So Tilly is officially my Wesley Crusher because I keep finding myself so often saying “SHUT UP, TILLY!,” that we must make it so.

D. Culber, last week.

I should also note Mack is possibly the biggest and most successful of modern Treklit writers - he wrote several keynote works, including Destiny (which is Treklit’s answer to the Borg, both ending them and explaining them in elegant fashion, a trilogy published in 2009), then when the Pocket licence was possibly…

I would be severely disappointed if this all turns into a Borg origin story. Especially since Enterprise already did a time traveling Borg story (following up First Contact). But at least Enterprise’s usage makes sense within the context of previous episodes/movies (aside from the contrivance of never having them…

On a related note, I’m getting more and more amused by the fact that, as soon as Control on DSC explicitly demonstrated it was different from the Control from the Trek novels (don’t know what the Stellaris taxonomy would be, but book!Control was obsessed with perfectly protecting humanity from everything, including…

Control’s line “Struggle is pointless” does kind of nudge-nudge at the Borg, doesn’t it?

DS9, pacing-wise and stylistically, felt like the other Treks around it. This feels different. Which I’m fine with in theory-franchises need to evolve in order to stay relevant. But different isn’t always better, and last season was really dire. There have been some legitimately solid episodes this season, but some of…

Every episode of this show feels like it moves at warp 9, but with a drunk Ensign Crusher at the helm. Except for the Beta Quadrant episode (which I had hoped would be a turning point) Disco never seems to give the audience a chance to relax and simply immerse themselves in Star Trek for a minute or two.  The show is…

I had assumed that the “Red Angel” is probably Michael Burnham from the future. It’s probably how they’re going to recont her not being mentioned at all (but to be fair Discovery doesn’t mention Sybok either).

Also, the Ba’ul, right down to their sinister echo-voice, reminded me of Armus, the oil slick that killed Tasha Yar.

They also did nothing to resolve the situation with the Ba’ul. The Ba’ul are still deathly afraid of the Kelpians and they still have vastly superior technology. Destroying their obelisks isn’t going to stop them from wanting to wipe out the Kelpians. They still have starships they can use to bomb the Kelpians into…

Can we please get another series next season, instead of this half-baked crap? I know you can find something that isn’t a vacant nostalgia-milking cash grab for this show to be about, Star Trek, I believe in you.

Also to answer the question of why the Kaylons didn’t send anyone to stop the crew from seeing the catacombs- remember that the Borg ignored people on their ships until they became an actual threat. Figure that nothing the Orville could do would threaten the Kaylons, so they weren’t worth stopping.

I believe the obelisks are broken. There’s a smashed obelisk lying on the ground when Saru and Siranna returns to their village.

I think that they could be more like NATO, basically a league of “We don’t attack each other, and if anyone attacks any one of us, they’re attacking all of us.”

The Kaylon designs are B-movie-ish, but their human design adds a level of creepiness that would be lost in more advanced special effects. Reminds me of the Mondasian Cybermen of Doctor Who (its nice to see that The Orville continues the Star Trek tradition of adding new layers to concepts introduced by Doctor Who)

I’m 95% sure that the reasson we never heard of the Ba’ul or the Kelpians before in ST is that they wiped each otehr out in a bloody war at the time of TNG and Starfleet swept it under the rug to hide their participation.

“..is it scary when the danger comes from a seemingly endless number of Mego action figure-looking assailants?”

They didn’t do a good job for the Klingons. Season 1 was supposed to be about the conflicting Klingon House forming a tenuous alliance to fight the Federation, but they only developed two of the Houses.

I’m of the opinion that CBS has mandated that the camera is never allowed to stay still. At all times the camera MUST be spinning and inverting and flying through windows or around people’s heads. I guess so the viewers don’t get bored?