I was in tears way before the funeral. Jax fighting Marty on his choice but knowing that there was no scenario where they both survive straight up hurt.

I knew the OUTRAGE machine would be carrying pitchforks and torches after this episode; this was the full McFarlane-either go with it or leave. In about ten years when Cheeto Hitler is history (unless he changes the Constitution and runs for a third term), it may be possible to feel slightly embarrassed by conflating…

Go find a conservative television site. You poor fucking baby.

Tilly is so, so good. I love Tilly. I’m gonna be honest, I was looking forward to Zack’s reviews of this show having followed really closely with his classic Trek reviews and his take on this show has been disappointingly more akin to the gross Orville bros who want to shit on everything new and different than I was…

I must be the only one who enjoys watching the Klingon scenes in Klingon. It really helps those moments come alive for me.

I know, I know. I’m a huge giant fucking nerd. But listening to people having real conversations in genuine Klingon is freaking amazing.

Arrrggghhhhh despite calling out Aurora Borealis (“at this time of year, in this part of the country...” sorry, that’s a compulsion at this point) I COMPLETELY forgot about it this week and just thought about Storm. Yikes. Embarrassing.

The Northern Lights are more formally called the Aurora Borealis. An aurora is the phenomenon created when electrons from the solar wind are accelerated by the Earth’s magnetic field and excite air molecules to luminesce. I guess the idea is that Eclipse’s light powers involve electrons in some way, though the show’s…

The only odd thing I noticed about Tyler was the huge amount of food he had on his plate, which might be a hint that he needs more calories than a human. However, after his performance in the episode I will be really annoyed if he turns out to be Voq because how the hell did that guy learn english idioms, starfleet…

Hm, I forgot about them.

Man...I thought this was the best one yet.

I do indeed remember and how long it took for people to accept TNG as its own thing.

Not that it’ll necessarily be consolation - but remember when TNG premiered? Essentially the same kinds of arguments were bandied about. And again, when DS9 premiered, if phrased differently. Voyager got off relatively scot-free in this regard, by virtue of prior spin-off successes. But Enterprise certainly took on a…

Something which has bothered me to see from some of the more extreme fans. - declaring Discovery to be “trash”, actively wanting it to be cancelled and dismissing it as the worst thing in Trek history.

Sigh. Me afraid me have to agree. And me loved Zack’s reviews of earlier Trek series — they one of favorite things AVC ever did. But me very frustrated with Star Trek fans who not willing to let new show be new show and not retread of everything that came before.

I get why people are frustrated with the show, and your review touches on some of what I consider to be the strengths and weaknesses here, but when a reviewer comes right out and says they cannot review a show on its own merits, I am forced to wonder if they’re the right person for the task.

I have a lot of respect for…

“How does Karnak know what “dawn’s first light” is, since he also lives on the moon?”

I also wanted to say, after two episodes without Maze or Trixie, this really hit the spot for me. It wasn’t entirely perfect, but it was perfectly full of Maze and had about the right average amount of Trixie!

Mazikeen! Lesley-Ann Brandt is 90% of the reason I watch this show. OK, maybe 80% (Trixie, Dr. Linda, and sometimes D. B. Woodside are a lot of fun as well). She seemed a bit ... restrained? (if that’s the word I’m looking for) for much of this episode, so I was totally happy when she started flinging her knife around…

I didn’t like him in A Million Ways to Die in the West at all but he’s good here. I do wonder if the show would be better with a stronger actor as Captain (Patrick Stewart carried a lot of nonsense that I don’t think the Orville Cast will be able to when it no doubt arrives) but I have no complaints. He’s done good…