Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
It’s not in the article, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “official” answer, but…I do think “because we can” is a valid answer. It was valid when they did it with TMP, and it was valid the subsequent times they tweaked the makeup.
In terms of how it served the story being told…I can see the appeal of having more alien-looking, “scarier” Klingons in a season that was ultimately about the dangers of xenophobia.
I always kind of liked the Kelvin Klingons.
Well, the makeup, anyway. I don’t care for the costumes at all.
I think the cranium size was the biggest “miss” in the design - I quite liked the season two iteration of the same basic ideas.
I certainly agree that it needs government oversight and attention. A ministry, though…I’m not convinced, and inclined to think the worst when “we’ll use AI to fix the government” was a consistent taking point during the campaign.
But it was rightly pointed out that AI is only part of the name. I’d just as soon it not be there, but we’ll see what happens.
I don’t know if there’s any scenario where I think it’s worthy of its own ministry.
Former journalist Evan Solomon takes on a newly created role as minister of artificial intelligence.
Ugh.
It was a BQ riding, not CPC.
July 1 is his self-established deadline.
There’s absolutely no reason to think any show is being made “instead of” another.
Edit: And as Newsome herself stated, this series has not been greenlit. It may not get made at all.
I don’t think you needed [sic]
Just wanted to make sure - I stumbled over that sentence when reading it!
It’s pretty hard to make the case that we “need” any work of fiction.
At SDCC CBS sent us a synopsis, essentially a workplace comedy on a vacation planet – not Risa, not in the Federation. So are those fundamentals are still the same?
Those fundamentals are the same. But what I can tell you is what we’re really working on exploring, are the sort of overlooked sections of what happens when a world and a culture that is not that was not [sic] in the Federation. What happens when they decide to be?… So Federation outsiders and what’s kind of the nitty gritty involved with joining the Federation and involved with… yeah, I’m really struggling [to avoid spoilers]
That’s an interesting adjustment…
Well you see, she doesn’t support sovereignty, and has to stop them from starting their own party, so obviously she has to give them what they want, stoke the flames, and make it easier to hold a referendum.
It’s so simple!
At this point, “one crank neurologist” seems to be the most likely explanation by far.
This was an independent study, not the government investigation.
I’m by no means suggesting that the FDA cuts are good (they are, to be very clear, dumb and bad), but in theory, food is still being tested at the state level.
I can only hope that the Government of Canada is aware of the state programs, and whether they are suitably robust.
That would be a question for Bryan Fuller. He’s recently started to talk about this stuff, so maybe we’ll get an answer some day.
One thing I do think someone said along the line is that they wanted to establish why the Klingons and Starfleet hate each other so much in TOS.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.