Yeah, that’s a good point.

The finale of season 2 made me retroactively hate that season. And given a few months I think I’ll probably look back at this one the same way.

Gotta say that I really like the grey federation uniforms with the vertical red or yellow stripe. The admiral’s outfit and his helper’s are fine, but the  color ones are snazzy.

Back in the 4th episode’s comments I said:

For not-Nilsson, I’m going to pretend that the producers were being nice and threw a few lines to someone to get them something sag related (although I have no idea how any of that works so I’m probably wrong)

I’ll admit that I didn’t go back to verify the number.

I really wonder about the poor bridgecrew actors. Any given episode of disco is so hit-or-miss that they must need other gigs, right? So it’s the big giant finale, but Nilsson’s actress is off shooting a hallmark movie or a commercial or something, so just grab whoever has a similar haircut and create a new character?

...answering my own question now that imdb is updated, it was apparently Lt. Ina, who also appeared once before in Su’Kal, and who is played by an actor who has done a bunch of background roles on the show over the years.

In fairness to the terrible Admiral, he’s not saying that an alliance can’t happen - he’s just demanding that Osyraa be tried. But the problem is that it’s such a personal, face-to-face request.

If a fire in a jefferies tube always risked that you might be vented into space, you’d think that Geordi and O’Brien would have shown more hustle over the years.

The Admiral is a terrible negotiator.

Making her second in command be an actual two-bit space pirate was a strange decision. I didn’t think her himbo lieutenant from earlier in the season was a convincing threat either. But if the writers knew that they were bringing the spacecowboy back for the finale they really should have had him show up a few more…

My take was that Osyraa was sortof drawing parallels between the Federation and Earth.

Earlier this season there were a bunch of weird winks about how the new-federation was not what it seemed. And I’m okay that they haven’t turned out to be secretly evil, but it’s a little disappointing/bland that they are apparently so pure.

Imdb isn’t updated yet for this episode, but was there a new, random, nameless person hanging out with the bridgecrew? She kindof looked like Lt. Nilsson, but wasn’t. And she even got a few lines, which is more than most of the bridgecrew have gotten. This show’s casting is so weird.

Didn’t really need to ever see space-Negan again.

What point are you trying to make, exactly?

It’s not apocryphal if it’s coming straight from Visitor. Behr and Wolfe might remember one thing, but in the linked interview and in the DS9 doc Visitor told her version.

...I just keep thinking about how silly it is. Saru’s speech in this episode is like giving Worf multiple, emotional monologues about how he spent his youth clinging on to things.

Disco is waiting for its shields to recharge - so they’re not at 0%, they’re just weakened. And then both ships spend a bunch of time sitting there yelling at each other, while cloaked, for some reason? Do they have shields during that? And then the mini-burn knocks out their cloaks, and I guess their shields too, and…