I’m clinging to the fact that the very last action we saw her take was to get a lover with one of her old, pre-app tricks. I *think* she’s rejected Technical Boy, even after taking his deal for a while, and that could go some very interesting places.

That’s disappointing, but she did nail her performance, and it was not a central character. Whatever she did worked, and we don’t need her to get it on a deeper level since, I anticipate, she’s not likely to return for much time, if any.

In the big group cast interview aired after the season finale, Badaki barely got a word in. Every time she seemed ready to speak, someone would talk over her. So I had no idea she was the most articulate member of that cast. Hollywood, please cast this woman in EVERYTHING from here on out, just so we can get more…

Not sure if they’re still running it, but last month, STARZ was running a deal where you could get access through their app for one month for free. Given that there are only 8 episodes, it would enable you to watch the season for free, as long as you remembered to cancel within 30 days of signing up.

In the show, he escorts people to death and weighs their hearts. He comes to those that have even a tenuous connection to old Egypt. In the show’s conceit, you’re not even necessarily aware of your own death at first. He has quite a tender scene with an old woman who is cooking, stands on an uneven stool to reach…

Obi had one of my favorite line deliveries ever in that scene. When he’s speaking very formally and explaining her death, and tells Mrs Fedil that her grandchild will be named for her, she asks “a bullshit middle name?” And he replies with this smile, “a bullshit middle name.” It’s somehow both somber and amused, and…

Exactly. He is a living comments section.

Ambassador’s kid, perhaps.

There are plenty of theories floating around. But what the trailer showed us included her captain saying it was time for her own command, then the ship encountering something unknown and the XO taking the lead on investigating it, then a disagreement between captain and XO over whether to shoot first, and finally a…

In fact, a space equivalent of the foreign service is the most likely explanation for her presence on Vulcan in the first place.

If I’m reading the trailer right, they have an affectionate “it’s time for your first command” conversation, head off to investigate a new threat, then have a major disagreement over whether or not to respond to it with violence, and whatever comes of that, it goes badly enough for the XO that she ends up both on a…

We’re getting, what, 16 episodes?

Precisely. This is why, much as I’ll get crucified by Trek fans for saying it, what Discovery should actually be is a reboot. Because they need to erase Voyager.

It didn’t strike me as stunt casting, because I thought there was more to it than that.

Yeah, white guy calling a Native American “chief” and not bothering to learn his name is period-appropriate. If it weren’t for the right-out-of-a-John-Wayne-movie smoke signals, it could have been an interesting portrayal of small racism. But then the movie went for caricature and I just sank. Other than that, it was…

I loved it, but for one painfully off note no one seems to acknowledge.

I have to lodge my one concern, not because I didn’t love the movie (I did), but because it seems to be getting ignored in the rush to (rightfully) praise the movie’s feminism.

Birth control has always been a prescription medication, but is treated separately. So no, that logic doesn’t apply here.

“Oh, a conversation about a child’s suicide. I better get in a shot at the father while I can...”

Honest question — how would you do it?