"industry consolidation means less bizzes therefore less bizdevs" seems like a logical sequence but then there are also massive layoffs which seem like should result in thousands of tiny new indie teams that need devving

maybe too many big-style bizdev that need to respec into indie bizdev?

I’ve found it’s most productive to think of all works as ethereal, too delicate to survive the shipping through context and time, having to be reassembled by each audience member every time with what they have to hand

It’s pretty great that DS9 is a show with folks that replicate and replace leaders to drive societies into subservience, evil spirits, genocidal warlords, weapons traders, people that hunt sentient people, terrorists, spies, and crime gangs, but the most consistently terrifying villain is the pope