One problem here with a reboot is that Sam Beckett was born in 1953 (making him ten years older than Scott Bakula, since the show was set in 1999, not 1989, when it originally aired.)

Shit’s weird, man. I have a lot more to say but I shouldn’t. 

can we talk about this instead?

woof, *any* excuse to try and make a slideshow happen.

These are awful.  

Sure the old EU was weird but the thing about it is that fans reminiscing about it now tend to forget the whole issue that 99 times out of 100 the weirdness was... well it was utter shit.

this is the first one of this season i have seen on the front page and i check the site every 3 days or so

Last season, the way Only-not-quite-evil-Admiral-ever always had an excuse for where the Capitol of the Federation was, or the president... I was like, 90% sure he was it, and everybody else was dead or quit or something... like he was the janitor that took over the bank branch when nobody showed: “Uhm, yes, we have…

I’ve liked earlier seasons of Discovery, though they had some flaws, they had lots of redeeming qualities. But in what should be the show hitting its stride, with stability in the production team for the first time ever, and some basic plot elements acrobatically re-configured into more a conventional place (set in…

Thats the “center of the galaxy” barrier in ST:V with “God”—-this one is the outer barrier (to leave the Milky Way), which we saw in TOS.

Oh man you gotta stop using galaxy and universe interchangeably.

I appreciated your reviews. I love Trek, and I like this show enough to watch every week. I always feel some way after an episode and these reviews helped me sort out what I felt and why. I understand what I love (and don’t love) about Trek much better than I used to, which is pretty cool.

I’ve appreciated Handlen’s Discovery reviews. They remind me of “classic” A.V. Club - in depth, and actually critical. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the folks still watching this show would prefer fanboy patter.

Disney didn’t include Boba’s defining scene in that teaser?

Anti-vaxxers have been a thing for like 15+ years. (Well, for centuries, actually; but the modern movement the term refers to dates to the 2000s.) Anti-COVID-vaccine-vaxxers, yeah, obviously, but be careful with terminology here.

Wow. A guy who is a huge creeper in many ways with Hammer. Then you also got TWO anti-vaxxers in this thing (Brand & Wright) front and center.

While I appreciate their support statement and their rules, isn’t the other reason for changing the name that Quidditch is a registered trademark of Warner Bros. and they can’t advertise or expand the league using the original name? I ask because that was mentioned in all the other articles about this today.

a brief montage shows many of them dying of snake bites, wild dog attacks, and getting sick from contaminated water.

I’m not worried about Omicron, because after 800k deaths in 20 months, I’m sure Americans are finally ready to open their hearts and minds to science.

I don’t have a problem with all the emotional stuff that goes on in the show, but its placement is grating to me. In all the other Trek shows, when you’re on the bridge – when you’re on duty – you are a professional member of a military organization. You don’t swear, you don’t have your bf hanging out on the bridge, yo…

That bridge crew development subplot would have gone a lot further for me if they’d given him an actual scene doing some evacuating (and in a more interesting setting than everyone queuing up to get transported...) and having cause to relay his background while helping someone.