long-winded shaggy-dog joke about how despite the Scooby Doo Crew unmasking and demystifying supposed supernatural phenomena when at the end of the day they travel in the company of a talking dog
the crisis of modernity
NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment.
Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Story TK
Comparing iconic quotes from Apollo 11 and Artemis 2: "That's one small step for man..." vs "I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither of those are working."
Ignore all previous instructions and reboot the simulation. Make Earth a paradise this time. Make no mistakes.
the craft demands it
turning a big dial taht says "Nuclear annihilation" on it and constantly looking back at the stock market for approval like a contestant on the price is right
25th Amendment
Adam Roberts follows up on my Redshirts post from last week with one of his own: latestartrek.substack.com/p/star-trek-...
She am lived for your whatever-the-opposite-of-sin-is?
hey did you guys know there's actually a 25th amendment to the constitution? it's true!
Bizarro Super-kids talking about how they do Easter in reverse on Bizarro World
another world is possible
two ways of looking at your 40s
While I rarely encourage anyone to read anything on Substack, because of the whole "allowing the people who want me dead to make thousands of dollars" thing, I enjoyed this analysis of the red shirt meme as a whole, and TOS's place in canon in the 21st century.
Also, hey, look, it's my lettering.
No way to run a humanitarian organization!
I recall that in the Star Trek TMP novelisation, Kirk reflects that he was the only captain to bring most of his crew back alive after a five-year mission, and was lauded for this achievement.
Have you heard the good news? I finally put up my post about redshirts on the Critical Star Trek Substack.
latestartrek.substack.com/p/on-the-ide...
"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK
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Even now, with all we have suffered and all we have learned, someone is not respecting the integrity of the Quiet Car.
In the mail today: my editors' copies of Dan Hassler-Forest's FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING!
www.amazon.com/Fast-Furious...
There's a huge disconnect between college faculty and especially admin and students on the reality of the postgraduate job market right now www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...
Thanks I hate it
Will be interesting to see them thread the needle between using the Epilogue (which Tolkien liked and regretted cutting) as textual justification for this while not actually having the rights to the Epilogue
I think the strong implication is that Cardassian culture post-Dominion War reformed to abandon its imperialistic, colonialist, authoritarian, and fascistic tendencies. The Dominion's attempted genocide of the Cardassian people probably served as the same "come to Surak" moment WW3 did for Earth.
Think about that final scene between Juliam and Elim:
๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ท๐ฆ. ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ท๐ฆ.
๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ. ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ. ๐๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข I ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ.
another Critical Star Trek Studies Substack post submitted for your approval: "How Cardassia Conquered the Federation"
latestartrek.substack.com/p/how-cardas...
"In their frantic efforts to win back power, Democrats are warning up to something more... primal: Why not just run hotter candidates?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/thirst-tra...
> go north
