Which is exactly what happened with Airiam too. Given an episode and then unceremoniously airlocked.

It’s a shame to be honest, because you have all these characters, most of whom have been around since at least Season 1 Episode 3, and I’d love to know them better, but the show feels like it fights it at every turn.

I…

There’s a blonde lady on Discovery’s bridge crew that I didn’t recognize from an earlier episode. Is she new?

If Control comes back it will undermine a lot of what they worked for and end up looking backwards when it’s clear both the creators and characters at this point want to move forward.

It seemed to me that, yeah, she was suffering from trauma, and a lot of emphasis was put on anxiety of getting back at the helm. Which…

I would watch the hell out of a show about Saru hanging out, eating blueberries, and reviewing science reports. Based on my description alone, that would be the best show I’ve seen in 20 years. 

Dilithium is efficient, but is it the only possible resource to allow warp travel? Zefram Cochrane built a warp drive in Montana, and there is no dilithium on Earth.

I very much disagree with raising the voting age for several reasons. In fact, I’d say we could lower the voting age as low as 16.

iirc his romances are always unrequited with a veneer of toxicity to them. There’s probably multiple ones across stories but the one that stands out in my mind is that if you play KOTOR 2 as the female Exile, Darth Sion has unrequited feelings for you.

A couple thoughts: Good, I’m glad he’s looking to do something new. Star Trek needs to be doing new things and stop either going back to the well of prior characters and franchise minutiae or its recent tendency to just ape big blockbuster spectacle wrapped around the simplest of story ideas. It doesn’t even have to…

I’d seal my left hand for the Arrested Development model home.

I can confirm this from my experience as a German teacher. I have to find materials that are in the language intended for native speakers, but at a level that is accessible for my high school age students.

This is especially infuriating because Germany’s legal stance towards asylum seekers, guest workers, immigration and human rights comes from its people spending decades learning from the actual “worst things” in their history like Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.

I get really disappointed when I get a beer that has the drink filled cleanly to the brim. I don’t ever send it back, because I don’t want to be that guy, but I still always feel a bit sad for those first couple sips. 

I worked briefly as a bartender in Germany, and the head bartender training me taught me to pour about two fingers of foam worth at the top. Which was fine in a glass, but always stressful to judge in an opaque mug like this picture:

It sounds like book!Control would be a Rogue Servitor! Basically caretakers. Although the way it works in the game, it’s a bit more like Banks’ Culture, whereas book!Control seems to be operating from the shadows like a good Section 31 program.

I’m still not so sure about this being Borg origin story, unless Control’s ethics and motivations drastically change in the coming episodes (which it might happen, maybe it has a change in taste after taking a nano-skin-suit).

I show Good Bye Lenin! (along with Das Leben der Anderen) each year to my German students for their history unit, and it is imminently rewatchable. The high schoolers are always totally immersed and invested.

The other comment was getting long, so I wanted to address your Tilly-May stuff in another one. I agree, and I’ve been interested in the multi-episode arc. My favorite thing about it was that it’s basically Star Trek’s version of Baltar from BSG seeing a person no one else can. Baltar becomes an even more anxious and…

There’s an easy pacing solution here; Trim Section 31 and get back 15 minutes to your episode. Have the episode slow build-up characters worried about Tilly and brainstorming a solution (what they did, but longer and paced better). Then follow a team delving into this menacing alien realm. Reveal Culber as a sort of…

It can only ever be a flash because that’s how long the show lingers on any single moment or conversation before it’s hurtling towards the next crisis.

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.