Ah yes, I totally should have included the Logic Extremists in that list. Dangit Kinja, why don’t you just let me edit >:-(

Yeah, Zack’s kind of missing the point of this series, I think.

I don’t think Millard ever was a non-weird name; our thirteenth president only had it because his parents—Phoebe Millard and Nathaniel Fillmore—apparently couldn’t be bothered to think up a first name, so they just used their last names instead.

I’d actually agree with that—even the lamest episodes of early DS9 tend to have fun character moments sprinkled throughout—but in terms of “putting ‘traditional’ Star Trek ideals to the test,” DS9 didn’t really start doing that in earnest until late Season 2 at the earliest.

Comparing how the show is doing in Season 1 to how DS9 did after it’d been running for a few years, though, is equally stupid. If you really want to make that comparison, the only fair thing to do at this point is to compare what DS9 had done through “Vortex”—and I actually kinda like DS9's first season, but…

At this point in DS9's run, the most “testing Star Trek ideals” it had done was stuff like “hey look, the Duras sisters showed up” or “hey look, Lwaxana showed up” or “hey look, Q showed up and Sisko punched him in the face!”

Maybe we should have this discussion when the show’s been running for a few seasons.

I ordered an Aeropress when they went on sale for Black Friday, and I’ve gotta say, after getting spoiled by the coffee that thing makes, all of these coffee places seem disappointing now.

Error! Must Sterilize!

It’s these damn humanoids. They have no sense of order.

Damn thing started buffering just 10 seconds into the video today. Paused it to go make a cup of coffee and let it build its buffer for a while, and it automatically unpaused while I was away (and after 10 minutes, it’d still apparently only made it 2:30 into the video). Rewind it and play from the buffer it’s built,…

It’s a good show, and overseas viewers don’t have to put up with CBS All Access, so of course it’s doing well.

Welp, watched the scene again, and I’m wrong (and this stupid Kinja thing isn’t letting me edit it for some reason). She met Lorca after spacing him, not before. Huh. I guess it must have been on that data thingy she left on him (presumably planted when she punched him in the stomach). I guess she’d only need a…

I went back and rewatched this a couple of times, and I still can’t figure out how in the hell Burnham was able to send a message back to the Discovery about Tyler’s real identity. I didn’t mention this in the review proper as I’m almost positive I missed something, but so far as I can tell, she was never alone…

I also remember that story about the school district in Toronto that cancelled a field trip to the US because it didn’t seem safe anymore.

I know I wouldn’t touch this goddamn place with a twenty-foot pole if I had a citizenship in Norway. Or Germany. Or France. Or Canada. Or Australia. Or, really, anywhere in the first world that isn’t full of morons who elected... that thing to the presidency.

I was wondering if anyone else would comment on that! A dadaist IF classic.

I did this sometime a few years back when Civilization V went on a similar sale, and... I dunno. I was tickled to be able to play as Poland, but once that wore off, it... just wasn’t that fun. Definitely not as much as Civ 2 back in the day. :-/

I did this sometime a few years back when Civilization V went on a similar sale, and... I dunno. I was tickled to…

I was gonna write, “Target’s focus on mom’s *what?*”, but it appears you guys beat me to it.

I was expecting the glass lady to turn out to be Jodie, à la Logopolis. She has a certain resemblance to Peter Davison, too, when you think about it.

“No! I must kill the demons,” The AVClub shouted.