My problem is, with his looks, why wasn't he drafted into the acting corps, perhaps at gunpoint?

I'm only a couple episodes in, but I see what you mean…when someone complains at a movie screening that the film was "lifeless," that gave me a meta-jolt because I'd been thinking the same thing about this show.

It also seems unlikely that there will be no nations or political divisions and downright impossible that there will be faster than light travel and transporters (!!!) Not to mention humanoid aliens on every other planet. Star Trek has never been particularly realistic but it has a certain what-if premise. For…

Religion is one of those things that divide humanity along with nations and politics.

Oddly enough, Festivus is a big Federation holiday.

I wonder when Galaxy Quest will notice their costumes are gone.

Makes a break from squalling about Confederate. Bah, newbies! Trekkies have been at this for literally eons.

It may be laughable but it's Star Trek's premise.

Isaacs should just blurt out "Double dumb-ass on you!" every so often.

Star Trek has been a bit vague about the issue of whether humans have given up religion. There have been references to religious practice of humans on both TOS (the original series, are we nerdy enough to use that abbreviation here?) and DS9.

Nu Lee Nu Gold?

I could see that being funny if Channing Tatum actually were playing the character but the dubbing schtick gets old even before the promo video is over.

Matt Bomer's blue blue eyes.

In their defense, The Man in the High Castle and The Handmaid's Tale didn't cause this amount of hooplah. How was HBO's PR department supposed to predict this? I certainly wouldn't have.

That might not have been the main objection but that sure was their main mistake. This is a PR debacle. We don't know enough about the actual show until it is made to have any sensible opinions about it (although that certainly isn't stopping people).

Remember that episode where John Smith talks about the Nazis planning to nuke Savannah, and notes the population that would die? Some sharp viewer did some calculations. The number given was the current population of Savannah in the early 60s if you subtract the entire black population, the implication being, they've…

Man in the High Castle strongly implies blacks are not enslaved but have been almost completely exterminated in the US. (The novel on which it was based implies the entire population of Africa has been wiped out by the Nazis).

Until the Klingons/Romulans/Cardassians/Dominion attack. Star Trek is about peace and love, ya right. They seem to get in an awful lot of fights with aliens for being so friggen enlightened. Must be the aliens' fault!

Drama is conflict. Where's the conflict in a utopia?

If you want backlash, that premise would get backlash up the wazoo. A happy-face version of America without racism? Good lord. Even I would be up in arms about that.