Bill and Ted were, IMHO, a critical link from Cheech and Chong 70's into 90's Wayne and Garth/Beavis and Butthead/Harold and Kumar stoner diad.

Agreed. I am hopeful for season 2.

is THAT what happened? God, I always wanted that book when I was 12 and could never seem to find it, even though I had all the other ones. I was very curious about the Orions, with their ships that looked like mere boxes of light that harangue Federation diplomatic conferences, and of course the green slave women.…

That is amazing, but I am wondering what happened to poor Clyde that his remains would be “atoms”

This is suuuuch a better use of their time. Let us never mention “Confederacy”again...

hmm... ItsASmallWorld?

If you’ve never seen the hilarious and (surprisingly) touching show Baskets, Mary Wiseman is pretty awesome as “Trinity”, a runaway gutterpunk riding the railroads of Bakersfield with a group of buskers. Armed with this, I knew Tilly would be a good character.

But because of canon we can’t have that knowledge spread around, because then Prime/Kirk wouldn’t have been the first one to find it. 

Sheesh. Everyone is as solemn as Indiana Jones swapping out a golden idol with a bag of sand about how much mimicry is needed here. It’s not like we haven’t already seen River Phoenix/Sean Patrick Flannery deal with this exact challenge before- the awesomeness of the story and writing will count for a lot.

I think the question many are asking is the overall tone with which nominally important events and character development is supposedly happening. If we’re revisiting the world of a fun, campy space opera from the 60’s, improvising as they go along, mission accomplished. There’s nothing wrong with that- in a very real…

And to take that a step further, we really don’t have any idea what timeline we’re in anymore. 

Yes, you’re definitely onto something. I finally saw the episode last night and it was cheap and manipulative to me (but then I remembered Gene himself actually did flirt with that once). But yes the moral structure of this show is so all over the place and layered with Edge that I can’t take it seriously.

Lest we forget, Picard originally described the Ferengi by telling Groppler Zorn “I hope they find you as tasty as they did their past associates.”

They showed this:

I agree, but I still love Burton because I think there should be room in this world for an A-list director with the insight of a 15 year old goth boy from 1982.

Once upon a time, “Twin Peaks” and “Northern Exposure” had this going on, too.

Oof. I haven’t seen this episode yet (I struggled through the last) but it sounds like a complete trainwreck.

I honestly did not even interpret that laundry room as a joke. I took it sober-as-a-judge “this is how they do the laundry. okay, got it”. Not sure if it’s them or me.

Clearly, Luke’s robotic hand swapped places with the remnants of his real hand in the storehouse on Wayland.

I was shamelessly baiting, I admit. I know they have cartilage skeletons, but although I am not Egon Spengler, something about this seems spectrally off.