I wonder whether they’ll keep the bleeps if/when the show is released on Blu-ray. I hope so - I’m not opposed to f-bombs, but it kind of feels funnier to me to have them in.

I don’t think that’s the main objection to including TAS in canon, but that they did things like that probably doesn’t particularly hurt the show’s case.

Also, how they not only reference events from Trek history, but just straight-up slip actual episode titles into dialogue, like Mariner referring to Khan as a “Space Seed”, or Boimler saying “Drumhead” as a verbal mic drop.

It’s easily my favorite of the three shows currently running, and I honestly think the batting average of these first eight episodes has been better than that of the first eight episodes of nearly any of the other shows in the franchise.

The canon status of that show has long been kind of complicated. At the time it was made, there wasn’t anything else except the original series, and possibly not much expectation of there ever being anything else, so they had freedom to get pretty out there at times. Gene Roddenberry later said that if he’d known…

It’s also there in the credits, though they do go by quickly. John de Lance got his own credits card, though, which stands to reason.

Not just that Crusher episode (“Sub Rosa” - though really, after last week referenced Voyager’s “Threshold”, it was really only a matter of time, and clearly nothing’s off the table), but also “The Infinite Vulcan” (the one with giant Spock, from the original animated Trek series).

Honestly, while I’m glad it got the nomination and award it did, I think it deserved far more. “Best Children’s Show” is seriously inadequate for this series.

Disney+ would be a great fit, except that the service is filled exclusively with Disney-owned material, as far as I’m aware. What would be the pretext for licensing material from external rightsholders?

Well, fuck.

That’s fine, of course (and if there are going to be still further adaptations, from / for still other countries besides Japan and the US, I might even be interested myself). I’m just not interested in an American version of this story.

Nice for those of us who want Americanized takes on everything, I guess, but I have the original on Blu-ray, and I think that’s all the Your Name I need.

Leave it to this show to cheerfully bring up any and every goofy thing that’s ever happened in Star Trek, even things the other shows will go out of their way to never ever mention again, not to mention practically every alien species that’s ever appeared at least once before.

It’s easily my favorite of the three current series, and that’s even with Picard having the advantage of having several previously-established, much-beloved characters reprised by their original performers (including Data, Riker, Troi, Seven, Hugh, and Picard himself).

In fairness, I assume that’s something Janeway and Paris probably just didn’t want to talk about. ;) It’s not like it would be the first time a Starfleet officer failed to report something significant in their logs...

That one wasn’t hard to spot; he had dialogue and a name and everything. That was the one Mariner pretended to misidentify as a Bolian so Boimler could regain his confidence, and that was revealed at the end to be an acquaintance of Mariner’s doing her a favor to repay a debt.

They might have had high manufacturing costs, but big titles now have higher development costs, and either way the costs have to be recouped.

Ash also talks about “never simultaneously playing all four or five games” that will fill up one of these things, and while that’s technically true for me as well (i.e., I’m not literally playing two or more games at the exact same time), I do tend to flit back and forth from one game to another. Just in the last few…

I’d think it’d also be very not in line with comfort under a space helmet. Having the bucket pressing down on a big knot of hair at the back of the head seems like a great way to bring on a terrible headache.

My wife does indeed consider herself a Dune fan, as it happens (I don’t know if she’d consider herself a big fan, but at least a fan). And she was quite smitten with the new trailer.