Whoa, whoa. This is not a selfie. It is from a simpler time, when people stood behind the camera when taking photos, to make sure they were actually decent, and not pointed up the photographer’s nostrils, or inadvertently cropped out half of their subject’s face.

Newsflash: your cell phone is already a compromiseable “listening device”. As is any laptop or tablet, various voice-controlled smart TV remotes, your Microsoft Kinect (I know, they’re wildly popular), etc...

There are some racial themes that have been threaded throughout the season (i.e., the insidious belief that people who are “other” are inferior). That’s a consistent thread of both the Klingon and Terran storylines, with the Terran storyline representing a straight role-reversal of what motivates the Klingons in…

You can disagree with me without being a dick about it.

It pairs well with other “smart” accessories/appliances, particularly lights. A problem with smart lights - I have Hues - is that they are controllable only through an app, or through specialized accessories. With Google Home I can say “turn off the bedroom lights” or “dim the living room lamps” or “make the bedroom…

I think you’re getting from the next-week preview on After Trek, right? Because the way it was played in-episode certainly made it seem like the Federation was wiped out.

I’m getting a lot of shit for something I didn’t say. I said reviews shouldn’t be written someone who hates the show - which is not quite the same thing as saying they have to be written by someone who likes the show.

I guess that’s a good analogy if you’re reading show reviews to make sure you’re as aware as possible of all the mistakes that the show is making (that you can’t do anything to fix).

I’ve checked in on IGN’s reviews a couple of times this season. The quality of writing and critical analysis is a bit below par, and I wouldn’t dare scroll down into the cesspool of comments, but it resonates more strongly with my perception of the episodes.

It’d be kind fun if Issacs became the Discovery-version of Tom Cavanaugh in The Flash. Let’s pull an Issacs from another universe, and distinguish him with a Scottish accent. And maybe a fedora. Issacs managed to endear himself to me, notwithstanding that his character was prickly and amoral.

I don’t think it would make the season meaningless, particularly if the whole ship is going back in time with her. All of the character development among the ship crew survives a time jump, and there’s barely any characters at all off of the ship who we’d care about (my singular favourite klingon, L’rell, is on the…

Crew died on TOS left, right and centre. As someone who grew up a TNG fan and never really paid attention to TOS until recently, it kind of shocked me. But I assume it has something to do with the fact that was made at a time when everyone had lived through wars with massive casualties, and that it was an assumed…

Zack Handlen = Neil Degrasse Tyson. He’s not necessarily wrong, but he’s spoiling the fun.
 

I feel like there should be an editorial disclosure / humble brag that Brian Huskey was an Onion News Network regular (and consistently the best part of all his sketches).

What you might be picking up on is that he doesn’t get be as cool as the other kid actors. He’s always the one getting rescued, and not the one doing the rescuing. He’s also awkward and nerdy (to some extent all the boys are, but Will definitely has the dorkiest haircut). All of that adds up to a character who isn’t…

The scary thing is that these bitter nutters with too much free time on their hands are a problem even with historically low rates of unemployment. It can get worse.

Are you saying that employees who work on Microsoft Word aren’t allowed to possess things? That’s harsh.

I don’t understand what we’re doing giving a platform to Haitian residents to tell us the truth about who they are, what their life is like, and what they think. What everyone really wants to know is, how do Trump supporters in Coal Country feel about his calling Haiti a “shithole”, and do these Trump supports still…

To get this joke, you need to know that The Bye Bye Man is not a particularly good movie.

This sort of moral relativism can only really serve to make someone look less reprehensible by comparison. “Yeah, but he’s not Hitler”. The only person who benefits from the exercise is the slightly less reprehensible person. I don’t see any incentive for us to engage in the exercise from the outside looking in. They…