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Counterpoint: ‘The nation’s top researchers concluded that you can’t hide how stoned you are and that you should be freaking out if you aren’t already.’

This is where cultural translation issues come into play. More high-brow elements in plot and dialogue are often very culturally specific (just think about how much knowledge you have to have about American culture in order to get most of our humor), while explosions, sex, and fart jokes are much more universal.…

CYBERTRONIAN DANCE PARTY!!

Including the Disco Enterprise on the list would mean having to list it pretty high, because it looks great.

While by the end of the SG-1 they had Daniel Jackson delivering exposition at Gilmore Girls-level speed.

One of the things that I loved about the various Stargate series was the degree to which they were able to keep slowly but surely building up Earth’s secret tech levels over the years. Even though all of the shows used the “gain insanely powerful alien tech, then lose it within an episode or two” trope for all it was…

Okay, look... I’m not asking for Discovery reviews to be fawning fangasms that refuse to address the show’s weaknesses (for individual episodes or the series as a whole). But Trendacosta’s reviews all seem stuck in the gloom and doom mentality that set so much of the fandom against this show before even a single…

Fair enough!

I’m going to repost a comment I made earlier on the AV Club review:

I think it does serve a purpose beyond “just because we can.” It’s a tiny but significant refutation of the “this is grimdark Star Trek” complaint: despite the fact that they’re in a bloody war and are being forced to make hard choices about their principles, Tilly and Stamets are still fundamentally driven by the…

There was actually a fair amount of thought put into it:

Okay, that Dinobot Combiner looks like a huge improvement over the last time that they tried that.

While I deeply appreciate the concerns about facial recognition software, I keep cracking up from the image that pops into my head whenever somebody talks about “unlocking your phone with your face.”

So what you’re saying is that everybody should just... let it go?

I took Sansa’s admission that she doesn’t tend to catch on quickly and call back to his “little game” of imagining the worst to mean that his plot was actually working just fine right up until then.

Oh, I don’t know. Discovery feels very much like Star Trek to me, because it already possesses an element key to all Trek:

I’ve seen that one, it’s one of my favorites! That and the comment thread about how Starfleet’s willingness to try out bleeding-edge, batshit crazy science utterly awes and terrifies saner species: