Way back in 2014 playing outside Europe was mostly terrible and they still had the westernization mechanic I think x_x

By the time I was priced out of the DLC, every continent had a few interesting fully-fleshed-out nations to play.

My favorite eu4 review

For most of Star Trek’s history, the Prime timeline holds together no matter what happens to it.

I respectfully disagree.

James Kirk of the united earth space probe agency or whatevs sends his regards to the united federation of planets 🙃

Later in Disco we see… many anachronisms, which makes it hard to write of earlier inconsistencies as just errata.

My own conclusion is that star trek is like a jigsaw puzzle both with some pieces missing and some pieces from other puzzles entirely.

Edit: as a counter point, I would say that statement is true of other (smaller) franchises, like planet of the apes.

Harumphs intensify

We call it Hatuey day in my house 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatuey

Me watching twilight for the first time with my daughter and seeing this scene:

Vandal Kingdom of St Augustine fame feels way less obscure than Land of Punt or Garamantes, but who cares I gotta find out about that Roman coin!.

Trying to think of it in terms of the real world is senseless.

It’s can also be fun 😎

Since Picard 3 it’s canon that the transporter is a meat printer that relies on cached DNA to do shallow copies.

Hacking that cache was the big plot reveal of how the borg-changelings infiltrated starfleet.

Me reading a backstabby medieval german story that ends in sweet uncle Attila’s court: is this a scourge of god?

ENT 04x07 The Forge might be the earliest human mindmeld and the recipient is brain damaged and comatosed:

SOVAL: He’s comatose, brain-damaged, and he’s human. A mind-meld is dangerous under the best of conditions, but under these…

Later

SOVAL: I don’t know if this has ever been attempted with a human before.

SOVAL: My mind to your mind. Our minds are one. Our thoughts are joined. Yes.

SOVAL: I see what you see. The embassy. I’m at my station. At your station. So many new people arriving for the summit. I don’t recognise them all, but some I know. A package. That’s all right. I don’t need to see it. Go right through. Who are you? Who?

Oh ya sometimes I forget about that. 🙃

It’s a reference to a Star Trek villain “Malik Soong” from ENT whose actor is also played “Paul Muaddib Atreides” in the syfy Dune miniseries.

Fun fact. Malik meaning king is the dead giveaway that “Malik Soong” was always a cheap copy of “Khan Singh” from Wrath of Khan.

Haha yes, thanks for a breath of fresh air.

It’s been eye-opening to read up about history in that area of the world 🤓

Thanks fam, I’m gonna check it out. Love me some ENT 😎

Sokath my eyes uncovered

Those are the beavers lol

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaverbollocks.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Monk 1: The lord requests an illustration of his beaver hunt

Monk 2: You got it chief

Monk 1: …

Ahh yes, nice 😎

Is the first tile Shah Rukh?