Pretty much this. I'm surprised it bothered people. Letting the scene breathe was fine with me, especially since I feel like it captured a lot of the "what now?" of people exploring kind of unexplored territory with each other.

There's no better ally in a scrap than Fruit Pie the Magician!

I came here to say Freshness Burger.

It wasn't that long ago. I'm pretty sure Tokyo still has the original (rapey) staging, instead of the platters of food.

Oh, you're right, I misread it.

Getting the cat to do it again is the real trick. Once you've solved that problem you don't leave the field.

Different guy. That wasn't the doctor.

Ha ha, no.

Weird how the body cameras won't be any more reliable.

Yeah, Brazil law is definitely different, and apparently what those security guards did was permitted. But it would have been a very bizarre, Banana-republic experience for any American.

Did he eat that buried seal flipper thing?

Start with the many varieties of sushi that don't involve raw fish.

A little goes a long way for novelty impressions. I started off thinking it was cute, then annoying, then interminable. A good rule of thumb is stop when you have to take a breath.

The thing you have to remember is that, while I respect Takei immensely, he is an old, old man. He took his job as a pioneer of minority representation seriously, he was very proud of creating a character who could be a real, universal leading man *and* Asian. And to someone who grew up in the '40s and '50s, that…

I'm happy to hear that. I didn't like the tone of the "summary" depiction she got in the trailers and I was concerned I'd be wrinkling my nose at it.

Don't worry about the fucking ratfish, elasmobranches is easier to spell. Kind of.

My comment started off redundant, since someone else had already mentioned it, and as I read further I realize it was redundant and irrelevant, my favorite.

There's some broadly-drawn Big Sci-Fi Ideas in the notion of Genesis being a weapon etc. etc. as well and maybe even a little about militarization of science.

I'm probably more upset that we don't get a bunch of gorns in latter-day Trek than anything involving LGBTQ2I or race.

No, we're definitely all still good with that.