I LOVE that they added that, as well as the little mispronunciation by Kirk:

Last week had M’Benga with Ortegas, this week with La’an. I’m happy they get to have him play off all the characters, Babs Olusanmokun has great timing with everyone he’s on-screen with.

Between this and his outburst with Vice Admiral Pasalk last week, Spock’s suddenly a loose cannon!

Agreed. That whole thing was beautifully written and beautifully played.

This episode was so much better than it had any right to be. When I saw that it was a time travel episode and an episode that featured Kirk it felt like they were reaching for stunt plots that are normally reserved for the end of a show’s run when they need to goose ratings and don’t have anything left in the bag.

Much like Judgement Day, the rise of Khan is inevitable, but subject to scheduling issues.

It’s a clever way to retcon it too by saying “the timeline has always been in flux because people keep going back in time to change it.”

No mention of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country? Pretty much an experiment into what would happen if you took a trial episode and stretched it out across an entire movie.

This week’s SNW was excellent. And Drumhead is one of my favorite TNG episodes.

Devils Due: An incredibly goofy episode that feels ripped right out of original Trek despite being in TNG’s fourth season

The best part of the discussion is when someone cries “it’s NOTHING like the books!” and the immediate response is a down-to -the-page-number citation of where the specific thing was mentioned in the books.

Having classic non-powered 1960s Gwen coming in and actually being given something to do would be great.

I reread the original Foundation trilogy in the lead-up to the show’s release a couple of years back, and the whole time I was thinking, “Yeah, they’re gonna have to take a lot of liberties with this.” And that’s fine. The Foundation stories from the ‘40s are a hugely important and influential work in the SF genre,…

This story is actually important for a lot of reasons that are still relevant (disclaimer: I work with these people and on these stories.) Here’s the original report:

With great powder

I think if they called it EurRoxOff then we might have a winner.

For what its worth, this series is really visually stunning and inspiring. I also appreciate that it tries to be different even with all its fault.

Absolutely true.

I read and loved the books back in the day, but also liked the series. Granted, I re-read the first two books before the series premiered and found them...well, just not very good. I understand how important they were, and there’s the glow of nostalgia for me, but I’m in the camp of people who think that a faithful…

Yes and no, but... I think sometimes that “good writing” is recognizing that the better adaptation involves being less faithful to the source. Not always, but sometimes. (Case in point, the movie Adaptation, which took the assignment of writing an adaptation of the nigh-impossible to adapt book The Orchid Thief, and…