I didn’t actually transcribe it, just c&ped it from imdb, hah.
We’ve seen many other people raised Vulcan reach command positions (see also: Spock, Tuvok, T’Pol, the Vulcan admiral on this show). I don’t see what’s odd or unlikely about Michael doing the same as the rest of them.

That’s what character growth over a series of films within a franchise is for.

It’s almost like you paid attention to the movie or something.

But wasn’t Superman also not around for thousands of years between the first war with the Mother Boxes on Earth and this one? Why didn’t they call Steppenwolf before?

Maybe reshoot some of the “lost” episodes?

“What do you mean, one?” the devastation and confusion in his face KILLS me oh my god.

They really should redo some of the old/lost episodes with David Bradley, he is pitch perfect casting. Especially in between seasons of the new doctor.

Burnham was orphaned as a child and raised on Vulcan. She was desperate to please her adoptive parents and fit into the ideals of her adopted planet. She strove to be the most accomplished, logical and Vulcan-like that she could be. When she wasn’t accepted into the Vulcan Expeditionary Force, she felt that she had…

Nah, the default (and correct) position to always take is to assume a college kid is full of shit.

Speaking as a lifelong leftist, thats a horrible prospect.

I’d bet that given Kara’s math and science scores they skipped her ahead a year.

Counterpoint to your last sentence: The Rama sequels. I like them, but mostly because I read them as a kid. Gentry Lee likes to describe somewhat transgressive but functionally pedestrian sex situations in a way that was very exciting to a young Pgoodso and incredibly boring and didactic to an older Pgoodso. The Des…

yeah I mean if he drugged someone then that is totally fucked. If all he did was cop a feel 40 years ago and he has proven to live a good life since then...then Idk if this is really a story.

And the nuance isn’t that radical. Star Trek is filled with Captains and Admirals who all did morally ambiguous or downright villainous things. Matt Decker wasn’t some inhuman monster; he was a *GASP* Captain with PTSD who made extreme choices.

I’ve always wondered where people get this idolized version of Star fleet from Classic Trek. Every admiral, commodore and Fleet Captain tried to basically take over and destroy the Enterprise in their petty revenge plot. Kirk was a pretty bad person all things considered, he was the embodiment of the Western (and in…

Yeah, you’re going to have to get over the show not being what you want it to be. Complaining that Lorca isn’t the “good & noble” Star Trek captain we’re used to is like complaining Deep Space Nine was on a space station rather than a starship. Crazy, mean and flat out bad captains have always been a part of ST. It’s…

Again, the show is not “running away from the original series”, it’s engaging with its flaws. The things you keep pointing out as problems are features, not bugs. You are supposed to wonder how the Federation can be the bastion of goodness and righteousness and harmony, because (take it from me as someone who is…

No, Trip died right next to an established main character, namely Daisy. She got superpowered, he an unceremonial death. He would still live if they had split up!

Just like Samuel L Jackson - the hardest working man in show business.