Don’t forget the conglomerate names:

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard

Everyone’s acting like Pike isn’t in the chair for about a week before Spock sends him to the planet of infinite pleasure and perfect health

Double-yolked eggs would be fraternal twins

I have 5-20 minutes between calls at my work, so I’ve had plenty of time to sneak in some books on the clock.

I’ve been rereading through the Cosmere, so Mistborn eras 1+2, Warbreaker, and I’m currently reading Elantris.

To-read is Tress of the Emerald sea, then I probably should go for a non-fiction book to feel more enightened

I just finished Lost Metal myself, it was good stuff

Ten’Soon (Scadrial 4th Age, dir. Sazed Terrisman)

Chopping up babies has biblical precedent

Because they’re having less babies than is needed to maintain or grow their population

2.1 babies/woman is about what’s needed to maintain a population, China was at 1.09 last year

Agreed about the survivors part, it seems like a major oversight that I hope they can explain in a satisfying way.

As for the Gorn on the ship, I presumed it was just a crewman trying to gather intelligence on the Federation by picking through the remains of the saucer section

But those two tidbits about Tom Clancy are fun.

The NSA reviewed his books and asked him to present his sources because he concluded a bunch of classified information using unclassified sources.

Feel free to tl;dw me for the link, it’s only fair, but it’s a very interesting listen

https://youtu.be/VS54M5Mqa9M

Tl;dw

According to the documentary Down Periscope, a nuclear sub is no match for a diesel sub with a misfit crew.

The US Navy wouldn’t last a week

And then I presume the statue goes into a jar

Sort of feels like the attack on the colony was unplanned, and that the later Gorn ship was playing damage control while trying to figure out what happened.

That’s consistent with what they theorized regarding the solar flares causing the first ship to attack the colony.

That’s the best explanation I’ve heard, and I’m going to stick with it until a better one comes along

If you’re going to be visiting a potential birthplace for Archer, I’d have to say he grew up in Watkins Glen, if only because the state park there is beautiful

Agreed, the entire saucer section was on the Federation side of the line of demarcation, they could have openly had rescue teams checking for survivors