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Just imagine the poor squibs.

Troi has a line to Cochrane that indicates that meeting the Vulcans didn't solve all of Earth's problems immediately. It still took a few decades for us to straighten ourselves out. The montage of things that happened on Kiley after Pike spoke to them didn't read to me like it was happening all at once. On a less philosophical note, I hope we get to see April again. I liked him a lot.

We've seen in both TNG and Voyager that the main Collective will cut off drones that gather too many thoughts that disrupt the hive mind. I don't have a problem with Agnes gathering her own small-scale collective that was separate from the one we're more familiarly with. Especially since she only appeared to have one ship.

In addition to the stuff I mentioned, when i rewatched the episodes, I realized that the supernova that flashes at the very end of the episode was Q dying, which got me again. I’d forgotten that “See you…out there” was the last thing he said in “All Good Things…”

The Eugenics Wars happened in the 90s. If you look closely at Adam Soong's Project Khan file, it's dated 1996. I think they were setting up Arik Soong's Augments that we saw on Enterprise, although they could have been clearer.

I'm out of the country on vacation, so used a VPN to download the episode to watch by the pool. I'll have more to say later, but "Q made me cry" is not a sentence I thought I would type and especially that I would mean, but here we are. One other thing: Jerry Goldsmith's beautiful First Contact theme is probably my favorite piece of ST music, and hearing it during the scene in 10 Forward just hit me in all of the feels.

SNW has cast the Enterprise's first captain. The best part is that Fred Bronson, who created Robert April in the TAS episode "The Counter-Clock Incident" sent a very, very sweet message to Adrian Holmes about being happy that someone has finally brought him to life.

The infamous Hard Travelin' Heroes as well.

I guess they realized if they were going to claim to be inclusive, they actually had to be inclusive. I'm curious to see where it's going to fall in the D+ parental controls algorithm.

I mean, it's a drag show. It's not some place called The Manhole.

Apparently, Kit Connor's performance in the scene where Nick comes out to his mom had Olivia Colman breaking character and tearing up herself.

Danny is about a year older than me, and it wasn't like I wasn't aware of DADT and all the problems it created, but I don't think it quite registered for me until we saw the behind-the-scenes footage just how scared they both were, and also how goddamn brave. I TRULY give MTV and Bunim-Murray more than a little credit for the advancement of the the acceptance of LGBTQ people in society over the last thirty years. Norm, and Beth S, and Dan, and Genesis...all put a face on queer people, Pedro put a face on HIV, and Danny and Paul put a face on DADT. The real world (lower case) is better because of them. For as much as the trauma still clearly haunts Danny, I'm glad there were people at the bar that night telling him the same thing. And all of the just somehow makes Julie's actions even worse.

Did Danny make me ugly cry? Yes.

I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been some....discussion about releasing Flash.

I'm surprised they wouldn't try for a Rocket Racer movie. Not that I'm agitating for that, but if we're making a movie out of any Z-list character, might as well have him face off against his arch nemesis, Big Wheel. And Rocket Racer was on Spider-Man: The Animated Series. Honestly, I'm familiar with a lot of Marvel's deep pulls, and I have no memory of El Muerto at all.

He hasn’t wanted to have anything to do with the show since it ended. I’d be surprised if he even gave a conditional okay. She made a bunch of sexual assault allegations during one season of The Challenge. MTV settled with her, although Bunim-Murray claims to have investigated and found the accusations baseless. She also fought with Veronica on the final season she appeared on, and got disqualified.

Did I cry? Like a baby.

They will not do the shows without at least 7 roommates (for the ones that had more). Seattle and Hawaii have already passed on the opportunity (as has Boston), Tonya being banned from MTV eliminates Chicago (Flora is also banned, which eliminates Miami), and I damned well hope they'd leave San Francisco alone out of respect for Pedro. LA only happened because they had two spare roommates, and NO is only happening because Danny changed his mind and Kelley supported him.

I mean, I know the story beats here ahead of time. But there was SOOOOO much sweetness in this, my black, cynical heart was in a puddle.

I hadn't really paid attention to anything beyond the general production news and then the trailer, so when she appeared my first reaction was "Wow, they cast someone who really looks like Olivia Colman." OTOH, the first thing I ever say her in was Beautiful People, the sitcom adaptation of Simon Doonan's memoir, so she's been the mom of a gay teen before. I also appreciated that the teenagers all mostly looked like teenagers.

Weirdly, my main takeaway was this: Holy hell, it’s Olivia Colman!

I just hope there's a chapter called "Come On, Be My Baby Tonight." Interestingly, she also said in the video that even though she did have the blowup with Tokyo, for the most part, they bonded pretty well. I think you can tell because she hugged him really enthusiastically.

Nothing but respect for both them for that.

Kelley did a live video on her Instagram (Scott was present as well) where she talked a little more about things leading into the reunion and the episode itself. The ONLY reason she eventually agreed to do the reunion was because Danny, after being very reluctant, decided that he ultimately wanted to do it, I guess in part to have it out with Julie, and perhaps also Matt, and she wanted to support him. In 20+ years, he'd never actually told her the specifics of what Julie had done, so it was as big a surprise to her as it was to everyone else. She ended up pulling him aside afterward and asking why he'd never said anything, and he told her it was because he was so hurt, he didn't want to give the story any power.

The problem is that it's not his damned place to nudge people towards "healing." Neither Melissa nor Danny owe Julie a damned thing, and it's presumptive for him to insert himself like that. If he'd said something like "Julie, shut the hell up" or "Why don't we table this," I'd have less of a problem with it, but he interjected in a way that read to me like the onus was on Melissa and Danny. Danny and especially Melissa seem fine. Plenty healed.