I also can’t see the show replacing him with anyone but Burnham though, so it’s a question of how we get there.

• The only U.S.S. Defiant in Trek history is the one from Deep Space Nine, which doesn’t fit the timeline.

Anyone who thinks Discovery is worse than Season 1 of TNG is delusional, and I’d say Discovery is holistically better than what I’ve seen from Voyager (I’m part-way through season 3).

It’s not like video games have to be only disposable fare like Battlefront with little canon impact, where the creativity seems to be limited to smashing toys together in the sandbox.

Star Trek fandom isn’t too bad, surprisingly, on the Star Trek reddit. Posters there are a nice balance of positive and constructive in their criticism of Discovery.

Oh boy, that’s my birthday. I was going to have friends over that I haven’t seen in a long time, but now it looks like I’m going to have to keep my schedule open for a protest.

At least now it will be really easy for me to remember the day our Republic descended into an existential crisis.

I legitimately read this as Jennifer Lawrence Will Pay the Last Icelandic Woman to Be Publicly Executed for a second, and thought, “Man, things have really gone downhill.”

It provides important Wookie pervert backstory.

One extremely important omission on this list.

Uh, because of Vulcan’s higher surface gravity?

Of course you would take this stance, Krombopulous Michael. You know that no matter what happens that you still have that connect to buy all the anti-matter ray guns you want.

“We all know that Lovecraft was a racist and a xenophobe. What my book presupposes is... maybe he wasn’t.”

Christopher Pike is captain, and it’s pretty clear it’s the Prime Universe The Cage era Pike. Pike, Number One, and Spock are all characters in the book.

It’s not the same as watching a show, but they released a tie-in book called Desperate Hours that I’m slowly burning through on my Kindle. It’s set roughly a year before the pilot and involves the Shenzhou working with the Enterprise to save a colony. It’s okay for what it is, and sounds like what you’re looking for.

Let’s retcon The Martian into Star Trek’s canon, so we can say 200 years later disco is revered for its role in bringing Mark Watney home.

When are you going to get to Predator 2?

Yeah, looking back over the lyrics, I’m sure he and his victim-complex think the song is about him and nobody else.

This made my night, thank you. I can’t believe this is 5 years old.

See, I only just learned that the Matrix had LGBT themes a couple weeks ago. Granted, I literally have barely watched or thought about the Matrix in almost 15 years, but I’m a pretty liberal guy, and if it went over my head, I’m not sure we can count these red-pill geniuses to have gotten it, since it doesn’t seem…

Does Rage Against the Machine mock Paul Ryan? Because they really should. Really everybody should.