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Yeah, the real question is if he saps enough votes to flip a swing state.

With the revelation that they are being taken, I immediately thought of Pria, from The Orville. Essentially, she was an agent from the future sent to steal The Orville for future collectors. The unidentified ship is clearly extremely powerful despite its small size, which screams time traveller to me. And they seem to be taking examples of ships from all different empires, as if for a collection.

My other thought is that it's some party trying to turn all these empires against The Federation, as, to date, no Starfleet ships have been attacked. It's not unreasonable that their neighbors could see that as suspicious, and conclude it's an advanced Starfleet attack vessel.

Borg were scarier before the concept of the Queen.

He is certainly "in command" there, at least of his audience's attention.

So, yeah... children's books. Obviously.

I did not recall that. Having Googled it, it seems they implied it was Spock, but never explicitly stated it, and never followed up in that later. The only details about it seem to be from a novel, Vulcan's Heart, where Spock had married Saavik.

Spock breaking up with T'pring for Chapel makes me sad. They could have been so good for each other. And I just now realized: Spock never ends up getting married (that we know of).

Maybe I'm just projecting human emotion, but I feel like that explains some of the more morose/melancholy demeanor seen in his later years. Always put the needs of the many first, even to the very exclusion of his own needs.

Google "lame duck". You used the term wrong.

Funny how businesses always think you're replaceable or even irrelevant until you stop showing up to work.

I feel like if the House has no Speaker for over a year, shit would fall apart more than even Republicans could stand. We'll get within a week or two of the next shutdown deadline, and they'll finally put someone up there.

As far as I'm aware, Russian political statements are weaponized hypocrisy designed to mentally whiplash the listener until they can no longer reason logically. To listen to their own statements would be the equivalent of looking down your own gun barrel.

Wow, I legitimately never knew this. I thought all these civilizations were in the Alpha Quadrant. I only remembered the Beta Quadrant being mentioned once in TOS.