I’m not sure how I like Discovery’s retrofit. It’s too new-fangled for my tastes but we’ll see how it grows on me.

So Book’s winnebago now really is the second most valuable ship in the galaxy (quadrant, sector...), and the space-mafia know that. And they’ve probably known about it for 3 1/2 weeks. But leaving it parked (cloaked) outside the space-mafia chopshop is a total non-issue.

The space-geography in this show has always been a mess. But in this episode in one scene we’ve got starfleet making a big deal about how valuable Disco is, and then in the next Book’s winnebago is warping back and forth across the galaxy (quadrant? sector? Who knows)

You do realize that Zack is not saying that she’s not human, right? Go ahead and read it again, and then again just to make extra sure. There is no claim that she’s not human. He says that she is a trill, but that is not at all the same as saying that she’s not human.

I liked this episode a lot, even if it was kindof a mess. But I wish we had a better idea of what the crew think about their situation. The characters talk about their feelings a lot, but I still don’t know if they’re cool with being in the 32nd century. Is this Voyager II, where we’re all searching for a way back…

It felt like old-school-trek, but in the bad way. Like it was Dax suddenly deciding that she was going to stay on planet-brigadoon, or Marla McGivers heading off with Kahn.

I’m calling it now:

So we’ve got:

You’re getting picky about the wrong thing, because Zack isn’t saying what you think he’s saying.

... although actually, Detmer’s redrum freakout this episode already makes them look like idiots.

It’s weird, because she’s going to stab them in the back at some point. And there will be swelling music and so many speeches about betrayal and love and federation ideals

If the show were saying that the symbiont somehow altered their sexuality into non-binary and transgender, THAT would be messed up,

It’s weird, because by cutting all of these civilizations off from one anothet Discovery is accidentally telling a story that’s perfect for our current world of quarantines and shutdowns.

The use of the word “Trill” is complicated, and because of the TNG episode with the bumpy-Trill there were always suggestions that in-universe it was kindof just a generic word for joined beings.

It’s been 800~ish years since DS9, and like everywhere else Trill has had a century of relative isolation. It would have been nice if the writers had shown that something had changed.

The alien-race as malibu beachhouse was my least favorite thing about the end of Picard, and I wasn’t a big fan of it here either.

Nostalgia-porn is one heck of a drug.

I think the whole scene was trying to be really western-y: “This here’s a map from before the war, but I heards that town was done-near destroyed nigh-on 20 years ago, and ain’t no one gone back since.”

That scene stuck with me, because it’s another example that makes me wonder if Star Wars writers just don’t know how maps work? Between this and the abrams movies it’s like “map” is a word that they’ve heard and that they know is important, but none of them have ever actually seen one or used one.

I hope this shows figures out how to steal a bit of what made Firefly work.