I scanned through the rest of the comment section, but I didn’t see anyone else bring up the opening scene. As to your “meaner and more misanthropic overall,” Federation penal colonies were supposed to be about rehabilitation, not punishment, unless something had gone terribly wrong. This episode opened with a…

I hesitate to call the opening a flashback, because it’s presented as happening in the present (there’s no future point it’s flashing back from, other than TNG). After the opening ends, the next scene is set three years later, so the remainder of the episode is actually a flash-forward, I suppose?

Also influenced by Outlaw Star, down to the Chinese culture and the naked special girl in a box.

(applauds along with rest of bystanders definite assault and possible murder.)

I liked this show better when it was just 3-5 people having a discussion (the participants had more time to craft their jokes as well). Now that every episode includes a live audience, I feel they play to the room far too often, and the jokes are hurried and simplistic (kind of like a bizarro Trump rally). I think the…

I think Christopher Heyerdahl’s character is supposed to be Evil French Canadian, not European, but the accent is laid on so thick he comes off as comical rather than menacing. Much like the rest of this show.

The “S” is for Stalker!

I think the intention was two old friends mutually supporting each other after an emotionally exhausting day at the tribunal.

The problem was that she didn’t have a Spock that could serve back as good as he got. Instead, she was written as picking on a sweet and guileless innocent.

The same way a family, or a lone reclusive writer, would do it today: the internet. Moclan society is more technologically advanced than ours is, to boot.

Well, except for the blowing up Romulus part which remains canon and screwed over the developing storylines in other sequel media. And Spock Prime’s utter failure to give a shit about helping the survivors after he spent decades living among them working toward peaceful reunification.

Do you mean the show itself, which would be odd since this site used to cover it in episode reviews, or the clickbaity nature of the video content?

I was convinced for months before the film opened that she’d try to block a lightsaber strike with her staff and discover it was made from phrik metal, then proceed to beat Sith ass with it. Crestfallen that neither happened, and she even stopped wearing it halfway through the film.

Yes... and yes.

THERE. ARE. FOUR. TAPS!

Plus, even though the role didn’t specify a black man, he was the only lead to start his series at a lower rank than the Captains the others were, so not the best look in the end product.

Thanks for the rundown. I haven’t gamed with strangers since my Magic days, so that’s not a problem. My friend’s a much bigger Star Wars fan than me, but he hasn’t wanted to pull the trigger when the starter box seemed both expensive and short on pieces. Maybe we’ll give it a shot since I won’t need to buy expansions,…

What kind of cost commitment have you made on X-Wing? I like the look of it, but the sets seem far too expensive. Is it possible to play with the hundreds of Star Wars miniatures I already have from the past thirty-odd years of collecting, or do you need the exact ones they sell?

I can post and recommend on this burner account. I just connected my legacy account, but it shows up as a different login, and I can’t find a way to merge it with a burner account, only a FB/Twitter/Google connected account. My legacy account can post, but not recommend without the aforementioned social account…

I’m always reminded of the split-screens from the Honest Trailer that shows all the shots Abrams “homaged” directly out of the Original Trilogy and into Trek ‘09.