What's Smash?

One of the premier fighting game franchises of all time, Super Smash Bros is a party series published by gaming giant Nintendo which sees characters from their various franchises (alongside several third-party characters) coming together for some family-friendly violence. Beginning with the original title in 1999 for the Nintendo 64, Smash has seen several outings in the years since, such as the iconic Melee for the Gamecube, Brawl for the Wii, the unoriginally named Smash 4 for the WiiU and 3DS, and the most recent title, Ultimate, which released on the Switch in 2018. Ultimate was seen as a huge celebration for the franchise, boasting that EVERYONE IS HERE- all seventy + fighters, ranging from staples of the original game to guest fighters and DLC, were in the launch roster. Helmed by Masahiro Sakurai, Smash is a household name and staple for parties worldwide, with Ultimate being one of the highest-selling fighting games in the world at over 12 million units sold.

What's Fire Emblem?

Fire Emblem is Nintendo's forray into strategy- a turn based fantasy seires that's one of the longer-running staples of the company with its roots in 1990 for the Famicom. Despite a lot of pushing from Nintendo, Fire Emblem failed to take off in the West for many years, with the future of the franchise being uncertain after several successive commercial flops in the 2000s. With the franchise risking cancellation if it failed to find a market, the team made a Hail-Mary pass of epic proportions thanks to Fire Emblem Awakening in 2013- a launch title for the 3DS that finally marked the series getting a foothold in the West. Since then, the series has released three big games: Fates, which wasn't very good due to pulling a Pokemon and cutting the game into three separate releases and having an awful story, Heroes, a free to play mobile game, and Three Houses, which saw the series move to the Nintendo Switch. In Three Houses, you play as Byleth, a mercenary hired to teach one of three classes in a military academy that are all led by House Lords- Edlegard, Dimitri and Claude. Three Houses combined Persona-style time management for social interactions with the tactical gameplay of the series, and was a critical success for the company, selling over 3 million units.

Smash and Fire Emblem's shared history

Fire Emblem and Smash have a tied history, due to Smash being part of the reason the series even began releasing in the West (Fire Emblem had such a small presense before this that a lot of people unironically thought Marth and Ike were original characters made just for the game). Two characters, Roy(Who's also our boi) and Marth, were playable in Melee, with their popularity leading to Nintendo beginning localisation efforts of the other games. Since then, Fire Emblem has gotten consistent additional represetation in each mainline title:

• Brawl added Ike, protagonist of Path of Radiance and its sequel, Radiant Dawn. His massive two-handed sword and battle cry of "GREAT AETHER" made him stand out as a fun battler, with high damage potential but a weak mobility selection to balance him.
  
• 3DS/WiiU would bring back Marth, Ike and Roy, alongside newcomers Robin and Lucina from Awakening and, post-launch, Corrin from Fates as a DLC fighter. The Mii Fighter would also get an outfit themed on Awakening's co-protagonist Chrom as DLC.
  
• Ultimate would launch with all prior Fire Emblem characters as part of the launch roster with a new addition- Chrom making the transition from Mii Fighter to Echo Fighter (the game's term for characters who are moveset clones, in this case for Roy while Lucina was officially made an Echo Fighter for Marth). Ultimate also saw a large collection of music from the series being available alongside three stages.
  

Perhaps one of the largest showings of how tied together the two series are, especially regarding FE getting off the ground in the West, can be seen in the announcement trailer for a re-release of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, the first game in the series as part of 30th anniversary celebrations. The trailer shows two young boys playing Melee and wondering where Roy and Marth are from, leading to them discovering Fire Emblem at large.
It's at the launch of Ultimate, before the DLC released, that I'd like to dovetail and cover some of the tensions between Smash and Fire Emblem, alongside the post-launch support Ultimate got.

Smash fans vs Fire Emblem Fans: A Short History

Smash fans and Fire Emblem fans don't get along a lot of the time, it must be said (though Smash fans don't get along with anyone very well). Many Smash fans blame FE as the reason for Smash's roster being stereotyped as "Anime swordboys," due to Nintendo almost entirely drawing from the sword-fighting leads of the series instead of an axe or lance fighter. (Hector from Blazing Blade is often called an example of what a more atypical Smash rep would be due to wielding a large axe). While most of the fighters try and do different things mechanically (Robin is almost entirely a spellcaster for instance, while Corrin can turn into a dragon), that Chrom and Lucina were both moveset clones didn't help this perception.
Many other Nintendo franchise fans aren't happy additionally at how Fire Emblem gets blatant preferential treatment by Nintendo. While it is justified as them wanting to show off the new FE games in each Smash title, that Fire Emblem is all but guaranteed to get new Smash rep every time a new game releases has embittered fans of older franchises that Nintendo hasn't given as much love lately (especially F-Zero, Metroid, Golden Sun and more). Sakurai being an open Fire Emblem fan hasn't helped the perception of an inherent bias for FE, though this is usually countered by the low representation for the Kirby and Kid Icarus franchises despite Sakurai's own roles in them.
By Ultimate, a growing sentiment is that Fire Emblem is getting over-represented, as with the addition of Chrom it was now the third-most represented series in Smash after only Mario and Pokemon. Given FE's niche status in the West for most of this time, fans weren't very happy at this, partly for the aforementioned reason of wanting their own favorite franchises to get a new fighter (Metroid fans at least got a bone when Ridley joined the Ultimate roster and when Dark Samus became an Echo Fighter for Samus).

Ultimate's Fighter Pass 1: HOES MAD

Following Ultimate's launch, Nintendo released a season pass for five characters who would be added post-launch. Smash getting new fighters is notable not just because it means a new fighter and that franchise getting the prestige of saying it got into Smash, but because it means new music that can be used (unless you're Cloud) during matches. For the most part, the DLC fighters got really positive reactions due to the majority being unexpected third-party choices. Case in point, most players never saw it coming when during the Game Awards 2018, the first fighter would be revealed to be Joker from Persona 5. He'd be followed in 2019 by three more reveals: Dragon Quest's Hero, representing the more iconic protagonists in the legendary JRPG franchise, Banjo and Kazooie from the cult Microsoft series, and Terry Bogard from the SNK franchise (shout out to Sakurai's history lesson that's pretending to be a showcase for Terry, which also involves Sakurai's story of how they got 50 tracks from the SNK games into Smash)
Also Sans from Undertale got in. This unironically led to an increase in Mii Gunner mains.
Terry and Hero would generate some salt in the West due to perceived antiquity and lack of pedegree/mainstream appeal (Hero being "another anime sword boy" didn't help), leading to a mocking response of HOES MAD from Hero's fans especially, though Terry's got in on the fun thanks to the pun involving Terry's home series, Fatal Fury.
Thanks to the four characters seen thus far, the expectation was that Fighters Pass 1 would be made entirely of third party characters, and as January 2020 rolled around the expectations were high as to who would get in. Sora from Kingdom Hearts was a popular choice, alongside Geno from the Mario RPG series. Some dumbasses even wanted Tracer from Overwatch, partly thanks to Blizzard all but openly begging Nintendo for a Smash invite. The one with the most consistent support was Dante from the Devil May Cry series. And a few accidental coincidences boosted the idea of Dante getting in:

• Dante's first three games had been ported to the Switch during Fighter Pass 1, with Devil May Cry 3 releasing in February 2020 soon after the final character was announced.
  
• Brian Hanford, who played V in Devil May Cry 5, had a slip of the tongue where he talked about Dante in the context of Smash (“to be part of Marvel Vs Capcom, or Super Smash Bros., would be huge, which is what Dante is gonna be,”), leading many to believe Brian had leaked Dante as the fifth fighter.
  
• Dante was experiencing a large-scale renaissance in popularity thanks to DMC 5 launching in early 2019, leading to him being on everyone's minds when it came to him joining the roster. Adding in his experience in fighting games already thanks to the Marvel vs Capcom games, it seemed set in stone that Dante would join the hallowed halls of Smash.
  
• To hype up the final character, Sakurai posed with three fingers outstretched. DMC fans took this as a hint of Dante, given that DMC 3 would be coming soon to Switch.
  
• On the same day as the character reveal, Capcom had planned a DMC announcement (it turned out to be an announcement that the game would have a co-op mode for Dante and Vergil in Bloody Palace).
  

With expectations set high, everyone tuned in on January 16th 2020 to see the final Season 1 character... and it was Byleth, the player character of Three Houses.
Another fucking Fire Emblem rep. The internet took it well, as you'd expect. Dante's fans just resorted to sad memes and jokes about one of Byleth's alt skins being "close enough" to let them pretend Byleth was Dante.

Smash likes to date around, and Fire Emblem is that girl that he always goes back to.
Byleth Joins The Roster: The Salt Mines Floweth

Byleth's announcement generates some of the most negative reactions to a Smash fighter yet seen, boasting the largest like-dislike ratios of Ultimate's DLC, and only matched for disliked announcements across the entire franchise by Corrin.
A lot of people weren't happy at Byleth's inclusion, suffice to say, though like Terry and Hero the HOES MAD crowd came back for another go around. It didn't help how utterly predictable it was given it was a historical recreation of Corrin's inclusion in WiiU/3DS. While Byleth had been predicted, many expected the mechanical variance would be that Byleth would function similar to the Pokemon Trainer (who swaps between the Gen 1 Pokemon) in that Byleth would command Claude, Dimitri and Edlegard from the sidelines. Instead, Byleth had four weapons- three representing each of the House Leaders alongside their own custom whip-sword, the Sword of the Creator. That being said, at least Nintendo were somewhat self aware about it this time, given the reveal had supporting character Sothis mock Byleth for losing a fight by going "Too many swordsmen, were there?" as a way to reveal that Byleth's female variant would join the roster.
While Byleth did offer some mechanical variety from the other FE reps, some were disappointed that Byleth specifically was representing Three Houses, due to Byleth's personality not being one of their selling points. Perhaps it would have been more preferable to have one of the House Leaders instead represent the game, but given how any one being selected would have been seen as favoritism of the Leaders (and the arguments about said Leaders being quite vicious), Byleth was the safest choice, if perhaps the most predictable. Fans of Xenoblade 2 were also unhappy at clear bias on Sakurai's part, given he'd previously said Rex, the MC, was from too new a game to qualify for a roster slot in Ultimate. In comparrison, Sakurai admitted in his presentation of Byleth that he pestered the developers to get early access copies of Three Houses to get to plan out Byleth's moveset, which only helped the idea of Fire Emblem operating on different rules from other series.
Overall, Byleth was seen as a disappointing inclusion to wrap up the Fighters Pass, with the announcement honestly being more notable for the memes about the salt over the character themself. (My favorites were the ones about Joker adding yet another teacher to his harem) After the shock reveals from relatively niche series such as Persona and SNK, Byleth was generally felt to be an overwhelmingly safe option to close on. While Sakurai did announce Fighters Pass 2 in the same event, promising six more DLC characters for Ultimate, a lot of fans from different franchises were still let down given how unpredictable the first wave had been.

Fighters Pass 2 and the Byleth aftermath

Byleth would launch a few weeks later and the reception was largely "Yeah they're fine," after an initial launch of "Yeah you're fuckin' overtuned and overpowered." They got some people who main them, others swore off them, much like any other DLC character in a fighting game, and the salt gradually diminished.
In February of 2020, Sakurai would tacitly admit during a Famitsu article about Byleth's development that he was aware of the criticism about the addition, saying that he doesn't have as much power over roster choices as people like to believe (Byleth apparently snubbed a fighter he was much more enthusiastic about) but that he agreed that there were a few too many sword fighters and Fire Emblem representatives specifically in the game. Given Sakurai has said Smash will never have a roster as large as Ultimate again, it's likely some of Fire Emblem's representation will be cut down in future games as part of this culling.

That being said, I understand. First and foremost: there are too many Fire Emblem characters; and what’s more there are too many sword-users.

So far, three of the six planned characters for Fighter's Pass 2 have been released, with Min-Min from the Arms series coming first, Steve from Minecraft literally breaking Twitter (Steve's addition could be a post of its own with how much salt he generated) and the OG Anime Sword Boy, the One Winged Angel himself in Sephiroth being announced at the Game Awards 2020. We're still waiting for updates on when the fourth fighter will be revealed and who they may be, but regardless of who it is, there will always be a few mad hoes in the background.
Also Geno finally got into Smash!... As a Mii skin which led to the character's fanbase collectively reaching for a noose. These hoes weren't even that mad, it was mostly just sad.
Still. At least it's better than whatever the Walluigi mains are up to.
Thanks for reading.

• You can draw on the blackboard in class
  
• Machines on the right side of the walkway when you enter a new floor may give SP items in Mementos
  
• Yusuke can duplicate/create skill cards in safe rooms
  
• Brewing coffee gives points towards Sojiro’s confidant
  
• Inviting a member to the Jazz club gives points towards their confidant Here is my full Jazz Club guide
  
• At a certain point in the game, you can buy a broken laptop at the thrift shop near Leblanc. You can fix it by buying repair parts in Akihabara to use at the workbench. Doing this grants access to a special shop
  
• The TV in Leblanc might have a trivia show that gives knowledge
  
• YOU SHOULD NOT READ BOOKS UNTIL JULY. Books only give stats after you finish them, and they’re usually way better ways to do this. The only time you should read books is on the subway and in class when you can. On July 3rd, the school library will have a book called “Speed Reader”, that allows Joker to read two part books in one sitting. After that, reading becomes worth it.
  
• You can display gifts from confidants in your room by interacting with the shelf
  
• When you unlock persona itemization in the velvet room, pressing R2 in the compendium will display what the persona will turn into if itemized
  
• If connected to the network, pressing the touch pad will allow you to see the recommend activity/confidant to spend your time on
  
• Ohya is the most useless confidant so don’t hang out with her unless she’s your final confidant that needs to be completed
  
• Playing billiards at Penguin Sniper will increase your technical attack rank. Max technical rank will cause tech attacks to always down an enemy
  
• Use a guide for the Justice confidant as some dialogue is necessary to access a future feature
  
• Mishima and Yoshida are confidants that will rank up no matter what you say to them. So never accept Mishima’s late night hang out requests since he ranks up anyways
  
• The fruit stand in the underground walkway will always give a random social stat point on Sunday’s
  
• Hanging out with the Twins at night will reward you with the skill cards needed for their confidant. You can still do their confidant without skill cards but it won’t be as easy
  

Here are some videos and websites to help make persona’s

Artist: Grimes
Album: Miss Anthropocene (Deluxe | Revised | Revised Deluxe)
Label: 4AD
Tracklist and Lyrics: Genius
Release date: February 21, 2020
popheads [FRESH] thread: Here
Listen: Apple Music (Deluxe) | Spotify (Deluxe V1) | YouTube Music (Deluxe V1)
You know me as the girl who plays with fire,
But this is the song I wrote you in the dark ...
Madness, intellect, audacity?
Grimes, the stage name of Claire Boucher, is an electronic musician and multimedia artist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. How ordinary and uncontroversial that makes her sound. As any Pophead surely knows by now, Grimes is far from either of those things.
Much of the lore behind Grimes' early career seems well-known by now to her fans: she attend McGill University in Montréal, Québec (a very prestigious school) where she had an interest in neuroscience and worked on her Russian, a language she had first picked up in childhood (she is of French and Ukrainian heritage, and her name means "clear (f.) butcher" in French, a fact she finds hilarious). She chose her stage name after hearing of grime music on her MySpace (which is still around), and listed her music as "grime" despite never having heard grime music before (she ended up liking it, by the way). She also goes by c, the physical constant for the speed of light, because she finds her name hard to pronounce (she has a slight speech impediment, as well as a lisp for the sound /s/, though she doesn't care about the latter).
Grimes learned to use recording software in university (Apple's GarageBand) and about music production from friends, and got involved with the music collective Lab Synthèse, which had a production space in a now-closed warehouse in Montréal and spawned the label Arbutus Records, which has since housed many Canadian indietronica acts. Grimes' first two albums were released on this label: Geidi Primes, a concept album about her favourite novel, the science fiction epic Dune; and Halfaxa, an ambient electronica album that has been described as gothic, both in 2010. Not expecting that anyone would hear her debut (it was first released as a run of 30 cassettes with hand-drawn covers by her), both albums were well-received by critics, to her surprise. All writing and almost all production was done on both by her alone.
Grimes' early work was linked to the "witch house" microgenre, an underground scene of electronic music that was gothic in both sound and aesthetic, and was briefly popular around the early 2010s. (This can be seen on the tracklist of Halfaxa with that scene's trademark use of arcane symbols in their titles.) In 2011, she released the split EP Darkbloom with fellow Canadian electronic musician D'Eon, with the first five tracks being by her. Notably, this EP had her first song to have a music video, the self-directed "Vanessa". Her breakthrough, though, was yet to come.
If you're looking for a dream girl, I'll never be your dream girl
Visions (2012), Grimes' first LP with her new label 4AD, won her widespread acclaim and made her a cultural phenomenon in her home country of Canada. The album gave a more accessible and poppy spin on her early mix of dark, ambient and psychedelic music, and is a bewitching, trance-like album to listen through. Although the first single from it was "Genesis" with a music video featuring Brooke Candy, she won acclaim for her song "Oblivion", written about her own experience with sexual assault and trauma afterward. During this time, Grimes' image became linked with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype, the concept of "kawaii" (a Japanese aesthetic which roughly translates as "cuteness") and her waiflike appearance; as well as her reputation as an outspoken feminist.
Grimes has expressed dislike of being misinterpreted as a less serious musician during this time because of her turn towards a pop sound and aesthetic, as well as frustration at not being taken seriously as a woman music producer, still fairly uncommon in electronic music. Indeed the recording of Visions is a key part of Grimes lore: she made the album alone at her home in a matter of weeks, neither sleeping nor eating, and taking amphetamines to stay focused (she has alluded to possibly having ADHD before). [Author's note: Grimes has since disavowed the association of her music with drugs, saying that she has struggled with addiction in the past.]
Her next album came in 2015: the widely acclaimed Art Angels, which saw a turn towards an even poppier sound and moved away from the ambient and psychedelic feel of Visions towards classic synthpop and electronica. Art Angels was recorded again at her home, now in Los Angeles, and showed a mix of strong pop hooks with more intelligible lyrics that touched on themes of personal doubts, lost friendships, and her place in the music industry. [Because this album is most likely her best-known on Popheads, I will not discuss it in much depth].
Infamously, she was quoted in 2019 as calling the album a "piece of crap", a narrative she has refuted since, saying her comments were taken out of context. Despite her success, neither Visions nor Art Angels had any singles that charted highly even in her home country, but she gained a loyal cult following online. To accompany the album, she also released The Acid Reign Chronicles, a series of music videos by her and her best friend HANA).
How could one follow up an album that's been repeatedly called one's magnum opus? It would have to be something crazy, wouldn't it? Something that's provocative ... it gets the people going ...
This is the sound of the end of the world
Does anyone think global warming is a good thing? I love Grimes. I think she's a really interesting artist
We come to it at last: Miss Anthropocene, stylized at release as Miss_Anthrop0cene, Grimes' fifth studio LP and my pick for album of the year.

It’s called Miss_Anthropocene. It’s a concept album about the anthropomorphic Goddess of climate Change: A psychedelic, space-dwelling demon/ beauty-Queen who relishes the end of the world. She’s composed of Ivory and Oil - Grimes via Instagram

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The way I figure it is that climate change sucks and no one wants to read about it because the only time you hear about it is when you’re getting guilted. I wanted to make climate change fun. Miss Anthropocene has got a Voldemort kind of vibe. She’s naked all the time and she’s made out of ivory and oil. It’s going to be super tight. [...] If I’m stuck being a villain, I want to pursue villainy artistically. If there’s nothing left to lose, that’s actually a really fun idea to me. I think it has freed me artistically. The best part of the movie is the Joker. Everyone loves the villain. Everyone fucking loves Thanos. Let’s make some Thanos art. (Source)

If you haven't heard this album or know anything about it yet, you might be thinking: Wait, what?
Miss Anthropocene is a concept album about the apocalypse. As Grimes said, she wants to make climate change fun. We're living in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, the age of humanity, so named because we now have the power as a species to alter our environment, or even destroy it. Some might find this disturbing. Grimes, however, finds it thrilling.

So my album’s about a modern demonology or a modern pantheon where every song is about a different way to suffer or a different way to die. If you think about it, god-making or god-designing just seems so fun. The idea of making the Goddess of Plastic seems so fun to me. - Grimes

As is common with Grimes: Is she serious? Is she trolling? Being edgy? When the news is full of natural disasters, species extinctions and dire warnings about a climate apocalypse, why would anyone want to make an album about how dying from climate change is awesome? Well, it should be said: Miss Anthropocene is not Grimes. She is a character, a personification of our times, and she is also (this is very key) a villain. This is, as Grimes has done before and shown a long-running interest in, a work of science fiction.
It would be absurd not to talk briefly about how our last year was dominated by the life-altering effects of COVID-19 and how life in quarantine has felt like the apocalypse to many. It's been hard on us, our mental health, our finances. This isn't a "quarantine album", and the album was mostly finished before the virus appeared in the news. Grimes did not predict it, but she ended up making the perfect soundtrack to our dire 2020 anyway and how powerless we felt to do anything about it. "You're gonna get sick, you don't know when", she sings. The threat was always looming whenever we went out, and when we stayed in we had little to do often but doomscroll through news articles about wildfires, protests against police brutality worldwide, a draining election cycle in America, take your pick. Last year was frankly a shitshow no one saw coming - though maybe they should have. Things just aligned right with this album being full of darker lyrical themes, and darker in sound than the bright-sounding Art Angels.
We had a taste of what the album would be like before it came out with the song "Pretty Dark" (video, a demo track released in 2019 that didn't make it onto the album. On this song, Grimes explores alternate characters, being a girl named "Dark", as a chance to escape from her Grimes persona. However, the concept of the album ended up being much more complex, with a whole pantheon of "new gods" that are fitting for our time, each song representing a different facet of the modern world. Here they are as listed on her website months before the album came out:

1. Goddess of climate crisis: Miss Anthropocene
2. Demon of addiction: "Delete Forever"
3. Goddess of ID and social media: War Nymph, her digital avatar
4. Demon of AI: "We Appreciate Power"
5. Goddess of gaming: "Violence"
6. Demon of political apathy: "My Name is Dark"
7. Goddess of simulation: "4ÆM"
8. Demon of ego death: "Before the Fever"
9. Goddess of digital lust: "IDORU"
10. Demon of sexual assault: "Darkseid"
11. Goddess of gender roles: "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth"

Isn't this pretentious? Maybe. But it's optional: you don't need to know all of the album's lore to understand what Grimes is singing about on it. For those who wish to know the background and thought process behind the album in more detail, I highly recommend reading this interview with another uncontroversial Popheads fave, Lana Del Rey first, then delving into her Genius annotations. For now I'm going to give my own, somewhat subjective (!) takes on what each track is about.
Annihilation sounds so dope!

• "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth" (Visualizer)

In 2020, Grimes became a mother for the first time with partner Elon Musk, having a child named X Æ A-Xii (the Roman numeral for 12); a breakdown of how they came up with this unusual name can be found here. Grimes and Musk met in 2018 on Twitter, bonding over an obscure philosophical reference (a thought experiment about the dangers of AI called Roko's Basilisk) and made their first public appearance together at the Met Gala that year. Because Musk is (I would argue) an even more controversial figure than Grimes is, I won't be talking about him otherwise, nor do I believe it's relevant to the album. However, this song does touches on her feelings about pregnancy and motherhood, having to (in her words) sacrifice her body to another being.
When Grimes announced her pregnancy in a rather cryptic Instagram post, there was some debate over whether she was pregnant herself at all (remember, she trolled the media in 2019 by claiming to have had an experimental eye surgery which makes zero biological sense). This was cleared up soon, however. On this song, Grimes reflects on being (as the saying goes) heavy with child, bringing new life into a world with an uncertain future. This entrancing song sets the tone for the rest of the album, as does its music video, which begins with a reference to the classic sci-fi film Blade Runner (a movie about rogue androids in Los Angeles that takes place in the far-off year of ... 2019, the year of the song's first release).

• "Darkseid" (Lyric video)

This song references the name of a powerful comic book supervillain, as well as Grimes' Playstation user ID, with online gaming being (her words) "where I go to kill people and stuff". The song features lyrics in Mandarin Chinese by Taiwanese rapper 潘PAN (Pan Wei-Ju), also known as Aristophanes, who had a feature on Art Angels' "Scream". A fan translation can be found here. Here Grimes develops upon her fascination with villains and death, while the lyrics by 潘PAN are hard to interpret literally, but paint a vivid picture of death and decay. The opening line feels quite fitting for a year where many of us sat at home all day being anxious (Unrest is in the soul / We don't move our bodies anymore ...) while the operatic backing vocals call to mind religion and medieval themes, another long-running interest of hers. However this is by far the most difficult song for me to connect with its "god" in concept, and I think its original concept was most likely just abandoned.

• "Delete Forever" (Video)

On this song, released only a couple of weeks before the album itself, Grimes surprised fans with a poignant acoustic ballad with influences from country music - not exactly the kind of genre she is known for doing. Taking the title from a prompt on her computer, Grimes wrote this song about the opioid crisis in North America, being saddened by the death of rapper Lil Peep, who had overdosed on fentanyl (a powerful opioid and dangerous street drug). As well, she touches on her own experiences with drug abuse (I did everything / More lines on a mirror than a sonnet) and being around drug culture in her youth, having lost many friends to drug addiction herself; she compares the experience of feeling euphoric on drugs to the myth of Icarus flying too close to the sun. Grimes describes this song as emotionally hard to perform for her, as is "Oblivion". In the video, she plays a queen overlooking a crumbling empire.

• "Violence" (Video)

Grimes brings up again her fascination with the history of warfare and weaponry over a club banger, produced by the late i_o (Garrett Lockhart) who sadly died in November of unknown causes. Described as a love song sung between the planet Earth and humanity that portrays a dysfunctional relationship between the two; in describing the concept behind the music video, Grimes also talks about digital violence as a modern addition to the physical violence of the past, which is fitting given its "god" is video games.
The video, filmed in the Vibiana cathedral in Los Angeles, features Grimes surrounded by women wielding swords and dance choreography inspired by Tiktok, with a cameo by HANA as the dead woman on the floor. Though Grimes didn't plan to put this song on the album, and the video was choreographed and filmed in a hurry, nevertheless she was pleased with the results. With its edgy and ironic concept (no, Grimes does not really love violence, nor does the Earth; she does collect swords though), as well as its excellent production, this is my own favourite song on the album.

• "4Æm" (Performance video)

Written for the long-delayed video game Cyberpunk 2077, in which Grimes plays an NPC named Lizzy Wizzy, this track has Grimes make use of her love of Bollywood films, sampling the soundtrack of the historical drama Bajirao Mastani. Grimes is well-known for her insomnia (see: the recording of Visions above), which is in turn known for its health effects (explaining the lyrics about getting sick). Here Grimes seems to portray being up all night in an ambivalent way. [Having stayed up all night many times, including to write this piece you are reading right now, I can confirm it only feels fun up to a point, after which it becomes exhausting.]
To me this sounds like great music to play in a futuristic city at night - Grimes is a big fan of the cyberpunk genre herself, which tends to feature this setting, as shown by her previous references to Blade Runner and Akira (an influence upon the video of "Delete Forever").

• "New Gods"

Here Grimes gets into the theme of the album as being inspired by the "gods" - secular replacements for religion - that underlie the concept of the album, the most important being the goddess of climate change (Miss A herself) but including addiction ("Delete Forever"), insomnia ("4Æm"), and more.

I was like, “Well, who are the new gods?” Because we have all this new stuff. We have plastic and pollution and plastic surgery and social media. The new gods sound sick. They sound like … like the Sailor Scouts, like these sick demons. - Grimes

Here Grimes also alludes to her image as gothic, describing herself as wearing "black attire, black eyeliner", fittingly for a bleak-sounding, pessimistic song. Being the slowest track on the album, it may be hard to get into, but it wouldn't be the same without it.

• "My Name Is Dark"

Grimes described her thoughts behind the making of this song in this ... interesting tweet. (I voted for "fighting Balrog", but it seems closer to the latter.) Her "nu metal song about insomnia" ended up being not quite either but does show some of the influence of industrial music on the album; she again brings up drug use, sleeplessness and her alter ego of "Dark" from the single "Pretty Dark".

It’s just about pretty obvious, like, paradise in hell, making the decision to be good or bad. The specter of death always haunting you. It was serious. - Grimes

Grimes depicts herself as jaded and nihilistic (The boys are such a bore / The girls are such a bore / I never trust the government and pray to God for sure, yeah) in the lyrics and alludes to mental illness and self-destructive urges with the opening lines about wishing for annihilation ("When you don’t care if you live or die, when you’re so depressed that you’re like, 'Whatever, fuck it'"). She also hints at her long history of controversies and misconceptions in the media (I'm not shy but I refuse to speak / Because I don't trust you to understand me). Grimes found the song very difficult to make, wanting it to sound "roaring" with its screaming vocals.

• "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around"

In one of her most melancholy-themed songs, here c. sings openly about suicide ideation, conceptualizing it as another demon of hers. She brings up various suicide methods and self-harm, and imagines herself in death as happy. Despite its morbid subject matter, this is a deceptively upbeat song musically. Although self-destruction and death are recurring themes on this theme, this is the one where she talks most about wanting to die herself.

• "Before the Fever"

First of all, that title is almost too on the nose for an album released in February 2020.
Here Grimes sings about hedonism in the first verse and uses an old joke as a metaphor for death (There are many ways in / But there's only one way out), referring to birth and death. She explains the title thus:

Grimes explained how she wanted "Before the Fever" to invoke the "literal feelings" of dying — the uncertainty, desperation, and bizarre tranquility presumably felt when one knows it's the end. "Fevers are just kind of scary, but a fever is also sort of poetically imbued with the idea of passion and stuff, too," she told him. "It's like it's a weirdly loaded word — scary, but compelling and beautiful." What's more terrifying and more beautiful than committing yourself to another person when everything could very well implode in your face? One could even call it romantic. (Source)

Even though it was written before the COVID-19 outbreak became serious, nevertheless the theme of this song could easily be called love in the time of coronavirus for the way it combines metaphors of illness with romance (cf. the analysis of "Violence").

• "IDORU"

By far the happiest-sounding song on the album, this seven-minute epic is also the longest, and much needed after the dark themes that pervade much of it. Beginning with what sounds like birdsong, it's a fun, cute, lighthearted ditty that gives a bit of much-needed hope to the album (I wanna play a beautiful game / Even though we're gonna lose / But I adore you). Maybe we're all going to die and humanity will go extinct; maybe not. If that's going to happen, can't we have some fun anyway?
As an aside, the title is a neat pun on the phrase "I adore you" but also seems to be referencing the novel Idoru ("idols") by famed cyberpunk author William Gibson, in turn about the Japanese concept of "idols", a unique kind of celebrity.
There has been fan speculation over who, if anyone, the song may be about; Grimes alluded to its meaning on a livestream with HANA but did not say in the end. My own take is that it could just as well be about the Earth itself.
These are all ten of the tracks on the standard edition of Miss Anthropocene; on the deluxe version(s) there are five bonus tracks, four of which are alternate mixes of other songs on the standard edition that differ mainly in length ("So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth", "Violence", "My Name is Dark" and "IDORU"). These seem to have been done to make the longer tracks more suitable for playlists, explaining the name "algorithm mix" for them. As well, there is one more: the original WAP.

• "We Appreciate Power" (Video)

First of all: what a fucking BANGER.
"We Appreciate Power" is a bonus track that was released as a single in 2018. It was originally meant to feature vocals by Poppy, who had featured Grimes on her own 2018 album Am I a Girl? but after a feud between the two, she was replaced with HANA. Musically, it is influenced heavily by nu-metal, it blends crunchy distorted guitars and loud rock drums with an awesome electronic drop. Grimes' and HANA's vocals trade between verses and choruses and blend so well it is hard to tell which part is whose upon first listen. This song was due to have a larger-budget music video, but ended up getting a bare-bones video instead, which is still a very fun watch with its cyberpunk visuals.
Lyrically, it was inspired by a North Korean girl group who make propaganda music for the state, as well as Grimes' fascination with the concept of an AI dictatorship. "We Appreciate Power" touches on common cyberpunk themes like mind uploading, transhumanism and simulated reality. The song portrays AI rule as something desirable yet frightening, punctuating the lyrics with unsettling shrieks and ending the song with Grimes chanting "Submit" repeatedly. Despite its tongue-in-cheek nature, the song's lyrics led to a minor controversy: for her speculation of AI replacing humans, musicians Zola Jesus and Devon Welsh called her a "silicon fascist" and they got into a spat on Twitter that seems to be resolved, with Grimes acknowledging Zola made some good points. As for the prospect of an AI takeover: it's frankly a terrifying thought, but at least we'd have jams like this.
Now is the time to burn twice as bright and half as long. Sincerely, Miss Anthropocene
This writeup is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who fight against injustice and corruption every day of their lives! (DJ mix)
Thanks so much for letting me do this writeup, Popheads - and thank you if you made it to the end. I know there is a lot here, but Grimes is a longtime favourite artist of mine and I had a lot to say. I hope I've been reasonably balanced here and not come off as an apologist stan; I am well aware Grimes can be "messy" or a "problematic fave". However, I've tried to explain the best I can what this album is really about, give my thoughts, and explain why I think it's one of the albums of the year. As well, if I said anything factually wrong, please let me know; I tried my best to source everything and get things right.

Questions for the culture:

• [Voice of Anthony Fantano] What did you think of the album? Did you love it? Did you hate it?
• The album was infamously leaked months before its release. (I didn't listen to the leak.) Did you listen to it or not, and do you think it may have affected fan reception to the album?
• A big problem with concept albums is that they often have an elaborate concept that doesn't come across well in the lyrics. What do you think of Grimes' concept for this album and did she succeed at it? Do you have different readings of the lyrics than what I wrote?
• How would you say this album holds up against her others? Was the darker tonal shift a good thing? Would you have liked her to make a more upbeat or poppy album?
• How would you rank it this among the year's albums? Were they better on average, worse, etc.?

Feel free to ask me any other questions, bring up other topics as you like and I will respond to everyone. (I just have one request though: please for the love of god do not bring up Grimes' partner or child; I think it's messy and like I said, not very relevant to the album anyway.) Any other topic, no matter how "spicy", is fair game though. Just be nice.
Hope reading this was fun! We have more AOTY posts every day for the rest of the month, so be sure to check those out too.
WE APPRECIATE POPHEADS
- vayyiqra

NOTE: THIS IS INTENDED FOR ROYAL
Before we start, please note the following:

• This is a guide on what party members are best at and how to improve them so you make the best party based on your playstyle
  
• This guide refers to them by codename to avoid spoilers and goes in the order you obtain them in
  
• Getting a member’s confidant at rank 10 will give them a skill with a higher chance to evade the element they’re weak to
  
• In order to improve a party member, one of the things to use is the Jazz Club. Here’s a guide on how to use it
  
• If a member’s confidant is rank 10 during 3rd semester, you can visit them again for them to gain a new skill, an improved trait, and improved resistance
  

Now we shall begin

Mona:

Focuses on healing and wind attacks, with a few high critical physicals
Trait: Increases amount of hp restored when Mona/allies use healing skills
3rd semester trait: Same as before but also reduces SP cost of healing skills
Weak to: Electricity
Resistant to: Wind
3rd semester skill: Medium physical damage to all foes with high critical
Mona’s trait is pretty good early game, but soon both Mona and other members learn healing skills that heal all HP, making Mona’s trait useless, even the 3rd semester one.
Pros

• Best healer
  
• High critical skills
  
• Weakness isn’t a very common skill type
  

Cons

• Low defense
  
• Trait is only useful early game
  
• Weak attacks
  

What to improve
Should focus on improving their defense by using the Jazz club to raise their defense stat and maybe get Marakukaja. Use accessories that increase defense or magic
Overall
Mona isn’t bad, but they are outclassed by pretty much everyone. You should probably only use them for boss battles if you’re struggling, but you can get plenty of items to revive, cure, and heal allies. Mona is also an automatic confidant so they might not have as much confidant skills as others

Skull

Focuses on physical attacks with electrical skills
Trait: Chance to increase Skull’s/allies physical attacks by 40%
3rd semester trait: Same except 80%
Weak to: Wind
Resistant to: Electricity
3rd semester skill: All allies next physical attack will do more than double damage
Pros

• Strong physical attacks
  
• Great defense
  

Cons

• Low magic stat
  
• Low agility
  

What to improve
You don’t really need to improve Skull, because they should be used as a physical attacker which they’re already great at. If you are going to improve something, give them better magic or agility with the Jazz Club.
Overall
Skull is one of the most powerful allies in the game, and their trait goes great with other allies that use physical attacks. They also get Charge, which doubles their next physical attack. Definitely a solid member to keep in your party.

Panther

Focuses on high damage fire magic
Trait: May decrease SP cost for Panthers/allies magic skills
3rd semester trait: Same except with higher chance
Weak to: Ice
Resistant to: Fire
3rd semester skill: All allies next magic attack will do more than double damage
Pros

• Best magic damage
  
• Unlocks a severe magic skill
  
• Has healing and ailment capabilities
  

Cons

• Worst physical attacks
  
• So-so defense
  

What to improve
Panther is basically the magic version of Skull, so you don’t really need to improve magic. If you are going to improve a stat, it would be defense
Overall
Panther is another great member, being great for bosses. However SP might be used quickly with them.

Fox

Focuses on strong physical attacks and ice magic
Trait: Chance for Fox/allies to avoid physical attacks
Third semester trait: Same except with higher chance
Weak to: Fire
Resistant to: Ice
Third semester skill: All stats increased for all allies for three turns
Pros

• Great physical attacks
  
• Good agility
  

Cons

• Doesn’t naturally get charge unlike Skull
  
• So-so magic
  

What to improve
You should definitely get Charge from the Jazz Club for them, so they can keep up with Skull. Other than that, maybe defense and luck.
Overall
A solid choice. They’re slightly better at magic than Skull. But it’s best to use them in the same party as Skull, because of Skull’s trait. Unlike Skull though, Fox gets physical attacks that power up after a baton pass. If you give Fox the skill Charge, they’re worth using

Queen

All-rounder with Nuke skills to deal technical damage
Trait: Increases allies chance of inflicting burn/shock/freeze by 25%
3rd semester trait: Same except 50%
Weak to: Psy
Resistant to: Nuke
Third semester skill: All stats lowered on all enemies for three turns
Pros

• Good at everything
  
• Great healing
  
• Technical damage capabilities
  
• Weakness isn’t a common skill type
  
• Trait increases power of the most powerful teammates (Skull, Panther, Fox)
  
• Gets a severe skill
  

Cons

• Not a lot of enemies are weak to Nuke
  
• Trait is only used for certain teammates
  

What to improve
If you play billiards at Penguin Sniper, you increase the whole party’s technical rank. Getting max rank will cause every technical attack to down an enemy. Nuke skills do technical damage to enemies that are shocked, frozen, or burning. If you’re going to give Queen Jazz Club skills, they would go great with the stat increase/decrease skills. Concentrate is also a solid skill to give Queen.
Overall
Queen is arguably the best party member. I doubt they will ever leave your party, especially since they go well with other powerful teammates.

Noir

Uses Psy and Gun attacks to do technical damage
Trait: Decreases party’s chance of being inflicted by ailments
3rd semester trait: Same but with higher chance
Weak to: Nuke
Resistant to: Psy
Third semester skill: All allies reflect next magic and physical attack
Pros

• Weakness isn’t a common skill type
  
• Technical damage capabilities
  
• High critical attacks
  

Cons

• Isn’t the best at Magic and physical/gun
  
• Can’t unlock confidant abilities until late game
  
• Tetrakarn and Makarakarn aren’t going to be used much
  

What to improve
Just like Queen, increasing your technical rank will greatly boost them. If you do that, Noir can down all enemies inflicted with an ailment with Psy skills. If you get chaine’s hook by doing the Faith confidant, ambushing enemies from a distance causes them to immediately be inflicted with an ailment. If you do all that, Noir will be one of the best members for non-boss battles. However, if you don’t do all that, they aren’t worth using.
Overall
Noir’s power relies on what you did, if you did all the things mentioned above, they’re great. If you didn’t, they’re so-so. I suggest boosting the Psy skills, not the gun.

Crow

Uses bless and curse insta-kills
Trait: Chance of decreasing support skill’s SP cost
Weak to: Curse
Resistant to: Bless
Pros

• Uses both Bless and Curse skills
  
• Has insta-kill skills
  
• Has Almighty skills (almighty skills are powerful attacks that ememies can’t protect themselves from)
  
• Can revive teammates
  
• Has a good physical skill
  
• Gets Debilitate
  
• Most confidant skills are already unlocked when they join your party
  
• Has a severe skill
  

Cons

• Doesn’t get any skill boosts automatically, so they’re not the best for bosses
  
• Luck stat isn’t very high
  

What to improve
Crow gets high powered attacks, but no boosts for them, so use an accessory that either boosts Bless or Curse.
Overall
Crow is a great member for non-boss battles, as they can end the battle instantly. Definitely use them when you can.

REDACTED

Focuses on high powered attacks to ravish enemies
Trait: Chance to decrease support skill costs
3rd semester trait: Same but can also decrease Almighty skill cost
Weak to: Bless
Resistant to: Curse
3rd semester skill: Colossal Almighty damage to one foe, extra damage if foe is downed
Pros

• Almighty attacks
  
• Lower chance of being inflicted with Ailments
  
• Starts battle with an attack boost for three turns
  
• High stats
  
• Has debilitate
  
• Has severe skills
  

Cons

• Doesn’t have skill boosts
  
• Only has one skill to target weaknesses
  
• Weak to a common skill type
  

What to improve
You might want to give an accessory that nulls bless skills or gives a skill to target more weaknesses. Since they join you around the time Spell Master is available at the Jazz Club, they are a solid choice to give that skill
Overall
With no skill boosts, it’s best to use them after a baton pass. You don’t get their 3rd semester trait/skill until the final day, and even then you have to use the correct dialogue choices to get it. But besides that, great party member

Violet

Uses bless magic and powerful high critical physical skills
Trait: Allies may not be downed when hit with their weakness
3rd semester trait: Same but with higher chance
Weak to: Curse
Resistant to: Bless
3rd semester skill: Severe physical damage to one foe two times
Pros

• Great physical attacks
  
• High luck stat
  
• Can heal
  
• Great agility
  

Cons

• Lowest defense in the game
  
• So-so magic
  
• Weak to common skill type
  
• Can’t learn Charge, even from Jazz Club
  

What to improve
You might want to give them higher defense and Arm’s master from the Jazz Club. You can give them charge from a will seed accessory.
Overall
Violet would be best used with Skull do to Skull’s trait. Having Skull, Fox, and Violet in the same party could make you unstoppable. With high critical attacks, Violet can easily down an enemy. Only bad part is their low defense

Extra Tips

• Most members learn a skill that gets rid of a enemies resistance to their skill type. (Like Panther can get Fire break, which gets rid of enemies resistance to fire)

It is not recommend to keep these skills, most bosses don’t have resistances and they’re ways to kill enemies with resistances.
Queen and Noir can ignore resistances with technical attacks, Skull and Fox aren’t meant to be used as magic attackers, and Mona doesn’t do enough damage anyways.
Only member that could use it is Panther, because Fire is the only thing they’re good at.
If you want these skills, just have Joker get a persona that focuses on them.

• If you need room for an extra skill, I personally like to get rid of the magic attacks that only target one enemy. Skull, Fox, and Violet aren’t meant to be magic users, Morgana isn’t a powerful attacker, and Noir needs the room most. The only person I don’t use this for is Queen, because they have a severe to one foe skill. Crow and REDACTED are also an exception
  
• Use the party members that have the highest confidant rank
  
• Panther has more confidant skills that effect battles if you need another excuse to use Panther
  
• Gun attacks count as physical, so things like Skulls trait and Charge can boost it
  
• If you need healing, instead of just doing Auto-recover, you can go to your menu, press skills, and use a healing skill from someone not in your party. This way you don’t use the SP from your party
  

Team Builds

Physical attacks: Skull, Fox, Violet (Fox and/or Violet can be replaced with Noir and REDACTED)
Magic Attacks: Panther, Noir, Queen (One of them can be replaced with Crow or REDACTED)
Boss Battles: Panther, Skull, Queen (Queen can be replaced by Mona if you’re struggling)
Downing Enemies: Noir, Queen, Mona (Can replace Mona with Violet or Crow)
Critical Attacks: Violet, Mona, Noir
Quick Fights: Crow, Panther, Skull
Full Support: Queen, Noir, Crow (Can also use REDACTED, Skull, Fox)

So, I believe u/Rexthedinosaur2002 made a post about the Fool's Journey before. He believed John was in The Tower (Tarot card 16 of 21) as of now.
I'm gonna see if I agree by going through the story thus far:
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BEGINNINGS & CONSCIOUSNESS: "He is a fool because only a simple soul has the innocent faith to undertake such a journey with all its hazards and pain" (The Fool, 0). "The Magician....represents the active, masculine power of creative impulse. He is also our conscious awareness" (The Magician, 1).

• John is born, innocent and untainted.
• John becomes conscious/active.

UNCONSCIOUS AWARNESS & POTENTIAL: "The High Priestess is our unrealized potential waiting for an active principle to bring it to expression" (The High Priestess, 2).

• John has a lot of dormant potential as a result of his ancestry.

NATURE & SENSATION: John's parents influence him as he learns about the world (The Empress, 3)
ORDER & DISCIPLINE: John also learns about the Rules (The Emperor, 4). It's possible that John's mother represents the Emperor and John's father represents the Empress, instead of vice-versa. I don't think we know enough yet to say though.
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EDUCATION & GROUP IDENTIFICATION: "Eventually, the Fool ventures out of his home into the wider world. He is exposed to the beliefs and traditions of his culture and begins his formal education" (The Hierophant, 5).

• John goes to school, where he is bullied and learns about the hierarchy. He hates it, but he does meet Adrion along the way and finds his niche.

RELATIONSHIP & VALUES: "[The Fool] yearns for relationship. The Fool also needs to decide upon his own beliefs" (The Lovers, 6).

• John meets Claire, who befriends him and Adrion. This seems clear to me since it's revealed that John liked Claire. Claire helps John discover his ability, and John is overjoyed that he actually has one, placing value on power.

VICTORY & SELF-ASSERTION: "For the moment, the Fool's assertive success is all he might wish, and he feels a certain self-satisfaction (The Chariot, 7).

• John begins training and becomes stronger due to his discipline and willpower. He starts to win fights.

STRENGTH & COMPASSION: "Over time, life presents the Fool with new challenges, some that cause suffering and disillusionment" (Strength, 8).

• Here's where things start to go off the rails a bit. John becomes the strongest/ becomes king even after suffering setbacks like losing to Zirian. However, instead of rising above frustration and anger while learning tolerance, John gives in to excessive revenge and his fixation on power. This is still accounted for though: "At times, intense passions surface, just when the Fool thought he had everything, including himself, under control."

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INTROSPECTION/GUIDANCE/SOLITUDE: "The sensual world holds less attraction for him, and he seeks moments of solitude away from the frantic activity of society. In time he may seek a teacher or guide who can give him advice and direction" (The Hermit, 9).

• John is apprehended by the authorities and comes back unable to live with himself. The guide can either be seen as his father or unOrdinary itself. This part also signifies the destruction of John's friendships.

TURNING POINT & PERSONAL VISION: "When the Fool glimpses the beauty and order of the world, if only briefly, he finds some of the answers he is seeking" (Wheel of Fortune, 10).

• John reads unOrdinary and rather than thinking he can be like the hero in the book, he takes it as assurance that there are other people like that in the world to make it a better place since he doesn't trust himself to do it. "Having been solitary, he feels ready for movement and action again." He starts hanging out with his dad, exercising, and trying to get into Wellston...he succeeds and turns everything around.

RESPONSIBILITY & DECISION: "He looks back over his life to trace the cause and effect relationships that have brought him to this point. He takes responsibility for his past actions so he can make amends and ensure a more honest course for the future" (Justice, 11).

• John becomes like his dad and decides to not use his power at all in order to not hurt other people. He protects some people from getting bullied and tries to live his best life. It is in this step that attends Wellston and meets Seraphina. However, John is now at a crossroads: "Will he remain true to his insights, or will he slip back into an easier, more unaware existence that closes off further growth?" By using a persona instead of bettering his true self, however, he actually closes himself off from further growth.

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LETTING GO & REVERSAL: "Sooner or later, he encounters his personal cross - an experience that seems too difficult to endure. This overwhelming challenge humbles him until he has no choice but to give up and let go" (The Hanged Man, 12).

• I think this would be John's month without Seraphina and Arlo's betrayal. This leads into Sera's ability loss and John's struggle with how he should help her. Eventually, John lets go of some of his inhibitions: "At first, the Fool feels defeated and lost. He believes he has sacrificed everything, but from the depths he learns an amazing truth. He finds that when he relinquishes his struggle for control, everything begins to work as it should. By becoming open and vulnerable, the Fool discovers the miraculous support of his Inner Self." The difference here is that his inner self is quite vengeful instead of reaching a peace and tranquility. He lets everything go out of control actually, not really releasing control.

ENDING & ELIMINATION: "The Fool now begins to eliminate old habits and tired approaches" (Death, 13).

• This process starts during Episode 107, when John becomes so frustrated with himself for not acting when Sera got beat up by Zeke that he punches the wall and becomes Tuesd-I mean Joker. John starts to lash out at the people that hurt Sera and himself. His black speech bubbles become even more frequent, and his William-esque personality begins to die. He even has this internal monologue where he concludes that "power is the only thing that matters" and stops thinking that people will ever listen to reason. This process seems to end around Episode 131/132, when John comforts Sera after her kidnapping and then he declares war against the hierarchy. This is also when his white speech bubbles stop completely.

TEMPERANCE & COMBINATION: "Now, he realizes the balancing stability of temperance (14). He discovers true poise and equilibrium" (Temperance, 14).

• Another way that John's Fool's Journey is like a more dark/twisted version: he becomes more confident and cunning now that he's set his mind on destroying the hierarchy. He's still angry, but it seems like he's completely in control. No one can stop him.

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HOPELESSNESS: "The Fool has his health, peace of mind and a graceful composure. What more could he need?...The Devil is not an evil, sinister figure residing outside of us. He is the knot of ignorance and hopelessness lodged within each of us at some level" (The Devil, 15).

• While John is the furthest from peace of mind and graceful composure, he does fall away into hopelessness when Sera confronts him about being Joker. He feels like Sera has gone behind his back and talked to people John hates and now thinks he is a monster, regardless of whether or not she actually does think so. Thinking she betrayed him, he loses himself and succumbs to anger and power fixation once again...losing trust for everyone so he can only rely on himself. And then, his hopelessness becomes complete when Zeke attacks him due to his secret being out. He literally says "it's hopeless" and just admits that he's a monster...or perhaps a devil.

DOWNFALL/SUDDEN CHANGE/RELEASE: "How can the Fool free himself from the Devil?...The Tower is the ego fortress each of us has built around his beautiful inner core. Gray, cold and rock-hard, this fortress seems to protect but is really a prison" (The Tower, 16).

• John constructed his tower after Arlo put doubt in his mind about Cecile and when Safe House was founded. In response to those events, John keeps everyone at a distance and threatens all who cross him with pain, falling further into anger. This is where we are now in the story, so I agree that John is currently in The Tower. So what happens next?
• "On Card 16 we see an enlightening bolt striking this building. It has ejected the occupants who seem to be tumbling to their deaths. The crown indicates they were once proud rulers; now they are humbled by a force stronger than they. The Fool may need such a severe shakeup if he is to free himself, but the resulting revelation makes the painful experience worthwhile. The dark despair is blasted away in an instant, and the light of truth is free to shine down." So, if we're going by the Fool's Journey, John might lose his status as king, whether he gives it up or it is taken from him. In addition, whatever happens will break him out of his shell and allow him to trust/be hopeful again.
• Also, the change will be sudden. This may come in the form of someone taking the amplifier and beating John, which likely won't change his worldview, or someone will have to talk to John and convince him to change. Maybe John's mom or dad will come back to try and help him. Maybe John will be taken down by Vaughn and potentially expelled, but that will not change John's worldview and will come off as repetitive. Or perhaps John will be betrayed by Zeke and Cecile, although that's not quite sudden and also not help him at all. There's also the association of lightning in the card to go over, since that's Remi's ability. I don't think she could beat him in a fight, but Remi might have a hand in breaking through John's shell. Or maybe the revelation that Remi's brother was a superhero could do something. I'm not sure.
• I think though that Sera will have to be one of the people that convinces him. Her getting her ability back would certainly be sudden and unexpected, and if Sera wins a fight against John, he will have no choice but to listen to her. While this will reinforce John's opinion that power matters, Sera still might be able to convince him that it's not the only thing that matters. Again, I don't know, but I do think that the next card supports this theory if John's story does indeed follow the Fool's Journey.

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HOPE/SERENITY/GENEROSITY: "The Fool is blessed with a trust that completely replaces the negative energies of the Devil. His faith in himself and the future is restored. He is filled with joy and his one wish is to share it generously with the rest of the world" (The Star, 17).

• The picture on the card is that of a woman. I believe that Seraphina is the Star, as she is in the unique position to be able to defeat John in battle and to get through to him as well. In addition, her name means "fiery/burning ones." In this stage, John will finally be able to trust himself and others.

FEAILLUSION/BEWILDERMENT: "What effect could spoil this perfect calm? Is there another challenge for the Fool? In fact, it is his bliss that makes him vulnerable to the illusions of the Moon" (The Moon, 18).

• I think in this stage, John wants to make a positive change in the world, but he still doubts himself too much and is scared of himself. Either that, or he believes that he can live how he used to as his cripple persona. For example, let's say for the sake of argument that he refused to use his powers once again and just hung out in Safe House. This doesn't really help since he's already attacked Safe House before and don't trust him, even if Sera were to be friends with him again. What he really needs is to merge a good nature with the power to change things for the better.

ENLIGHTENMENT/GREATNESS/ASSURANCE: "No challenge is too daunting. The Fool feels a radiant vitality. He becomes involved in grand undertakings as he draws to himself everything he needs. He is able to realize his greatness" (The Sun, 19).

• I think this would symbolize John finally understanding that he truly can be like the main character of unOrdinary instead of thinking he cannot. If he puts the effort into changing himself and making amends for what he has done, it will serve as proof that he actually can do it.

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REBIRTH/INNER CALLING/ABSOLUTION: "The Fool feels absolved. He forgives himself and others, knowing that his real self is pure and good. He may regret past mistakes, but he knows they were due to his ignorance of his true nature. He feels cleansed and refreshed, ready to start anew" (Judgement, 20).

• This would be John truly accepting himself and making the changes necessary to live as he should. John recognizes that he has changed himself and he can finally do perform good works in the wider world. "He discovers his true vocation - his reason for entering this life. Doubts and hesitations vanish, and he is ready to follow his dream."

INTEGRATION/INVOLVEMENT/FULFILLMENT: "In line with his personal calling, he becomes actively involved in the world. He renders service by sharing his unique gifts and talents and finds that he prospers at whatever he attempts" (The World/ZA WARUDO, 21).

• This is John actually making changes in the world and reforming the hierarchy, perhaps. This would probably be during the endgame of the story. This could encompass fights with EMBER, Spectre, and/or the Authorities. After that's over and a new order is achieved, the story will likely end. We might get a redemption by death, John having to give up his ability, John becoming a member of the new authorities, John just going home to be a family man, or even John becoming an ability trainer, helping people develop their abilities as well as their minds in order to prevent people from going through what he did. Not sure, I'm just some guy on Reddit.

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Edit: Wow, I didn't think this would get gold. First one I've ever gotten. Thank you very much u/DemiNeveWinter!

When I played Persona 4 Golden earlier this year, I fell in love with some aspects (the characters, the atmosphere, the music), and tolerated others at best. With the advent of Persona 5 Royal, and my cousin letting me borrow his PS4, I found myself swept up in the hype of a game that blew my expectations away and then some. It truly felt like someone at Atlus had been looking over my shoulder while I played the previous game and took detailed notes about what to improve in the sequel. I can honestly say that it’s an upgrade across the board in just about every way that matters to me, and I can wholeheartedly, without any caveats, recommend it to anyone with an interest in this series. If you like anime, if you want to get into JRPGs and don’t know where to start, or maybe you’re like me and you just thought the memes and fanart were cute, you owe it to yourself to give this game a shot.
It’s enough for me to want to go back and retroactively make this my game of the year for 2017, which was a pretty stacked roster in itself. Everything seemed to come together, the right team at the right time with the right idea, to catapult what was a pretty niche franchise into AAA stardom to rub shoulders with the Zeldas and Marios as among the best in its class. Even now, with the release of Royal, it’s easily my GOTY now, due in some part to the anemic list of releases, but that’s another topic altogether. I’ll try to keep this review/essay focused on the game itself rather than just comparing it to 4, but given that it was my primary entry point to the series, I will make frequent references to that game, so SPOILERS for both ensue.
What I found most immediately charming about Inaba was its sense of time and place. The shuttered businesses, the barren main street, the anxious town with the specter of death over it while a group of carefree teens made plans to go to the mall on their clamshell flip phones captured a dichotomy that I hadn’t felt explored in other games. Whether the developers intended to or not, they created a late 00s period piece that resonated with me quite strongly as someone who was roughly the same age as the protagonist in that time. I would imagine sentiment would follow for those younger than I, as 5 is much more proactive and hyperactive in its presentation. The game is a feast for the eyes, proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that a cohesive style and aesthetic will far outlast the shiniest graphics, as it makes the most of its visuals to draw the player in. The UI itself is a masterclass in action, there are entire games with budgets and teams that dwarf Persona 5 that don’t have as much personality as the pause menu in this one, the way the icons jiggle and pop practically begging you to click on them next.
The other pillar holding up its remarkable sense of style is the music, and between 4 and 5 I’m genuinely torn as to which I like better. 5 definitely has the edge when it comes to production value, but the jazzy, upbeat soundtrack is also more content to sit in the background and provide an accompaniment to the city living, in contrast to 4’s loud, gaudy pop earworms, each one an anime opening in the making. While it takes center stage during key moments, most of the time, the soundtrack is this constantly undulating rhythm in the back of the player’s mind, rising and falling with the action, keeping the pulse going like the click clack of wheels upon the train tracks. Undoubtedly, my favorite song is Beneath the Mask, a melancholy tune that sounds like a rainy night and a dying cigarette in an ashtray, the perfect soundtrack to a place of sanctuary after a long day. The nebulous subject of its lyrics leaves it open to many different interpretations: a well-deserved rest after great triumph, or crushing loss and setback; a private moment shared between two lovers, or a reflection on the emptiness of the room itself, alone with one’s thoughts. It’s hard to compare soundtracks in a year with Nier Automata on the roster, but 5 absolutely passes the “would I listen to this outside of the game willingly” test. Just as Heartbreak, Heartbreak became synonymous with me doing laundry and other chores over the summer, I came to associate Beneath the Mask with my commute in the fall, under cover of darkness. I think it’s special when you can tie a game to a certain moment in your life, and this one certainly did it for me. Overall, it was the slower paced, more moody tracks like this and Sunset Bridge that stuck with me, proving that music does not have to be a spectacular front and center banger to play an essential role in the drama, though the game has its fair share of those (Life Will Change, Last Surprise, and Rivers in the Desert being standouts).
The change in setting is not limited to the audiovisual aspects, however, as the game itself feels faster and more anxious, almost oppressively so, as moving to the city from the middle of nowhere would feel. Gone is the lackadaisical, laid back intro of the prior game. Here, you are thrust into the driver’s seat immediately, before the game splashes water in your face and asks you where you were on the night of the 12th between the hours of such and such. I thought the opening hours of the game were a fantastic way of setting the stage, as we’re wowed by the prospect of Ocean’s Eleven but anime and then brought back down to Earth via the interrogation as a framing device for the story. I like it because it splits the story into neat chunks, each Palace its own arc. Coming out of Persona 4, my two biggest questions were A: If adults like Adachi are aware of and can manipulate the Shadow World, why have there been no formal attempts to study it? And B: What if the Investigation Team didn’t stop after uncovering the killer?
I was delighted to discover that not only does 5 address these topics, but the latter defines the conceit of the whole game, placing the Thieves’ idealism for a better world against bigger and bigger targets, a fitting escalation for a big name sequel. The former question is a major subplot in the story, though the answers I came up with in my head were grander than what ended up being presented. I appreciated how this turn of events resulted in the gang being more proactive, i.e. seeking out targets to punish them for their misdeeds, rather than purely reactive like the kids in 4, who had to wait for each kidnapping to happen in turn before acting. Persona 5 is a much harsher world in comparison, one that demands that its protagonist hit the ground running and get going fast. You’ve been sent to juvie on trumped up charges, nobody wants you around, you’re shoved into an old, dusty attic as a ward of the state, and everyone is looking for an excuse to get you expelled or worse. Even walking down the hallway invites comments from onlookers and rubberneckers who aren’t sure yet if they want to look down on or admire you. All this set dressing contributes to a city that feels just alive enough to allow your imagination to color in the margins and give a much better impression of a cramped metropolis with a beating heart than a big open world would.
It’s natural, then, that the protagonist would come to identify with others who fell through the cracks like he did, others who people judged by the masks they wore other than their true character. With Yu it seemed like he immediately formed lifelong bonds with the first three kids he met on the way to class. Ryuji’s and Ann’s friendships feel like they develop more naturally, first as a result of being backed into a corner together with nowhere to go, and gradually getting to know each other as people. It’s as if Atlus took a good look at the broad archetypes they established with Yosuke, Yukiko, Rise, etc and realized them into more fully fledged characters. I loved hanging out with all of the Thieves, getting to know their inner lives and it pained me that I couldn’t max them all in the allotted time. It’s impressive that they managed to build up such a strong portfolio of confidants with their own storylines and character moments without stepping on each other or retreading old ground. I even liked hanging out with Mishima, probably because he’s the one closest in spirit to what fans of this game are actually like, as opposed to Joker’s more aspirational mystique.
For the longest time, I thought that the first Palace was the game’s high point. At no other point in the base game did I feel like the player motivations and the character’s motivations were so intertwined on a base level. Kamoshida is such an excellent starting point because right away, you hate him on multiple different fronts: for antagonizing you (and by extension, the player), for being an abusive monster to your friends and classmates, and because of the corrupt authority he represents and the power structures that enable him, nurturing the seed of rebellion planted within Joker and his friends. It’s not a coincidence that all of the Thieves are latchkey kids with absent/aloof parents. That neglect, intentional or otherwise, fostered a lingering sense of ennui and discontent that lets them get wrapped up in the Thieves’ romantic struggle against societal norms. It’s an adventure, and you want to get carried away in it just as much as they do, that investment feeling all the more bittersweet when it comes crashing down around them. It does a brilliant job of selling the illusion of putting the player in the driver’s seat and letting them dictate the pacing of the plot, all by changing a few of the circumstances around how the Palaces are tackled, and though you are given an abundance of activities to dedicate your time towards, I never felt confused about what I should do, because they were all equally viable methods of advancing the player’s goals.
Since I brought up the Palaces, I should mention perhaps the single biggest improvement over the previous entry, and that is the way this game handles the dungeon crawling aspect of the game. For starters, Palaces/Dungeons are actual discrete spaces now with proper level design (!) that draws upon the chosen theme in a meaningful way to make them all distinct from one another. It’s a huge step up from ten floors of the same randomly generated slog with different wallpaper every single time. Traversal is overhauled, and the quarter-assed stealth mechanics from 4 are realized into the ambush system here that makes entering combat feel like a tactical decision on your part rather than having Yu swing his bat in the vague direction of an enemy. Joker and the Thieves move at a brisk, animated pace, zipping around between hiding spots and looking for an angle of attack rather than blundering through a bunch of copy pasted hallways. Other big, big pluses include: not having to fight every single enemy to squeeze out the xp needed to fight the boss, not having to fight trash mobs at all with Ryuji’s level 7 perk, having more items and perks to mitigate the war of attrition on your SP early on, there being an actual reason to go out of your way to explore in the form of Will Seeds. The list goes on. And if you do want that down home grind, there’s always Mementos, which I actually enjoyed my time in, largely because of the aforementioned reasons. Side quests in 4 always amounted to talk to this random guy who asks for a vendor trash item you probably got rid of when mashing sell all at the ironworks shop. Now they manifest as minibosses in Mementos, which ties into the whole vigilante justice hero of the people angle that the Thieves thrive on. Again, taking something that kinda worked before and improving it by marrying the themes and the gameplay. Also, everyone gets guns, which would be great on its own, but is amplified by the fact that they actually do work.
Not all of the Palaces are bangers, I think the 2nd and 3rd suffer the most from lackluster villains but they do their job as a sort of training arc showing how the Thieves escalate in terms of targets and notoriety as well as expanding their own roster. Futaba’s Palace is a highlight and one of the better story dungeons, and I appreciate how it broadened the scope of the setting by showing that people had indeed attempted to research the Metaverse in an academic fashion, but were struck down by some shadowy force. This is where my brain took over and started imagining much wider implications that the game ultimately didn’t explore, like the government having access to a black ops unit of Persona users who could change hearts and inflict mental shutdowns at will, but I’ll come back to that later. Suffice it to say that Sae’s Palace is another excellent addition with a dope theme, but what follows immediately after doesn’t so much bring the story to a halt as much as it gets t-boned by a mile long train of awkward, clunky exposition.
You ever play an action game, and right in the middle of it, the game stops and shows you a cutscene of your character doing all these badass choreographed moves for minutes on end, that you would never be able to do in the game itself, that’s just this long, laborious display that leaves you thinking “wow, that looks cool, I wish I was playing that instead of just watching”?
This is the narrative equivalent of that.
All along, we’ve stuck by Joker’s side. Very occasionally, the game will shift perspective to a fly on the wall of the villains so they can twirl their mustaches for a few but by and large, the player and protagonist are one in the same from beginning to end. They even go through the trouble of giving him amnesia at the start so that your Joker can retell the story as he remembers it. This is important because it establishes that the player knows what the protagonist knows, and vice versa. This whole segment throws that all out the window and reveals that Joker and the rest of the Thieves colluded in a secret gambit to expose Akechi that the player had no knowledge of and could not contribute to even if they wanted it. It’s like the devs rip the controller out of your hands and tell you to keep all limbs inside the car because you’re on their ride now and you’re going to experience it exactly as we intended even if it completely divorces the player from the shared experience of the protagonist by shoehorning all this shit that supposedly happened offscreen into what is supposed to be the emotional climax of the story. It feels like an overcorrection of the equivalent moment in 4, except in that one you had to choose the exact string of responses the devs wanted lest you be booted to the credits. Here, it’s just flashback after flashback crowbarred into the story, sometimes in succession to such a degree that I began to feel like it was losing the all important emotional investment built up. Narratively, it’s supposed to be a moment of triumph as everyone congratulates Joker on pulling off his masterstroke idea of faking his death flawlessly but in practice it feels like that meme of Michael from the Office shaking hands with his old boss, the player taking credit for something they had no part in, but would have liked to be in on. It’s not a dealbreaker, but it is annoying considering how closely intertwined the journey of player and protagonist had been up to that point
Another nitpick before we move on from here, I really thought that Joker’s constant flashbacks to the inciting event where he punched Shido but was unable to remember him were building to something. I legitimately thought that Shido had masterminded this scheme where he got Joker enrolled into Shujin and purposefully nudged him towards radicalization and forming the Thieves so that he could have a crew of fall guys to take down in his ascent to the top. I expected that Joker’s amnesia was a by-product of this mind tampering, but apparently he’s just an idiot who has this chip on his shoulder when it comes to authority but for some reason is unable to put a name to the face of the man who first put him behind bars. I also thought it was a bit cheesy that Shido had ties to literally every major villain they had faced up to that point. By the end I was half expecting him to reveal that he was the one driving the car that ran over Kawakami’s favorite student back in the day. Some real Reverse Flash “IT WAS ME BARRY” shit going on there, but I digress. Shido’s a good villain, and a fitting end to the escalation that the Thieves had going. I also loved the development that even though Shido had a change of heart, the movement behind him was still going, because the systems of power that allowed him to get where he was and exercise his will ran deeper than any of the Thieves knew, and it would take more than changing one heart to turn things around this time.
What follows is pretty iffy for me. I’m a firm believer that all the supernatural Metaverse stuff should take a backseat to or be a vehicle for the interpersonal drama between the characters we’ve come to know. It’s flavor text and set dressing, important to the story and atmosphere, but not its focus. When you try to put backstory and worldbuilding into the foreground, especially in the drama first storytelling that Persona is going for, you end up with Yaldaboath, a boring ass cup in the basement of Mementos who speaks in riddles and soaks up damage like a sponge. Nothing about this fight feels as climactic as the last because the player had no idea they existed until about 15-20 minutes ago. I liked the reveal with Igor and the conversations with the crew in the Velvet Room, but beyond that a confrontation with a shiny god of Some Abstract Proper Noun just feels really lame without any requisite emotional context. Capping him in the face with a three story Glock was pretty cool though, so props for that. And, it sets the stage for the Royal content, the single best arc in the game.
I’d heard the third semester in this game hyped up before I got into the series, and it deserves every bit of praise. Again, it’s like someone at Atlus predicted my comments on the previous final boss and tailor made an arc full of closure and emotional resonance because the characters coming into conflict with each other are people with complex relationships and not just jumbles of polygons with a health bar and an ominous monologue. I love the It’s a Wonderful Life AU aspect of the dream world, making it genuinely difficult to try and turn people like Ann away from this place where they could forget their awful traumas and just be regular teens. I loved seeing Kasumi go from a pretty bland and boring confidant to literally rediscovering herself and becoming a wholly realized person for it. Akechi’s presence in this arc is my favorite in the game and his snide comments and deliciously over the top ferocity in combat shot him up the charts of best characters now that he was able to comfortably go mask off. It’s fantastic hearing him address the Thieves with previously barely concealed and now open contempt, but he reserves the worst barbs for Maruki, who’s so kind and affable that it almost makes you forget how crazy his plan is. Instead of lecturing you to death or getting too heady, he appeals to the same ideals that Joker did in forming the Thieves, creating an interesting foil with motivations that are arguably more noble than the main characters, but that alone cannot justify what he’s done. It’s a tricky situation to unpack, but I think it’s easily the best written part of the game, and left me feeling whole and satisfied by the end.
As exhaustive as this may seem, there are still things left I haven’t even touched on, like that one honestly fucked up scene where Joker leave Ryuji to be assaulted for no reason, or how much better Akechi is than Adachi even though they fill the same role of cop who's actually a secret incel, or the hundreds of smaller quality of life improvements that make the game less of a chore and more of an addictive rush as you get swept up in this other world. My total playtime clocked in at just under 130 hours, an absolutely massive jump from the 75 or so I’d spent with 4, after foolishly assuming I’d knock the sequel out in about a month or so. When I finished the game, I was exhausted, I was ready for it to be over, and wanted to move onto something else, but I was also wistful. I carried within myself the knowledge that I would never play it for the first time again, and consciously or unconsciously I would spend the next few weeks looking for something to fill the Phantom Thief shaped hole in my chest. I had so thoroughly been engrossed in this world and its characters that I don’t quite feel ready to say goodbye, even if the prospect of NG+ still seems daunting. As in some of the best games, like Nier Automata or Red Dead Redemption 2, this first full playthrough feels so complete to me, that it almost seems wrong to go back and disturb the world as I left it, because I played my part, and it’s at peace now.
I had assumed that I would hate an ending where, after everything, Joker moves away. Why, after so much investment and time spent building friendships that would last a lifetime, would he simply go back to nothing? I wasn’t prepared for how natural it would feel. How everyone expressed their desire to grow as people, first beyond the labels others ascribed to them, and then the label of Thief they applied to themselves, to become men and women who could affect society in their own way, wholly distinct from any god given supernatural power. It felt surprisingly mature for the series to advocate for a break from escapism, and instilled within me a desire to move on as well. I have no idea what Persona 6 will look like, but it’s going to be hard to replicate the leap in quality, as they’ve outdone themselves to create what’s become one of my favorite games.

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No	Series	Episode
1	TOS*	The Cage
2	TOS	Where No Man Has Gone Before
3	TOS	The Corbomite Maneuver
4	TOS	Mudd's Women
5	TOS	The Enemy Within
6	TOS	The Man Trap
7	TOS	The Naked Time
8	TOS	Charlie X
9	TOS	Balance of Terror
10	TOS	What Are Little Girls Made Of?
11	TOS	Dagger of the Mind
12	TOS	Miri
13	TOS	The Conscience of the King
14	TOS	The Galileo Seven
15	TOS	Court Martial
16	TOS	The Menagerie, Part I
17	TOS	The Menagerie, Part II
18	TOS	Shore Leave
19	TOS	The Squire of Gothos
20	TOS	Arena
21	TOS	The Alternative Factor
22	TOS	Tomorrow is Yesterday
23	TOS	The Return of the Archons
24	TOS	A Taste of Armageddon
25	TOS	Space Seed
26	TOS	This Side of Paradise
27	TOS	The Devil in the Dark
28	TOS	Errand of Mercy
29	TOS	The City on the Edge of Forever
30	TOS	Operation -- Annihilate!
31	TOS	Catspaw
32	TOS	Metamorphosis
33	TOS	Friday's Child
34	TOS	Who Mourns for Adonais?
35	TOS	Amok Time
36	TOS	The Doomsday Machine
37	TOS	Wolf in the Fold
38	TOS	The Changeling
39	TOS	The Apple
40	TOS	Mirror, Mirror
41	TOS	The Deadly Years
42	TOS	I, Mudd
43	TOS	The Trouble with Tribbles
44	TOS	Bread and Circuses
45	TOS	Journey to Babel
46	TOS	A Private Little War
47	TOS	The Gamesters of Triskelion
48	TOS	Obsession
49	TOS	The Immunity Syndrome
50	TOS	A Piece of the Action
51	TOS	By Any Other Name
52	TOS	Return to Tomorrow
53	TOS	Patterns of Force
54	TOS	The Ultimate Computer
55	TOS	The Omega Glory
56	TOS	Assignment: Earth
57	TOS	Spectre of the Gun
58	TOS	Elaan of Troyius
59	TOS	The Paradise Syndrome
60	TOS	The Enterprise Incident
61	TOS	And the Children Shall Lead
62	TOS	Spock's Brain
63	TOS	Is There in Truth No Beauty?
64	TOS	The Empath
65	TOS	The Tholian Web
66	TOS	For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
67	TOS	Day of the Dove
68	TOS	Plato's Stepchildren
69	TOS	Wink of an Eye
70	TOS	That Which Survives
71	TOS	Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
72	TOS	Whom Gods Destroy
73	TOS	The Mark of Gideon
74	TOS	The Lights of Zetar
75	TOS	The Cloud Minders
76	TOS	The Way to Eden
77	TOS	Requiem for Methuselah
78	TOS	The Savage Curtain
79	TOS	All Our Yesterdays
80	TOS	Turnabout Intruder
81	TAS	Beyond the Farthest Star
82	TAS	Yesteryear
83	TAS	One of Our Planets Is Missing
84	TAS	The Lorelei Signal
85	TAS	More Tribbles, More Troubles
86	TAS	The Survivor
87	TAS	The Infinite Vulcan
88	TAS	The Magicks of Megas-Tu
89	TAS	Once Upon a Planet
90	TAS	Mudd's Passion
91	TAS	The Terratin Incident
92	TAS	The Time Trap
93	TAS	The Ambergris Element
94	TAS	The Slaver Weapon
95	TAS	The Eye of the Beholder
96	TAS	The Jihad
97	TAS	The Pirates of Orion
98	TAS	Bem
99	TAS	The Practical Joker
100	TAS	Albatross
101	TAS	How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
102	TAS	The Counter-Clock Incident
103	Film	Star Trek: The Motion Picture
104	Film	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
105	Film	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
106	Film	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
107	Film	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
108	Film	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
109	TNG	Encounter at Farpoint
110	TNG	The Naked Now
111	TNG	Code of Honor
112	TNG	The Last Outpost
113	TNG	Where No One Has Gone Before
114	TNG	Lonely Among Us
115	TNG	Justice
116	TNG	The Battle
117	TNG	Hide and Q
118	TNG	Haven
119	TNG	The Big Goodbye
120	TNG	Datalore
121	TNG	Angel One
122	TNG	11001001
123	TNG	Too Short a Season
124	TNG	When The Bough Breaks
125	TNG	Home Soil
126	TNG	Coming of Age
127	TNG	Heart of Glory
128	TNG	The Arsenal of Freedom
129	TNG	Symbiosis
130	TNG	Skin of Evil
131	TNG	We'll Always Have Paris
132	TNG	Conspiracy
133	TNG	The Neutral Zone
134	TNG	The Child
135	TNG	Where Silence Has Lease
136	TNG	Elementary, Dear Data
137	TNG	The Outrageous Okona
138	TNG	Loud As A Whisper
139	TNG	The Schizoid Man
140	TNG	Unnatural Selection
141	TNG	A Matter Of Honor
142	TNG	The Measure Of A Man
143	TNG	The Dauphin
144	TNG	Contagion
145	TNG	The Royale
146	TNG	Time Squared
147	TNG	The Icarus Factor
148	TNG	Pen Pals
149	TNG	Q Who
150	TNG	Samaritan Snare
151	TNG	Up The Long Ladder
152	TNG	Manhunt
153	TNG	The Emissary
154	TNG	Peak Performance
155	TNG	Shades of Gray
156	TNG	Evolution
157	TNG	The Ensigns of Command
158	TNG	The Survivors
159	TNG	Who Watches The Watchers
160	TNG	The Bonding
161	TNG	Booby Trap
162	TNG	The Enemy
163	TNG	The Price
164	TNG	The Vengeance Factor
165	TNG	The Defector
166	TNG	The Hunted
167	TNG	The High Ground
168	TNG	Deja Q
169	TNG	A Matter of Perspective
170	TNG	Yesterday's Enterprise
171	TNG	The Offspring
172	TNG	Sins of the Father
173	TNG	Allegiance
174	TNG	Captain's Holiday
175	TNG	Tin Man
176	TNG	Hollow Pursuits
177	TNG	The Most Toys
178	TNG	Sarek
179	TNG	Ménage à Troi
180	TNG	Transfigurations
181	TNG	The Best of Both Worlds
182	TNG	The Best of Both Worlds, Part II
183	TNG	Family
184	TNG	Brothers
185	TNG	Suddenly Human
186	TNG	Remember Me
187	TNG	Legacy
188	TNG	Reunion
189	TNG	Future Imperfect
190	TNG	Final Mission
191	TNG	The Loss
192	TNG	Data's Day
193	TNG	The Wounded
194	TNG	Devil's Due
195	TNG	Clues
196	TNG	First Contact
197	TNG	Galaxy's Child
198	TNG	Night Terrors
199	TNG	Identity Crisis
200	TNG	The Nth Degree
201	TNG	Qpid
202	TNG	The Drumhead
203	TNG	Half a Life
204	TNG	The Host
205	TNG	The Mind's Eye
206	TNG	In Theory
207	TNG	Redemption
208	TNG	Redemption II
209	TNG	Darmok
210	TNG	Ensign Ro
211	TNG	Silicon Avatar
212	TNG	Disaster
213	TNG	The Game
214	TNG	Unification I
215	TNG	Unification II
216	TNG	A Matter of Time
217	TNG	New Ground
218	TNG	Hero Worship
219	TNG	Violations
220	TNG	The Masterpiece Society
221	TNG	Conundrum
222	TNG	Power Play
223	TNG	Ethics
224	TNG	The Outcast
225	TNG	Cause and Effect
226	TNG	The First Duty
227	TNG	Cost of Living
228	TNG	The Perfect Mate
229	TNG	Imaginary Friend
230	TNG	I Borg
231	TNG	The Next Phase
232	TNG	The Inner Light
233	TNG	Time's Arrow
234	TNG	Time's Arrow, Part II
235	TNG	Realm of Fear
236	TNG	Man of the People
237	TNG	Relics
238	TNG	Schisms
239	TNG	True Q
240	TNG	Rascals
241	TNG	A Fistful of Datas
242	TNG	The Quality of Life
243	TNG	Chain of Command, Part I
244	TNG	Chain of Command, Part II
245	DS9	Emissary
246	DS9	Past Prologue
247	DS9	A Man Alone
248	DS9	Babel
249	DS9	Captive Pursuit
250	DS9	Q-Less
251	DS9	Dax
252	DS9	The Passenger
253	DS9	Move Along Home
254	DS9	The Nagus
255	DS9	Vortex
256	DS9	Battle Lines
257	DS9	The Storyteller
258	DS9	Progress
259	DS9	If Wishes Were Horses
260	DS9	The Forsaken
261	DS9	Dramatis Personae
262	DS9	Duet
263	DS9	In the Hands of the Prophets
264	DS9	The Homecoming
265	DS9	The Circle
266	DS9	The Siege
267	DS9	Invasive Procedures
268	DS9	Cardassians
269	DS9	Melora
270	DS9	Rules of Acquisition
271	DS9	Necessary Evil
272	DS9	Second Sight
273	DS9	Sanctuary
274	DS9	Rivals
275	DS9	The Alternate
276	DS9	Armageddon Game
277	DS9	Whispers
278	DS9	Paradise
279	DS9	Shadowplay
280	DS9	Playing God
281	DS9	Profit and Loss
282	DS9	Blood Oath
283	TNG	Ship in a Bottle
284	TNG	Aquiel
285	TNG	Face of the Enemy
286	TNG	Tapestry
287	TNG	Birthright, Part I
288	TNG	Birthright, Part II
289	TNG	Starship Mine
290	TNG	Lessons
291	TNG	The Chase
292	TNG	Frame of Mind
293	TNG	Suspicions
294	TNG	Rightful Heir
295	TNG	Second Chances
296	TNG	Timescape
297	TNG	Descent
298	TNG	Descent, Part II
299	TNG	Liaisons
300	TNG	Interface
301	TNG	Gambit, Part I
302	TNG	Gambit, Part II
303	TNG	Phantasms
304	TNG	Dark Page
305	TNG	Attached
306	TNG	Force of Nature
307	TNG	Inheritance
308	TNG	Parallels
309	TNG	The Pegasus
310	TNG	Homeward
311	TNG	Sub Rosa
312	TNG	Lower Decks
313	TNG	Thine Own Self
314	TNG	Masks
315	TNG	Eye of the Beholder
316	TNG	Genesis
317	TNG	Journey's End
318	DS9	The Maquis, Part I
319	DS9	The Maquis, Part II
320	TNG	Firstborn
321	TNG	Bloodlines
322	TNG	Emergence
323	TNG	Preemptive Strike
324	TNG	All Good Things...
325	Film	Star Trek Generation
326	DS9	The Wire
327	DS9	Crossover
328	DS9	The Collaborator
329	DS9	Tribunal
330	DS9	The Jem'Hadar
331	DS9	The Search, Part I
332	DS9	The Search, Part II
333	DS9	The House of Quark
334	DS9	Equilibrium
335	DS9	Second Skin
336	DS9	The Abandoned
337	DS9	Civil Defense
338	DS9	Meridian
339	DS9	Defiant
340	DS9	Fascination
341	DS9	Past Tense, Part I
342	DS9	Past Tense, Part II
343	VOY	Caretaker
344	VOY	Parallax
345	VOY	Time and Again
346	VOY	Phage
347	VOY	The Cloud
348	VOY	Eye of the Needle
349	VOY	Ex Post Facto
350	VOY	Emanations
351	VOY	Prime Factors
352	VOY	State of Flux
353	VOY	Heroes and Demons
354	VOY	Cathexis
355	VOY	Faces
356	VOY	Jetrel
357	VOY	Learning Curve
358	VOY	The 37's
359	VOY	Initiations
360	VOY	Projections
361	VOY	Elogium
362	VOY	Non Sequitur
363	VOY	Twisted
364	VOY	Parturition
365	VOY	Persistence of Vision
366	VOY	Tattoo
367	VOY	Cold Fire
368	VOY	Maneuvers
369	VOY	Resistance
370	VOY	Prototype
371	VOY	Alliances
372	VOY	Threshold
373	VOY	Meld
374	VOY	Dreadnought
375	VOY	Death Wish
376	VOY	Lifesigns
377	VOY	Investigations
378	VOY	Deadlock
379	VOY	Innocence
380	VOY	The Thaw
381	VOY	Tuvix
382	VOY	Resolutions
383	VOY	Basics, Part I
384	VOY	Basics, Part II
385	VOY	Flashback
386	VOY	The Chute
387	VOY	The Swarm
388	VOY	False Profits
389	VOY	Remember
390	VOY	Sacred Ground
391	VOY	Future's End
392	VOY	Future's End, Part II
393	VOY	Warlord
394	VOY	The Q and the Grey
395	VOY	Macrocosm
396	VOY	Fair Trade
397	VOY	Alter Ego
398	VOY	Coda
399	DS9	Life Support
400	DS9	Heart of Stone
401	DS9	Destiny
402	DS9	Prophet Motive
403	DS9	Visionary
404	DS9	Distant Voices
405	DS9	Through the Looking Glass
406	DS9	Improbable Cause
407	DS9	The Die is Cast
408	DS9	Explorers
409	DS9	Family Business
410	DS9	Shakaar
411	DS9	Facets
412	DS9	The Adversary
413	DS9	The Way of the Warrior
414	DS9	The Visitor
415	DS9	Hippocratic Oath
416	DS9	Indiscretion
417	DS9	Rejoined
418	DS9	Starship Down
419	DS9	Little Green Men
420	DS9	The Sword of Kahless
421	DS9	Our Man Bashir
422	DS9	Homefront
423	DS9	Paradise Lost
424	DS9	Crossfire
425	DS9	Return to Grace
426	DS9	Sons of Mogh
427	DS9	Bar Association
428	DS9	Accession
429	DS9	Rules of Engagement
430	DS9	Hard Time
431	DS9	Shattered Mirror
432	DS9	The Muse
433	DS9	For the Cause
434	DS9	To the Death
435	DS9	The Quickening
436	DS9	Body Parts
437	DS9	Broken Link
438	DS9	Apocalypse Rising
439	DS9	The Ship
440	DS9	Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
441	DS9	Nor the Battle to the Strong
442	DS9	The Assignment
443	DS9	Trials and Tribble-ations
444	DS9	Let He Who Is Without Sin...
445	DS9	Things Past
446	DS9	The Ascent
447	Film	Star Trek: First Contact
448	VOY	Blood Fever
449	VOY	Unity
450	VOY	Darkling
451	VOY	Rise
452	VOY	Favorite Son
453	VOY	Before and After
454	VOY	Real Life
455	VOY	Distant Origin
456	VOY	Displaced
457	VOY	Worst Case Scenario
458	VOY	Scorpion
459	VOY	Scorpion, Part II
460	VOY	The Gift
461	VOY	Day of Honor
462	VOY	Nemesis
463	VOY	Revulsion
464	VOY	The Raven
465	VOY	Scientific Method
466	VOY	Year of Hell
467	VOY	Year of Hell, Part II
468	VOY	Random Thoughts
469	VOY	Concerning Flight
470	VOY	Mortal Coil
471	VOY	Waking Moments
472	DS9	Rapture
473	DS9	The Darkness and the Light
474	DS9	The Begotten
475	DS9	For the Uniform
476	DS9	In Purgatory's Shadow
477	DS9	By Inferno's Light
478	DS9	Doctor Bashir, I Presume
479	DS9	A Simple Investigation
480	DS9	Business as Usual
481	DS9	Ties of Blood and Water
482	DS9	Ferengi Love Songs
483	DS9	Soldiers of the Empire
484	DS9	Children of Time
485	DS9	Blaze of Glory
486	DS9	Empok Nor
487	DS9	In the Cards
488	DS9	Call to Arms
489	DS9	A Time to Stand
490	DS9	Rocks and Shoals
491	DS9	Sons and Daughters
492	DS9	Behind the Lines
493	DS9	Favor the Bold
494	DS9	Sacrifice of Angels
495	DS9	You Are Cordially Invited
496	DS9	Resurrection
497	DS9	Statistical Probabilities
498	DS9	The Magnificent Ferengi
499	DS9	Waltz
500	DS9	Who Mourns for Morn?
501	DS9	Far Beyond the Stars
502	DS9	One Little Ship
503	DS9	Honor Among Thieves
504	DS9	Change of Heart
505	DS9	Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night
506	DS9	Inquisition
507	VOY	Message in a Bottle
508	VOY	Hunters
509	VOY	Prey
510	VOY	Retrospect
511	VOY	The Killing Game
512	VOY	The Killing Game, Part II
513	VOY	Vis à Vis
514	VOY	The Omega Directive
515	VOY	Unforgettable
516	VOY	Living Witness
517	VOY	Demon
518	VOY	One
519	VOY	Hope and Fear
520	VOY	Night
521	VOY	Drone
522	VOY	Extreme Risk
523	VOY	In the Flesh
524	VOY	Once Upon a Time
525	VOY	Timeless
526	VOY	Infinite Regress
527	VOY	Nothing Human
528	VOY	Thirty Days
529	VOY	Counterpoint
530	VOY	Latent Image
531	VOY	Bride of Chaotica!
532	VOY	Gravity
533	VOY	Bliss
534	VOY	Dark Frontier
535	VOY	The Disease
536	VOY	Course: Oblivion
537	VOY	The Fight
538	VOY	Think Tank
539	VOY	Juggernaut
540	VOY	Someone to Watch Over Me
541	VOY	11:59
542	VOY	Relativity
543	VOY	Warhead
544	VOY	Equinox
545	VOY	Equinox, Part II
546	VOY	Survival Instinct
547	VOY	Barge of the Dead
548	VOY	Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy
549	VOY	Alice
550	VOY	Riddles
551	VOY	Dragon's Teeth
552	VOY	One Small Step
553	VOY	The Voyager Conspiracy
554	DS9	In the Pale Moonlight
555	DS9	His Way
556	DS9	The Reckoning
557	DS9	Valiant
558	DS9	Profit and Lace
559	DS9	Time's Orphan
560	DS9	The Sound of Her Voice
561	DS9	Tears of the Prophets
562	DS9	Image in the Sand
563	DS9	Shadows and Symbols
564	DS9	Afterimage
565	DS9	Take Me Out to the Holosuite
566	DS9	Chrysalis
567	DS9	Treachery, Faith and the Great River
568	DS9	Once More Unto the Breach
569	DS9	The Siege of AR-558
570	DS9	Covenant
571	DS9	It's Only a Paper Moon
572	Film	Star Trek: Insurrection
573	DS9	Prodigal Daughter
574	DS9	The Emperor's New Cloak
575	DS9	Field of Fire
576	DS9	Chimera
577	DS9	Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang
578	DS9	Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
579	DS9	Penumbra
580	DS9	'Til Death Do Us Part
581	DS9	Strange Bedfellows
582	DS9	The Changing Face of Evil
583	DS9	When It Rains...
584	DS9	Tacking Into the Wind
585	DS9	Extreme Measures
586	DS9	The Dogs of War
587	DS9	What You Leave Behind
588	VOY	Pathfinder
589	VOY	Fair Haven
590	VOY	Blink of an Eye
591	VOY	Virtuoso
592	VOY	Memorial
593	VOY	Tsunkatse
594	VOY	Collective
595	VOY	Spirit Folk
596	VOY	Ashes to Ashes
597	VOY	Child's Play
598	VOY	Good Shepherd
599	VOY	Live Fast and Prosper
600	VOY	Muse
601	VOY	Fury
602	VOY	Life Line
603	VOY	The Haunting of Deck Twelve
604	VOY	Unimatrix Zero
605	VOY	Unimatrix Zero, Part II
606	VOY	Imperfection
607	VOY	Drive
608	VOY	Repression
609	VOY	Critical Care
610	VOY	Inside Man
611	VOY	Body and Soul
612	VOY	Nightingale
613	VOY	Flesh and Blood
614	VOY	Shattered
615	VOY	Lineage
616	VOY	Repentance
617	VOY	Prophecy
618	VOY	The Void
619	VOY	Workforce
620	VOY	Workforce, Part II
621	VOY	Human Error
622	VOY	Q2
623	VOY	Author, Author
624	VOY	Friendship One
625	VOY	Natural Law
626	VOY	Homestead
627	VOY	Renaissance Man
628	VOY	Endgame
629	Film	Star Trek Nemesis
630	ENT	Broken Bow
631	ENT	Fight or Flight
632	ENT	Strange New World
633	ENT	Unexpected
634	ENT	Terra Nova
635	ENT	The Andorian Incident
636	ENT	Breaking the Ice
637	ENT	Civilization
638	ENT	Fortunate Son
639	ENT	Cold Front
640	ENT	Silent Enemy
641	ENT	Dear Doctor
642	ENT	Sleeping Dogs
643	ENT	Shadows of P'Jem
644	ENT	Shuttlepod One
645	ENT	Fusion
646	ENT	Rogue Planet
647	ENT	Acquisition
648	ENT	Oasis
649	ENT	Detained
650	ENT	Vox Sola
651	ENT	Fallen Hero
652	ENT	Desert Crossing
653	ENT	Two Days and Two Nights
654	ENT	Shockwave
655	ENT	Shockwave, Part II
656	ENT	Carbon Creek
657	ENT	Minefield
658	ENT	Dead Stop
659	ENT	A Night in Sickbay
660	ENT	Marauders
661	ENT	The Seventh
662	ENT	The Communicator
663	ENT	Singularity
664	ENT	Vanishing Point
665	ENT	Precious Cargo
666	ENT	The Catwalk
667	ENT	Dawn
668	ENT	Stigma
669	ENT	Cease Fire
670	ENT	Future Tense
671	ENT	Canamar
672	ENT	The Crossing
673	ENT	Judgment
674	ENT	Horizon
675	ENT	The Breach
676	ENT	Cogenitor
677	ENT	Regeneration
678	ENT	First Flight
679	ENT	Bounty
680	ENT	The Expanse
681	ENT	The Xindi
682	ENT	Anomaly
683	ENT	Extinction
684	ENT	Rajiin
685	ENT	Impulse
686	ENT	Exile
687	ENT	The Shipment
688	ENT	Twilight
689	ENT	North Star
690	ENT	Similitude
691	ENT	Carpenter Street
692	ENT	Chosen Realm
693	ENT	Proving Ground
694	ENT	Stratagem
695	ENT	Harbinger
696	ENT	Doctor's Orders
697	ENT	Hatchery
698	ENT	Azati Prime
699	ENT	Damage
700	ENT	The Forgotten
701	ENT	E²
702	ENT	The Council
703	ENT	Countdown
704	ENT	Zero Hour
705	ENT	Storm Front
706	ENT	Storm Front, Part II
707	ENT	Home
708	ENT	Borderland
709	ENT	Cold Station 12
710	ENT	The Augments
711	ENT	The Forge
712	ENT	Awakening
713	ENT	Kir'Shara
714	ENT	Daedalus
715	ENT	Observer Effect
716	ENT	Babel One
717	ENT	United
718	ENT	The Aenar
719	ENT	Affliction
720	ENT	Divergence
721	ENT	Bound
722	ENT	In a Mirror, Darkly
723	ENT	In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II
724	ENT	Demons
725	ENT	Terra Prime
726	ENT	These Are the Voyages...
727	Film	Star Trek (2009)
728	Film	Star Trek Into Darkness
729	Film	Star Trek Beyond
730	DSC	The Vulcan Hello
731	DSC	Battle at the Binary Stars
732	DSC	Context Is for Kings
733	DSC	The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry
734	DSC	Choose Your Pain
735	DSC	Lethe
736	DSC	Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
737	DSC	Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
738	DSC	Into the Forest I Go
739	DSC	Despite Yourself
740	DSC	The Wolf Inside
741	DSC	Vaulting Ambition
742	DSC	What's Past Is Prologue
743	DSC	The War Without, The War Within
744	DSC	Will You Take My Hand?
745	ST	Runaway
746	ST	Calypso
747	ST	The Brightest Star
748	ST	The Escape Artist
749	DSC	Brother
750	DSC	New Eden
751	DSC	Point of Light
752	DSC	An Obol for Charon
753	DSC	Saints of Imperfection
754	DSC	The Sound of Thunder
755	DSC	Light and Shadows
756	DSC	If Memory Serves
757	DSC	Project Daedalus
758	DSC	The Red Angel
759	DSC	Perpetual Infinity
760	DSC	Through the Valley of Shadows
761	DSC	Such Sweet Sorrow
762	DSC	Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2
763	ST	Q&A
764	ST	The Trouble with Edward
765	ST	Ask Not
766	ST	Ephraim and Dot
767	ST	The Girl Who Made the Stars
768	ST	Children of Mars
769	PIC	Remembrance
770	PIC	Maps and Legends
771	PIC	The End is the Beginning
772	PIC	Absolute Candor
773	PIC	Stardust City Rag
774	PIC	The Impossible Box
775	PIC	Nepenthe
776	PIC	Broken Pieces
777	PIC	Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1
778	PIC	Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2
779	LDS	Second Contact
780	LDS	Envoys
781	LDS	Temporal Edict
782	LDS	Moist Vessel
783	LDS	Cupid's Errant Arrow
784	LDS	Terminal Provocations
785	LDS	Much Ado About Boimler
786	LDS	Veritas
787	LDS	Crisis Point
788	LDS	No Small Parts
789	DSC	That Hope Is You, Part 1
790	DSC	Far From Home
791	DSC	People of Earth
792	DSC	Forget Me Not
793	DSC	Die Trying
794	DSC	Scavengers
795	DSC	Unification III
796	DSC	The Sanctuary
797	DSC	Terra Firma, Part 1
798	DSC	Terra Firma, Part 2
799	DSC	Su'Kal
800	DSC	There Is A Tide...
801	DSC	That Hope Is You, Part 2