...it’s not a bad episode of Strange New Worlds, but it could’ve been a much better one than it was.

Yep, I had no idea that she had any plans to ever revisit that world, let alone that she had planned through a prequel.  Very much looking forward to it.

“I’m not taking notes, Martin, because I’m not your doctor.”

Yeah, I immediately thought back to SG-1's 1969 where Hammond pretty much fixes all the plot holes it raises with the “I’ve been waiting a long time to talk about this. And with interest....”

Even if “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tommorrow” stumbles at the climax

Coming from you, that’s high praise.

Definitely a *lot* of work; my steak cooking nowadays usually involves 3 minutes setting up the sous vide, putting the steak in the bag with butter, salt, and pepper, vacuum sealing it, waiting a couple hours, and then if I’m feeling fancy and/or have company, hooking up my torch to sear it.

It’s definitely far too early to include this week’s episode. Whether or not it deserves its lofty ranking will be determined by if some of the threads in it get picked up later in the show, or if they’re just one off ideas tossed in to dramatize it.

I thought it was fine but didn’t quite like it as much as many here.

He was also pretty efficient at dodging journalists’ questions regarding body recovery

With the third book going waaaay out there, I genuinely don’t know how you adapt this without turning it into something like Solaris.

Good point. The ‘it’ll just be for 2 months (on Vulcan)’ part made me think of nothing as much as her traveling there to learn how to make Plomeek soup properly.

This was one of the weaker episodes of the series.

The rankings should have included a “how-the-hell-did-Copeland-manage-to-do-that?” component as part of them.

I like to add a few dashes to hamburger meat

Silo’s omission from this list - and for that matter from any coverage whatsoever on AV Club besides a perfunctory ‘review’ of an early trailer - is why the site is becoming less and less relevant to many of us, especially considering that if you believe Apple’s crowing about the metrics the thing is a runaway hit.

If you really feel the need, you can watch the first fifteen minutes (which are actually pretty fun) and then turn it off without missing anything.

Here’s the problem, though: while a mere 20 months separates the first and third seasons of the never-ending sci-fi caper, the cast aged four years (four years!) in that same period.

Your last point is really dead on for Season 1; the women are a lot more relatable in terms of their flaws and the (often sitcom) aspect of how they’re dating and/or hooking up.

Yep, props to you for being right on Kuang (as was I, just with diametrically opposite positions on the worthiness of the book) and I’d be shocked based on the last 15 or so years of voting if it doesn’t sweep.