If Starfleet disciplinary hearings are directly conducted by the UFP president, that raises even more questions, and certainly doesn’t dispel the notion of a “military government”…

Neither humanity nor the Federation are run by a military government.

While I agree with you that it’s almost certainly not the intent, we unfortunately have seen that a shocking number of uniformed Starfleet officers sit on the Federation Council.

I really do hate “Retrospect”.

But I think my answer to the question is “evolution.”

How is this in any way equivalent?

I read the headline the same way you did at first, but this article is about the federal government’s deficit, not Canada Post.

WildER Rose

Not sure why this quote didn’t make the headline…

“I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company,” he said.

Arf arf

Fair enough - he definitely has a dramatic vibe, maybe I’ll check out some more of his stuff.

Has there been much chatter about groups/artists who are confirmed to have applied?

I would have liked to have seen LU KALA in the mix - she has good Eurovision energy.

Having watched the music videos in the article…they’re all good artists, but I’m not sure I’m seeing any Eurovision winners. There needs to be some arena-filling bombast. If anyone’s seen these artists live, maybe you’ll have some insights.

Based solely on these videos…Rêve could be a good choice. Josiane’s mix of French and English could be a fun way to show off the country, but again…Eurovision is about spectacle much of the time.

Direct link to vote for your preferred finalist.

Denmark, too!

Well, this summit seems to be a big “step one,” and they seem to have a pretty aggressive timeline over the next year. I guess we’ll see.

You should have seen what happened the last time it had contact with another.

After careful deliberation, you’re forgiven.

Yeah, it was doomed to be restricted to one ship from day one, with arguably increasingly contrived excuses as time passed (down to exterminating poor Book’s entire species!).

It’s a damn shame we never got to see the JahSepp again.

Honestly, I’ll defend the ideas underpinning the spore drive all day. Mycelial networks are deeply weird IRL, and the idea of “what if there was one that grows through subspace” is an interesting extrapolation from that. “Physics as biology” is a pretty fresh and interesting idea for the franchise to explore (and I’m totally here for the argument that they didn’t explore it enough).

Don’t threaten me with a good time…