I can’t recall properly, but could the ripper have been the supercomputer he was looking for? My understanding is Stammets was making an assumption that there must have been a supercomputer, not that he had been told it was there without a shadow of a doubt. If the Ripper isn’t the supercomputer he was looking for,…

I’m sure this spore drive will somehow quickly become impractical in a way which is analogous to our use of fossil fuels. All indications suggest it is dependent upon this interstellar “ecosystem” of fungi; could the spore drive potentially cause this ecosystem to collapse, thereby threatening the underlying fabric…

I agree with just about everything in this review, except for your contention that Burnham “decides out of the gate that the aggressive killer beast is actually not that aggressive at all.” My reading here is that Lorca and Landry are the ones who decide “out of the gate” that the creature is agressive. It reminds…

The problem I have with Lorca’s accent is that I know Issacs is a British actor. Subconsciously my brain spends an unreasonable amount of energy trying to find fault with it. I end up focusing more on Jason Issacs’ accent and wind up forgetting about Captain Lorca.