The sudden supernova thing bothers me more than the discord in the Federation over aiding the Romulans.
Part of the problem here is that the situation with them has never been very clear, they’re aggressive and territorial, but also in complete isolation for long periods. Like in that 50 year period before TNG they…

Picard is far from alone in this, pretty much every Netflix show does this. I’m not a fan of The Mandalorian, but it at least had a decent balance between serialisation and self contained stories.

She’s Tal Shiar, I’m sure she had a cover identity ready in case she ever needed to go undercover in the Federation, hers just happened to be Irish.
Or she learned English from chief O’Brien.
Take your pick.

I don’t know, look at how easily liberals have slid into using cold war-era language over the past few years when it comes to Russia. The Soviet Union fell apart like 30 years ago and it only took some trolling online to make the supposed progressives in American society think Russia was a global villain again.
Not…

There are benefits to the serialised model, but the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of one story, chopped into hourlong bits. So much of what made serialisation so enticing on genre shows was that it was doled out slowly across multiple stories. That’s something that seems to have been forgotten. Partially…

Laris is definitely the most sensible character so far, and the scenes of Picard at home with her and Zhaban are the part of the show that work best so far (three good actors, with defined characters in a room, it’s hard to go wrong with that).

I’m not sure the commodore is a Vulcan, it’s not that difficult for a…

Well, the joke is on them, because I have no idea who they are.
Anyway so far I suspect that any merited criticism of the show can be traced to the influence of Kurtzman and Akiva Goldman.

Yeah, I don’t get the praise for Mandalorian, which is a completely half-assed show. If Picard feels a little like fan fiction, then Mandalorian is like watching someone play with their action figures.

A perfectly timely movie for this the year 2011.

This makes me happy I only use youtube for old concert recordings. 

I’d find it hilarious if these internet-yahoos were advocating for giving Chabon complete creative freedom, because I doubt they’ve read any of his work. I’d love to see the author of Moonglow be given free reins with Jean Luc though.

I also remember how the climax of an episode often involved characters looking at dots on a screen telling us what was happening.
Old Star Trek was frequently great, sometimes enjoyably terrible, but always hemmed in by the limitations of budget and technology. People complaining about Star Trek these days being too…

Sure, but he could also be an opportunistic bully who happens to have just enough talent to channel his mean-spiritedness into something that amuses people. I imagine that if Twitter was around when Chevy Chase was still on SNL you’d get the same thing.

I was under the assumption that Bella was doing it for some other reason than spite. But apparently she’s just a very talented bomb maker with mommy issues.
This episode was just a mess, it didn’t need the ruined-earth reveal to have worked as a simple metaphor for environmental preservation and gentrification.

The problem isn’t just the speech, it’s also the message that climate change is going to lead to monstrous mutants roaming a ruined earth. The connection was made to literal, when preachy stories like this work better with a metaphor.

I’m quite optimistic about Hawley being given the job. But it doesn’t change the circumstances in which Star Trek is created, the studio wants it to be a certain thing, and fans want it to be something else usually.
Maybe Hawley can thread the needle, but I think there’s too much pressure on these movies to be…

Star Trek seems to be one of the hardest properties for studio-executives to get right, it’s too famous to just let die, but never seems to make enough money to actually make it a priority. So it just seems to be in this kind of development uncanny valley, too expensive to just hand over to a director who would want…

I was hoping it was going to be some parallel universe thing, so Chibnall could just do whatever he liked with the continuity, and the next showrunner could safely ignore it.

It’s definitely a hell of a choice, and the risk is that whatever explanation Chibnall is going to come up with will not feel big enough to justify it.
Moffat made the right choice in saving Gallifrey, but having the Doctor mostly want no part of it.
Chibnall’s new situation is problematic, not just because it undoes…