Fantasy and Sci Fi are not supposed to “reflect our world” by definition, we are not interested in watching a documentary about reality. Ethnic diversity for the sake of ethnic diversity is pure nonsense. It has to make sense in the world of the show, not our world. For Sci Fi, a diverse pop can be logical depending…

Your advice to ride one specific ride in Disneyland... is to pay hundreds of dollars to get into the park, then just hang around the area and hope the ride breaks down so you can get on when it gets fixed?   Thats... grim.

There’s a difference between using a modern or natural style of speech and throwing in specific slang or idioms that are so painfully current that they will be dated by next year. Trek has always done the former, less so the latter. There’s no episode of TNG where a character is like, “Ah, man, that’s so wizard!” or…

What are the chances that because this show is going to star young people that the writers use that as an excuse for them to use even more 21st Century idioms?

But that perspective is...kind of sad? We shouldn’t expect franchises to be good and simply content ourselves with the trappings that they bring (warp drive, nacelles, phasers, etc.)? That’s a recipe for bad entertainment and an audience that passively consumes anything put in front of it. People should be engaged…

The finale perfectly encapsulates why the Progenitor story should have been left alone. In the TNG episode the various factions believed that what they would find would be a thing, a weapon, a source of power, whatever. But what they found was an idea, a philosophical truth: we are all more alike than even we realize…

“When he finally crosses paths with the Stranger, you could say he has a desire to try to keep the destruction that has happened there from spreading to his beloved lands in the West. He nudges the Stranger along his journey, which he knows will eventually protect the larger natural world that he cares about.”

Because of Bombadil’s vague nature, Rings of Power will be able to take a few liberties of its own in adapting the character

Worst news I've heard in a long time.

Good job self-sabotaging this in the writing phase.

If anything, the die-hard Tolkien fans I’ve known have said the exact opposite: “Don’t they know these events are all decades apart?”

Wolverine was heterosexual for his entire history.  He sure wasn’t Bi in ‘97, and only is now because it’s the latest cheap publicity stunt they will retcon the split second the new series is finished. The article above treats Wolverine as heterosexual, so that’s what I’m going with. 

If straight people are expected to respect LGBTQ+ sexual orientations, isn’t it fair to ask LGBTQ+ people to respect straight people’s orientation as well?

Oh yes, but let’s have a second fucking season of fucking Velma. Stupid assholes.

Just watched the episode. This article suggests the A-plot is compelling and worthwhile, and the B-plot is underwritten and dumb.

Also a life long Trek fan.  I couldn’t make it through season 1, so you have more fortitude than I do.

No disrespect to anyone who truly enjoys Discovery, but as a life long Star Trek Fan, i coulden’t make it half way though Season 2. How this show did 3 more seasons beyond that, is beyond my understanding. This show was more Mass Effect then Star Trek for me.

Return to work is the reason for increased pollution and inflation. For almost three years, all revenue of all entities was down. It’s no coincidence gas prices (all prices of all goods) shot up the day after ‘return to the office’ was being talked about.

We had a meeting at work a few weeks back to try and find ways to diminish our carbon footprint.
I raise my hand and said: the most efficient way to reduce our carbon footprint is to allow remote work. It would save approximately X amount of gallons of gas per year and would be at no cost whatsoever ( or negligeable ) t…