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Best Wishes to all and may AD 2021 leave us in a happier state than AD 2020 - the year that will never need rose tinted spectacles!

... where you realise that what you really, really want to see is a short film showing The Joker ruin a lovely, sunny day in Metropolis with a variety of not-quite-lethal cartoon cruelties, all set to the music of Sir Cliff Richard's 'Summer Holiday' both of which are cut off with an almighty - MUNCH -

- Cut to: SUPERMAN, leaning against a nearby wall with the expression of a workman working out what he needs to do after lunch, eating a carrot very loudly -

SUPERMAN: "Of course you realise THIS means war"

- MUNCH -

CUT TO TITLES:

JOKER HITS THE PUNCHLINE!

(Oh, and if you think this means Superman will spend the sequel to this comic short making himself the Bugs Bunny of Mr J.s deepest, darkness nightmares and The Joker himself the butt of every possible bit of cartoon madness Big Blue can conjure up then you, dear reader, are entirely correct and have clearly been paying attention).

Given that STAR TREK ONLINE plays out starting in 2409 CE (and that STAR TREK PICARD has brought the Prime Timeline to the brink of the 25th Century) it seems logical to wonder what format the Registries of Starfleet vessels commissioned in that era should take.

Personally my working theory is that registry numbers would move from five-figure to six figures: the first number would indicate the decade of this century in which the vessel was commissioned (so a ship registered in the 2400s would be 'NCC-0****' while one that entered service in 2420 CE would be 'NCC-2****' and so forth until the centuries end, at which point a new, seven-number sequence would start).

I'd like to imagine that (during the 24th century) a similar system applied, but am not sure the known numbers support this; a fairly different system must have applied during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, but we can at least be reasonably confident that 23rd century ships had four-number registries (and it's not impossible that 22nd century ships, from the post-ENTERPRISE ERA, had three-number registries).

It occurs to me that, since the Franklin-pattern Starfleet uniform (from STAR TREK BEYOND, presumably the first designed specifically for a Federation Starfleet) would appear to lack any other obvious insignia, it might make sense to borrow from the STAR TREK DISCOVERY 'Federation Blues' pattern and place marks of rank on the Starfleet Arrowhead.

If nothing else, this very minor redesign would be an extremely easy 'fix' for the problem of recognising which way the chain of command runs when you're meeting officers you don't know from a Starfleet vessel you haven't previously encountered ...

The rather tragic account of how the Strongest Man of his Age was left feeling powerless ... and pointless. While it's easy to see the parallels between Hugo Danner and Superman, it's safe to say that Clark Kent likes people far more than his literary predecessor ever did (in all honesty the book recalls Classic Marvel - in the vein of Spiderman or the Incredible Hulk - more than it does the Man of Tomorrow).