I couldn’t help thinking T’Kuvma reminded me of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. I didn’t really like the way he seemed to slur his speech. Klingon is a necessarily very precisely spoken language.

Well... Data did. Also Odo on DS9 and Seven of Nine on Voyager. And Captain Archer on Enterprise, though that was another case of being under Vulcan influence. No unmodified human ever did it. Cmdr. Burnham is at very least Vulcan trained, from a very young age.

I’m afraid I don’t have the answer to your question.

As I’ve said elsewhere, I really don’t consider what was aired to be the first episode. It was half of the first episode, and I didn’t appreciate them doing it that way.

Hey, all a neck pinch takes is the proper training and discipline. It’s a skill, not a super power.

I would argue you haven’t actually seen the first episode of Discovery. You’ve seen half of it. Having seen episode 2 (which this review also covered), I can say that this was a classic “two hour series premier movie” and NOT two discreet episodes. They should have put both on TV and gone from there. The ending of…

Comics Batman has the well-received “Batman: Year One”, semi-adapted in animated form as Mask of the Phantasm. It also portrays Bruce attempting to work as a Batman-like masked vigilante before actually coming up with the bat theme, and not doing so hot with it. I’m fine with it so long as we get a version of the “I…

Ah! Yes, I knew I recognized the voice.

I leave captions on on my television by default. They are helpful more often than one might guess. I miss them when I watch things on other devices, to be honest, even if they can distract now and then.

For Webby, it was the BIGGEST adventure.

This argument is likely valid, but has been complicated by the fact that the person holding the office of the President has been calling for people who do protest in such a manner to be fired. By having the highest office in the government take this position, it has potentially become a 1st Amendment issue, despite…

Does she? I missed her stating that as her specialty. What I did catch was her stating that she chose the assignment deliberately because she thought it was where she could do the most good. Captain Mercer seemed to think she was very highly qualified, and could have had any post she wanted. She knew exactly what she…

Minor correction: The name of the company was actually CalNect.

That’s true enough. But my thought was that even the human race as a whole wasn’t up to that “Roddenberry” standard of utopic brilliance. Orville’s doctor, for instance, was implied to be a top officer who deliberately chose the posting because she thought she’d be needed there especially.

I’ve kind of decided that Ed Mercer was a fine and dedicated officer in the mold of the esteemed James T. Kirk (original series version) until he got married, that went all to hell, and he fell apart for a while. The Ed of today is clearly no Kirk, but he has it in him somewhere.

Certainly we might have benefited greatly from having a better pre-existing understanding of how Moclan gender works. Clearly they identify as male because there is a (vestigial) female gender, but we don’t know how their single-gender reproduction works or what role the female gender ever played. It’s a problem, but…

Bah, Voyager was great. It had some missteps, but I think to this day people are still condemning it 90% because of the way UPN advertised it rather than the actual show.

I definitely noticed an uptick in his dramatic performance in this episode. Honestly I’ve always felt like he had it in him.

Yes, this is the regular slot. They did advertise it as such during Sunday’s episode. Sorry you missed out. :/

Ouch. I JUST rewatched that episode, and it reminded me that it was one of my least favorite episodes of B5. Painful to watch all the way through, to everyone involved’s discredit. I can see the similarity though, even though I found this episode of The Orville far better than the B5 episode.