And obsessed with gorgeous “battle ready” sequences.

P: “Admiral.”

“About time you brought your craziness to my feet, Picard. Good to see you as well, Seven, glad to see things haven’t changed. Alright, Voyager crew! Red alert! Battle stations. Attack pattern Janeway Alpha. Let’s show these changelings what this tough old bird can still do.” *Voyager theme goes full blast*

He was one of those actors that I was glad to see in movies and shows because he seemed great and I was glad he was getting good work. 

Just here to point out that Kirk Acevedo as a Vulcan Gangster was a delight. 

I need Shaw and Mariner to interact. 

Frontier Day includes the original Voyager. Wouldn’t be surprised if Picard’s way into preparations involve Janeway.

I’ve honestly done my utmost to avoid spoilers including episode trailers, and it's been the best choice for this series. 

“Getting Michelle Forbes back as Ro Laren was a big surprise. I’m glad that plot thread went full circle. ‘I’ve been practicing this conversation for 30 years’ is something a lot of Star Trek fans have been doing when it comes to Ro Laren.”

The entire series is a LucasArts adventure game. 

I have a feeling this will be dealt with as a “well, Draco disarmed Dumbledore and I disarmed Draco sooooo” thing with the Darksaber.

(That’s because, yes, this is the exact droid Uncle Owen almost bought before it crapped out and he got R2-D2 in A New Hope, a moment that literally changed the entire trajectory of the galaxy when you think about it.)

Honestly, after seeing another show take the long way round to the ruins of their domed city/planet, I’m glad this one took the shortcut.

Not TNG characters, perish the thought.

I understand how, given how the Founders seemed to operate, and how the Female Changeling had been away from the Great Link, some would’ve been reticent to accept defeat by solids.

Disagree. It should’ve been Max to begin with, especially since it’s not all HBO content. If anything, making it HBO Max has affected the “premium brand”-ness of HBO and I can see the new WBD people wanting to bring it back.

I like how they’ve made the Battle of Wolf 359 essentially Starfleet’s 9/11 - a game changer. Without it, we wouldn’t have had Sisko in DS9, the Defiant-class, probably not the Sovereign-class, and now Shaw.

Especially a son he didn’t know existed.

Logic? Logic? My God, the man’s talking about logic; we’re talking about universal armageddon.

Yes, but that was when he got turned into a human.