Previous Trek series did a good job at creating individual episodes focused around each of the bridge crew members/senior officers (so does The Orville, for what it’s worth).  Hopefully they do more of this in season 2, because I’d like to know more about these characters.

I didn’t think of that because it was so so dumb. Somehow the technology to zoom 200% on picture has been lost to time.

Yes and no.

Essentially, music feels appropriate when it matches the tone of the actors, the writing, and the direction. It feels emotionally manipulative (or worse, unintentionally hilarious) when the music is trying to extract an emotion that isn’t being conveyed by the rest of artistic collaborators on screen.

Think…

I know this is bit of a sensitive subject, but the level of Mary Sue from Michael Burnham was just off the charts.

No, you’re absolutely wrong.

The area is Rocky Peak in the hills above Chatsworth, CA. I saw the location signs for the Orville last summer so I knew to be on the lookout for hills that look like home this season. And yes, the original series filmed in the same area back in the 60's.

Also, both characters’ human last names were Tyler.

To be fair to Return of the Jedi, it takes place 4 years after the battle of Yavin and the Rebels had been smashed hard at the Battles of Scarif and Hoth. I imagine there’s a lot of room to move up in that hierarchy, especially if you actually have your own ship.

Um, I was introduced to Trek through TOS & Kirk, not Picard. TOS had a lot of scenes with Kirk discussing a problem with his executive staff in the ready room. That’s always been one of the more “realistic” aspects of Star Trek - it depicts much of living and working in space as a more ordered and routine. For a lot…

Just another friendly reminder that the Krill keep children on their ships. So every time we see one of their ships destroyed, either by our heroes or someone else, we are seeing dozens of children die.

Maybe you should actually read the review before spouting off and making yourself look like an idiot.

I just watched it last night, and it was... okay. It just seems like this show has struggled with an identity crisis since the beginning. It was almost the anti-Trek to begin with and began to struggle its way back to the overall optimistic tone of the franchise. I don’t know if Lorca was always meant to be from the…

This may have already come up, but...

Forgive me for only reading this far before I had to comment, and believe me, I want to like this show and see it do well but this line got me.

But there’s no one species called “The Borg.” It’s more like a biotech contagion that infects many species. The Borg have already genocided several species by absorbing them into the collective.

It’s a real testament to the confidence of the TNG writers just how little they relied on fan service. They had good characters, they had good stories to tell, they had good actors, they didn’t need fanboy BS.

The speech was terrible. As I said above, it should have been a narrating personal log on top of the awards ceremony. It made no sense. Sloppy writing to give Burnham a chance to give a speech to Star Fleet.

I think the Borg are more of an edge case...debatably sentient, at the very least.

Honestly, I (along with many others, I guess) called the Enterprise popping up as a season ender as soon as the pilot aired. It’s just basic cheap fanservice 101, and judging by some reactions here and elsewhere, it’s enough to make this finale the greatest thing in the universe for some people.

That’s a generous grade. Plot-wise, this episode was terrible, rushed and lazy. And anticlimactic? Good lord!