Does it rely on heavy use of hard consonants and glottal stops?

Ahh, you lucky people.

Because Klingon must be enunciated carefully, lest one risk changing the meaning of one’s words through a slurred syllable or missed glottal stop.

It’s actually being shown in its entirety on television in Canada? I was not aware.

Interesting. My understanding of the invention of it came from the book The Making of Star Trek, which described it as a purely physiological effect. The wikipedia article does cite that book and explanation further on in the entry. The book itself was written roughly contemporaneously with the series itself, by…

Oh no, this was always going to launch All Access. That was true long before anything was filmed. The pacing is as was intended. It is perfectly clear that this was, however, always intended to be a two-hour presentation and not a two-part episode with a cliffhanger. The two together tell a complete story and launch…

A note about the language: Klingon is SUPPOSED to sound choppy. Meaning can change drastically when syllables are combined or sounds elongated. Strong enunciation is vital to correct pronunciation. Go back and listen to just about any speaker of the language, and you’ll get that same choppy sound. However, most of…

Which is surely part of why the ships that showed up for the battle at the binary stars got roundly trounced. They are all smaller, probably older ships. Some of them resembled the old NX-01 class quite distinctly.

Well now I find myself really wanting to see someone “update” the TOS bridge design. As in, keep it as close to the original look and style as possible while updating the technology to look like what we’d consider “the future” today. No radical redesigns like you see in the reboot films. Just a polish job. Personally,…

Please cite your source on the telepathic nature of the nerve pinch. I’ve never heard that. Only that it was developed as a “non-violent” way for Spock to subdue someone.

I would say I could tolerate precisely one season of Bruce trying and failing as he attempts to work out a winning formula for his vigilantism. That seems like a fair stretch to grant it in a television landscape. Any more than that and it gets quite absurd. And not fun train-wreck absurd like Gotham is now. The…

It was depicted after the Klingon attack on her school, which I think was in the second part. But like you, I watched back to back and don’t remember for sure.

Yeah, but I seemed to recall that was only shown in part 2, which this guy continues to mention is the only part he saw or cared about, hence my particular wording.

Probably not the movie you mean here, but after watching both parts of the episode, it occurred to me that this seemed like the series that Paramount/CBS/whoever might have made to follow up Star Trek: Nemesis. The visual and storytelling cues just seem to match up with it better than any other previous Trek outing,…

Clearly neither side deployed heavy cruisers in this battle.

Indeed, I might have thought that too. But if Data can do it....

That’s... one possible takeaway, sure.

I liked it, but it’s not really what I was hoping for. Maybe it’s first episode blues (gosh knows The Orville had them in spades), but I think I’m going to enjoy The Orville a lot more myself. I found myself disappointed it wasn’t on tonight!

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.