What the hell is that? An asspunch? Ha ha ha ha ha.

It apparently was an improvisation from Mary Wiseman, and then Anthony Rapp improv-ing his reaction. I was kind of wary going in, but I actually thought it worked in context. Considering that Tilly is just so enthusiastic and bubbly about everything, it felt...natural, I guess.

I think it does serve a purpose beyond “just because we can.” It’s a tiny but significant refutation of the “this is grimdark Star Trek” complaint: despite the fact that they’re in a bloody war and are being forced to make hard choices about their principles, Tilly and Stamets are still fundamentally driven by the…

Yeah, I’m increasingly fine with this “not being Trek”. One thing I’ve noted and loved about the last three episodes is how little time we spend on the bridge of the Discovery. This is not a Trek show about the bridge officers, for the first time in 50 years. That alone feels more brave than any amount of ideas about…

All hail, Team-Tilly.

I’m actually pretty ok with the conflicts between the characters. It gives us an interesting dynamic between the characters similar to what we got with DS9 rather than the often criticised “no conflict in the cast” edict of the TNG years.

I got a fight scene where somebody got cold-clocked with an awkward, clasped, double fist swing punch! It took 5 episodes, but Trek is back, baby!

It was the most classic Star Trek episode yet. Issues of moral philosophy set on a backdrop of expedience and threat.

-The spore drive is well known. This is not some secret project that gets forgotten about because it was compartmentalized. Starfleet is attempting to mass produce it and the Klingons have figured out something is up and saw the ship jump. My guess is that, along with the eugenics restrictions and whatever the fuck…

meh. There’s a TON of females covering award announcement events, but don’t let that stop your narrative. Good call, only old white men ignored Weinstein. And Meryl Streep. That’s it. No one else.

This actually makes me respect those jokes and the writers who wrote them more. That’s pretty subversive of MacFarlane to do that at the Oscars imo.

And? They’ve killed lots of people.

Really digging this in a big way. I can’t wait to get home from work to watch this but really loved the third episode.

Although, Trek’s version of the 1990s is inconsistent.

Just finished rewatching the second season of The Expanse before watching this ep - while yeah, Discovery ain’t the best, by any means, having two such absurdly high-budget SF shows on fairly major networks makes me so damn happy as a fan of the genre.

Musk shouldn’t even exist in the same manner as he does in our universe. In Trek history, the Eugenics wars were in the 90’s. No way humans get to Mars after that with only a few decades until WWIII.

I think part of the whole point of setting it pre-TOS is to get out of having to deal with writing for post-TNG-era perfect people. We still have a Federation that is trying to be better, but can still be kind of fucked up.

I’m liking this show, but one thing which nags at me is that on some level the nature of “Star Trek” tries to say something about the human condition through an idealism of humanity. The Earth of the Federation is supposed to be a place where war, racism, sexism, poverty and class struggle have been overcome. I have a…

Being forced out of the company that bears your name... That must hurt. Which is good.

And to think all it took was 20 years of a clear pattern of continuous sexual harassment and abuse.