What little we’ve seen of the cast is amazing.  That gives me hope for this show.

Anson Mount’s Pike is so charasmatic and engaging, it should make the series enjoyable enough to watch despite any oher issues with it.

Star Trek has never been particularly successful as a film franchise. Oh, it’s had a few hits, but adjusting on its ratio for hits and misses, well, they’ve been at their best when they’ve been at their lowest budgets. (TWOK famously shot on roughly a TV production budget)

That’s basically like a Bugles snack.

(Apparently it only exists in the plural.  Huh.)

Just watched the first episode - it does a great job of balancing humour and the kind of things we come to expect from Trek. I’m glad we haven’t had any characters from any previous series yet - I think some of those shows were too quick to rely on established characters (Q on DS9, I’m looking at you here). Give the…

Both have flaws, but so did the other Treks. People who say otherwise have rose tinted glasses on.

Given enough time, Mars and Moon colonies with a few million people would, if nothing else, be insurance against a massive asteroid strike. That seems reason enough.

If you can manufacture major spacecraft components on the moon, the sky is quite literally the limit.

‘Member all the people telling SpaceX that they couldn’t land their rockets?  I ‘member.

Different models and projections says otherwise..

The proper way to hide a “super mustache”.

Oh, and many thanks to Jill for the follow and ungreying. It’s been a long time commenting on this site in the greys. Like a decade?

Chill dude! Luckily your body does indeed replace much of itself. That liver isn’t the same liver you were born with. The heart wears out in part due to the ‘shoddy’ repair work deemed good enough by evolution, not because it’s impossible to repair.

It is as if the human body is not a direct analog to an uncared for machine.

Redd Foxx had a great joke that with a punchline to pretty much this setup. “You’re gonna feel pretty stupid dying of nothing.”

Insert mandatory “I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa did, not screaming in terror like the other passengers in the car,” joke.

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How do you take your Scotch, Mitchell?

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