Morning, CoSo!
So far so good for the reboot - got up bright and early, feeling great, got a lot done.
First of TWO #SNW posts today (plus one other one, for Humanist Book Club). This first post contains my charitable review of the #LowerDecks crossover. LD isn't a series I enjoy, but there *is* a deeper lesson to be found in the very silly collision of LD characters with the SNW crew in "Those Old Scientists".
https://onlysky.media/mclark/how-do-we-manage-our-myths-around-those-old-scientists/
@MLClark I enjoyed this episode. Lower Decks makes me laugh. So did The Orville. But I recognize not everybody likes everything and that's just fine.
The reference that caught me was the Nausicaans, because it's a reference to the brilliant (as if it could be anything else) Hayao Miyazaki film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_%28film%29
No, it's a reference to the Nausicaans of Trek, explicit from the dom-jot board. :)
The Miyazaki film is lovely, though!
@ianthealy
It's a common problem in SF that sometimes there are overlapping names used for entirely different species/places across series. It's a perfectly easy mistake to make, especially if one doesn't remember TNG.
"PLAY DOM-JOT HUMAN" happens to be scored into my head because "Tapestry" is one of my favourite TNG episodes. The Nausicaans of Trek and Miyazaki are verrrrrry different peoples, though! 😅