I can’t imagine anyone watching this episode who didn’t hear that sting and immediately put the context clues together.
I really like the route they’re going with Zora. It’s too easy too fall into tropes of malicious or alien emergent AI so it’s nice to see one that is relatable, learning from others, and becoming a product of its environment and interactions.
“Yeoh-ni-verse” flows a bit better phonetically, but that’s just my opinion.
Best of luck with this new endeavor (endeavour?) in your life. Speaking as a long time commenter I am glad that you decided as the incoming Deputy Editor to actually tell the io9 audience what your thoughts and opinions about io9 are. Annalee did, Charlie Jane did, and Rob did, and now I feel more comfortable about io9… Read more
Now we know the true reason the Observation Deck was killed. James was angling for a higher job all along and needed to destroy the evidence! Read more
Star Trek: Discovery Reminds Us Lights in the Dark Aren’t So Hard to Find
At least use the good theme! S2 sucks.
I didn’t realize that and had forgotten about that episode. Thank you!
I gotta think it has transporters, but none of the characters (sans Janeway) are likely aware of transporters. And since the technology hadn’t been introduced to them yet, the show probably didn’t want to spring it on its younger viewers without explanation either. Read more
He’s Ezra Bridger and Janeway is going to be his Kannan. Read more
If I can’t sit down, start watching it, and figure out what’s going on, then I’m shutting it off. Read more
Screenwriting formulas are also rigid in a very boring way right now. They always have been, but over the last few decades there’s been a push away from careful plots or narrative economy, and improv has mostly replaced the art of the pithy one liner. Read more
This was expected. Once the Supreme Court knocked down abortion rights, the “Christians” would go after all the rights they hate. Read more
Only if featured Isaac, Your Bartender!
Tony Curran was also in Defiance as Datak Tarr and was freaking amazing.
I came into Lower Decks with extreme skepticism, worried it was largely going to be an exercise in fan service. And there is a fair amount of that—but it’s wound up being my favorite of the current Star Trek shows in a walk, simply because it’s the most purely inventive, character-focused and fun of the three.
Star… Read more
Probably. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if it were something that mundane. We used to have these omni-present commercials by a manure company here in southern California called Bandini when I was a kid. They used to have this guy with his booming voice announcing the company in the commercials () like it was a…
I watched Discovery, I watched Picard, and I always thought: Something is missing! Watching the Season 2 finale of Lower Decks, I realize now, what I missed: The fun!!! And Lower Decks always manages to surprises me, I expected a resolution to the Pakled/Klingon story in the finale, instead got a movie worthy Trek stor… Read more