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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 9m

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 31m

“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary,” etc.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 44m

And then decades later, we are privileged to reverence and learn from what they did right, then denounce and correct what they did wrong.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 47m

The critical lesson of the miniseries “John Adams” for this work was that the inauguration of Washington was just a room with guys in wigs, making it up.

History is the story of individuals muddling through.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 9h

The LAST FOUNDER: Prologue, Jonathan is available now.

Or, how I attempt to contain 70 years of Archer's life in the prologue, so I can deal with the next 12 over the course of 26 chapters.

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The Last Founder: Prologue, Jonathan

Prologue: Jonathan Dance there upon the shore;What need have you to careFor wind or water’s roar?And tumble out your hairThat the salt drops have wet;Being young you have not knownThe fool’s triump…

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 23h

a picture of the grinch reading a book with the words 5:30 jazzercise

ALT: a picture of the grinch reading a book with the words 5:30 jazzercise

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 1d

Hey to new followers; while you're here, I'm going to plug my long-form essay on Oberyn Martell (for ASOIAF fans among you), mainly because I absurdly spent a solid twenty hours in research for it.

If literally anyone enjoys it, I'll do Kevan Lannister next.

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The Many Meetings of Oberyn Martell

In my most recent reread of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, I took a renewed interest in the exciting non-POV characters, many of whom we learn much about in only fleeting pages…

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Frasier D&D @frasierdnd.bsky.social · 1d

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “Oh! I’m in a Dungeons & Dragons group, too. But we’re doing an official, prewritten adventure.”

[FRASIER SCOFFS]

FRASIER: “Prewritten! The storyteller’s crutch.”

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “I’m the storyteller.”

FRASIER: “… And what is a crutch if not a timeless and wonderful invention?”

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 1d

Folks... he's running.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 2d

"Though the next election for the President of the Federation Council would be held more than a year later, for one intrepid journalist whose coverage of Archer went back nearly three decades, the race had already begun."

The Last Founder: Prologue, Jonathan

Prologue: Jonathan Dance there upon the shore;What need have you to careFor wind or water’s roar?And tumble out your hairThat the salt drops have wet;Being young you have not knownThe fool’s triump…

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s impossibly rude to say, but maybe I’m the only one who can say it. No parents, no partner, no kids: how does one define legacy? I think we all found out.”

Prologue: Jonathan is now available.

The Last Founder: Prologue, Jonathan

Prologue: Jonathan Dance there upon the shore;What need have you to careFor wind or water’s roar?And tumble out your hairThat the salt drops have wet;Being young you have not knownThe fool’s triump…

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 2d

“In hindsight, it is interesting to contemplate how so many interstellar species first heard about these Humans from Earth. Perhaps there had been rumors or reports about these newly warp-capable anthropoids from the Sol system, but to actually meet one in person invariably meant Jonathan Archer."

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s impossibly rude to say, but maybe I’m the only one who can say it. No parents, no partner, no kids: how does one define legacy? I think we all found out.”

Prologue: Jonathan is now available.

The Last Founder: Prologue, Jonathan

Prologue: Jonathan Dance there upon the shore;What need have you to careFor wind or water’s roar?And tumble out your hairThat the salt drops have wet;Being young you have not knownThe fool’s triump…

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

"To a Child Dancing upon the Shore"

- William Butler Yeats, 1912

Prologue: Jonathan, arrives tomorrow.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

"How he grew, changed, strengthened, and broke the position has, more than any other so far, charted the course for our future. For those who think they know how this story ends, you have to go back to the beginning, to a small city on the shores of Lake Ontario."

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

"When a person invents a story about how he broke the rules, when in fact he didn’t, what does that tell us about how he might treat the most powerful political position in the known galaxy?"

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

Great question: 3rd prez T’Maran is Vulcan. She was actually at the San Francisco Conference, as the Peace Minister of the Confederacy of Vulcan. She’s most in the text in Ch. 7, near the end “She Speaks.”

4th president is Andorian shen, and comes from beta novels

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 4d

"As a reluctant celebrity, he could see that it was a source of both political and personal power that was not being tapped. It would not stay untapped for long."

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 4d

"I felt I had been making it my entire adult life until that point, but then I learned. I could give more. When I woke up to Jhamel ‘s coffee brewing and Shran singing some tune he’d learned from our earlier night of karaoke, it finally came to me. Do more."

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 4d

It’s clear why I insisted @pjlusk.bsky.social be in the LAST FOUNDER working group.

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I don't think many people realise about writing is how much time you spend updating tables to keep track of various aspects of what you're writing about. And I, a historian, am not designed for using and maintaining spreadsheets.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 4d

Terrible idea?

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 4d

Bakula's back

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for reading!

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 4d

There's a decent crowd people on this site who love @eomproject.bsky.social and @goldwagnathan.bsky.social's sci-fi history stuff: you should all head over *immediately* to nascentnovice.com not just to read SAN FRANCISCO 2161, but to get a head start on his follow-up: THE LAST FOUNDER!

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