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#Treksipodes Underrated Episode "The Cloudminders" (TOS) is one of the most thorough analyses of the structures of racism and oppression--environment, education, law, language, labor--in all of Trek but but is often overlooked.

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Failure of journalism not to use the term "ethnic cleansing" for Trump's Gaza proposal.

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Still waiting for someone in a federal department to call the police to inform them that someone has entered their building illegally and refuses to leave; suspect responds to "Elon" and appears to be under the influence.

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Beyer can be seen as a lame moderate, but is showing today's real distinction in the Democratic Party: those who know the stakes and those who want to play cute.

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#GenreTrek Commentary on Humanity "Return to Tomorrow" (TOS) This episode tackles the beauty of the human experience: what it means to connect, touch, love, and the drive to explore.

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Outbreak of bird flu and a preventable plane collision showing that gutting USDA and FAA leadership is bad, actually.

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#GenreTrek Metaphor A geopolitical rival's collapse is marked by an ecological disaster and fears of transition and instability. Star Trek VI was released in 1991 and reflected the ongoing conclusion of the Cold War and the idea of "the end of history."

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#GenreTrek Poetic Justice "Future's End" (VOY) Overconfident in his mastery of the future technology he has found, Henry Starling is killed when he pushes it beyond his understanding. "Oops."

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AOC still strongest Dem communicator by a mile: Trump will leave your town to fall apart and your family to starve because he cares more about hording power and grabbing as much cash as he can.

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#GenreTrek Morality Tale Dr. Bashir tells Garak the parable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and Garak draws an amoral conclusion: "You should never tell the same lie twice."

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The real divide in the Democratic Party isn't moderate/progressive, but those who see the moment for what it is, and those who are trying to cutely game their way through it.

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Along with the tacky, amoral mess of #Section31, the last thing needed now is the message that a brighter future is not in our hands, but is the gift bestowed by unaccountable elites who know better than the rest of us.

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#GenreTrek Like a Stage Play A wizard-like figure flees to a remote location with his daughter, only to have a dashing explorer arrive and fall in love with her. "Requiem for Methuselah" retells Shakespeare's "The Tempset," including M-4 in the Caliban role.

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#GenreTrek Literary Stories Michael Burnham quotes lines from "Alice in Wonderland" as she falls down her own rabbit hole exploring the mysterious USS Discovery.

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#GenreTrek Traditions "Amok Time" (TOS) The Vulcan Kal-if-fee: "What they are about to see comes down from the time of the beginning, without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way."

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#GenreTrek Relationships "All Good Things" (TNG) "I should have done this a long time." "You were always welcome." Picard grows from cold aloofness to embracing the friendship of his senior officers over the course of TNG.

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This admin will be ugly and embarrassing, and Dem leaders had better get out front as opposing it from the start.

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Kind of stunning that Bill DeBlasio might be the best mayor NYC has had in decades.

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#GenreTrek Physical Activities "The Price" (TNG): Starfleet crew stay fit and flexible doing...whatever it is Crusher and Troi are doing in this episode.

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#GenreTrek Games "Worst-Case Scenario" (VOY) The crew LARPs on the holodeck with the Insurrection Alpha simulation, only for Tuvok and Paris to discover they are caught in Seska's long game for revenge.

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#GenreTrek A Day in the Life "Night" (VOY) As the action slows down in an expanse devoid of stars, Paris develops a new holodeck program, Kim practices the clarinet, and Janeway confronts her emotional baggage.

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Fetterman's appeal was straight-talk progressivism not afraid to go to red counties, but he's shaping up to be a soft-headed Trump apologist.

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#GenreTrek "Healing After War" The Homecoming/The Circle/The Siege (DS9) The Circle Trilogy highlights the fraught process for Bajor to restore itself socially and politically after the Cardassian occupation.

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#GenreTrek Healing After War "Emissary" (DS9) "This is where you live": Sisko's preoccupation with the trauma and loss of Wolf-359 keeps him from living in the present. His encounter with the Prophets helps him start his new life at DS9.

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#GenreTrek Fighting a War "The Maquis" (DS9) When the Federation establishes a de-militarized zone and makes territorial swaps with the Cardassians, several Federation colonists take up arms to resist.

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#GenreTrek Preventing War "Balance of Terror" (TOS) & "A Quality of Mercy" (SNW) Kirk's decisive actions against a Romulan incursion deters further aggression, while in an alternate timeline, Pike's conciliatory approach is misinterpreted as weakness, leading to a Romulan/Federation war.

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#GenreTrek War Stories "Memorial" (VOY): Signals from a monument force the Voyager crew to re-live past events from a wartime massacre. Neelix prevails upon the crew to preserve the monument so its record would not be lost.

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#GenreTrek Medical Procedures "Invasive Procedures" (DS9) A disaffected Trill holds the DS9 crew hostage to force a medical transplant of the Dax symbiote from Jadzia to himself.

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#GenreTrek Relieved of Duty "Seventeen Seconds" (PIC) "Remove yourself from the bridge. You just killed us all."

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My current read preparing for the 200th anniversary of Lafayette's grand tour of the United States, including the preeminent Lafayette reenactor coming to Erie this spring. Definitely endorse.

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#GenreTrek Do No Harm In "Latent Image" (VOY), the EMH begins to malfunction after having to choose in a no-win scenario in which one crew member will live and the other will die.

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"Trump's crimes are a political problem, not a legal problem" was the kind of smart-sounding line that ignored that breaking the law is a LEGAL problem and avoiding that is to give the president absolute impunity.

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#ListTrek Top 3 Mind Melds 1. Burnham and Sarek in "Lethe" (DSC) 2. Spock and the Horta in "The Devil in the Dark" (TOS) 3. Tuvok and Lon Suder in "Meld" (VOY)

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#ListTrek Top Part 2 Episodes 1. The Circle (DS9) (the episode where I knew I was a Trek fan) 2. Supernova, Pt. 2 (PRO) 3. Year of Hell, Pt. 2 (VOY)

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#ListTrek Top 3 Hope episodes 1. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 2. One Small Step (VOY) 3. ...But to Connect (DSC)

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#ListTrek Top 3 Part 1 Episodes Nobody does two-parters (and one three-parter) like DS9. 1. Improbable Cause 2. In Purgatory's Shadow 3. The Homecoming

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#ListTrek Top 3 Mystery Episodes 1. Field of Fire (DS9) 2. Veritas (LDS) 3. Clues (TNG)

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#ListTrek Top 3 Klingon Moments 1. Wej Duj (LDS)--Klingon lower deckers 2. Star Trek VI--Chang taunts Kirk in final confrontation 3. Way of the Warrior (DS9)--the Klingon assault on DS9

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