The mechanical heart was the giveaway—Jean Luc always thought of himself as not quite human after that, so this is just another step.

Go fuck yourself. There’s no one model for a “real Trekkie.”

Patrick Stewart was in the writer’s room for this show.  The entire time.  He’s a producer.

But only one was good.  It killed his perfect batting average.

Well, when I first floated this theory I was just kinda shooting from the hip and joking, but now I think I’ve half-talked myself into it.  That said, I can’t figure out how the mind transfer would fit into a Lore plan.  The rest of it--get an advanced race to wipe out all organic life--seems like a pretty standard…

Allison is wonderful, and so are her reviews of Legends, which is such a great, weird, batshit insane show.

Oh shit! They’re dropping hints now:

Always and forever.

I see it differently. I think it’s trying to highlight the cyclical nature of humanity. We better ourselves, get complacent, backslide a bit, and ultimately emerge better for it.  I think that’s where this show is going.

I do think this is an underlying theme of the series.  If you’re looking for that, I think you’ll enjoy it.

Fuck man, don’t I know it. If he hates the job that much, he should quit, right?  And he pays no attention.

Agreed. That’s the site where I’m out of the greys, but my opinions go over really poorly there.  Which is a shame.  Before kinja, AV Club had a great comments section.  Now everyone there both seems to hate television, but also be bad at watching it.

Also, props on the Alton Brown joke.  Failed to comment on that.

Totally how I feel.

You make many brilliant points. Thank you for replying.

Yeah, that’s pretty much how I feel about all the negativity about this show. I couldn’t get into Discovery, but I just figured it wasn’t for me. I couldnt’ get into Enterprise either, and only revisited Voyager years after. Hell, the majority or TNG episodes are poor to mediocre at best—-it’s just the two dozen or so…

This is a fair point, but it’s why I said I “mostly just thought of Lore’s ‘end’ as a plothole”— I always thought it was a lame conclusion for one Star Trek’s best villains. And if that was an artistic choice for the end of the character’s arc, fine, but it always struck me as the writers leaving themselves an out if…

So now I have to wait even longer to figure out they’re going to continue to torture poor Wally West? My guess is “Fastest Flash + Mobius Chair + Dr. Manhattan’s Power + Yet Another Reboot” isn’t intended to make him, y’know, just Wally again yet.

Yep. I doubt there was ever a romantic relationship—Picard is pretty emotionally stunted and they have the age gap—but otherwise totally agree.

I mean, I posted mine on throwing a dart at a board based on Zack’s review, so it’s possible. I’ve mostly just thought of Lore’s “end” as a plothole, so I’d love it if this series addressed it. Seriously... they just stuck one of the best recurring TNG villains in storage?