That’s just not so. J.M. Barrie’s book popularized Wendy as a girls name, but it predates the book by centuries.

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

Good points all. Blizzard never has prioritized communication.

Too late. Someone at Blizzard should have remembered that “You never get a second chance to make amfirst impression.” No amount of FOMO will bring me back to this tedious grind disguised as an event.

Of the 16 images, five don’t count. The one with the Gorn is an obvious joke, but for four other, Kirk wasn’t acting of his own free will. He was being physically controlled by God like aliens, mind controlled or straight up sexually assaulted.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I love martial arts films in general, but this one didn’t grab me.

I’ve heard him introduce himself in a video, pronouncing his name as you would a hair comb.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9LsbqquCg

At least read the article. Literally the second sentence reads:

“The agency said that it is taking “urgent” steps to increase compliance such as auditing more high-income taxpayers as well as businesses and partnerships. “

It goes on later:

“ The IRS has said it won’t increase audits on households earning less than $400,000 annually.”

I have a 4 meg Pi 4b running Pi-hole and Mini-DLNA. It’s rather under-utilized for those tasks, but it serves them quite well.

“Aping” is kind of a pejorative way to describe what The Orville does. If they were “aping” TNG, they’d be imitating it in a very derivative manner. It’s more of an homage to TNG, but in a comedy format with original ideas and character dynamics.

The Orville’s first season is no worse than TNGs. There were some truly awful first season episodes of TNG. Code of Honor is a good example of an awful episode.

I don’t think better or worse comparisons are very meaningful. They’re both good shows. TNG has many of my favorite Trek stories and characters. I think it says a lot that it inspired so much of what The Orville does.

There’s a difference between contributing to society by performing productive or helpful labor, and the sort institutionalized wage slavery we currently call “work.”

Most of us are subject to the tyranny of the clock, petty bosses, arbitrary rules about where we work or how we dress. This is what we never opted into and can opt out only after a lifetime of it or at great cost in terms of our ability to provide the necessities for ourselves.

Anarchist Bob Black explores this distinction in his essay, The Abolition of Work. I recommend reading it.

Lest I give the impression that the book is entirely about human/hisa relations, it’s not.

That’s one of three intertwined plot threads, the other two being interstellar war among humans and the politics and logistics of running a space station overwhelmed by refugees of the war.

A classic: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh. In it, the planet known to humans as Pell’s World is populated by the gentle, sentient but technologically naive Hisa. The Hisa are exploited by humans as a manual labor force. Some humans decry this exploitation and work to establish a more compassionate, cooperative relationship with the Hisa.

Sorry, but Star Wars was always about the cash grab. Lucas milked it from A New Hope on, with licensed toys, holiday specials, prequels, remasters, games etc.

What Disney is doing is just continuing to do what Lucas started.

Ah, my mistake.

The lyrics are generally fitting to the theme of the show. The Rod Stewart performance didn’t work for me then, later or now.

This article added quite a bit to the discussion. For one, U2’s beautiful day was also considered, as was a semi-operatic song performed by Russell Watson. It’s not simply a rehash of the hate it/love arguments. I encourage you to read it.

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Fundamental is the term used to describe concepts like points in geometry. This seems like an analogous case, so I suggest it for your use here.

Space Viking by H. Beam Piper. Ignore the pulpy sounding title. It’s a good novel with real scope.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20728