I’M SUFFERING HERE!!!

 Jen, Oni and I watched the last episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ season two last night. It was a killer fucking cliffhanger! Worse yet, due to the Hollywood writer’s strike, season three isn’t due to come out before late-2024 or 2025.This is insane and horrendously cruel. I blame the clueless Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the goddamn, monstrously overpaid, greedy-ass CEOs.

I’M SUFFERING HERE!!!

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Tolkien, for some odd reason, neglected to mention Star Trek along with food and cheer—things that should be valued over hoarded gold. How odd.

Brian Robbins is the Prez and CEO of Paramount Pictures which puts out Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Dude makes somewhere in the neighborhood of $6 million a year (before bonuses and other random perks) He owns a mansion in LA’s Hancock Park neighborhood (picked up for a 12.4 million dollar song in 2017). He owns a Santa Barbara house worth $6.98 million. In February 2020, he spent $16.8 million on a mega mansion in Beverly Hills. 

WHY does he need all these palaces (which are no more than 100 miles from each other)? I could see having, besides a main LA dwelling, a pied-à-terre in Manhattan, a Parisian townhouse, an estate on the shore of Lake Como in Italy but THREE ultra pricy oversized pads all, practically, in the same area code?

Robbin’s net worth is $150 million. 

Explain to me like I’m five, how this man can’t afford to pay his writers a fair wage.

To go all Italian grandmother on you, I have so few joys in life now. I deserve to have season three of Strange New Worlds come out next fucking week, NOT at the end of next year or later.

Once again with feeling, I’M SUFFERING HERE!!!

Also, of the characters who aren’t Pike, Spock and Uhuru, I think Lt. Erica Ortega is my favorite. Just FYI and shit. 

AND, I only mention it but, the addition of Carol Kane as Chief Engineer Pelia, was stone brilliance.