When Universal originally dumped the movie, I sagely predicted that we were on the eve of bombshell revelations that Lizzy Caplan was an abusive sexual predator. Now that Netflix has revived the project, I can safely take credit for being right.

I’m not being “disingenuous”, I’m being imprecise because I don’t know which family members run the Estate. Reporting described Fiat Chrysler as having worked on the ad with Estate “representatives” (plural). Regardless, my point wasn’t to impugn all of MLK’s family, it was to counter the suggestion that the ad was…

I’ve listened to the first episode. As a Serial parody it’s pretty late, but it’s well produced, and the ad read parodies were great.

MLK’s family controls the rights to his speeches and had to sign off on this ad. Obviously they can’t be blamed for creating it, but they had some hand in it, and I am pretty sure they are not white.

I kind of buy that. Add to it the disastrous consequences if it gets into enemy hands. The temptation would be too much to use it as long as any record of it existed, so you’d have to destroy all of it. ...Even though it won a war and saved the Federation from the brink.

I was highly critical of Zack for his approach to earlier reviews, but he won me back with this review. I just appreciate that he’s willing to recognize the show as fun, because that’s the central emotion that I have when I sit down and watch it. With that as the backdrop, I’ll hear out any criticisms, and this week I…

Now imagine the crew’s mind-fuck when they learn that for the second time in a row their captain is a mirror-universe impostors.

I realized only after I posted my message that the “newsflash” preface was unduly snarky. We’re not in disagreement.

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…