Did you used to write for The Onion?

On the one hand, I get why it’s cut. It’s stops the movie dead, it’s deathly boring for kids, and it’s not very well performed. On the other hand, it’s absolutely crucial for Scrooge’s character arc and is a great way of humanizing the tragedy of two people gradually falling out of love.

I’m not sure if the Ainu or the Zainichi would agree with you on that.

Fuck you Rick Berman! You ruined Star Trek!

I think that you are probably right about the intention of the alienation, but I don’t think I would say that any of the Discovery crew are actually friends, have any real sense of camaraderie, or appear to have become better people than we are today. Maybe that’s more realistic, is a pretty good premise for most…

A... sentence? I’m gonna need a little more info to understand your confusion.

True, but let’s assume the show gets more than one season. An actual 11 to 12-year old is going to age very quickly, whereas if the age gap is already a little unbelievable it blunts the impact of it getting more and more ludicrous over time.

That episode felt like early DS9 to me. Painfully killing every Krill on board to save a colony, but putting oneself at risk to save the children, very Sisko. If the pilot shut up for two seconds that would have been a great episode.

The Klingons are the biggest missed opportunity of the whole show. Imagine that instead of the uniform, oddly shiny Klingon’s we get, instead we open on these new Klingons in the pilot. Then when the other Great House ships show up we see that some are piloted by TOS-era Klingons and others by TNG-era Klingons. Maybe…

I’ve got to agree with this. I think what the show is missing for Star Trek fans is any sense of camaraderie between the crew. Any sense that they’re not actors playing a crew, but real people with real connections between them. For people who have only a passing familiarity with Star Trek that’s probably not a…

Or that there’s no better Star Trek than the original series. One could argue about it for hours.

RedLetterMedia will forever be known as the Plinkett channel, but they do have other content. Particular relevant given the inclusion of a trailer reaction podcast is their satirical Nerd Crew series (6 eps and counting).

He got his start as a warp engineer on the most important exploration vessel of his generation by repairing fan boat engines. That’s not a joke. That’s canon.  

The show doesn’t get going until Gruier shows up in the 7th episode. Like I said, the first two arcs are pretty much pure exposition and the pace picks up quite a bit while the characters flesh out. I can’t quite recommend skipping them as they are pretty necessary to understand why things happen the way they do, but…

One show that I often throw to people who like to give anime a chance is ‘Moretsu Pirates.’ It’s got, possibly, the worst name for a show outside of Better Off Ted, but it’s a shockingly competent space opera. It’s also the most effortlessly feminist television show I’ve ever seen. Synopsis: “Young woman raised by a…

It’s like hardcore libertarians who love Star Trek. The knots they have to twist themselves into to justify their love of the franchise is amazing. It’s like a flat-earther with a geography fetish.

This was super amazing and shows just how much the AVClub community cares about the site. It’s also infuriating because it shows just how little the site cares about community. Kinja has been around for YEARS and hasn’t bothered to make any kind of improvement. One guy does in a week what the entire company can’t be…

We can dance if we want to

It was what I expected to happen all season because it fit thematically, but man is it unearned from a story or character perspective. The writers (and directors) went out of their way to try and stupidly mislead the viewers. 90% of the time. Twists are fine if even if they’ve been predicted as long as they fit the…

As long as there’s no episode where they travel to a planet of stereotypes and learn an obvious lesson... ohhhhhh.