Jamie Bernstein

@uajamie.bsky.social

chicago, data scientist, public policy girlie, recovering blogger host of the EnterpriseSplaining podcast, a comedy podcast about Star Trek Enterprise (she/her)

We've got a new pod episode out today about the Star Trek ENT episode "The Shipment" where Archer becomes bro-friends with a bigfoot Xindi. Plus guest Dr. Raychelle Burks joins us, mainly to be exasperated at the Enterprise crew's lack of proper safety protocols when dealing with unknown substances!

Top portion features the EnterpriseSplaining logo with the subheading “A Star Trek Podcast”
Middle portion is an image from the Enterprise episode The Shipment showing Archer standing on the left of the picture facing a Bigfoot Xindi on the right. They're looking intensely at each other. with the words “Star Trek Enterprise: The Shipment. Below, there’s a section in blue with the white letters saying “Free Shipping with Xindi Prime!”

This video is excellent. And important. I know a woman who fell, could not get up, and lay there, alone with her dog, for three days until my mother happened to find her (she survived, barely). It is a truly horrible, traumatizing thing to happen to anyone.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

I'm a big fan of Upright Health (many of his mobility exercises have been EXCELLENT for me), but I feel like this video (with the accurate yet clickbait-y title) is something a lot of people might benefit from seeing.

Exile was a good episode of Star Trek Enterprise because it inverted the plot of Beauty and the Beast in a clever way that shows the insidiousness of men who, because of their own sense of entitlement, use a nice-guy persona to entrap women into a relationship. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

EnterpriseSplaining@enterprisesplain.bsky.social · last wk.

We're on a second contact mission this week revisiting the Star Trek ENT episode "Exile." We get into a bit of a scuffle because @uajamie.bsky.social inexplicably defends this episode about an incel alien who creeps on Hoshi, despite @mariadsouza.bsky.social and Bill insisting on its terribleness.

Top portion features the EnterpriseSplaining logo with the subheading “A Star Trek Podcast”
Middle portion is an image from the Enterprise episode Exile showing Hoshi looking out a window with shadows on her face with the words “Star Trek Enterprise: Exile. Below, there’s a section in blue with the white letters saying “Hoshi and the Beast!” Over the image is a stamp saying “SECOND CONTACT”

Yes, it is true that I think the Enterprise episode about the alien incel who creeps on Hoshi is a actually a masterpiece. At this point, I assume I’ve just given in to Stockholm syndrome. There is no other explanation.

EnterpriseSplaining@enterprisesplain.bsky.social · last wk.

We're on a second contact mission this week revisiting the Star Trek ENT episode "Exile." We get into a bit of a scuffle because @uajamie.bsky.social inexplicably defends this episode about an incel alien who creeps on Hoshi, despite @mariadsouza.bsky.social and Bill insisting on its terribleness.

Top portion features the EnterpriseSplaining logo with the subheading “A Star Trek Podcast”
Middle portion is an image from the Enterprise episode Exile showing Hoshi looking out a window with shadows on her face with the words “Star Trek Enterprise: Exile. Below, there’s a section in blue with the white letters saying “Hoshi and the Beast!” Over the image is a stamp saying “SECOND CONTACT”

I was out of town last week and forgot to post about our bonus episode on the Section 31 movie! It’s a great one-off episode for those of you who are Star Trek fans, but who don’t listen to @enterprisesplain.bsky.social merely because you aren’t interesting in Enterprise content.

EnterpriseSplaining@enterprisesplain.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our crew is heading out on an away mission this week to visit the infamously lowest-rated Star Trek project on Rotten Tomatoes, the TV movie Section 31. Of course, Jamie and Bill refused to actually watch it, and instead forced @mariadsouza.bsky.social to explain every moment of the movie to them.

Top portion features the EnterpriseSplaining logo with the subheading “A Star Trek Podcast”
Middle portion is an image from the TV movie Star Trek Section 31 showing Philippa Georgiou in a black leather outfit with shoulderpads. Her hair is up in a bun and she is sitting on a chair with her arms outstretched. Below, there’s a section in blue with the white letters saying “Away Mission to Section 31!”

It’s wild that the WPBL games are being aired on ESPN platforms, yet are nowhere to be found on espn.com. They’ve only have 1 article about it since it premiered and it’s just a schedule. They don’t even have scores for past games. ESPN clearly just does not care at all about women’s baseball.

I’m visiting the art institute today and the north lollapalooza stage is right behind the southern edge of the museum, so I’m now looking at these Chagall windows while listening to Slayyyter perform.

Photo of the Chagall windows at the art institute of Chicago

We're brainstorming ways to support trans folk in biomed by forming more community and networking/mentoring opportunities Would folks be interested in a Discord channel to bring folks together? Or are there other platforms people would suggest?

I have a cousin who was a local politician in a small suburb, and was vehemently pro-Israel. For awhile he was essentially being scouted for higher office by christian right wing orgs because they wanted to fund a Jew to be the figurehead of their pro-Israel agenda.

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 3w ago

I'd like to introduce you to Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States, yet somehow one that gets *completely ignored* when talking about the Israel lobby.

DEFEND AMERICA STAND WITH ISRAEL®
After long weeks of escalating regional tensions and burgeoning threats of conflict, on February 28th, the United States and Israel began a joint military operation targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Operation Epic Fury (U.S.) and Operation Roaring Lion (Israel) are aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, seeing the people of Iran overthrow that evil regime, and ending Tehran’s decades-long preeminent export: terrorism.

In today's episode "Hoshi and the Beast!," Bill tells us about the Star Trek ENT episode Exile, where Hoshi is packed off to a rain-swept castle inhabited by a creepy loner who promises to use his telepathic powers to help the Enterprise if she'll pretend to be his Canadian Girlfriend for a week.

Top portion features the EnterpriseSplaining logo with the subheading “A Star Trek Podcast”
Middle portion is an image from the Enterprise episode Exile showing Hoshi looking out a barred window with the words “Star Trek Enterprise: Exile. Below, there’s a section in blue with the white letters saying “Hoshi and the Beast!”

I finally started watching Starfleet Academy, and I love the way the stakes swing wildly from one episode to the next between life and death scenarios vs worrying about who will get to be captain of a sports team, and both of those are treated as of equal importance. Teen drama is the best.

The Women's Professional Baseball League has announced team names and branding ahead of its inaugural season, which begins August 1. They are the Boston Hunters, the Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, and the San Francisco Firebells (elaboration on meaning/inspo in this thread).

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