This episode provided us the only authentically adolescent moment in the show’s run, where the big brother whose name I forget, after extolling the virtues of freaks to his brother, completely ignores a cute Souxsie at the party in favor of playing Duckie (see, I do references too!) to a spoken-for Nancy. Freaks don’t…

He also failed to kill Archie’s dad, so I’m willing to buy into Jughead’s (joke) explanation that the dude just has terrible aim.

Archie: “There’s a murderer on the loose!”

I’m not surprised. The Groovie Goolies are fairly obscure. I only know them because I was a kid at the time their reruns were airing in syndication. I wouldn’t expect the young whippersnappers doing closed captioning today to recognize the reference. (If it wasn’t a coincidence, but it would be a surprising one if it…

Do any of us?

“I don’t think a better future comes without work, and I think Disco is about that work.”

I totally agree with a lot of the broader series issues you mention, but I disagree with your opinion of this episode. I really enjoyed it, which surprised me.

One of the best things about this show is that it makes me feel unique. As I am apparently the only person in the history of everything whose first Star Trek experience is this show.

Ignore the rabid troll, you’re absolutely correct.

I think it’s quite likely that if Tyler really is Voq, then there was a real Ash Tyler that was captured at the Battle of the Binaries, and they had some method of extracting his life experience and memories or transferring Voq’s consciousness into him, making him sort of like a Goa’uld from Stargate. In control, able…

Discovery: challenges your expectations of a Star Trek show by pushing moral ambiguities into deeply uncomfortable places and being sweary.

I’m glad they had a few little expositionary lines about Tyler’s background checking out with Star Fleet. He’s blatantly a spy but up till those lines it had seemed everyone just blindly accepted this guy was who he said he was.

No wonders this it took 10+ years to get Starr Trek back on TV. No one is ever fucking happy beause they think if ST isn’t done EXACTLY the way they think it should be done, the best it is is “not terrible”.

I really wish people would put the Trek purist crap aside and just try to enjoy the show on it’s own merits.

The thing is, Mr. Handlen isn’t even doing a convincing job of complaining like a Trekkie- the Kirk-era Enterprise, as seen on The Animated Series, does indeed contain the equivalent of a holodeck- look it up. Most of the gripes about Discovery, from numerous outlets, come across as unfair ... which leads me to think…

but it still felt like star trek so moot point.

Man...I thought this was the best one yet.

Random ‘pinions:

I pretty much disagree with tone of this review completely. Trek shows have always mostly concentrated on a small core of characters, which is what made Lower Decks notable at the time. Dinging DSC for this 6 episodes in feels unfair. And the core characters feel more fun and human in this ep than any other, having…

I get why people are frustrated with the show, and your review touches on some of what I consider to be the strengths and weaknesses here, but when a reviewer comes right out and says they cannot review a show on its own merits, I am forced to wonder if they’re the right person for the task.

I have a lot of respect for…