In a half hour Star Trek: Lower Decks did an episode about lower deck officers on a Star Fleet vessel, a Klingon vessel, and a Vulcan vessel. Surely they could explore three officer’s back stories in an hour Strange New Worlds episode.

I just think Melissa Navia deserves some more opportunity to show of her acting chops. I’d like to see her get a girlfriend or something, perhaps with some existential angst due to conflicted loyalties or something. Or a “meet the parents” episode al-la Worf. Something of a history. Anything. Sibling who shows up as a…

 It seems like everyone except Ortegas and Chapel have a fairly well developed back story, which is a shame. I’d like to explore their history more. They’re both characters I love and what we have seen of them is interesting (particularly their interactions with each other in season 1, which is about all we know about…

As I understand it (and we all know how fallible I am) the FAA grounded it due to the failure of the flight termination system, which failure surprised everyone including SpaceX. Last I heard they were going to double the detcord that was supposed to split the tanks, which may solve the problem. Or not. It turns out…

I don’t waste skull sweat on ranks in the Star Trek universe. The only ones that are particularly consistent are Captain, First Officer, and Admiral. And it’s even a little wibbly-wobbly about the First Officer, who is sometimes a Commander and sometimes as low as a Lieutenant.

Yeah, but Ethan Peck’s overacting aside, it was a pretty good scene.

Season 2 episode 2 Ad Astra Per Aspera is better, even though it’s more drama than space opera. The first season 2 episode was kinda Meh.

I for one welcome our new AI over lords.  (If you will forgive the meme.)

I am ashamed that I know all these characters, yet have never seen any of the shows except various Gojira permutations.

Faster than a hangfire, you mean.

Now, after abusing my retinas by looking at all of those, I can confidently confirm he’s losing whatever existed of his mind.

You tricked me! This wasn’t about Samantha Cristoforetti at all!

Any Nebula/Bucky story would have to be epic.

All I have to say is that Rocket’s “present” is my everything this year.

Thank you.

I have no idea who to credit.

While this is true, it’s also true that the BE4 engine program has been disastrous and is still plagued with potential problems. Unfortunately, the Vulcan-Centaur is designed specifically for the BE4 engine and cannot easily be converted to most any other engine.

I know you’re just a trawl, but I still like the cut of your jib.

Some movies have no business being longer than 90 minutes, but other movies make you want more after double that time. It’s all in the quality of the production. I refuse to make a determination on the quality of the movie based on an early prediction of how many hours it will be.

Well, yes and no. Adding Namor and Atlantis to this movie probably accounts for much of additional time. Frankly I think Namor is a more interesting character than Black Panther in any case. And way more interesting than his DC ripoff character Aquaman.