialogue often seems just a little stilted to me, with word choices that don’t quite seem to align with what an American would say.

The most egregious DW example to me is from way back in “The Poison Sky”/“The Sontaran Strategem”, when the ostensibly American Luke Rattigan kept ranting about how “clever” he was, which is simply not something an American (or Canadian, for that matter) would say. Nothing in this episode rose to that level, but it just seemed a little off.

I’m by no means defending this move (it’s dumb and bad, just like…everything else the US government does these days), but they seem to be delegating the inspections to individual states.

I assume at least some states will maintain good standards, and Canada will have to pay close attention to which states those are.