Mindy Kaling will voice the titular character

Better the devil you know.

Martin.

I do.  I still love that stuff when it’s at its best, and I long for a conclusion.  I could really have done with that book this past year...

My point, and sorry if it was unclear, was about the hagiography that is those DVD special features. Roddenberry was a flawed and entirely inconsistent figure. I just don’t support idealizing his vision as it seemed to me the previous poster had done. “Gene’s vision” is largely a subsequent creation of Roddenberry,…

I love me some Star Trek (pretty much all of it, warts and all), but try watching this clip and then talk to me about Gene’s special vision:

I’ve got this working theory that most of us shuttle between almost-identical alternative universes all the time.

I know I should probably look wider, but my knee-jerk reaction is Cannonball. He’s grown up from the painfully uncertain kid he once was, had a rockstar girlfriend, now has an omega-power wife, and is still humble and genuinely nice. I’m just up for more of his story.

Cannonball. Every time. Doubts himself. Feels like a loser. Had rockstar girlfriend. Is humble and generous.

It makes me unaccountably happy that you guys liked this movie.  Thank you for liking cool, weird things.

At this point, the only Roald Dahl I would like to see would be him as a side-asshole in someone else’s biopic, and only then if it shows him to be the hateful anti-semite he was.

That was probably an “influence” in my comment here.  I loved it.  Someone on io9 recommended it to me about a month ago.  I never got around to thanking that person, so I’m just going to thank you instead and give you a star.

Assassin, fourteen knockouts -- and it does one every 114 days.  This is the most obvious evidence we’re in a simulated reality since the dino-killing asteroid hit a place called the devil’s tale.  Some mid-level designer tasked with planting retroactive evidence of things we discover and then name is clearly fucking…

Okay, now I feel kind of abashed, because you’re putting more effort into this than I am. Thank you for that.

I can play that game as well. After just, what, forty or so episodes, what was Geordie’s deal other than being blind? Worf, other than growling? Crusher other than complaining?

Clearly I have to give it another try then.  I must have bailed before season three.  Will watch soon, promise.

I’m a big-time TOS fan, and so, sure, I can name Scotty, Chekhov, Sulu, Uhura, and all.  But I can also name Culber, Stamets, Tilly, Owo, Detmer, Book, Jett Reno, and Airiram without breaking a sweat.  Culber has way more dimension than Scotty, that’s for sure -- he’s not a fake-accent one-line joke, after all.

Yeah, I’m definitely going to have to give Enterprise a go someday.  I might use a skip guide and just see the best bits.  Thanks for the recco.

Agree. Discovery seems to me more than any other Trek to be a show that’s responded to criticism.  But that’s the world we live in now, isn’t it?  I feel like they’ve been hearing the dissent and trying to adjust their course accordingly while still hewing to some sense of vision.  

I get the criticism, but if you want to apply that kind of command structure to Starfleet, none of our people would ever hold their positions, much less get promotions. Picard regularly disobeyed orders, as did many of his crew. Data was demonstrably hackable and could commandeer the entire ship once hacked, but they…