Thirty Days of Star Trek: Best Overall Space Vessel

Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel

I notice it doesn't say "ship", which would leave me open to nominate good old Terok Nor, which only isn't my favourite beloved space station because there's Babylon 5, last, best hope etc., which I love just as much. Or I could choose the Phoenix, because that moment in First Contact when it's in space and you see the warp cells revealing the basic starship design for the first time is aweosme.

But you know, my Aged Parent was/is a such a fan of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki journey, and when we were in New Zealand, he was extremely happy watching those ancient Polynesian vessels in Wellington. I imprinted on this to a degree, and thus when in the DS9 episode Explorers, Sisko pulls a Thor Heyerdhal and builds a Bajoran Lightship to sail with Jake to Cardassia, and it's beautifully designed, too, well. By all means. That one!


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Thirty Days of Medici: This is the end, my friend...

Day 30 ~ How would you end the show?

Given that there won't be another season after the third one, i.e. the show will end with Lorenzo, well, I've already written how I'd tell that story. If, otoh, there would be another season, then, as mentioned two posts previously, I'd go for another time jump and the young Catherine de' Medici as the central character, with the supporting cast including Uncle Giulio (aka Pope Clement, Giuliano's kid), dastardly cousin Alessandro (the Pope's illegitimate son, which yep, makes him a bastard's bastard), future hero of a drama by Alfred de Musset cousin Lorenzacchio (Alessandro's future assassin) and possible first love cousin Ippolito. In many ways, this was a downfall era for the Medici (both politically and morally), and they'd gone from being loved to being hated in Florence, but otoh, traumatic as it was for child and teenage Catherine, it shaped her into the hardcore survivor she became. So I'd end with Catherine, last descendant of the direct line from Cosimo to Lorenzo to her, leaving Italy for good and arriving at the French court to start a new story as not yet Queen of France.


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