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DS9 pulled off a political space drama that could rival Dallas or MASH and they got 7 seasons. I'm rewatching it again and I still can't believe that prime time viewers would sit through these episodes that are just 2 people arguing the nuances of humanity for 45 minutes. It's nothing like TV is today.

As far as a movie, I think the TNG movies weren't that Trek. They often took the characters in strange directions, favored more digestible plotlines, and wrote dialogue that you'd expect from AI. I value the television wellspring of Trek in the 90s/early 2000s. It is so cool, and that era is still bearing fruit today.

I would like to see more of the DS9 characters, and like to see what a movie budget would do, but I don't trust that a DS9 movie would've been given the reverence needed to make it right. It has been great to see Picard and the ST world in the later years, but I don't know if it makes the lore any better. I'm not sure that we are any closer to another golden decade of ST.

Thanks for posting this and helping me get some of my thoughts on DS9 coalesced. Do you have a DS9 movie plot you think would've worked? Those 'golden years' of Trek were also open to the most fan input, with concepts and entire scripts being submitted. If we had 26 episode seasons to play with, maybe they'd take our call.

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Why not 6660 soldiers? Or just one up Revelations and go with 6666 soldiers. The revolution may not be televised, but the end times will.

I don't mind her noises when she's in the prime universe, but her mirror universe sex-kitten shtick is very off putting.

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In Gallo-Roman religion, Epona was a protector of horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules. She was particularly a goddess of fertility, as shown by her attributes of a patera, cornucopia, ears of grain, and the presence of foals in some sculptures.

The worship of Epona, "the sole Celtic divinity ultimately worshipped in Rome itself", as the patroness of cavalry, was widespread in the Roman Empire between the first and third centuries AD.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epona

Saw is great, Whitaker really brings so much to the character, but our 1st experience with Saw is in the Clone Wars. From there to here, I think THIS is what Star Wars does well.

In TCW, he's a war hawk that has a differing view of rebellion from his sister. We get a few episodes to work through a pretty basic "rules of war" exploration when it comes to insurgency. And that's it...

Until Rebels and Rogue One, where we see his development from his roots as an insurgent into a real terrorist leader. Now he's scary, and has a much more hard line, much less nuanced view on the Empire.

This is what I really like about Star Wars, the character development, lore, and interconnectivity. Andor is giving us the middle between "argue with your sister" and "muddle a man's brain using an alien because you're paranoid." These people feel real, and they always have. That is when Star Wars is best. Take a throwaway character, give him a backstory and give him 100 lines of dialogue in a video game. Retcon an extra into a standalone series. It's cool, but moreso, it's so fun!

We poured so much time and money, research and will into aviation that we went from the Wright Brothers to spaceflight in a half a century. This is a great ad to capture all that momentum.

Now, with the privatization of all this knowledge procured by public means, I could easily see an ad for the opposite in the future. "We build our planes like our cars, so they only crash a handful of times, but the crumple zones will likely save you. Though, not your kids in the backseat; that's not regulated. But you'll likely survive! And think of the lawsuits for those at fault! Some of you might die, but it's a risk we're willing to take!"

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