“Requiem For Methuselah” is definitely lower tier TOS fare. It’s in third season and near the end of the run. It’s clear they were running out of steam.

Just once, I want the Discovery crew to try an on-the-fly audacious stunt to resolve a crisis... and have it fail. And they have to go to plan B. Right now, every single time there’s a crisis they all stand around like goobers until someone goes, “WAIT, I know! If we technobabble the technobabble, we can uninverse the…

I feel the showrunners know fans liked her, and she’s getting flanderized, with her anxiety and quirks locked into overdrive.

There’s an easy pacing solution here; Trim Section 31 and get back 15 minutes to your episode.

Aliens with Disabilities Act, accommodate that Kelpian with a standing console pronto!

They thought nobody cares? Which seems to be the standard mindset while making Disco...

I loathed Tilly up until this point, but I honestly, actually like her character and performance in this ep. Playing her off against May, them building a bridge, teaming up, finding common ground, and establishing respect - if not actual affection - was a great move, and deserved to be more thoughtfully paced. I…

Here’s my question about Discovery: has the show reached the nadir of how dumb the phrase “logic extremists” sounds, or is it going to somehow sound even dumber the next time it’s spoken aloud?

Goes great shaved over some Kelpien ganglia risotto.

Section 31 being a part of Starfleet completely breaks that trust. It’s an organization that uses assassination and blackmail to coerce other sovereign powers and manipulate them in favor of Federation designs. So how can any of the Federation’s members trust that Section 31 didn’t do it to them?

Yeah, but if someone came around claiming to represent the OSS, you’d still be able to read about them in a book, even if the current US Government just said they’d “get back to you” about if it was a going concern. Having 31 be out and proud in DSC can follow by the letter of what was said in DS9, but it sure sounded…

“Everybody stand back! I’m with Section 31!”

God, this episode was melodramatic even for ST:D standards. Michelle Yeoh grabs an apple only to bite and then let it fall on the ground menacingly while the camera closes up on it. At times it felt like a parody.

Thoughts and Musin’s (I know I skipped last week):

Last night I just had to accept that they were retconning Section 31 in how it’s depicted in DS9, and just drop that element as a critique I have of it on this show. Which is fine, because there’s plenty more to hate about the organization here.

The Tilly/May relationship felt rushed, because they went from this tense irritation and borderline anger to, “I understand you better than anything in the whole universe!” which would have had me whiplash if I hadn’t already kind of checked out by that point. I’m fine if that’s what they wanted to do with their bond,…

Making Section 31 an official part of Starfleet is a terrible idea and pretty much destroys the legitimacy of the Federation.

I just want this show to be so much better than it is. And every now and then there is a flash that maybe it can be, but then it’s gone very quickly.

While i do not appreciate the ST:D hate i’m seeing online, i also do not grok the love i see for it online, either. It’s so middling, it makes Voyager look something more noble than a mere pastel projection of middle-american angst.

The actors and casting in Discovery are all fine-to-perfect. It’s all writing decisions…

I’m with you, Zack. Like you’re reading my mind. This is one frustrating series. The more I read about how closely they hued to Bryan Fuller’s original concepts (and when I think about how very much I did NOT like his take on American Gods. At. All.), the more I think I will blame him for this.