Sam sticks it to Disney for using AI by dropping their review grade but doesn’t resign in protest over this site using AI articles. The outrage seems so performative and disingenuous.

All due respect, the whole dropping a letter grade for each episode thing comes off really petty and makes it kind of hard to take your reviews seriously.

So if Talos is dead, will there be equal outrage as there was to Hill dying?

I am no fan of AI but designers and storyboard artists still had to plot out the intro, tell the program what to render, and put it all together. Unless the title sequence is painted frame by frame, by hand, computer automation was involved somehow.

That shot buries the lead a bit. That highway on lothal had someone being chased by our first live action appearance of an E-Wing Fighter.

I’m guessing it’s Starkiller Base.

Can we talk about the mural in the style of the series animation? And how I’m not ashamed to admit it gave me literal goosebumps?

I feel like this has always been the MO of the MCU. For all the interconnectedness, the stories are self-contained to the point of stepping on each other’s toes fairly regularly (much like regular comics).

Paramount wouldn’t dare treat what it’s done for Patrick Stewart and Jean-Luc Picard as a tax break.

IMO casting this as Paramount taking a dump on Mulgrew is a bit of hyperbole.

there is no such thing as “basic personality traits” Each time a new writer touches them, they come whole new characters, new creations. All that came before is locked in their individual existence, and the new thing becomes a new existence.

Yeah, in this age of “prestige TV” I find myself genuinely missing filler episodes. They help us connect to the characters and world without having to bow to the necessities of The Plot.

One of my favorite episodes of Strange New Worlds was episode 5, where they were getting repairs at the starbase and the crew was off having fun little adventures. (Spock and his fiancee mind swap! Nurse Chapel goes on a date! La’an and Una do the Enterprise scavenger hunt to show how spontaneous and fun they are!) It…

It’s wild to go back and compare the DS9 Dominion War arc, lasting somewhere around 3 long seasons, with any arc from Discovery. Not every episode of DS9 in that time was actively about the war, but it was always there. Episodes like “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” could have been made seasons earlier, but placing them…

It’s interesting to compare modern “Prestige” Trek with the older stuff - while I understand the really shiny ~10 episode seasons, it’s hard not to look at the longer, lower-visual-quality 26 episode seasons that gave us things like Q’s Robin Hood and baseball on the holosuite. It’s a different show in a lot of ways.

I think part of the problem with restoring DS9 is the cost of having to redo all the space battle scenes from scratch because the original companies that did all those effects are no longer around. I don’t know if it’s a similar problem with Voyager.

The fact that Prodigy was yanked so quickly implies to me that a deal with another streamer is imminent, or at least very likely.

Oh no!  There might be - gasp - only one Star Trek show on at once!  Whatever will we do??

Strange New Worlds has a third season upcoming

Is it even B5 if you don’t have to make allowances for extremely limited budgets?