Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Well, until @Sad Professor figures out where that old thread went, might as well try again lol.

So. There's going to be a Noonian-Singh on the crew; that's a bold choice and ostensibly, a very reductive decision that suggests further treating of the IP as a sequence of memes - rather than stories. But I'm keeping an open mind: it's entirely possible this character will go the Dr. Bashir route, trying to keep her past & genes a secret; we won't properly know until the show airs.

I don't claim good knowledge of that era but I chalk that period as one where Napoleon was as much a villain for political convenience, rather than a true criminal against humanity. His invasions of Italy, Spain etc. "nothing more" than the reach typical of dynastic leaders you can chart from Charlemagne onwards. Back when Europe's map still ebbed and flowed; it's sometimes crazy to think just how recent our modern national boundaries are.

Actual, honest to goodness genocidal maniacs bent on ethnic cleansing seem few and far between (except for the never out of fashion antisemitism, or anti Muslim programs in Venice etc).

True. He seemed to be a class A shít. IIRC even to his countrymen, as I think, without googling, he led the charge against the Peterloo protests that massacred many ordinary folk (an early effort at enfranchisement within the UK).

Yeah but Napoleon wasn't that unique for the era beyond being quite good at invading (and also, apparently, starred Egyptology as we know it today with intentional dogs in Africa during his advances there), under the banner of "France" being better than the other abstracted ideas of nations (really just dynastic structures).

The eugenics wars was a question of one set of humans saying "we're literally better than you, you're genetically inferior". Going beyond mere politics. I don't think Napoleon's purpose extended to a sense of French being generally better, as a race. In fact, I wanna say the political structures added upon conquest were comparatively fair, with less emphasis on taking everything back to the homeland - unlike the British empire, say. (though I'm definitely off the map in terms of my knowledge now).

It looks great; a good mixture of the original design and something more high definition. Good cast, good production design ... we just need the scripts now.