Agree. I always felt bad for what they went through. It’s like they were right at the wrong place at the wrong time when audiences/auteur relationship changed and celebrity entailed way more baggage that it ever had before.

I would be so happy if they assured us that these Klingons will in ten years become the Klingons we all know and love, which I haven’t given up hope on. I am currently clutching to the thread that these Klingons do slightly resemble the (canonical) devolved proto-Klingon Worf became in “Genesis”.

Compared to the first 8 episodes of other ST series, it’s good.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but they will soon have to resolve some issues with the Eleven character herself, that they kind of skirted with the whole Chicago-gang detour. Right now, the character as scripted is stuck somewhere between The Chosen One and/or Waif Prophet, and Eleven will probably need to soon…

A thought just occurred to me as I read your objection to the spore drive. You don’t suppose the spore drive is an early forerunner to the transwarp drive?

I’ve kind of been able to convince myself that the Discovery uniforms do indeed seem retro to the 60's tunics. Imagine Discovery is set during the Federation 1950's, and the Discovery crew are dressed like bellhops with art-deco piping, and it works a bit. I also liked the clunky horizontal transporter dishes that…

So much for all that teeth-gnashing and rending-of-garments about how CBS All Access plan was going to blow up in CBS’s face.

I don’t buy that serialization is inherently better than episodic, or vice versa. They’re just different forms. Full disclosure, I do think DS9 and Star Trek II stand out as Star Trek at it’s best, because they took well known aspects of Star Trek and expanded the story dramatically. In both stories, we knew certain…

I gather that prohibition does not extend to non-human species as much, and is probably rooted in some Earth law governing Earth and it’s colonies. The TNG Enterprise was fine with Binars, and even Data somehow got a pass, despite having been derived from the work of Khan-enthusiast Arik Soong himself.

Though worth noting that creature from the Glenn was in the secondary hull, in that sweepaway shot of Lorca

Midsummer Night’s Dream is overrated? OH MY GOD YOU SO DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT Titania and Peaseblossom and Cobweb are totally symbols for psilocybin and Shakespeare was telling all those anti-witchcraft priests t0 lay off the pagans and just take apart your head and don’t let some concept of “civilization” stop you

Oh god, I hadn’t even *thought* of Section 31 and and the Conspiracy bugs in the same universe. You could get into some truly “The Thing” style intricacy there, if the question of whether Section 31 and *only* Section 31 was infiltrated by the bugs was ever raised.

As annoying as CBS All-Access is, I’m becoming more exhausted by the armchair media execs (most of whom I imagine to be, like myself, rapidly aging not-the-target audience) insisting what numbers will and won’t work. Assuming cost of production was $100 million give or take, i.e. comparable to G.O.T., of course they…

Funny you should say that.

Unstated in many of the David Pumpkins pieces is the degree the sketch relies on, yes, the reactions of the “normal” people in the elevator, but also that it was specifically Tom Hanks at this moment in time, veteran actor and familiar from most people’s childhood, in a sort of pitch perfect…

The hard line was from the buyers of syndicated episodes which needed to be slotted into any schedule. Luckily, that market changed once these shows could guarantee a committed audience and the web made catching up on backstory possible.

FWIW- Whedon said at the time he was attempting to write a character who had “the opposite of his politics” and I’d say mission accomplished in that the lost cause vibe is the opposite of a lot of people’s politics.

Not having seen The Orville yet, and with no particular investment in Seth McFarlane’s career as an auteur, I just want to ask: Is it less funny than “The Naked Now”, the first non-pilot episode of TNG?

I would much like to see “Data’s Day”

I’m sorry this tot is adorable :)