I agree. SNW is great, but with the limited number of episodes + commitment to episodic format, there aren’t going to be any radical paradigm shifts.

Star Trek is literally known for plot armor for main characters. The Red Shirt stereotype is specific to the show. 

I don’t remember Chapel and Spock having any kind of history, romantic or otherwise, on TOS.

so the Chevron With Techron Cars?

Most of Hot Wheels most famous cars are the custom ones they’ve made over the years.

So, if it’s a movie with Porsches and whatnot running around, it’s really going to miss the point.

“Cars” but with the headlights as eyes. 

For a long time, trying to reconcile everything into one coherent vision was fun, but it eventually became tiresome. It was funny in DS9 when they referenced the different appearance of Klingons because everyone knew it was just a tongue-in-cheek reference to makeup changing. But then Enterprise gave an actual…

It could also be a ridiculous racing movie, like a Fast and Furious/Speed Racer mash-up.

Rick and Morty will probably be fine. Roiland’s actual creative involvement with the show was pretty limited after season 2, as we found out - he was just a voice actor after that.

the subsequent movies blew the “James Bond is a codename assigned to holders of the 007 license” fan theory out of the water

The Star Trek “formula” is what made TNG a syndication mainstay. Many shows followed that formula like Stargate, X-files, Farscape, etc.

I think there were more than two rockets. But the bigger wtf for me was that Spock planted the last one INSIDE THE BRIDGE. How TF does that work?

I am so damn sick and tired of modern Trek killing original characters.

Ah, the glories of Prestige Television coupled with a writer’s strike... We’ll see this conclusion 2 years from now, if we’re lucky.

Poor Ortegas is never going to go on another away mission after this.

You can’t really hold the Writer’s Strike against the show, since they wrote and shot the whole thing a year ago. And given that the streaming era often consists of shows disappearing for years at a time, I can’t imagine the hype from this season won’t carry over to third season, even if it takes a while.

For all intents and purposes there is no continuity. They pretty much said as much when they explained that the time traveling Romulan’s (and who knows who else is mucking about the timeline) set back World War III by a decade or more. They are pretty much using Terminator rules where somethings change but the…

I think it’s unfair to do a cliffhanger like that in the streaming era, the reason things like Best of Both Worlds worked is because you knew that in 3 months you’d get a resolution. We don’t know when SNW is coming back, especially now that the Writers Strike is happening. Was the cliffhanger effective? Sure, but…

I know keeping track of lore is a favorite pastime amongst nerds, and I even understand the appeal of it. But I don’t know any property that has more than a few iterations that manages to keep its mythology completely airtight. Even Tolkien didn’t manage it between The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings, and that’s just…

One more thing... the word”YOUNGLINGS” is irksome. Couldn’t they have said like “I’m reading 3 juvenile Gorn on the whathaveyou.” Or hatchlings or something. Younglings makes me think Anakin is going to show up and behead the lot of them.