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I can't believe the Star Trek and D&D post are from so (relatively) long ago. A mark of good writing that they remain so vivid in my memory!

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The newsletter year? Ha love it. I really did enjoy your short story, definitely a highlight.

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Thank you for the retrospective! And congratulations on the year! As a new reader this is super helpful... Like a little navigational tool into How About This.

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I hope I am not being sentimental when I interpreted the end of 'Picard' as introducing another series with Jeri Ryan as captain and Q now hounding and haunting Picard's son. But just as we are susceptible to the 'pitfall', to use your term, of nostalgia, we can imagine that simply because the content of this sentiment is 'in' the future, that suddenly it frees itself of its nostalgic essence. I wonder if, as a game designer as well - and one who hopes our companies brand 'Archetypes' represents the break with 'D and D' style quest games - there is a pitfall awaiting the person who feels they are swinging across that chasm on a rope of their own invention, only to find that the rope is actually the pendulum.

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I am relieved that I was not imagining things, being a huge Sir Patrick Stewart fan, though he himself would not reappear, presumably, in any way in such a new series. But I must say my truest fantasy is having him play the 'BL' character in my epic saga 'Kristen-Seraphim', who is in fact God in mufti (excuse a sub-thematic spoiler there). Playing God would be a fitting capstone to his career, indeed, the only one worthy enough I can imagine.

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