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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome to the 2190s.

It's time to rediscover the first great President of the UFP: Jonathan Beckett Archer.

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Over the next few days, there will be posts helping describe what you should expect from this upcoming work, but here's a great place to start:

THE LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer (2185-2192)

“THE LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer, 2185-2192 C.E.” Start Reading Chapter Guide What is Archerism? From 2185 to 2192, the most famous Human in the galaxy, Jonathan Bec…

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 6h

Starting Oct. 12th (his birthday), we will be posting new chapters of THE LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer every 2-3 weeks.

These will explore the most consequential presidency of the first century of the Federation and discuss how fundamentally things changed from 2185 to 2192.

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 17h

this is sooooo good

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 18h

Every fall, we watch all the good Halloween sitcom episodes and every year I am reminded:

“Halloween” S5: E3 of Fraiser has a 10 good jokes per minute average and is one of the finest episodes of comedy ever made.

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A random page; exquisite.

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 2d

I do; i reread Lord of the Rings about once every two years.

But my comfort read is the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough. Just so readable; pick it up and put it down at any point in the story. There’s always one in the bedside table in case I need it.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

It will be somewhat clear when they show up in the text; I’m happy to be shameless taking a good character.

And don’t tell the other Americans; that show is still a bit unknown over here.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

Many of them are miniseries or only 2-3 seasons; I’d suggest them if you can find them on streaming you have access to

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

And I wish I could say it will be as funny as Veep, but I can't make that promise.

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 3d

There are some TV shows that I quite like, and are useful in informing the politics of the early Federation:

- Borgen
- The Diplomat
- The Americans
- Jack & Bobby
- House of Cards
- John Adams
- Yes, Minister
- Churchill: The Wilderness Years
- Servant of the People
- Show Me A Hero

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Derek Tyler Attico @dattico.bsky.social · 4d

The wait is finally over!
The PAPERBACK edition of #theautobiographyofbenjaminsisko is going to be released Tuesday 10/07/2025 put in your pre-orders now!
(Link in comments) #StarTrek @titanbooks.bsky.social #startrekdeepspacenine #paperback #BookLovers #readers

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Found Star Trek Episodes @foundepisodes.bsky.social · 5d

#StarTrek #TheLateShowWithShran

Tonight! Shran welcomes "Bride of Chuckotay" star Seska! And "T'Poltergeist" star T'Pol! Then, Shran and Tarah talk to Tuvix with a Ouija board! And musical guest, Won't Be Installed 'Til Tuesday!

Your local news is next.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 5d

A lovely meditation on returning to Narnia as an adult. Nathan gets it right yet again, "One thing you see right from the start is that, unlike Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia is a series for children."

Knowing the difference makes all the difference. And helps us love as we grow up.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12d

NEW BLOG POST! I ended up breaking this up into multiple parts due to length, so today I take us through the first three Narnia books in a freeform exploration of what it's like to return to the series for the first time in twenty years.

Returning to Narnia (Part One)

I don’t remember the first time I read the Chronicles of Narnia. Possibly my dad read them to me when I was very little? It was just one of those series that was foundational to my childhood,…

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 5d

Some that were rejected as not really fitting the profile after learning more:

- JFK (dynasty, family tragedy, etc.)
- Metternich (became Gora bim Gral)
- Mark Twain (famous in his lifetime)
- Lincoln (they have almost nothing in common)
- Sally Ride (doesn't make any sense, just is very neat)

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 5d

I am SAT for their proposal; I really hope we get to see it.

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 5d

A message from the Office of the President of the Federation, 2294 C.E.

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A foreword to the story, "The Last Founder". The full text can be found here: https://nascentnovice.com/the-last-founder/foreword/

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t get one past you 😂

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 6d

The grip Keeping Up Appearances on PBS had on young me.

Realizing as a 10 year old my media diet was that in syndication, Frasier, and Lord of the Rings on a loop explains everything.

ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 6d

In memoriam...

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

sorry but after an update the software you used to use to type now requires you describe to it what words you want it to try to write. they will be wrong, but this is important for the product to learn from your corrections, because you now volunteer for their business. also all your other software.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 6d

It is neither what we call his Presidency nor what the position to which I was elected is called. By the time Archer had left, the average citizen of the Federation would know the position simply as the "President of the Federation."

The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 6d

From 2185 to 2192, President Archer fundamentally changed what the idea of Federation government truly meant. To unravel his impact on the Federation, I immediately remind the reader that the position to which he was elected was the “OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERATION COUNCIL”.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7d

As the Supreme Court begins a new term, please do not let its props and stagecraft obscure the reality that it's passing off political power grabs as Just Doing Law. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There will be a hundred pieces this week attempting to pick through the “big cases” to be decided in the approaching term—although, to be sure, most of the big cases will be added in the months to come. But focusing on a handful of “big cases” relies on your predicate agreement as a reader that the court that will decide them, with all the oyez and the gravitas, is still behaving, in the main, like a court. The challenge will be to seek out that which the court is obscuring in this performance of business as usual this term, and to understand that the red curtains and the black robes have very rapidly come to serve as props in a performance of judicial legitimacy that is no longer worth the price of admission.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 7d

Writing in intricate detail about the electoral system of utopia.

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The LAST FOUNDER: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer @nascentnovice.bsky.social · 7d

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