I also wondered about that, especially with the holograms, and the holo-rights stuff from Voyager. Why wouldn’t Utopia Planitia of all places just be filled will holo-emiters, and have a holo-skeleton crew running around?

Given the politics of today, I’m a little wary that the writers have chosen to make this show about a refugee crisis (topical!), but that because the refugees are Romulans they will almost certainly turn out to be evil and bent on destroying humanity.

Yeah, I didn’t like the scene because I thought the actress way overplayed it.

I think the biggest problem with that scene is not just that it makes Picard look really dumb, but that we (the audience) also already know that she’s not on earth, because the final scene of the pilot had her in the borg cube.

I missed this review when it went up last week, but my one comment was going to be about that silly tv shop trope.

When does it click? I watched the first 3 or maybe 4?

The problem with Solo was that it was just too . . . nice. It was like the script was written to be a cartoon on the Disney Channel.

It could just be apocryphal, but it is pretty widely reported. Here’s one example:

I’m not even sure why he had to be younger.

And I actually liked Tom Hardy as Shinzon...

I know that Stewart is a pretty great guy, but learning that Nemesis’ prime-directive-busting dunebuggy scene exists mostly just because Stewart likes dunebuggies lessened him in my eyes.

You’re not so big on reading there, huh champ?

...and actually, I said that I don’t want “Starfleet is garbage,” but what I really don’t want is “The Federation is garbage.”

I think there’s room for complexity in trek, with DS9 doing a great job of exploring the edges of the Roddenberrian utopia.

The last few episodes are all just a blur to me, because as much as “technology bad, must destroy” is a trope, I really didn’t want to be on the side of the luddites.

Same for “compelling.”

Not a movie, but on a Frasier rewatch I realized how much its cadence had stuck with me.

It occurred to me that one of the reasons I was a little cool on the finale was because it’s all about Angela, but I don’t actually know Angela.

Sorry, that was actually meant to be TLJ. Maz magically appearing to give them a quest to find a wizard with a magic key comes from the exact same school as Abrams’ TFA and RoS. It’s an approach to plotting that’s totally artificial.

The failure isn’t the problem.