I love O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but every time I watch it - as much as I love George Clooney playing Everett so daffily obsessed with pomade - I can’t help but think that Nicolas Cage would have been better in the lead.

I have to think that the core audience for this are people born long after the original show went off the air, so how can they have nostalgia for something they never experienced in the first place?

In a tale that came mostly from Persia?

I missed the announcement about the other animated show, but section 31 was announced a while ago, but then I think I heard it got stuck in development or something, so I’m not sure what the latest is. But it’s easily the worst idea for a Trek show in history. Like, so fundamentally misses the point it’s staggering.…

I think it was on Conan where James Doohan ran through a bunch of alternative Scotty accents. German? Huge laugh. French? Huge laugh. Japanese? Stone, squirmy silence.

a mutant who can teleport wouldn’t need to live nearby.  just saying.

That’s what I’ve read, but I never felt a need to go back to it.

I think people are taking my ‘half naked women’ and ‘pew-pew lasers’ too literal. I was pointing out that there was the mixture of philosophy with pulp style sex and violence. You can’t tell me that the female uniforms on TOS weren’t there for titillation. If there weren’t phasers, there was a brawl. It’s the unaired…

Good Lord, I forgot that existed. Thank you!!

I totally agree, but as much as it would be cool to see I don’t think we need an Alex Garland or Denis Villeneuve. Part of what’s so disappointing about nu trek is it shouldn’t take a visionary to make a good modern take on a star trek show, just a competent showrunner who understands the basics. Instead we're stuck…

How much do you think serialized television affects the current quality of Star Trek? DS9 had the Dominion War arc in its last couple of seasons but Star Trek, up to that point, was all episodic with problems-of-the-week that allowed for a huge number of stories and an expansion of the Trek universe. TV shows nowadays…

I’ve always wondered what the transporter operators did when no one needed to transport anywhere. It seems they were always just standing (no sitting) in that little room, maybe pressing buttons on the console, but what for? It’s also implied, in TNG anyway, that there are multiple transporter rooms. Are they all…

Putting aside the kinda lame style, it would be a lot easier to appreciate a show like this if we actually had a Trek show at the moment that was at all reverent or understanding of the philosophy of the shows that came before it.

The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy, but let’s not forget the influence of early 00s Flash animantion.

Those characters exist in a lot of the Trek shows. This guy’s probably the most famous one who stayed in the niche:

I’ll pass and just watch Futurama again. No one has gotten sci-fi humor like that show did and any time it tackled Star Trek cliches it did them great 

That was Discovery’s weirdest flex. Hire a bunch of consistently recurring actors, make them look absolutely top-drawer awesome, and make sure they’re on set for every single bridge scene...and then given them maybe two episodes where they get anything more than “Shields up!” type shit. I wonder what this is like,…

Patton would be proud!  Or wait...his character in Parks and Rec...which had a crossover with DAMMIT now I’m doing it!

We are definitely through the looking glass here people 

To the barricades!