Best part of the happy ending was all the puns, David’s post-prandial calm, and his silent thumbs up to Stevie !

Wow.

They understand humans much better than they used to, though, and Pearl doesn’t hate him now.

How do you imagine we come to care for the characters we see on TV shows? Might it be from getting to know them over time, from week to week? Could it relate to how good the actors are at bringing their characters to life? It might not have happened for you, but I care about Raffi and Rios and Agnes and Elnor now. I…

Steven has scars! Lucky Connies mom is so smart.

This was my favorite episode thus far, I loved Raffi’s antics with the EMH’s, and of course it all goes back to Oh. Raffi picked this captain, Raffi and Picard’s rescue was derailed by the Mars attack, why would you expect the various threads not to keep concerning synths? Why shouldn’t the doctor apologize for the…

The song is the one from Ralphs  anecdote  about his mother .  She's just trying to process all the trauma. Terry just seemed miles  away in time and space from their conflict in the cave. It's all psychological  not mystical at the end.

As much as I will never be a Gene fan, that’s how much I love Gayle.

Yes, humanity has gotten used to gems. They've been on this Earth throughout its recorded history . And Pearl seems to like them big and strong, no?

I thought (but maybe I’m giving him too much credit) that when Captain Rios was trying to get Agnes’ input on how sketchy Raffi’s behavior was, he was really trying to get Agnes to come clean with her obvious complicity in something, whatever it was. His connection with Raffi goes back too far for him to suddenly…

I’m experiencing Ralph as a very lived in character; the intensity of his feelings leaving him almost shut down in the face is this threat is a powerful acting choice for me; he’s articulating something about masculine bravery and fear I think.

Your encyclopedic memory of past episodes will be missed!

My favorite part was how easily and completely Louise and her girl gang of not-scientists captured Gene and Tina to test their trap. Ruthless as always.

I think Narek fell for Soji because she’s a better person than he is. He just can’t admit that due to his prejudice.

Jeannie was scared, and she didn’t have all the information at first. It took her awhile to come around the trauma. Alec was spooked, and then he felt bad about Holly (whose bravery put him to shame). This was all explained in dialogue. The only reason Glory’s little girls weren’t spooked is that they were little…

I just assumed they had their kids late. They really functioned like a nuclear family unit. Including the all-hands-on-board effort to save the kid.

Why Grandpa and not just Pa?

The kind of actor Patrick Stewart is: he wasn’t bad at being a French Pirate. He was playing Picard being terrible at cosplay, which is easy to believe.

Its not even that original. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have been doing variations of it for decades. It's instead just a sci-first cliche: the bad guys are probably  also kinky, and they torture hamsters. Trek should be above such silliness.

He’s not the one who’ll transform. That will be Claude.