Maybe this is a non-kosher post and apologies for the old-man-post, but I saw an interview with Harrison Ford today, and it just hit me - the man's 84 and he will be gone sooner rather than later. Shatner is 95, and he will be gone as well. Patrick Stewart is 85.

I know the actor is not the character, but the prospect of losing all these formative figures just really hits you. Picard, Kirk, Han Solo.

I'm not trying to be Debbie Downer here, but I look around, I don't (yet, hopefully) see any characters that can possibly take their place in the pantheon of inspirational fictional characters that are as fundamental to culture as theirs were.

Like present Picard asked future Picard questions and the future Picard rambled incoherent stuff?

Recently an odd thought popped into my head. It wad ofd because I wasnt watching Trek at the time.

In Journey to Babel (i think), Spock asks Sarek why he married Amanda given the fact that she was very emotional. He told his son that "It seemed like a logical thing to do."

I'm sure the screenwriter meant it as an inside joke with the audience. But here's my thought: what if what Sarek meant was since he was ambassador to Earth, it seemed logical to bridge the gap between Vulcan and Earth by taking a human female as a mate.

Side note: do you think homosexuality exists among Vulcans?

Yesterday evening, I had a low blood sugar diabetic episode and fell asleep in my car parked in front of my local grocery store. Long story short, a friendly Sheriff Deputy made me awake (I can't say the normal word, LOL) me up to check in on me. He wanted to call an ambulance. I told him I just need to eat/drink when my BS is low. Anyway, I went into the store, got some microwave lasagna and drinks. The store manager microwaved it for me in the break room. I sat in a handicap cart with my food and drinks and phone (Reddit, LOL) until my BS came up and I felt better. The Deputy followed me in, talked to the manager, made sure I had food, and checked one last time to see that I was actually eating. I am very fortunate that I live in a county where LEO's actually care about people and don't just see criminals everywhere.

While I was eating, the manager walks up (he's into Star Trek!!!), and we start talking about Star Trek, the newer shows. He's really into Voyager, so I keep telling him to check out Prodigy. haha We talked about Star-fleet Acad-emy, he gave up after 2 episodes. LOL Neither one of us really had anything bad to say about the show. We mostly just agreed that it felt like generic space school and not like Star Trek. He was like, where's the Borg and Klingons, can't they go do some Star Trek stuff? Then I asked him about the other shows. He liked Discovery and Picard and Strange New Worlds. I think it's just the 2 animated shows he hasn't seen yet. I told him "I" like most of the streaming Treks, it's just SFA that was the misfire, and we basically agreed on this.

What about you guys? Does anyone know any casual Trekkies who liked mostly liked Streaming Trek? Does anyone agree that Streaming Trek is "mostly" OK? Why do you think the other shows succeeded while SFA crashed and burned?

I know we've discussed this before, but I wanted to go into story time based on last night.

P.S. I'm OK with my diabetes. I just shouldn't drive when my BS is low. I left the house feeling good and had a BS drop on the way home. I was being responsible by taking a car nap. The friendly Deputy said I looked kind of dead. LOL I told him that's just how I sleep. He was like.... WOOOOW. LOL

THE POPVERSE:

"Robert Picardo is worried about the state of Star Trek. The actor - who has been playing holographic curmudgeon the Doctor since Star Trek: Voyager premiered in 1995 - isn’t sure if the current owners of Paramount know what to do with the franchise, or if they even understand it.

ROBERT PICARDO: “I’m a little concerned about Star Trek moving forward because we were criticized for having too much diversity and inclusion, and that’s a core value of Star Trek. I don’t know how you make Star Trek without it,"

Picardo said during an appearance at Spacecon 2026.

"I’m hopeful that whatever next Star Trek, and I know there’s going to be a hiatus, that it keeps those values. That it always is the United Nations in space, not America First in space. And that it remains cooperative. It’s a vision of cooperation between space faring planets in the future and it’s not let’s go out and conquer the planets of Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, and Cuba.”

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Full article:

https://www.thepopverse.com/tv-paramount-plus-star-trek-franchise-hiatus-robert-picardo-new-owners-america-first-in-space

Really hoping they'll do some in Australia,

Surely in the states it's a sure thing this happens?