They had contact with multiple federal agencies, including Transport Canada, Parks Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans. DFO in particular flagged concerns, and failed to pass them on to Transport Canada.

Oceangate was a terrible company run by a terrible person, but we shouldn’t be dismissing this story.

That was my first reaction, but the regulatory gaps highlighted are actually pretty important.

I think you hit it on the head in the post - funding an expensive sci-fi series (and no matter how much they slash the budget, it would still be “expensive”) is a non-starter.

Not my country, but the Beeb seems to be having a bit of an existential crisis at best…entering a death spiral, at worst.

I strongly disagree with the first three points (not yours, I know) - especially in the TOS era - but I do agree it doesn’t quite feel the way I want it to.

That Sybock thing demands follow-up, for sure.

They just have to make sure none of the eventual TOS cast meet him…

I think it’s Celia Gooding in unusual makeup, but how fun would it be to give Spock some Burnham closure?

Yeah…Panjabi is downright magnetic, and it’s wild that she was killed off.

And they didn’t even really let her be a mad scientist!

I was about to crack wise about how this fan theory doesn’t involve the Rani… but I guess there needs to be a new fan theory punching bag.

So with that in mind…I’ll take it!

It’s an interesting batch of games in development right now - a survival(?) psychological horror entry, a city-builder, and this.

First Paul Maurice, now Nik Ehlers…

Getting out of Winnipeg and immediately winning the Cup is the thing to do.

And AFAICT his understanding of modern viewing habits is as poor as the BBC leadership’s.

Honestly, I don’t think he cares much. And to the extent that he does care, I think it’s pretty solidly on the side of “Doctor Who is for kids,” and so he’s unafraid to get very silly with it.

I would have much preferred if he’d stuck to the 60th anniversary specials and then taken a step back to coach his replacement from an executive or advisory position.

Yeah…I had extremely mixed feelings about him coming back, and the outcome was really worse than I imagined. But he still managed to produce a few top-tier episodes in all that mess.

Onward and upward. I hope.

Yup. The tv landscape has changed in ways that no one can really understand.

I say it a lot, but from my perspective, RTD came back and made pretty much the same show he did the first time around, and got a vastly different outcome.

It’s more worrying that the BBC still, 20+ years into the streaming era, don’t seem to have understood that “linear TV”, as well as the ritual of communal watching, are pretty much in the past.

I wonder how much of that is wishful thinking on their part, and how much of it is structural, leaving them no choice. Any time I see a story about the state of the Beeb, it sounds pretty dire.

the visual effects were absolutely top notch for a BBC produced show.

No disagreement here - I’d be quite happy to return to that.

The government is expected to table legislation on Friday that Carney said would enhance its enforcement to keep goods made with forced labour out of the Canadian supply chain.

I guess we’ll see…

They restored it about two months later, after receiving an interim UN report on the original allegations.

My interpretation so far is that the bill is meant to signal to social media companies that they should alter their platforms to implement “adequate safeguards” (not yet defined) and apply for an exemption, do they don’t have to use nonexistent technology to verify users’ ages.

IGN ain’t what it used to be

Yeah, it looks like the goal here is to get the thing set up to provide an option for other nations to pour resources into.

At this rate, we’re likely to outlive Star Trek itself!