First of all, you okay, buddy? You’re awful wound up.

Secondly, in what possible way are they wrong? Are you seriously saying that it’s just as possible to go to a music store or video store and buy a DVD/CD/Blu Ray as it was 10 years ago? You seen a mall lately? Been to a Best Buy to peruse their “media section”?

“Got comfortable” and “Begrudgingly accepted the lack of alternatives” are two very different things.

In the interest of representation, maybe we should only allow disgraced actors to play people with similar or worse histories. Majors can play Rodman or Bill Cosby, and maybe we can let Kevin Spacey star in the Harvey Weinstein story.

Hard agree here. What SNW and LD are doing are fantastic examples of what Trek is supposed to be. The last 4 movies (and Picard) have been nothing but hamfisted fan service with no solid connection of what Star Trek actually is. Give me more of that and stop trying to make JJ Trek a thing.

I’d like to set Trek in that timeframe, but then focus on a different ship with different people. Tired of Kirk, Spock, etc. It’s the same problem Star Wars has by hyperfocusing on the Skywalkers and Skywalker-adjacent people in a universe that is so potentially large.

Please. Stop. Now.

Well, it’s not like we as a society are constantly accusing women of bad attitudes based on a brief sample of their overall demeanor. And I can’t even bring to mind any recent examples of people on the Internet seeing a woman react to a bad joke on an awards show and then en masse blaming her for something someone…

Yeah, it’s mixed between “great Trek” and “greatest Trek”

Someone would need to remind Worf that he has a son.

I know it’s a requirement for you to do this, but I’d really love to know the corporate thinking behind “our engagement numbers will be higher with 28 slides instead of a long scroll of 28 paragraph/picture combos”. At least in my case, very few of your Spanfeller ads are hitting my eyes because I look at the first…

That statement doesn’t inspire much confidence: remember, that god awful out of character scene in Nemesis where Picard gets into a gun fight on dune buggies with pre warp natives was Stewart’s idea. I shudder to think what he and Tarantino would cook up.

Yup, exactly!

Buffy excelled at this. There was plenty of filler episodes but most of them were fun little episodes that filled out characters in the show. Each non-Buffy character got at least one or two episodes a season about them and we got to learn a lot about them. You can’t do that in an eight episode run and you can’t just…

It’s funny, Star Trek overall was going to be my big example of why a longer season matters.

A really grating conversation that started coming up with a lot of TV shows is the idea of “filler”; fluff episodes that ‘don’t advance larger plots’ or contain enough of substance to justify their existence. Absolutely,…

something like ‘the boys’, which i like, drops 3 episodes day-one and then a month later the show is over for 16 months. i hate it.

I just read is as a nostalgic idea that more lighter fair tv would be welcome back. 

I really miss that era of TV. For a few years there, I always had a new season of one of those shows to watch every week, as each 20-week season rolled into the next show. Every time some weird network like Ion starts playing Psych or Covert Affairs or something, I get caught up in at least a few eps...

Agree. There have been great shows even cancled after 1 season by netflix.

As an example Season 8 of the Simpsons has WAY more than 8-10 fantastic episodes. That season would not have happened in an 8 every other year world.

Thanks for the support. It seems like suggesting more than 8 episodes every other year of a tv show is worse than infanticide for so many people.