B7 TNG? Presuming a continuation, not a Trek crossover?
There was an excellent B7/STOS crossover, back in the day. I think it was called 'Strangers Among Us' - or might have been 'Port in a Storm'.

Just heard from Tyce. She regrets she can't join us today. I imagine she's already on the fizzy stuff. I'm still on tea.

Strangers Among Us.

Even though it stands out as very different from the rest of the series (no Avon! no Liberator!), it's a fantastic piece of dystopian SF, and sets up Blake's background brilliantly. Arguably, you could start the series with 'Space Fall', but we need this to set up Blake, the Federation and why his fight matters so much.

I agree absolutely.

I'll have to look that up! No, this is set 20-odd years post-Gauda Prime, involving, among other people, the sons of the Blake clone. It's big and baggy and I will probably never finish it, but it's fun to write.

I love fun-to-wrte stuff. I wrote a Vila novella in which I exorcised personal demons dating back to high school. It was wonderfully therapeutic, but having done its job, I don't feel compelled to inflict it on anyone else!

It's interesting that in this ep. we get to see explosive stuff coming out of the Federation blasters.

I don't know. Tsk, tsk; bleeding all over those lovely 1970s' flokati rugs.

I love fun-to-wrte stuff. I wrote a Vila novella in which I exorcised personal demons dating back to high school. It was wonderfully therapeutic, but having done its job, I don't feel compelled to inflict it on anyone else!

That's the pleasure of fan fiction, isn't it?

The massacre is brutal. Can't imagine this being shown on early evening TV these days. 'Triggering' in every sense of the word.

The costumes of Federation citizens are incredibly ugly, aren't they? Those slacks and tunics!

I've not written any for ages - over the past couple of years I've done more editing than writing. And most recently, proofreading the Big Finish B7 hardbacks! - and just got burnt out.
New Year's resolution - to return to writing fan fic - starting with the monthly ficlet challenges...

The tunics/tabards remind me of what I wore as a check-out chick in the local supermarket at the time.

And they could never use child abuse, even as a false accusation.

The tunics/tabards remind me of what I wore as a check-out chick in the local supermarket at the time.

Ditto my various attempts at Servalan and her - well let's just say she has a new sidekick. But it's so nice to spend time in the B7 universe with our virtual friends!

Oh yes, that's it exactly! But it looks so very cheap - it adds to the shabby, over-stretched totalitarian society that you were talking about.

Here, just hitting a kid was the central theme of a whole TV program with everyone wringing their hands. So PC I couldn't watch it.

Forgive me for grinning at your resolutions (again) Boss. Have you put the Hanukkah candles away yet?

Here, just hitting a kid was the central theme of a whole TV program with everyone wringing their hands. So PC I couldn't watch it.

And yet people rave over Harry Potter, who was neglected and made to sleep under the stairs...

I think it's the over-the-top, cartoonish nature of the Dursleys' treatment of Harry that gets it past the critics.

Based on a novel called The Slap? I've seen it - and read it for a book group I was in then. I agree with you - everything was so exaggerated as to be ridiculous.

I think it's the over-the-top, cartoonish nature of the Dursleys' treatment of Harry that gets it past the critics.

A category 9 crime? One wonders what the other 8 were - including the cat 4 'going outside' one. Suggestions??

A category 9 crime? One wonders what the other 8 were - including the cat 4 'going outside' one. Suggestions??

I've just finished binge-watching 'The Traitors' (waiting for a punch line that never came - that the whole thing was a scripted drama. Apparently not, it was an actual game show) - but honestly, what a bunch of wet lettuces. They spent most of the time in floods of tears - and the men were worse than the women!

What on earth is Tarrant playing at turning up like that? It looks as though it is deliberate, to rub it in to Blake's mind.