Launch new cruise line catering only to the uber-rich, name the boat the Darwin, fully automated, promise awards at end of trip. Only employ staff that are amoral children of uber-rich who are doing it for “a free vacation and connections”. 

Our last big vacation was a cruise (and oh how I regret listening to the teen and booking a cruise rather than going to Italy). We were VIGILANT about hand sanitizer the entire trip and petrified of getting noro virus or similar. After covid, you won’t catch me on a cruise again until we are too old to do anything…

I’d gladly donate money to get rid of some of our most virulent Trumpers this way.

I wasn’t trying to get on a cruise before the pandemic. A place with regular food poisoning is not a place I volunteer to eat at.

Law and Order SUV came on last night, and they were dealing with the Central Park Karen/BLM/Defund the Police/Covid. It was a lot for a show I wasn’t paying that much attention to. However, the detectives were really inconsistent with their mask wearing. In the police station, there were groups without masks, or…

Damn it, Game of Thrones. I didn’t even watch the show, yet my mind read “they have Game of Thrones to do a better job of hiding it from the rest of us.”

Yeah, I could do without the “oh no, it’s a new disease and how do we cope!” episodes of any show. We lived through that in March and April and watching other people do it 8 months later is like reliving a long nightmare. No thanks.

Just want to chime in and say I’m frustrated as hell with people not adhering to guidelines. I lost 2/3 of my income in April because it’s dependent on live events. I have friends telling me about their anxiety with upcoming travel plans and it’s taking everything in me to not just snap and say “Yeah, you shouldn’t…

100% sick of stupid fucks endangering everyone else because they’re “over the pandemic” and pretending they can just do whatever, like it won’t get innocent people killed.

Aaaall the way back in May I had a friend invite me to go on a cruise this December (“the rates are so good now!”); when I told her that something in my bones told me we wouldn’t be out of the woods then, she replied that her boss was an insider in the military and that things would be under control by then.

I’m not…

“’Scuse me? What? What did you say? No...you said sumptin’ ‘bout dolphins! Say it! Say it to my face! Say it again!!!”

Forget Hugh - why was Georgiou at that dinner? Can’t imagine Saru inviting her.  Was she someone’s plus-one?

I was listening to a Discovery podcast last night and am now even more unsure. The hosts pointed out that Dr. Pollard (as is apparently her name) has two pips while Dr. Culbert has three. I haven’t yet rewatched myself to see if this was true or not, or checked previous seasons to see if Culber has more pips than…

For example, this would have been an EXCELLENT episode for Hugh to go down to Trill, and be the one to help Adira to work through her trauma.

I remember in a S1 or S2 episode he refers to “the CMO”, as someone he needs to meet with so definitely not him. I believe it is the African American woman we often see in sick bay, but I am not 100% on that. She suffers from the same tangential/superficial existence that the bridge crew also shares.

I always assumed Dr. Pollard was the CMO and Culber worked for her but I don’t think that was ever established either.

I think he’s still subordinate.  The opening line of the episode is, “Medical officer’s log, supplemental...”  No ‘Chief’ in front of it.

It’s been 800~ish years since DS9, and like everywhere else Trill has had a century of relative isolation. It would have been nice if the writers had shown that something had changed.

No, I absolutely agree it should be open to criticism. I thought the second episode was pure trash. But I think there should be an actual want to enjoy the show. There appears to be none here and never has much.

lmao yeah reviews should be positive. why criticize things?