I hope we are not putting in more thought than they did :P

They got rid of Lorca, and Jason Isaacs

They didn’t plop onto Disco totally out of the blue, but his faked death was a bit of a contrivance, then his joining s. 31 and being really passionate about it was a bit of a contrivance (not totally out of line with the character defined in s. 1, but still forced), then his being placed as a “liaison” on Disco was re…

I think you’re right. Out of fairness, I’ll say that Star Trek in general is littered with time travel that doesn’t make sense. At this point I guess it’s silly to try and nail down any actual rules or constants. 

Yeah, making Control the Borg work in canon would require some sort of dumb time travel macguffin...

Wait a minute...

The problem with the Discovery Klingons is that they’re completely overdesigned. There’s so much room for creativity in redesigning them, their look has changed so much through every iteration of Star Trek, that as long as you put some ridges on a guy’s head you’re fine. But between Neville Page and Bryan Fuller we…

Tilly is an intermittently fantastic character who is not always well-served by writers that don’t understand the distinction between “awkward but interesting” and “self-absorbed twerp.”

I can definitely confirm that my notes are “SHUT UP TILLY” free. I think she has a line or two in the cafeteria scene.

“What does control want?”

The only system not compromised by Control must have been the ship’s intercom, otherwise, why would you be saying your plan out loud on a ship that just ejected its whole crew out into space?

I’m starting to fear that Zack and some of the commenters will ultimately be proven right and Control will be the genesis of the Borg. I have been hoping like hell that isn’t the direction the show is going to go but it’s seeming more and more unlikely each week.

Why does it matter that Section 31 ships are attacking? They have the spore drive, which can take them to any place in the entire universe. If anything, that’s the technology they can never let Control have. With the spore drive, Control would be able to hide anywhere in the universe and build up its forces. When it’s…

Discovery feels like somebody with no experience running a TV show was given a huge budget and legit actors and told to go have fun!

Pike’s radiation burns come after completing his stint on the Enterprise. I don’t think they are rushing it.

Pike’s vision of his accident falls inline with what we know. During the vision you can clearly hear the computer say “Radiation leak detected, training excercise aborted.”

“It’s a non-starter for a storyline, something which seems like it should matter because it has connections to earlier events, but has such little emotional resonance or meaning that it just sits there, empty and clever and not much else.” -- good summary of the entire show! 

The thing with Burnham completely ignoring Nahn while she very obviously and loudly suffocates to death while Burnham worries about Airiam who is still typing away on the keypad left me so flabbergasted I had to Google it to see if anyone else was talking about it. I thought Nahn was even dead before they finally see…

Yeah.  And since Spock already broke the rules once to go to Talos, arguably for fairly capricious reasons, it blunts the impact of his shocking decision to do so in “The Menagerie.”

Yep, this show can be weirdly shot at times. The pacing of each episode is just kind of off...I have to watch twice. I agree with the review here, and like the show. I just would like to only watch once, and I’m actually not high or drunk when I watch. Shouldn’t have to rewind when the editors get weird. 

Haha yes, exactly. I really don’t get the writers perspective regarding Burnham. She obviously is the most undisciplined officer we have ever seen on Trek, she is supposed to have been partially raised by Vulcans, yet is one of the most emotional characters we have seen on Trek. I don’t think these contrary traits…