It’s too bad he’s going to have to die to 1) bequeath his ship to the Mando, and 2) not steal all focus from the title character, who owes his whole existence to being a Boba Fett substitute.

I feel like you need to be careful, or else we’ll get another needless “Northern Andorians grow antennae like this, and Southern Andorians grow antennae like that” alien race continuity patch.

Back when we rediscovered the Federation I was wondering if we would get a big Battlestar Pegasus pivot, since the Admiral and David Cronenberg sure seem like they’re evil. But after a few episodes it feels like they’re probably not murderously evil right? Everyone else seems more annoyed with the Federation than…

The fleet ruins so many other ideas that are better and more interesting.

Same. I’ve mentioned this before, but she reminds me of Jake Peralta from the Brooklyn 99 pilot. Pilot-Peralta is a bunch of redflags warning the audience to never watch another episode. Thankfully the B99 writers immediately tweaked him for the better, while the Lower Decks writers just keep making Mariner worse.

Post Dominion War things have not been great for everyone’s favorite star empire. It’s Dominion War > Shinzon kills the Senate > Supernova makes Nero sad > Picard stuff

I’m not an EU person at all. And I thought the first season of Mandalorian was pretty dull, like watching someone else playthrough a SW game. But I’ve actually really liked Season 2.

I really do hate Mariner, and hope they tone down her Poochyness between seasons. She’s so over the top that she makes Michael seem less obnoxious in comparison.

...and that reminds me that Lower Decks has a similar problem. I liked Lower Decks more than I tend to like disco, but Mariner is Poochy to the xxtreme and is bad.

I don’t disagree exactly, but Michael’s prominence shows why the typical leader-centric focus of trek (and BSG, and Babylon 5, firefly, and the bits of stargate I’ve seen) was a solid formula.

Zack got flack last week for forgetting who she was, but the writers seems to do that a lot too.

Yeah, I liked this one too.

But compared to mirror-Tilly her career is moving at a snail's pace.

You’re not giving abrams enough credit: he blew up Vulcan and Romulus because he had no ideas.

Ohhh Zack, you are going to make so many people angry by confusing that Abramsverse destruction of Vulcan with the discoveryverse/realverse destruction of Romulus.

Voyager is not my favorite show by any means, but one thing the early episodes recognize is that an advanced ship is a huge target.

Well, Georgiou would have picked that up in the 23rd century and not the 32nd, but she’s also from the mirror-universe, which implies the existence of a mirror-universe version of Jerry Maguire.

I guess you missed the part where the spacemafia let the people with the second most important starship wander around being sketchy for half an episode, and didn’t actually do anything until Burnham destroyed a security drone.

The new Intrepid class really does look disappointly similar to the original. The honda civic is more unrecognizable after 50 years than this intrepid is after 800, so I guess that I like the theory.

The stuff with Adira/Gray and Stamets this week was nice.