Actually, insect overlord, Section 31 existed from the start of The Federation - it was founded during the time of Enterprise. So it’s entirely likely this is some earlier Section 31 ship, practicing Mad Science in a bid to defeat the Klingons - because basically, All Human Engineers and Scientists are Doc Brown,…

How do you know he was rejected by Section 31, Undead Kai Opaka? If you ask me, he sounds like exactly the kind of CO Section 31 would embrace like a long-lost brother.

WillB - I doubt most of us want to pirate it, but honestly DSC is the only show on CBS All Access most people want to watch. What with most streamers already paying for Amazon Prime Video, Hulu Plus, Netflix, Spotify and/or iTunes Music (or if you’re me, Pandora One!), HBO Now and/or Showtime Streaming, and probably…

It amounts to backstory that maybe didn’t need a full 90 minutes devoted to it and maybe wasn’t the most structurally sound place to introduce us to those characters.

I’m abroad for work at the moment so I haven’t been able to watch the episode, but I thought I’d relay something interesting from my weekend. I was at a tourist site and, as you do, spent most of the time bumping into the same group of people as I went through. This group happened to be a couple students from Spain…

I’m going to work on the thesis to this later, but let me just say that while I understand that harmon and roiland don’t like the sexist fans they’ve attracted, which is understandable, no one does, the show, knowingly or not, does a lot to attract and feed such fans. From its themes, to how the characters are…

The whole government thing with the president seemed like it would have worked a bit better last year. Granted it’s not their fault, no one saw trump coming, but some of the writing falters more than if literally anyone else had been elected.

There was that DS9 episode about a rifle that used a micro-transporter to beam bullets past obstacles so the wielder can shoot through walls.

Sorry, I should have been more clear: it’s way too early for this show to jump that shark.

“Trek shows (the three I’ve seen)”

I forget where I originally read it, but one of my favorite descriptions of the gelatinous cube was that it was a creature that evolutionarily adapted to living in dungeons drawn on graph paper.

...it becomes a way for the Discovery story to drastically change in future seasons (e.g., maybe the spores can cause travel in both time and space?)

EB White...not CS Lewis?

I saw Man of Steel. Say what you will about Superman Returns — and there’s a lot of bad to say about it — but no director has ever so fundamentally misunderstood a hero as Snyder did with Superman.

Is it just me or does it feel like they don’t really know what went wrong or why, and are just kinda fumbling around? Like, “Well, this one did a thing! This one worked! It must be [insert reason(s) no one but apparently a studio exec would come up with, like ‘it was a vignette,’ or ‘it was dark and gritty’]. Do more…

It’s honestly easier to keep track of who did make the jump to Kinja than those who didn’t.

It’s a great episode, but I have a quibble with it, as a “Picard stands alone” type episode.

Jesus AV Club, you couldn’t have picked Nicholas Meyer or Kirsten Beyer or anyone whom Trek fans actually want to be producers on a new Trek show?

OK, this video really made me worry about Star Trek: Discovery. ‘Shore Leave’ is a horrible choice and that guy should be embarrassed. ‘Mirror Mirror’ is a fun episode but focusing on the gold lame is troubling.

That said, ‘City on the Edge of Forever’ and ‘The Inner Light’ are GREAT choices made by HORRIBLE people.…

“There was a Next Generation episode called... The Inner Light, I believe? At least, that’s the episode I was told to say I liked.”