Yikes, I assume this probably affects most digital streaming services, since it’s all about the licensing and distribution rights that change hands frequently. Has this happened to any of Google Play’s library? Short of a company going bankrupt, I just assumed that if you buy to own, they’ll be able to stream it for…

Yeah these desert planets are played out. It never made sense to me that Rey grew up on a seemingly identical world to Tatooine, other than to mirror the plot of New Hope. I think the original Force Awakens script had more new environment types we hadn’t seen yet.

“new galaxies” seems like a mistake, like he meant to say star systems. If travel to a new galaxy became possible, I imagine the Empire would be the first to imperialize it.  Unless it's some metaphysical Jedi mind transfer thing.  Were there ever other galaxies in the expanded universe?

I was surprised to find out that we’re actually in the middle of a 100,000 year ice age cycle, but within that an interglacial warming period that began 15,000 years ago, which we would be leaving and entering a new colder glacial period except that we’ve released so much CO2 we may have completely ended the current…

There was research that came out a few years ago that said it’s not so much the gulf stream that keeps Western Europe mild but rather the rotational direction of wind currents. So in the northern hemisphere west coasts will be milder than east coasts, due to more air being blown in from the south / equator vs the…

I loved Solo, for me it captured the essence of Star Wars, while TLJ took all of JJ Abrams world building and flushed it down the toilet. Forget this new trilogy, give us an Obi Wan Maul movie, give us a Boba Fett movie, give us a live action Ewok Netflix series.

Not to mention... Doesn’t Facebook have it’s own free VOIP service?

Could she have dialed 911 from Skype or Google Hangouts? I have a call-forwarding Google voice number setup with my Hangouts so I can recieve and make calls from my devices, including my laptop, when I’m abroad. All free services from Google.

I think the problem is the US only adopted the Chip part of the decades old PIN + CHIP technology. The PIN replaces your signature, so no one can forge it, but perhaps it’s not hard to read the Chip and break the encryption to figure out the pin? Eitherway, living in Europe, it seems that most people don’t have or use…

Discovery is divorced from Prime TOS universe, it exists in 2009 Abrams-Reboot-verse.

No way, the twist was awesome and a long time coming. Comparing Discovery against TNG, DS9, Voyager, it’s way darker and less “future-utopia” in tone, which Lorca embodies as captain. Lorca’s aggressive militaristic stance never jived with me up against the history of 90's Star Trek series. So from the get-go, we’re…

Admiral Ackbar should’ve replaced Holdo. His authority had already been established in the original trilogy. He could have had a funny line playing off his famous “it’s a trap” to add to the already excessive humor. And he would’ve had an honorable send off doing the lightspeed kamikaze into the First Order fleet...…

The shirtless scene also communicates the extent of the injury Rey inflicted upon him at the end of Force Awakens... we see it went all the way down to his chest. Scar continuity is a big deal in the Star Wars Universe. Apparently they went as far as giving Last Jedi Luke’s cyborg hand a blaster scar from when Boba…

I saw an advanced screening of Trek Wars, here’s how it ends:

I didn’t think the Rachel reproduction looked exactly like Sean Young. I was expecting to see some uncanny valley cg weirdness as she stepped out of the shadows and revealed herself, but instead I just saw someone that sort of looked like her with just practical fx, hair and makeup, no cg. If there was cg involved,…

100% RT rating? I’d give it more a 65. It was entertaining but way too predictable, not funny enough nor shocking enough. I think a single 30min episode of Key & Peele is more entertaining. I went into it expecting more laughs, or at least more gore and shock, but overall it was kind of bland, and safe. But I’m…