Regarding the tech in this show, as a prequel: eh, it’s actually harder to justify the tech in TOS and TNG than it is to justify advanced tech in DSC. I mean, in early TNG, and in The Cage, they asked for actual printouts of reports.

That line holds the dates on the calendar together, internationally.

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For one thing, it’s a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. There is no linear connection to real-world Earth technology. They could be much more advanced in some areas and far less advanced in other areas. That would probably be true, even if it did take place in our far future.

The reason Sanders would have connected was precisely because he was the only other populist in the race. His argument against Trump was to debunk Trump’s false brand of populism that exploits the correct diagnosis of the failures of globalism and stuff like TPP as an excuse to prescribe bigotry and scapegoating as…

Of course, Clinton picked Tim Kaine as VP, who was hardly liberal on abortion.

He’d fail that litmus test.

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Last night’s episode was quite fun.

Well Rapp was playing a child at the time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPV1InMNUf4

Both Dax’s party and this one seem like they pumped real music on set, instead of playing it to get people dancing, then shutting it off when they start filming. I know for sure the Dax party was shot that way, but I would guess that this party was too.

One of the criticisms the first season of DS9 got a lot was that most of the episodes were rehashed TNG stories. But the last time I did a rewatch, the pattern that emerged into my view was that the science fiction premises may have fit into TNG well, but that they were recontextualized in DS9, in a way that spoke to…

Last night, I decided to catch up on the show, after the less-than-impressive “Pria.” “Krill” and “Majority Rule” were an improvement, as they lacked the more overtly sexist jokes that have plagued both the Berman-era and MacFarlane’s past shows, but they kind of highlighted why this show feels so minor, when compared…

This might be the closest we’ve seen to a stand-alone character piece. It was a quieter affair, where we get some insight into Burnham’s relationship with Sarek, Sarek’s motives for his conflict with Spock, Lorca’s past with Admiral Doctor Cornwell, Tilly’s apprenticeship under Burnham, and Burnham and Tyler’s…

One thing I like about DSC is that, unlike previous Trek shows, there isn’t a mandate that women alien characters conform to Western human standards of beauty. If you watch interviews with Berman, Braga, and Westmore, that was a priority they sought, even though they didn’t have a similar standard for men aliens. It’s…

Oh man! I’ll have to keep on the lookout for that when I rewatch it!

In many ways, this was the darkest episode yet. But in true Star Trek fashion, there are shafts of light that shine through.

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This was definitely the most Star Trek episode of Discovery yet. New life is sought out, life that reminds me a bit of Stranger Things, and that makes me worry about that life’s fate.

The crew has settled into a more comfortable groove where they can work together. They’re a little less on edge. And we get a bit…

He reviewed TOS/TAS/TNG/DS9 and the movies.

It was the Horizon that left that book on Sigma Iotia, and that was in the 22nd century. That may have been a Daedalus-class ship NCC-173, or it might have been a civilian craft, like the ECS Horizon, Ensign Mayweather’s former home.