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The prime minister was asked if he’ll pursue a governing pact with the NDP. “No,” he said.

And why not, the reporter asked.

“Why?” Carney retorted.

The PM said the Liberals campaigned on a clear set of objectives, and while they didn’t quite get a majority, “we will be putting forth legislation that’s consistent with our platform.”

 

Carney said a byelection should be held as quickly as possible to give Poilievre an opportunity to win a seat in the House of Commons, if that’s what the Conservative Party wants.

Poilievre lost his seat in Ottawa's Carleton riding on Monday after holding it for more than 20 years, so he's in the unusual position of being a party leader without a seat.

"I already told Mr. Poilievre that I will trigger a byelection if that is the decision of the Conservative Party," he said in French.

Then, in English: "I will ensure that it happens as soon as possible. No games, nothing."

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and blame a technical glitch, and totally not human error.

Fixed.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like the Circle trilogy - the Bajoran government being unstable is a fun element to those early seasons.

It's a shame Shakaar was such a dud of a character, and the series sort of lost interest in the Bajoran civilian government as the Dominion and Kai Winn started to take up all the oxygen in the series.

politics favors short-term thinking

So does biology. Immediate gratification wins out over delayed gratification almost every single time.

Singling out the bit that's most interesting to me:

When Cryptic passed the mantle to us folks here at DECA, one of the things we discussed internally and something we felt, and continue to feel, very strongly about was the importance of continuing their legacy - and this means concluding the current story arc in such a way as to remain true to Al Rivera and Paul Reed’s vision of what that story was about. Fortunately, we’ve benefitted from a continuing collaboration with the remaining Cryptic staff, utter professionals like Thomas Marrone and Jeremy Randall (and many others!), who have been indispensable in ensuring we understood what that previous vision was and the primary beats required to do it justice.

The fundamental challenge here was, of course, to get our heads around a game with such a deep, intricate and long-lived history, with so much STO-specific lore. So lots of research and lots of discussions to tease out the nuanced detail. The only significant change we made was to introduce one additional episode into the current arc, which we felt was required to fully explore the epic story arc that we have inherited.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

“The well” is a double sequel.

I'll get even more tenuous and say that the echoes of "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" are very strong, if only because of the "unspeakable horror at the bottom of a mining shaft" imagery.

Shaya is a Doctor stand-in

Agreed. Though I assumed her reference to "monsters" was about having grown up in some kind of war-without-end hellscape. But maybe it'll come back around.

There is a real deep genre reference to all of the episode

I don't have much to say about genre tropes, but is "State of Decay" a good one? I don't think I've heard of it.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's so weird to hear it referred to as "Netflix series" in the American trades...

In any case, I've been meaning to check it out. The buzz has been positive, and CBC has been promoting the hell out of it.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Chelsea did an AMA with us back in the Old Place when the book came out. She seemed cool, and fairly knowledgeable about, y'know, cooking.

I'd be curious to hear how the recipes turn out for you.

I'm no expert, but I'm guessing the difference is speed and range.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 27 points 2 months ago (17 children)

These are strange times indeed.

This election was so weird in so many ways, I think it will be some time before we fully understand what it all means.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Though in “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, Starfleet had developed quintotriticale grain.

They quickly came to realize that that's too many triticales.

Also, it's annoying that they don't make their little inforgraphics clickable, so here's a direct link to that.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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That's gonna be a "no" from me, dawg.

Here's the direct link.

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