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LoglineMariner teams up with a troubled ensign while the Cerritos hosts peace talks between warring civilizations.


Written by: Keyshawn C. Garraway

Directed by: Brandon Williams

 

The provincial government will introduce legislation that eliminates the use of restrictive covenants for grocery stores, which limit the kinds of stores that can open near a particular company's location, Kinew said.

The throne speech — which outlines the government's priorities for the coming legislative session — also says the government will open more than 100 beds at health-care facilities, unveil a new strategy for cutting ER wait times and commission a new statue to replace the Queen Victoria monument that was toppled in front of the Manitoba Legislature.

The one-year freeze on electricity rates, one of the affordability promises in the throne speech, will start in 2025.

Kinew promised a freeze in the 2023 election campaign, and while in office has insisted the utility has the means to service large new industrial customers in spite of warnings from Manitoba Hydro about a looming capacity crunch and the need to generate more power. Hydro has said its infrastructure requires billions of dollars in fixes.

 

LoglineRansom uses too much disinfectant gel while Mariner gets paranoid about curses.


Written by: May Darmon

Directed by: Bob Suarez

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Since the Occupation, Bajor has a primarily Odo-based economy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Odo's uniform is specific to security - his deputies wear the same colour scheme.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Straight out of the Bajoran medical collection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, in October. That's nearly a year away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Unfrozen augment" certainly got my attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's potentially a lot of time before the next election, and campaigns matter.

Things look bleak, but I don't think I'd call it a "foregone conclusion."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fascinating stuff - I'd never paused to consider that Market Avenue once featured, y'know, a market.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This honestly warms my frozen Manitoban heart.

It would be great if we would all show a little more collective pride and promote the places we live as, you know, nice places to visit.

Every place in this country has something to offer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I might have to check this one out - I didn't realize they'd started publishing new novels that don't tie in to the current series, and this one sounds like it was written with me specifically in mind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's actually more information in here than I would have expected.

I’ve [Alok] been augmented, and I have been cryoed. I am cryo chambered, and I am super old, but my young gun can live for those years of the pain and or rectify the years of pain. And I think he a lot does a lot of that, he is trying to get past his stuff with the use of the team.

We wrote the backstory [for Zeph] that he’s actually paraplegic. He did it to himself by trying to augment himself. And the suit is his wheelchair. He’s completely dependent on the suit, but the suit gives him all that extra power and strength… Obviously, in the future, we’ve moved past debilitating diseases, but there are still reasons that you might need assistance or a wheelchair. And the idea was to do a really positive iteration of what a wheelchair is by it being a suit.

I think when we first come to her [Garrett] in this adventure, she’s very by the book, very tightly wound, black and white, there’s no gray area in her life. It’s right or wrong. Yes, she’s a stickler for that kind of thing, and so she appreciates the systems that she exists in. She feels comfort in knowing what’s expected of her… I’m there to look over things, to make sure we’re coloring inside the lines, at least in the beginning. I’ve been placed here as a little bit of a taskmaster, stickler for the rules, and maybe the ebbs and flows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Klowakhans are definitely an amusing twist on Star Trek monocultures, especially when stacked up against Klingon farmers who still can't escape the call of the warrior.

There's also a slight chance that critics who have become so used to shitting on things that they've lost their ability to enjoy anything might be a nod to internet culture in general.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great to see Mary Chieffo's name in the credits.

Sam Witwer, too - he stepped in to play Tenavik in place of Kenneth Mitchell in Star Trek Online a few years ago, but otherwise hasn't appeared in Star Trek since "Enterprise."

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