I’m not really sure how much I like a Star Trek show being about how one character is the smartest and the best and the only one who can save everything.

Oh, I have no doubt the show will come down on the side of the Federation. I’m just super sensitive to assertions that whatever the newest show in the franchise is, it’s “not Trek”, not that you didn’t make good points. I’d hate to see a full-on grim-fest. But the ambiguity has been there for many years, and I don’t…

Me agree that writers of Orville are huge Trek fans. But being able to produce Trek fan film on TV budget not pushing franchise forward. If me wanted to watch TNG again, me would just watch TNG again. Me glad Discovery actually telling new stories and not just giving us same stale cookie in new wrapper.

This is a really important observation. Fans tend to say “oh, this series is set in the 22nd/23rd/24th century therefore it should be <such and such a way>“, which is ridiculous when you consider how much our own world’s geopolitical landscape changes in just the span of a decade (and, indeed, considering the…

Dude. You have issues.

It’s hard to get wonkier than Janeway and Paris turning into giant lizards and fucking....

Two observations:

There was that DS9 episode about a rifle that used a micro-transporter to beam bullets past obstacles so the wielder can shoot through walls.

Jason Isaacs is so great. I knew he would be a great addition to this franchise and he did not disappoint. He’s perfect at conveying all the enigmatic menace of Lorca.

I like the roomate - she brings out a softer side, which does a lot for Burnham’s character.

This is a pretty different Star Trek from what we’ve gotten…

When Fringe was on, me got it into head that producers could make terrific Star Trek show, and now me get to watch that very thing!

Me would much rather new Trek show be overambitious than underambitious (me looking at you, Orville, or to look further back, Voyager)

Kirk had no idea Sarek and Amanda were Spock’s parents until they were right in front of him, either—at this point, “Spock has family members he neglected to mention” is almost a fifty-year tradition!

Nah. Section 31 operates in complete secret, they wouldn’t just be part of a Starfleet ship’s security (even one engaged in top secret research).

I don’t think there’s ever been a firm date for when MACO disbanded. We just know they merge into Starfleet after the Federation forms. I was thinking the black badges were…

.. since if it is still a prequel the experiment has to be doomed to fail ... right?

Anyone think that Lorca’s little biology lab recontextualizes the tribble on his desk a bit?

All of the prophets’ children are flawed, so we should have patience with them. Having lots of time to absorb new narratives (big chunks of negotiation downtime lately) I have a high bar for writing and am more bothered by flawed characterization. Was absolutely everyone in Starfleet mentally unstable in those days? A…

I started reciting Carol Marcus’ monologue for the Genesis proposal in my head.

When Stamets started talking about Starfleet coopting their research, plus the stuff he was talking about with quantum physics, I thought we were headed for Discovery showing the early stages of the Genesis project.

Aha, you’ve solved it! That must be why Spock never mentioned her! He never forgave her for swiping his book!

Even better, Burnham reciting Alice is a deep Trek continuity nod. The fact that Amanda was fond of Lewis Carroll and read the Alice books to her offspring was established in The Animated Series: “Once Upon a Planet” by Len Janson & Chuck Menville, when Kirk expressed surprise that Spock was familiar with the…