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Ethnically and morally? I would agree, though no more than the average corporation and less than some. Legally? I've seen several people assert that Paramount has done something illegal, and I've asked for details several times without any clarification on what if anything they could be...

Yes, but my understanding is the narrative is being forced on Paramount/CBS, literally all they requested was the standard merger arbitration via the usual process, which was then held up because Trump has a mad-on against them because he believes that they supported Harris in the way that media...

Agreed. Pretty sure being a victim of bribery isn't in and of itself illegal either (though obviously what you're being bribed about can be). In this case, the "original act" doesn't seem to be illegal either, particularly as they aren't being prosecuted through the normal channels for it*...

The 2009 calendar, if available, would make more sense as that's got the same calendar as 2026. Though presumably the 2026 one will be available by 2026.

As far as live action goes, that's true, however the tie-in comic Iron Man 2: Public Identity apparently linked him to the Vanko story.

Ordinarily they shouldn't, but there are a few exceptions that are worth at least trying to fit into aired canon, TMP being one of them because... YMMV.

And what crime would that be exactly? Maybe I missed something, but my understanding was the extortion related to political interference with the merger this thread is discussing, not any actual crime by the network (the closest thing other thing to such being alleged partiality towards Harris...

I might be remembering the story wrong, but IIRC he had enough influence over Howard that he was able to manipulate him into having Vanko declared persona non grata and extradicted to a Soviet gulag... Maybe from active service, but if so it seems even more likely that he wouldn't be Howard's...

Well, no relevant known military experience anyway. Stane was old enough to be a business partner to Howard in 1967, so it's not unlikely (given his militarist personality) that he served in Korea or Vietnam.

Which explains why he wouldn't be prosecuted for it (though it's still possible that he may allow any directly involved underlings to be if it suits his purpose). That's what I thought. Which is why I was confused that people have been talking about CBS/Paramount being prosecuted for paying...

Okay, I'm confused... it is illegal to be (essentially forced) to pay a bribe in the US? INAL, but I was under the impression that it was the person soliciting the bribe who commits the crime, not the victim?

A 2005 short story did have this be the case. However... Which is likely why Jeri Taylor originally intended Captain Sulu to be Hikaru's grandson Hiromi, per Pathways (though the canonicity of this is dubious as many other datapoints from the book have been contradicted.

For starters, she seemed to work well with other main characters, including Wesley, and was a good contributor, so it's possible that it would have happened naturally.

Because a certain flying rodent-themed individual and his gaudily-clad associates came along and diverted interest from such common, everyday protagonists.

The exact mechanism is unclear, but we have at least one specific statement in canon that the President is elected (at least at times from amongst the Federation Councillors): JARESH-INYO: I never sought this job. I was content to simply represent my people on the Federation Council. When they...

Though it might be fair to say that Una was largely responsible for developing the concept as the above quote is fairly scant on details.

Probably not as they were mentioned by name in Distant Voices (DS9). Actually, Joe Menosky, the writer of Distant Voices or possibly either Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe who wrote the teleplay for the above episode.

Disagree on Worf, by the time he would have applied to Starfleet Academy he had had several years to "bond" with his human family, and while he feels some connection to Klingon culture there's no indication that he has any connection to any connection to the Klingon political establishment, nor...

Okay. But that doesn't require that he was the first person with any Romulan ancestry to enrol at the Academy.

It's been a while since I've seen the episode, so I suppose I might misremembering but... IIRC, the law/rule isn't that you can't be a non-Federation citizen and even more so that you can't have non-citizen ancestry, but rather that you have to disclose it and follow the appropriate procedure...