I'm so surprised to see those names together. The Gateworld/Dial the Gate livestream today said it best: It's like watching your divorced parents getting back together. This is absolutely fascinating and cool.

Martin Gero is the showrunner, and his track record has been a consistent climb upward. The old showrunners are there as consulting producers instead of showrunning this time around.

In my in-person circles as well, and on forums! I mean how you don't so much see the term floating around on newer forms of social media, leading the younger fans to not realize that was a term.

What a weird thing to say. Your grasp of history and biology are both deeply flawed.

So in the instance of the Monster Maroons example, Trekkies really did use to call it that, though it's fallen out of regular use. You may know this, I'm just connecting this back to the example. People saying "nobody ever called it that" fall into this category.

I've seen people try to explain what a writer was intending when they wrote xyz when the writer's thoughts are available to read directly on Memory Alpha, and people sharing incorrect reasons for actors leaving shows and going unchallenged. That sort of thing.

You're not wrong, some do that, but I'm not so much referring to nostalgia/romanticizing the past and am moreso referring to folks who share casting stories a Redditor made up as gospel and having things like that spread as accepted fact, and other things like that.

Modern fandom is startling revisionist, it sometimes feels like. I've had younger fans try to authoritatively explain things to me while confidently saying things that were flat-out untrue about Trek production history. The internet is an increasingly-weird place.

What an odd thing to say six months after the fact. Are you well?

I hope Democrats understand that if and when they get back to power, defaulting to “unity” politics and empty reconciliation without any real accountability would not only be morally abhorrent, but also politically suicidal: The desire for at least some semblance of justice will be overwhelming.

I have this on vinyl, but currently no working record player, and thus my pain is tangible.

Apologies are great, but if #AndrewDowd still has to lose his job after an apology, so too should this guy.

Also, #MSNBC should reinstate Dowd and apologize to him publicly. Dowd said nothing wrong, and anything short of what he said would've been dishonesty.