I saw a guy walking around town the other day with a sign that said, “Are we great yet?” and felt like that was a great little slogan that confronts Trump supporters with the fact that all of this was supposedly being done to restore whatever personally idealized version of “great” America once embodied to them. Pretty sure the majority of people who voted for Trump wouldn’t even say that using federal agents to murder Americans in the street for exercising their constitutional right to protest is included in their own personal definition of the “greatness” that they feel America needs to get back to.

I’ll agree that Star Trek at its best has always had a progressive stance that challenges societal expectations, but the problem with nuTrek (imo) is that the writing isn’t challenging expectations reflecting society at large, or examining it’s own biases, it’s just performative and pandering. It doesn’t seem to be written to encourage questioning as much as it appeals to nostalgia or engage in pleading the “right social perspective” that Hollywood happens to espouse that week. For God’s sake Elon was one of the “innovators” used as an example in DISCO when SpaceX happened to be popular.

I’d definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys point and click adventure games. The time mechanic can seem a bit constraining at first, but unless you’re clicking on everything or exhausting every conversation topic, I think you’d be able to figure out like 80% of the mysteries just by pulling at relevant threads. The only advice I’d offer is to remember how to get to all of the journals and notes you collect because the game doesn’t have a traditional inventory system, and there were a couple of times I forgot about information I’d previously collected that’s needed to solve some puzzles because it’s a little buried. It does a great job of establishing the atmosphere, and if you’re in the mood for a creepy mystery, this is an all-timer.

Silksong, but I put that on hold as I think I hit my skill ceiling in Act 3.

In the meantime, I’m playing The Seance at Blake Manor which has been really fun and is perfect for the Deck.