Renegades looks promising. I think the main issue is that Nemesis was a very poorly performing movie, and fans were pretty upset with the way Voyager ended. Once Enterprise got canceled just as the show was starting to get watchable, that was pretty much the end of Star Trek on television. Same thing happened to Stargate when Universe was canceled. I'm not hopeful that CBS will pick up Renegades, it would be an amazing miracle, but pretty unlikely. Still, if we get a fun movie out of it, and maybe some cool concepts to run with, I could see some future movies (Tim Russ, make another Kickstarter, I will gladly fund it) or even some novels or fan fiction that continues the story.

You pronounce GIF with a hard g, don't you?

It's still up and coming, but check out Marc Zicree's Space Command movies. He has the same gripe with modern sci-fi, too dark and gritty.

I think that's mostly true. There are certain milestones, particularly through the first season, where Star Trek was still being figured out. There are different symbols, sometimes different uniforms, and different references to what would later become Starfleet Command, the United Federation of Planets and the Prime Directive (actually, a few of the earliest episodes are in direct violation of the Prime Directive). The cast outside of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Uhura changed dramatically after the pilot episode, and continued to evolve throughout the series, notably with the additions of Sulu as the Helmsman halfway through the first season, and Chekov in Season 2.

For the record, there have been several 24th century Trek productions. There's (I'm leaving off the Star Trek: part of each title, less redundancy) Intrepid, Phoenix (technically 25th century), Hidden Frontier, Odyssey, Dark Armada, Outpost and the upcoming Renegades. It actually seems to be about a balance, either the fan show is set in the TOS era, or it's set around or after Nemesis. No one really plays around with the TOS movie era, the TNG era, the Dominion War or anything like that, which is kind of a shame, but as you said it's easy to mess up canon there.

That might have been true if Gene Roddenberry hadn't declared TAS non-canon.

Seemed to work for Graham Chapman.

If Phase 2 could get a singular cast, I'd probably watch them .They've had some fantastic guest stars and some fairly decent writing. But just as soon as I come to like an actor, he or she gets replaced in the next episode. I know, I get it, these aren't well-paying gigs (if they are at all). But seriously, I can't get into the series if they're going to keep pulling the carpet out from under me every time I get it onscreen.

Chatter is just as significant to the heartbeat of our society as is literature and media. If we had recordings or transcripts of more chatter from the past, we could understand much more about our own history, just as such information will help future historians understand us.

I'm sure there's more people who think Al Gore invented the Internet than know about Vint Cerf and his contributions.

I think this is Mr. Cerf speaking as the man who was instrumental in the Internet's creation, not as a Google employee.

Asking serious question as I don't have personal experience with it, does ULA or Boeing show the entirety of their launches? Including landing for return vehicles?

And we will see landings once the method is perfected. We've already seen videos of past failed landings, simply not live. Sometimes this is because the video feed has to be retrieved manually from the hardware or because they simply don't wish to show an unpredictable video and damage their market worth. SpaceX might not be publicly traded, but they do have investors who might balk at such a public failure. Waiting to release the video with the right spin helps allay fears and lets SpaceX control the message, instead of letting the Internet write the headlines.

Too bad the ocean isn't enjoying the same, balmy weather.

They never live-cast the landing right now, mostly to maintain their PR image. Their Twitter page does a decent job of maintaining updates about the rocket status https://twitter.com/spacex

Reddest district by pure averages, though. She had a district that included some northern Twin Cities suburbs as well, which were fairly progressive. Thankfully, that's all resolved now with the district redraw, but it was fairly silly to lump in suburbs and cities like Stillwater and expect to have fair representation.