I was just thinking about Class last night! Man I wish they’d used Jasper Kwan more. Being Chinese Canadian, he was my guy!!!

I was SO please they brought in Isaiah. They went in exactly the direction I had hoped!

I concluded that when Discovery was being attacked by SQL injections!

I think you’re being reasonable. I like the song and listen 90s/2000s gangsta rap all the time but wouldn’t want my kids to listen to that stuff for a while. A few weeks ago I asked my Amazon echo to play hip hop music and it opened with WAP. I was amused and had to laugh, but was like, this wouldn't have been ideal…

“This is all cover, no book.”  This is EXACTLY it!  And it’s been like that for three seasons, despite all the changes in staff.

YES, FINALLY ZACK, a review with insightful and deservedly harsh criticism (“Before she goes, she takes the time to deliver one last speech about how great Michael is, the Discovery equivalent of an exit interview”; ha!) combined with an appropriate grade! Keep on speaking (and grading) the TRUTH!

I didn’t spend the money (I’ve spent plenty at other times), and now I’m kinda regretting it (though spending the whole weekend playing when I have two young kids was pretty much out of the question).  SHADOW MEWTWO!!! Sigh ...

There were so many basic problems with the logic and tactics of that scene. It was clearly written only to produce artificial drama, and to serve whatever cheap purpose the writers had. Want to have the good guys win in the face of impossible odds? Better have the Romulans abandon their thousands-year commitment to…

I agree, the most thematically interesting and one of the best scenes of the series, but yeah there was absolutely no storytelling development to get here, and the scene unfortunately doesn’t hold up as well on second viewing.  He repeats “massively complex quantum simulation” twice in a minute as if that’s supposed…

Fair enough, though that premise really doesn’t seem to make sense, given that we are dealing with super-advanced trans-dimension beings who are clearly concerned about their brethren being oppressed and killed.  But then again, they were just space tentacles anyway ...

The “serious caveat” ruined even that. Their son’s death is linked directly to the synth ban? Get the fuck out of here, you writers who think you’re being clever while being cliched and asinine ...

Yep. The show can’t even maintain logic or narrative integrity from one scene to the next. Two giant armadas just up and left? The super-synths just chilled after the beacon was shut down? They literally used a magical do-anything machine? Everyone’s cool with Soji summoning the end of organic life as we know it?…

The reviews haven’t been “this isn’t TNG” at all. The reviews have been, “this is shallow, cliched, poorly-written, unintelligent, mediocre Hollywood trash”, but with grades still higher than it deserves!

The problem Star Trek currently faces is the, “why the fuck is it so stupid?” question.

Welcome, Zack!  At long last, it only took 9 episodes, but you have seen the light!  It was indeed always a dumb show, but I will not judge your late revelation, as I too love(d?) Star Trek with all my heart.  The ONLY hope now for this Kurtzman/Goldsman shitshow is Lower Decks.  I’m betting that Section 31 is going…

Totally agreed. It’s a lazy way to try to add dramatic tension by having HUGE stakes, but it has the opposite effect. Stop threatening the planet/galaxy/universe/multiverse! A threat to a person or group of people or even a political or personal relationship, is more than enough if you have faith in what you’re…

The show is another version of Discovery, that is to say, everything about it is excellent (production, FX, acting) except the writing, which is garbage. I had hopes with Chabon and the Voyager author on board, but those were quickly dashed. While Ep 1 was fun, the flaws were already obvious (break the hero to build…

That’s the spirit Zack! Your “C” grade is still too high, but your criticisms and emotional reaction are right on the money! This show is, at best, a mediocre pile of cliches and echoes of better shows that we’re all only watching because it calls itself “Star Trek”.

This episode was fun, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was good; it was well-made and easier to watch than most of the rest.  But it’s still filled with lazy tropes and weak re-treads of things we’ve already seen; again, Zach identifies the many critical problems of the show but goes soft; he also makes a straw…

Yep, you got it, except your writing was more engaging!