He seems to imply that Shaw would still be involved. In spite of...ya know.

I’d argue from a storytelling perspective they’ve invoked Janeway’s name too many times for her to NOT show up. 

He’ll just buy someone else’s AI program, make it worse, and just rely on his legions to say how he made it from scratch and it’s so brilliant.

He’s got time, because several people are already using the name TruthGPT.

So is this all still tied to the time that ChatGPT told someone he couldn’t say the n-word even in a secret room if it would save the world? Cause...folks realize this is just a chatbot program, dealing with really stretched hypotheticals, right?

I get it. The Borg are the throughline for the series. I was ready for them to show up one last time and thought it was weird they weren’t there. And even if they completely botch the ending by having the Ent-D warp in and it was all a big fleet-wide Captain Picard Day surprise party the end, this has still be an…

I was so sad when Episode 9 was like “TNG cast, go play on the Ent-D set, everyone else stay here.” So I’m happy to see the shot of Seven at the turbolift door. I mean, yes, I know that those would just be in adjacent sound stages and the casts could wander back and forth as needed, but you know what I mean.

Kind of. There was a cloning element, and it wasn’t until you just said this that I realized I might be borrowing some Paranoia ideas. There’d be three stats (Red, Yellow, and Blue) and you get to level up the stat that you failed at when you most recently died. The GM role is a senior officer. I was just never sure…

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I think it’s weird they didn’t include the other screenshot they leaked:

Bloody-Disgusting reports the fifth film in the Insidious franchise is now titled Insidious: The Red Door.

So Adobe is going to cancel this and for the next twenty years we’ll hear about how no cancelled tech was ever any better? That’s right. Hot take! Come at me!!

I feel like they’ve name dropped Janeway too much for her not to have at least a cameo.

It’s fun to watch shows about hyper competent people solving huge problems to save the day. But it’s fun to play games about being disaster ensigns who fumble their way through situations and just barely make it out the other end.

I was kind of hoping for a fleet of old ships piloted by thematically appropriate characters. Worf in the Defiant. Seven in Voyager. Jack in the Ent-A (since he was waxing poetic about “Kirk’s Enterprise”). Picard in the Ent-D. But that’s a lot of set recreation.

I think it’s more interesting if ST:L has to now deal with the fact that the fleet has had a huge percentage of their senior officers just killed and will be left with a bunch of junior officers (probably dealing with some mass trauma) and admirals. I keep seeing “Shaw is dead but also Shaw would be important to a…

- I’m not disappointed it’s the Borg; they’re the best villains and have always been the endgame baddies of Trek. The Pah-Wraith truthers are going to have a hell of a week though.

So an implication of this episode is that even if (and, let’s be realistic, when) the assimilation is fixed the fleet is going to be left in a position where a massive chunk is taken out of the senior officer corps. Bunch of ensigns and lieutenants JG just got assimilated and killed all the three- and four-pips on…

I thought it was hilarious to see the D bridge, a set designed to be filmed in 4:3 aspect ratio, in full 2.39:1 glory showing how tightly packed everything is in the middle to allow it to all appear on 80s and 90s TV screens. Tiny cluster of chairs in the middle of the screen flanked by massive carpeted ramps to fill…

It has been brilliant of Matalas to be stringing us along all season on Twitter, feeding our love of Shaw, our hopes for a spin-off, knowing damn well that Episode Nine was it for him. He’s been sharpening a knife for two months, ready to just plunge it into our collective backs. Well played, sir. Well played.