In overall concept, sure, it’s similar, though even more similar to, uh, Battlestar Galactica. In terms of any individual episode, though, I’m drawing a hard blank.

I agree with mostly everything you say, especially pushing back against the idea of the Federation being post-scarcity, except for the money thing. As far as I know, every instance of a Starfleet officer using money, even Federation credits, is in dealing with a non-Federation civilization. Within the Federation,…

God, I hope not. I loved them. They were TOS as hell.

I mean, yeah. I actually do. BSG rarely reminded me of Star Trek. The Expanse rarely reminds me of Star Trek. Firefly rarely reminds me of Star Trek. And The Orville is pretty nakedly and explicitly based on Star Trek. So when an episode seems to have a 1-to-1 parallel to a Star Trek episode, it’s very noticeable.

To be fair to Return of the Jedi, it takes place 4 years after the battle of Yavin and the Rebels had been smashed hard at the Battles of Scarif and Hoth. I imagine there’s a lot of room to move up in that hierarchy, especially if you actually have your own ship.

Even the little bit of inside the Enterprise we saw made me happy. It looks like the Enterprise but...in HD. Everything is clean and futuristic in a very modern way instead of a 60s way. Like, that’s Discovery’s whole aesthetic and I love it.

I really recommend people watch the TNG documentary Chaos on the Bridge to get a sense about how viciously hated TNG was when it started.

Voyager is still bad though.

He was vaporized by falling into a magic space mushroom explosion that distorts time and space. There’s a little wiggle room there.

The Orville stock and trade is retreading Trek episodes. I haven’t actually watched this season and generally enjoyed the first, but like, half of them I could go back and say “Oh, this is just a different version of <insert TNG episode>“

Or, y’know, Whoopi Goldberg. Not actually having watched Star Trek seems to be the running theme of people complaining about how this show is not Star Trek.

O’Brien is enlisted. And, uh....hm.

Gonna disagree. Writing only about indie, artsy flicks is as boring as only writing about every Transformers movie. A biweekly column going through the history of romantic comedies is actually really interesting and unique, tracing the evolution and highs and lows of a genre that’s generally portrayed these days as…

I think they ease up on it quite a bit, TBH. These big, bombastic action scenes are still the exception, even in the war-heavy first season. Like, looking at the episode list for last season, I count 3, maybe 4 episodes that heavily feature that sort of thing- nearly the entire mirror universe arc had no action…

I’m also really hoping this season has nothing to do with Lorca, but I think that fortune cookie was absolutely just a TOS easter egg- “Not every cage is a prison, not every loss eternal.” Pike does eventually end up in “The Cage” but as a choice, not as a prisoner, to restore his health and live the rest of his life…

Glossed over that brutal fortune cookie reminder of Pike’s eventual fate. The captains of the Discovery are going to be Trek’s version of Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. 

I really love Enterprise’s fourth season and thought it did a good job pulling Enterprise in a logical direction that leads to TOS while still very much being about humanity’s first real entrance, diplomatically and militarily, into the galactic stage. There were a lot of TOS references, yeah, but they were largely…

Anson Mount sold me on his Pike basically immediately. Really weird reading this review saying he’s basically Lorca when he is emphatically not Lorca. Pike was more fun and more...Star Trek in one episode than Lorca managed in a full season- which isn’t a criticism because that was extremely the point of Lorca- but…

Well known fact that Bryan Fuller sees himself as a chubby, awkward redhead and works to incorporate that character into all of his work.

These opinions all derive from people who were introduced to Trek via TNG and think every captain should be Picard and the solution to every problem is to discuss it in the ready room. Spock beat the hell out of Kirk and (mostly) killed him in Amok Time- pon farr was just an excuse to make that fight happen. Invoking…

Absolutely on board with this opinion. I friggin’ love Lower Decks and have always wanted a Trek show to revolve around that. The upcoming animated series is going to, but it’s being played as a comedy which is kinda disappointing, but also I’m always game for more Trek.