They did it for the 23rd century, not the 22nd. Discovery made the retcon that Kirk’s era wasn’t as sexist as TOS depicted it. How is that not a positive change for the franchise?

“Legend” is code for “no longer puts butts in the seats”.

So they do a good job of making the Senator Montezes of this world look bad (the little “heil Hitler” wave at the end of the rally was not subtle), but I’ve always been disappointed with screen versions of the X-Men (I don’t read the comics) for not really engaging with the hard part of the moral argument. Yes,…

I’m most confused about why the Thinker was a history professor who came up with a neurological machine. I mean, why not just make him a neuroscience professor or something like that. Why history which has nothing to do with what he is actually doing or how he got his powers?