Techwright

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This is actually the first time I've seen a name for the child, though I don't follow new canon books and comics, so that may be the origin of it. I've known of no source stating that the kid will be back. The team that put together the Sequel Trilogy has a bad habit of deliberately writing in people and events with no context. It's apparently instruction passed along by JJ Abrams whom I'm told has a writing style like this, leaving the audience to fill in the gaps. In other words, it just wasn't something with a context to come later, it was very much a "make your own story" effect. I was told once that Abrams had a term for this writing technique, but I've forgotten it. This "technique" was one of the most despised elements of the Sequel Trilogy, leaving us with no context for characters that should be important like Sith Lord Snoke, the Knights of Ren, and Captain Phasma. The boy-with-the-broom is another such character, though in his case, I suspect his presence was to show that all efforts to corral and control the Force would ultimately fail. It simply is beyond the control of mortals. Having said all that, the announcement of the post-Sequels movie featuring Rey and the Skywalker Academy does seem to give opportunity for bringing broom boy back. I know that for some, speculation immediately went to her friend Finn, the ex-Stormtrooper, within whom, it was strongly hinted, dormant force powers exist. In light of the overwhelming fan displeasure at the Sequel Trilogy, it is heavily rumored that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni were given a mandate to create backstory context for the characters and situations in that trilogy, which they seem to be doing via current Disney+ works. It's not a stretch therefore, to think that mandate might carry over into the new Rey movie to tie up this dangling thread.

I'm definitely down to see that then. I wonder what "Uncle Denis" is voicing? It would be crazy fun if in a romp like this, they got Denis and nephew Ewan McGregor to do scenes together.

There's a difference and the Shadow Council is where we get a confirmation:

Anything that develops an appreciation of gold side would be welcomed.

Just learned of Versy today, an A.I. that uses text to generate environments. The first thought I had upon seeing it was: I wonder if something like it could build the instances for a CoH 2.0? Procedural generation based off typed input, either keyed in advanced by the development team for specific storyline missions and task forces, or selected by players from a menu of word for on-the-fly generation of radio/paper missions and the A.E. creations. Here's the little blurb that clued me into it, along with a few graphics to aid the explanation. I've set the link to start at the Versy description:

I think one of my favorite animations is not from the primary powers. It's the ninja run. I use it with several characters, and it, combined with a slight jum.p can get a martial arts character to flip over several in a mob, then sweep their legs for a very satisfying display. That said, I don't like that it sticks one arm out regardless of whether there's a weapon or not. I'd rather have an option to sychronize both arms. For wish-fulling game design? An elastic attack set, revamping current animations when it fits. For example, for the set, retool the whirlwind power look to display around the character with extended spiraling arms. A "lash out" attack, could be a straight-lined energy power attack redrawn with an elastic arm and an enlarged fist.

That was more 1990s wasn't it? I started collecting in 1992 when Image Comics launched and the look was definitely a part of that launch.

Into Darkness: ugh, don't get me wound up. So much wrong with that one, however they could have fixed a major element just by inserting one line of dialog for Kahn: "They surgically altered me so that no one familiar with history would recognize me." There. Now Indian Kahn Noonien Singh can be played by a very white British actor. It's well-established canon that Star Fleet has the plastic surgery technology to make their spies look extremely different. Nothing can help the miracle blood screw-up or the precision system-to-system beaming though. Chris Pine and Karl Urban: absolutely great job. Chris' performance was more subtle; Karl's more overt, but both were good. Personally, I also liked Zachery Quinto, and of course, he had the original to guide him. Zachery may not have the deep, melodic baritone of Nimoy, but his performance was noticeably better than the Spock they brought in for Discovery. "I'm from space." That is just weird. I'm not sure I ever heard OG Kirk refer to himself that way. Iowa, yes. It showed Kirk as grounded (pun somewhat intended), not forgetful of his roots.

Small note on a subtle detail. In regards to Bo-Katan, it was pointed out to me....

A great many of them I consider must haves. I probably focus on the monitor duty the most. Having spare base teleports really helps out when I have to zone a lot. The XP and INF bonuses are probably next on my list and the +Max End helps early on. +Regen, +DMG, +To Hit, etc. all are valuable. The ones I tend to "meh" are the salvage, recipe, inspiration, and enhancement bonus ones.

At least it wasn't Popcorn Ceiling Knight.

1. What an intriguing idea! I went back and viewed the lighting ceremony repeatedly. While the handle does look similar, and I cannot swear that it is not the Dark Saber handle, some close-up shots seem to show it as a different design that has similar shapes. I'm perfectly fine with it being the Dark Saber handle, though, if it is formally revealed as such. 2. Agreed. Though considering the merchandizing possibilities, I suspect the toys will come out of the box within 2 years for another adventure. 3. Just don't take a full 2 episodes to focus on the Din family to the exclusion of the titled character. As to Bo, I think it would be a natural that it should be arranged for her and Ahsoka to meet again, this time on the live screen. It makes sense, too. As Thrawn will be revealed as a huge threat, it would be natural for Ahsoka to notify her friends, especially the ruler of a planet. Incidentally, it just hit me today: Bo-Katan is leader of the Nite Owls, and Ahsoka is deeply tied to the owls, one in particular. Friendship coincidence? or is the Filoniforce at work here?

Hmm...visually, it's stunning. I think I can accept the look of the command deck. Roddenberry and Matt Jeffries went for the best they could pull off with the technology and the budget for the time, both in the TV series and for the refit in The Motion Picture. I can only speculate, but I think they'd be pleased with the look. I do find the amount of space in the ship to be very surprising. The OG ship was built for a compliment of 200 or so, and was deliberately kept to relatively tight spaces, both to reflect the tight spaces of a naval ship of the 20th century and to show the "cost"/effort needed to create a starship (there were only 12). ("Cost" as Roddenberry had ideas about a currency-free society, but there's still ways to cost.) Just looking at Spock's cabin, there appears to be loads of space, something akin to executive cabins on board Picard's Enterprise-D. The shuttlecraft interiors look significantly expanded too. Even DS-9's runabouts were not so roomy. (Oh, and did you notice the shuttles chairs are not bolted down?) I do hope that's not a 10-Forward at 0:16, but a bar on a space station. If a 10-Forward, that again would violate the limitations of the OG Enterprise, and fall in line with the comfort-stylings of the Enterprise-D, or the alt-universe Enterprise, which looks different due to radical design contamination from studying scans of the future Romulan craft. It's going to take a bit of getting used to...

As one who doesn't really know how these things work (not my "techwright" wheelhouse), is it just a matter of modding something back to an "on" position, or were things removed and are not there to mod?

Thanks! I've not heard of it before. I shall investigate.

Season 3, final episode, or as I'll probably call it: "We all were so wrong. So very, very wrong." (Did I mention "very"?)

The question is a good one, but it needs to go further: it has to be clear if all of Section 31, for all time is truly evil, or if portions or all of it corrupted over time to truly evil, and if portional, is there a self-righting faction? One of the finest Star Fleet officers, but ultimately of a heart of Bajor and the Prophets. I agree, one of the best speeches in all of Star Trek. Sort of the dark side counterpart to Doctor Who's Twelfth Doctor's anti-war speech.

Full disclosure: I do like Section 31, or I should say, I like the Deep Space Nine version. I've no idea what the current version is like. That said, I understand what you're saying. Section 31 first appeared after Gene Roddenberry's death, though the broad universe had been building that way for longer, revealing secret organizations within multiple major powers. Largely, the people that inherited Star Trek felt the need to re-establish, what they and many fans perceived to be, some balance to the franchise. Gene had been pushing his utopia ideas to such a point that by time of The Undiscovered Country, even late into the process, he was submitting proposed changes to the script that his heirs felt would render the result unappealing to the public. Or at least, that's how I heard it. Deep Space Nine was a decision to test the mettle of the Federation utopia ideals by placing the story on the edge of the Federation, but in the center of both a strategic hot spot and vastly different ideological empires. Section 31 was born, story-wise, into this. DS9 has often been called "gray Trek", but it's not, on the grayscale, "black Trek". The producers were trying to show that, yes, the Federation is a utopia, but unlike it's widely-held belief, namely that it had achieved everything, it actually still had a ways to go. It's ideals needed to be propped up for a time. Time as in centuries. Within the scripts themselves it was revealed that Section 31 members themselves understood that what they did wasn't ideal, but they saw it as necessary, as did the writers of the Federation constitution, until as such time as those utopian ideals had found a way to defensively coexist without violence in the face of the aggressive behavior of all who bordered them, tried to invade them, or tried to undermine them. Not trying to change your mind or combat you on it. Just putting it out there why there will always be at least two different factions of viewpoints on what Trek should be about. I say "at least" because other challenges have arisen over the years. The 2009 movie Star Trek highlighted discussion on another such dichotomy: exploration vs. "pew pew". Personally, I've always felt that good Trek is a balance between those, but there is polarization in the fandom.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'd forgotten to consider this, and yes, I use this often.

We're sorry. The idea of forming a central committee for the determination of approved thoughts was not approved prior to publication. One must first have the idea written out for approval on an official, officious, office form, signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. Then we'll consider it. Eventually.

Adding my affirmative to forgetting to use temp powers. I think this is because I usually perceive them as too weak to begin with. If I had a temporary baseball bat of 10 uses with extreme conical damage, I'd certainly be putting that in a position to use in a tough scrape. Sort of a poor man's "I Win" button. I do use jetpacks often. I keep jetpacks on every character that does not take flight. It is unfortunately necessary due to things like the Shadow Shard. I do keep certain reward temp powers handy, usually those that will drop a temporary fighter into the match (For the reason, see the "I Win" comment above). In fact I was eyeing that control for the temp power rewarded from the Katie Hannon TF just the other night during a tough fight. I did use one charge of it due to getting jumped by a gang.

A one-act version, for a limited time. I guess the actors get to...do this all day. https://www.superherohype.com/geek-culture/531606-rogers-the-musical-sets-a-june-premiere-date-at-disneys-california-adventure