Picard and crew put the kibosh on a number of promising if dangerous technologies during their era too.  As did Janeway.  Did you have a problem then as well?

Why does mid 23rd century Section 31 have to be exactly the same as mid 24th century section 31?  Starfleet isn’t.  The Federation isn’t.

As much as I don’t care for how reactionary Moclans are, the unpeeling of their culture and biology suggests that they might have good reasons for keeping a tight reign on their populace as they have and reasons why they eliminated women from their world which may have as much to do with biology as culture.

The Klingons, the Romulans, the Gorn, the Ferengi, the Dominion, the Borg, the Cardassians, the Tholians and a whole lot of other sovereign governments along with the Maquis and a whole lot of separationists within the Federation who Federation policies have managed to piss off in one way or another over the years…

Yes, but DS9 takes place in an entirely different century. There were a whole lot of common things around a hundred years ago that no one hears of today either.

May’s accent is Guyanese, FYI.

I pays to pay attention.  Last week Tilly made a point of confessing that when she and the real May were in school May wanted to be her friend and Tilly realizes she was horrible to her and even didn’t know she had died.  This clearly bothered Tilly a great deal in retrospect and colored her relationship with Spore…

To its credit, this is one of the rare times the Orville actually managed to improve on what they were copying, although those were lesser eps, it is still an accomplishment for this writing group.

You could say the very same thing about Starfleet. Starfleet is often used as a military force that engages in wars to coerce other sovereign powers and manipulate them in favor of Federation designs, which includes killing enemies of the Federation when deemed appropriate by Starfleet under various degrees of secrecy…

If Michelle keeps it up with how she’s performing her Emperor act, there’s going to be a clamoring for the Section 31 series by the end of the season.  Yes, her performance so far this season has been that engaging.  

At least is doesn’t include Beth talking about how confused she is after watching the ep.

Even if that was the case, which it isn’t, I’ve seen that done brilliantly, such as with 12 Monkeys which was undoubtably the best scifi series on TV during its run.  Why do you think Star Trek can only tell stories one way?  TNG was different from TOS, DS9 was different from TNG.  The rot only started to settle in…

If your used to TNG, where the show is generally at a 2 and occasionally gets to a 5 at best, yeah, I can understand how you feel that way. Berman’s Treks usually packed 30 minutes of story into an hour, As far as I could see the show is very dynamic and goes from a 1 to 10 rather smoothly and captures both ends of…

It almost like Trendacosta wrote a draft review and Zach published it under his name without even reading it.

Except the Federation itself does not reject the use of the virus. The Federation Council itself rejects requests for the cure to be given to the Founders. No matter that the main characters disagree. And even those events take place more than 100 years after the events taking place on Discovery. Do you imagine that…

Perhaps that was done by venting oxygen from the shuttle into the cloud. Or perhaps there was also oxygen available and it just required a spark. You know, by using science.

In the DS9 era, no one knows that Klingons ever had smooth foreheads either. teh TNG era isn’t really known for how readily people have access to information about the past. Seriously.

Despite the writers seeming to feel the need to use daytime TV talk shows as their source of how to write character interactions regarding relationship problems, this ep and the previous one are about the strongest written episodes I’ve seen on Orville, not to mention having little to do with Captain Ed for all their…

I guess there’s a lot of past Star Trek you don’t consider Star Trek then.

Yes, the Catholic Church is a lot like McDonalds.  IE, pretty much the same wherever you go.  That’s actually what franchising is all about.