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Graffiti artist Banksy has highlighted the issue of pollution in the artwork he painted on a garage in Port Talbot.

Right, agreed. And the EBITDA reconciliation, when you look at you know your third quarter release, that entire $40 million from the income statement was taken away, but now all of a sudden, on the fourth quarter report, only $8 million is taken away.

Still, I’d be less than honest if I didn’t admit that the whole thing felt a little hollow. Harlan Ellison once famously opined that the only kind of story really worth telling was one of “the human heart in conflict with itself,” and that certainly was not something last night’s season premiere even tried to go for. In truth we only got a bare glimpse of how the emotional components of this story — Pike’s assuming command, Burnham’s and Spock’s estrangement and how it ties-in with the “red angel” signals — will play out over the course of the season. The flight through the asteroids in particular (and the offing of an obnoxious Starfleet officer) felt like a reprise of the orbital drop sequence from Trek 2009 — a big, elaborate set-piece that didn’t advance the narrative in any meaningful way or to any particular purpose. It was the quieter, more reflective moments in “Brother” that made it somewhat worthwhile, as opposed to the spectacle. So I’ll have to call the episode more of a promising beginning than a triumph on its own. Season 1 started with a lot of promise too, so we’ll just have to see.

Ooh, Eddy. Sounds frightening. Better load up on parkas and start buying beachfront property all the evidence suggests is currently disappearing, since you’ll have a lot more of it when the ice age drives sea levels down, right? Maybe I could interest you in some soon-to-be-dry swampland. 😆

The one part with B&C that would let it skate is that Merrick isn’t a Starfleet captain, he is some kind of merchant marine. Yet he is treated like he broke the oath, which suggests that the PD is Federation rather than Starfleet (which is what I believed up until TNG era.) Otherwise, you can have Harry Mudds running around everywhere doing free prime directive violations everywhere and there’s nothing Starfleet can do to prevent that short of picket service in every star system with an exploitable population, which would be more than a fulltime job for the Federation.

Picard wasn’t the first. I mean, I understand why Kelvin Pike says “Punch it” and Discovery Pike says “Hit it” rather than “Engage”, but he still said it 23 years before Picard was ever created. (Well, two possibilities why he doesn’t say it: these creators/writers forgot a tiny line in “The Cage”; they know the line but don’t want to be seen copying Picard.)

A man poses for a picture as ice forms along the shore of Lake Michigan, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Chicago. A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures on Wednesday, triggering widespread closures of schools and businesses, and prompting the U.S. Postal Service to take the rare step of suspending mail delivery to a wide swath of the region. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Three women discuss the social pressure of having kids while celebrating the uniqueness of their bodies during flamenco covens.

Yep. Silly tech like that… Tech that creates something from nothing work in the comic book world, but not so much in Star Trek. Those helmets literally came out of nowhere. That material HAS to exist on the suit somewhere… Is there some sort of mass decreasing device attached? Such tech looks cool, sure, but it did take me out of the scene.

It was a solid episode. Anson Mount definitely knocked it out of the park as Pike. The space shots looked much more epic and I liked this new cinematic style. However I still can’t get used to Frain’s Sarek. There seems to be something missing with his performance. Also I think they went a little too overboard with Connoly’s depiction. I mean the guy was the science officer of the Enterprise, certainly there had to be some aspects that made him likable. I also think they need to tone Tilly down a notch, otherwise it might get a little annoying.

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You’re just tap-dancing around, James. Feldman measured stuff. Satellites look at stuff. Science has accomplished a lot. There is physics, chemistry, and data Chevrolet makes automobilesnone of which means anything at all. Show us observational evidence that Mannkind’s CO₂ emissions cause planetary warming.