He’s Ezra Bridger and Janeway is going to be his Kannan.

If I can’t sit down, start watching it, and figure out what’s going on, then I’m shutting it off.

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.

This was expected. Once the Supreme Court knocked down abortion rights, the “Christians” would go after all the rights they hate.

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…

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…

I feel obligated to do this once per season of “Lower Decks” and since this is the last episode, I just need to throw this out there. I live in Cerritos, California, which the ship in which our intrepid crew is blasting across the cosmos is named after. Cerritos is a small blip of a city in the endless sprawl of suburb…

Who’d have thought a show named Discovery would be so ironic? Wat with the complete absence of anything resembling exploration or, ya know, discovery. It’s like the writers either hate Trek, or have no interest in even trying to maintain that tone - bar speechifying and lip service. Lower Decks is the best written…

This may have been my favorite episode of the series thus far. It used its time wisely and the glimpses into the lives of Lower Deckers on other ships was great! I loved the little tidbits scattered throughout the episode, too: the return of Pepto-Bismol Klingon blood, the ST:V mountain sequence, Captain Freeman’s…

First off, this:

SPOILERS BELOW

I think it was 5 Lower Decks we saw, if you count the Borg during the end-credits sequence.

* Federation
* Klingon
* Vulcan
* Pakled
* Borg

She’d be perfect for some role on The Mandalorian. You know, because of all the lawlessness.

I like that they seem to have settled on Bradward actually being pretty darn competent.  Even with the test literally programmed against him he never scored below 70%, and his mirror universe counterpart’s attention to detail caught Mariner in seconds

Or will the film be commentary about individuals living their lives despite a clear world-ending existential threat potentially lurking around the next corner?

The best part of the episode was, of course, Jeffrey Combs. The second best part was that in the evil computer master shot at the end, one of them has the CBS eye.

What If stops short, however, of really giving Killmonger a chance to make the case for his crusade—the episode ends up doubling down on framing him as a villain as it comes to a close, which is a curious choice.

When you said the killer is you,, I imagined a choose your own adventure horror movie where you are the killer or monster.