Hard agree. I’m not a hardliner - I don’t think Star Trek needs to be this or that in order to be Star Trek. But one thing the DISCO team doesn’t seem to understand is that Star Trek is an ensemble. Yes the Captain will always command attention with two other characters who support them, but the folks behind this show…

I feel like a lot of the issues with season two were mitigated by the presence of Anson Mount’s Pike. I absolutely agree that season two was significantly better even without Pike, but that’s kind of damning with faint praise since season 1 was a train wreck.

on the one hand i get all the skepticism about this and on the other hand the PATRIOT act is going strong almost ten years after every single planner and participant of the world trade center attack is dead or apprehended.

Sharon didn’t, but Emily Van Camp did, so...awkward.

There is no scenario in which I find myself happy with a crowd watching a movie except, on special exception, Rocky Horror because the whole point of that experience is the crowd.

As a veteran Army officer, I find your broad generalizations and piety regarding challenge coins embarrassing. Challenge coins predate the modern US military and police. The custom could be argued to have started with the Romans. But they were also used by non-military people, as was the case during the Renaissance…

I thought the post was going to be about the song and was all set to be performatively angry over how the gag was at least 15 years old.

Or Wang Chung! Everybody have fun tonight!

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

I sort of appreciate it for its pure Season Three-ness.

The thing is they did gritty and “real” Trek already, and it was called DS9. Which often gets lauded as Trek at its very best.

“Got it. More action, more gunfights.” - CBS

but it’s that utopianism which defines the franchise.

No, it used the exact same mold. It was Empire, a poor, poor copy, with the order rearanged. It still fills the exact second paragraph from lightninglouie.

God gave botulism to you, gave botulism to you Put it in you forehead for youthful skin.

I CAN DO STARS!

It’s amazing how people STILL find excuses for her complete hypocrisy no matter how many times and different examples her own actions bring to light. 

“treasure family and career”

Also to be fair, Riker is probably as famous as Picard and may have as much pull with Starfleet.

THANK YOU for bringing this up!