Very fair point but if we were talking about a team that was easier to be sympathetic instead of the Pats - say, a scrappy group of guys just making things work, instead of the a cross of the Super Bowl Shuffle Bears mixed with some Nazi overtones - you could use the same table as an argument that “the team always…

I’d agree that that’s the theme, but I think what bothers me (and may bother a lot of others, even if they haven’t expressed it quite this way) is that it feels like the show keeps on changing the “rules.”

Not to get nitpicky, but Shazad Latif is actually of mixed white British and Pakistani descent, and already may have had the 2nd most screen time of any Muslim actor on Trek after Alexander Siddig (background, not sure how religiously active either are). If you accept that the show is about a mirror to the dangers of…

Emotionally, I’m inclined to agree that it “had a point,” but what was the point? “Star Trek is back, and it’s 80 years further in the future?”

Eh, that could also be interpreted as “I don’t think I’m up to the gargantuan task of captaining a starship in a time of war,” especially since he was so recently promoted to 1st officer. In that case, it just foreshadows Saru’s growth and the fact that he takes his responsibility as captain seriously.

I’ve been told that the “everyone gets along” was a gross misinterpretation of what Roddenberry wanted, passed along by his lawyer who often acted as his representative on set.

So on the first point: You might be right, but my eyes always roll when Trek decides that whatever starship we know best has a crew that can solve problems that befuddled the rest of the Federation, including teams of dedicated scientists. If Discovery could come up with one solution during an episode, surely the rest…

Her judgment has always been terrible, and she’s never seemed to have even a veneer of emotional detachment except in flashbacks (when she came on the Shenzhou, for example).

Probably Tyler, too, since the strong hints were that Voq is gone, Tyler is back, and will probably serve for a human metaphor for the emotional cost of war next season.

Then what the hell have they been doing for the previous dozen episodes? I’m really running out of patience with the show trying to be clever by killing a character every 2 episodes and throwing a plot twist every 3-4.

Yeah, at the end of last episode, I was like “oh, they talk?” I mean, it’s just odd if they’re setting them up to be more important characters on the show, since to date, we’ve had exactly 0 reason to care about them at all. They could have just had those guys sitting with Tilly in the mess hall, or playing…

Two things, though: 1) It’s not like the Federation didn’t know the broad outline of how to defeat the cloak - they could have had multiple ships/sensors take readings and get the same measurements the Discovery did.

This. I really feel like that could be coming.

Discovery keeps on making me think of cheesy tropes from the 80s where you’d put something “.... In Space!!!!!” after you ran out of logical sequel ideas (or did it to make fun of things, like Airplane II did).

Except the “arcs” have nothing to do with each other. They keep on changing all the rules (suddenly the spores go between universes! Suddenly they can also time travel!), then put themselves in a situation and then changing rules again to get themselves out of it.

I was also fully expecting Discovery to end up in the past, partly because Stamets has every reason to go back to a world where Hugh is still alive, and partly because that would let the show “bring back” all the characters it’s killed. In fact, I was sure this was what was going to happen when we saw mirror Landry,…

The whole thing is Bran’s dream and he wakes up the day after they found the direwolves.

If NVIDIA and AMD cared about their long-term customer base (gamers), there’s an obvious solution: Sell cards for what they’re going for on eBay, but with pack-in gift cards towards games. That way they could avoid the issue of having a pack-in game you don’t want (or already own).

I’m thinking more and more of the mining is being done by huge farms; even people spending thousands on a mining rig have to be a minority at this point. I’m mining, but only because I already had the PC and graphics card - if values hover around where they are, I’m making a few bucks a day after power costs, if they…

Buying hardware is uneconomical, but in a lot of cases, its a money maker presuming you’ve already got the card. But yeah, buying hardware to mine is a terrible idea.