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Statute of limitations means Kavanaugh can’t face legal punishment for what he did because it was years ago, so the only thing he’d have to lose by admitting to assault is MAYBE a portion of his supporter base, and even then, if he met the very low bar of apologizing better than Trump and convincing people he had changed, he would have gotten that seat honestly if it were given to him. But instead we have a man who lied his way onto the Supreme Court.

He can say hi to his fellow unrepentent sexual predator Thomas Clarence Clarence Thomas.

I wanted Rey, Finn and R2 to be the Obi-Wan, Anakin and R2 of the sequel trilogy. BB-8 is great but he belongs with Poe. Who would form his own two-humans-and-a-droid trio with Rose, and when the two trips met they’d be unstoppable. The Jedi gang and the pilot gang. How cool would that be?

Instead R2 spent TFA unconscious and then largely disappeared from the action in TLJ. Where was that foul-mouthed bucket of bolts anyway, other than doing a little Blu-Ray playback to remind Luke his sister existed?

Good glory, they just made a brazenly partisan sexual assault accusee with anger issues a federal judge for life. Did anyone stop to think that Kavanaugh is going to be a problem for Trump’s successors, plural, for years to come? Jeez, Republicans, I want a pro-life Christian on the Supreme Court too, but why did you have to stick with THAT one? He certainly hasn’t acted very Christian through this whole process…

I am really, really hoping he’s going to be impeached for perjury and that’s what the Democrats were going for, at least as Plan B. If that doesn’t happen America is so fucked, man, not that it hasn’t been going on for decades already.

What I don’t understand concerning Ro Laren and the other diaspora Bajorans is why there was never any mention of them returning or trying to return home, or that the Bajorans on Bajor were trying to bring them home and if not why not. Given how much Bajorans seem to be tied to Bajor via the Prophets and the Wormhole Star Trek’s complete lack of ever addressing this issue always galled me.

There are certainly a LOT of interesting Bajoran plotlines that went unexplored, including in DS9 which I think dealt the most extensively with Bajor. I would have liked more stories of their post-colonial experience, their politics, their culture, their identity, and yeah, their diaspora population instead of the pah-wraith stuff that dominated the final seasons. Unfortunately, with the ST reboot I doubt we’re getting more official materials about the Bajorans as we knew them.

Funnily enough my Kylo Ren character is the apprentice of that same character I didn’t realize embodied toxic masculinity until you pointed it out. The one with the interrupting ring. He convinced his apprentice his family abandoned him when they returned to his home (ironically, they were only gone because they had left to go find him.) His reaction when he saw them again was the same as Anakin’s when he saw Obi-Wan step out of Padmé’s ship.

Sounds like a very Palpatine character who lied to his follower/victim that their family was gone in order to isolate them.