This episode, like the show, was pure garbage. It's genuinely staggering to see how many people here seemed to like it.

Would be better if they could hurl the shit into the sky it seems.

Yes but that's *after* a crushing quarantine that lasted weeks. I'm sorry to say the shit in America has barely hit the fan.

“bolstered by the news of overseas theaters slowly beginning to reopen”

“An android can mindmeld? A small stab in the eye kills an android - they don’t have a more resilient body, or mind backup?”

I feel a profound sense of inner peace and tranquility knowing I will never watch any of these Quibi shows.

God Discovery and Burnham are so, so horrible.

We’re 8 episodes in a brand new Star Trek show and just now we get a glimpse of a cool new Starfleet ship. And it’s a silhouette on a box. This show sure is something.

“Out of curiosity, what would you have seen as a satisfying ending?”

Exactly. Who wants to see the heroes of their youth be sad and miserable? I just don’t get who this show is for. Picard is miserable, Troi had a son but he died, Riker was a captain for 5 minutes before his son died and he quit, Seven of Nine is miserable, Icheb got slaughtered... Ugh. And that’s just the known…

I just can’t get over the creepy fact that it’s just the legs that come back. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure I’ll see it one day, and I might even like it, but until then, the leg thing somehow makes me not want to particularly see it. It’s just so weirdly unsettling, and it has all these disturbing implications that…

Just *registering* a 9-7X here would cost over €8,000 or almost $9,000, which is absolutely insane. And then several thousand a year in road taxes... So that’s the only reason I don’t own one of these beauties.

“ It was brutal, definitely, but it was supposed to be - “absolutely horrified” is exactly the reaction you should have to a character being vivisected for spare parts.”

It was absolutely horrifying, that whole scene did not belong in a Star Trek episode at all. Star Trek shouldn’t be about brutal torture porn, christ almighty.

Sure, why not. I just hope they dial back her abrasive personality a little bit. I don’t think being a jerk to siblings is cool, I think it’s very annoying, especially if it’s systematic and one of a character’s key features.

“Fair enough that you enjoy it. But my question is always: “Why does this need to be Star Trek”? If you want to create art that “speaks to the times” (and it’s debatable how well latter day Trek even does this), then do it. Create something new and timely. Don’t destroy something and assemble the pieces into something…

I know it's technically speaking not canon, but do the storylines at any point really contradict each other? When I watched all of both cartoons a few years back I thought they complemented each other nicely.

“That is my point, the late 60's were a reaction to that very dark period that was the time in which TOS was produced. Vietnam, Kennedy & King assassinations, extreme inner-city poverty, civil unrest, racial equality, political insanity and Watergate / presidential impeachment proceedings, sexual liberation movement,…

I will truly never forgive JJ Abrams for ruining my two favorite childhood franchises, Star Trek and Star Wars. The very idea that a single person managed to do that still feels crazy to this day.

You just took the words right out of my mouth. If nothing else, it’s nice to see there are still others out there who share the exact same disappointment with the direction Star Trek has been heading in since the Kelvin movies. I agree with literally everything you just said, from your problem with the pointlessly…