Enterprise is a slog; a hell of a slog, but before you get to the actual (only) good part(s) of Enterprise (end of season three, all of season 4, specifically focusing on the war with the Xindi), check out the episode Carbon Creek. It’s excellent.

I really want them to do something with that already—so much potential for complex character drama every time Detmer and Burnham are in the same room, but they never go there! I’ve grown to enjoy the ensemble cast Discovery is putting together, but having the bridge crew be glorified set dressing still feels like lost…

So here are my latest thoughts about Tyler/Voq:

1. Tyler was a real person in Starfleet. He was killed in action, and his identity taken by Voq.

I did love how fundamentally Star Trek-y the whole away mission felt—a version of it could have fit in comfortably on just about any of the previous series. This show started out at a pretty far remove, but it’s slowly finding a path back to doing the whole Star Trek thing on its own terms, and I find myself enjoying…

The mirror universe was cool in TOS, and it was used occasionally to good effect on DS9. But they just kept going back to that well over and over.

I haven’t seen In a Mirror, Darkly, but I’m sure I will at some point. I have to slog my way through Enterprise eventually, don’t I?

I’m not sure how much of that fight was staged - I think that L’Rell main objective was to make it look as credible as possible, even if that meant risking Cornwell’s death. But the preferable outcome might have been to merely knock her out and win some time for a new plan, and who knows, maybe that’s what happened?

I…

There’s no reason warp tech is a prerequisite to other subspace technologies. And it’s entirely possible they’ve not developed warp simply because they are literally not capable of leaving the planet anyway.

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…

Well, I do find something interesting about this. The episode where the admiral is kidnapped is called “Lethe”.

Yes, it was a subspace signal. They said so in the episode.

That is a brilliant point.

I’m wondering if Staments is traveling back and forth between the MU and the prime U each time he jumps. He also may jump back and forth in time.

Tne Federation has no death penalty ... except if you go to Talos IV

Well, we kind of got to know her from Burnam’s perspective, as with everyone else, who have also gradually evolved from those first impressions.

Tilly is awesome. She actually has dimensions to her character, whereas most of the other characters are quite one-dimensional.

That red-head bridge crewmember finally got to say a word.

This was, in my opinion, the best episode of Discovery since the soft reboot that introduced the titular starship. the visuals on Pahvo were absolutely breathtaking, and I really appreciated the logic of Saru’s desperation. I don’t know if I actually like Saru, but I understand him.

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.

I was confused about the fate of the Admiral. I assumed it was faked, but then it wasn’t very clear.

Liked that we’ve got TOSesque energy beings meddling in Federation/Klingon politics. And Saru going a little this-side-of-paradise crazy.