Because she’s only had a name for two episodes and everybody knows her as Number One, the original first officer from the first episode of Star Trek. If the press release calls her Una, they get a ton of people saying “wait, are you getting rid of Number One?” (and yes, even though the press release clearly shows…

She’s only appeared once since they canonised her name - the Short Trek Q&A, and while she was never directly addressed as Una, when she mentions the food synthesisers on Enterprise use a custom “Una matrix”, Spock notes that’s her first name. The Una Matrix is also namedropped in an episode of Picard.

Can we agree that Agents of SHIELD somehow became the best thing to come out of the MCU? For me it really captures the feel of comics, especially the heyday of following them as a kid and a teenager where the pace is breakneck and you never quite know what’s coming next in a way the movies and othe TV shows didn’t,…

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One of the Orville’s writers worked on DISCO series 1.

Her first name is Una, it was used in DISCO series 2 and one of the Short Treks. It was first used in one of the novels and was canonised for the show.

On starships, it’s far more likely to be a creative decision than licensing. There’s no reason to expect that Picard is separate from DISCO in terms of ownership, especially as the DISCO redesign of the Enterprise was visible in the hologram display at Starfleet command in episode 3, and the Magee-class from DISCO was…

I think Handlen’s being overly harsh. It’s fine if he doesn’t like it, but his criticisms have basically come down to “it’s not how I would have done it”, “this is too different from classic Trek” and “this is too similar to classic Trek”.

That seems to be what Picard was getting at when he was talking about having powerful tools to prevent the ancient civilisation’s warning from coming to pass.

It’s calling back to her conversation with Picard about regaining her humanity from a couple of episodes back.  Reinstating the collective on the cube is explicitly going against what she’s been fighting for “every damn day”

According to the tie-in comics and novels (which for DISCO and Picard are considered canon unless the shows contradict them), he was promoted to captain and given command of the Enterprise when Picard was promoted to Admiral

To be fair, he’s probably been saying it a dozen times every year since TNG went off the air between cons and other public appearances.

Yeah, I loved that velvet jacket and grey tunic too.

By the time a third set of people rushed in, I was legit expecting that by the end of the episode, the full 500 people they were talking about jettisoning a few weeks ago would have spaced themselves.

No Worf or Crusher this series unless they’re keeping an appearance well under wraps - though Micahel Dorn and LeVar Burton visited the set during the filming of this episode

On a side note, there’s a lot of production decisions that are amusing me every time I notice them - like Picard’s jacket having a similar cut to the First Contact-era uniforms, and that they’re using 3D printers as replicator props.

I’ve made that joke a few times about Orla Brady using her native Dublin accent while playing a Romulan in Star Trek Picard.

Same thing happened with Russel T Davies. Everyone was bashing him by the time he left, and were calling for his return after a year or two of Moffat. Chibnall’s far from my favourite Who writer, but his two years so far have been perfectly fine stories for the most parts with a couple of gems in the rough.  It’s just…

This is total nitpicking, but assuming Brendan’s story is set in 20th Century Ireland, there’s a question of historical accuracy. The car outside the station when he retired looks like a 60s/70s design. Assuming Brendan was in the Gardai for 40 years, that means he joined in the 30s, and would have been discovered in…

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