It’s not that weird. Yang and Buttigieg both have used alt-right language on the 2020 campaign and it’s only been like three months so far.

I’m starting to feel like we’re getting to a point where nothing is allowed. I mean, the context here, for example. She isn’t making fun of black people in any way. She’s trying to remain true to the character, who happens to be black. It would be one thing if she had done something deliberately offensive, but she’s…

The Borg already exist well before this point in the timeline so this isn’t their origin. The Sphere/Control may have access to information on them though which would explain the familiar looking nanites. But its use of them, and its mission, is very non-Borg.

DS9 firmly established a Star Trek type of offshoot - still clearly in the same universe with a clear chain of command, but not set on a ship, lots of non-federation crew members - and then worked from there. Hell, even Picard was in the first episode to give it a send off and help establish Sisko’s traits right off…

This show just doesn’t feel anything like Trek, no matter how many ST-trope balls the manatees drag out of the tank.

“GREETINGS MR. VULCAN!”

the ships were all of the same design

The Moclans also upgraded the Deflectors, so the combined upgrades have now essentially made The Orville a new Defiant.

They did explain how The Orville stands up to the Krill ships as well as it does, but they did so in a properly subtle way. Early on in the episode, the Kaylon reference that they’re performing shield upgrades to the ship (which makes sense given at that point they had total control and were using it to lead their…

It would have been a bit too convenient for Kelly and Gordon’s hail-mary quantum jump to bring them within spitting distance of the only recurring Krill character thus far.

An Lt. which is actually an double agent disguised as a human? Where have we seen it before? It looks like also a bit of a dig at Discovery, while being better executed in a single episode than DIS did in a season.

You can’t just make a laundry list of Nice Things and then arbitrarily credit capitalism for all of them.

If you think social systems aren’t being mismanaged and destroyed, then you have a giant blind spot.

I hear that capitalism also makes the sun come up every morning and is the reason for every puppy’s smile.

Capitalism has definitely done a lot for us. It’s also killing the planet unfortunately. It might be time to adapt and evolve.

Is this the end of America’s love affair with Lena Dunham?

Exactly.  The townspeople were so worried about Mr. Fucking Hankey that they needed a hearing about it, but the school gets shot up everyday and nobody gives a shit.  Who’s the real piece of shit here?  The actual piece of shit or the town’s people?

It’s endlessly fascinating how “woke” fans of this show are actually trying to spin this episode into something they can agree with. Hankey is portrayed as a literal and figurative piece of shit, but that doesn’t mean the show’s against his existence. They’re clearly portraying the townspeople as socially reactive…

Didn’t see it. I saw the “Shut up about shutting up about plot holes.” one though.