All of that is conspiracy theory nonsense. People throw around phrases like “Paramount had access to the Babylon 5 Bible” as if that meant anything.

(the relatively small window when Blu-ray existed but streaming hadn’t yet taken over)

DS9 was not shot on tape, it was shot on 35mm film. It was *edited* on tape, just like TNG was.

When we started writing, [Strange] knows firsthand the dangers of screwing with these things. Then we changed it so he was a person who doesn’t know that much about the multiverse.

Franklin deserved better.

I agree that they’ve done a weird job of depicting the wonders of the 32nd century, making problems for themselves, but let’s be honest, Star Trek has had this problem for a long time. Transporters, replicators, medical technology.

Total agree, one of Voyager’s few 5-star episodes. Discovery loves its Voyager references, but I’m pretty sure they were hinting at Relics, not Counterpart.

Agree. I’ve also always liked the show, and appreciated the big swings it took, but they’re pulling more from what worked in 90s-era Trek this season, and this one felt like a classic TNG bottle episode without losing the specific qualities that make Discovery unique.

They do say “there are records of this being done before” or something like that, clearly alluding to the events of Relics without mentioning anything it in.

I’d have to watch it again, but I think there was a line about trying to activate the transporter (I think the idea is that once the force field goes up, you can’t beam though it?).

Strong agree. It’s a very “Trek” take on the idea of emergent AI as a new lifeform, instead of a new threat, especially compared to what they did with Control in season 2.

If you don’t appreciate that wildly retconning the Doctor and their origins is a core pillar of the series throughout its entire history (“The Impossible Girl,” 11's new set of regenerations implying that there were sets prior, the Master’s childhood and sound of drums, the Cartmel Masterplan, the Morbius Doctors,…

Makes no less sense than “the War Doctor” or the Valeyard.

The Fisk of Netflix’s Daredevil was a refined public figure draped over a hideous monster, but the character in Hawkeye seems less complex. He keeps a tacky office in a cheap warehouse, and stomps his way though a public emergency. Hawkeye seems to be the only one who knows who he is and is worried about his…

They needed some creative person in the room of execs to say “no, this path makes sense, people will like the conclusion we’ve got planned”.

Wandavision clearly sets Wanda up for this flick

Mordo, still on his quest to strip mages of their power after the events of the first Doctor Strange.

You don’t need a master planning document to “not spend half of the ninth movie retconning the eighth,” you just need some common sense.

It was a sequel to TFA, but for me it was the opposite in tone

The shortened version is better, sorry comics purists. It’s not just punchier and more natural to say, it actually makes the point stronger.