It looks like they’re doing 13-episode seasons.

Well, yeah, obviously they can invent whatever tech they need for the story to work since its a fictional show.

By my count there are 7 episodes left for this season.

Yeah, that was my point. That a script like this is kind of proof that they didn’t just change the names from Alara to Talla in some of the scripts they were developing. This seems like it was specifically written to showcase Talla and her strengths as an investigator.

Maybe, but I think the fact that the weapon was supposedly holographic when that’s really not possible, and the fact that the “true killer” was so easy to find, keyed her into the idea that the whole murder was a simulation and that led her to conclude the level of deception. Plus she might have had an instinct that…

He was told that by regular Georgiou. I thought having Mirror Georgiou being the one to help him get around that would have a certain symmetry to it.

So, the episode’s structure as a double-sided mystery requires a narrative structure that might be interpreted as a flaw.

Alara had her moments, but I’m finding Talla much more watchable.

Enjoyable episode, but the unintended self-generated irony was glaring.

Well, there have been enough games played with the licensing of the Star Trek IP that you might get some pushback on what actually counts anymore.

I think V’ger encountered a race of machines on the other side of the galaxy, and that race created the ship for Voyager to return to Earth, and Voyager spent a couple of hundred years accumulating the data it had by the time it returned in the movie (though if its data-collection process was to destroy the original…

I like how the season is at least making the Saru short matter, even if none of the other three seem relevant to anything yet. Saru has made numerous references to things we saw in that short, and I’m especially curious how this episode plays to anyone who hasn’t seen it, as Saru’s death experience leans heavily into…

Duly deputized vigilantes was the shtick of the 1960s Batman show.

Right, because in an emergency situation involving power loss they want to make sure they don’t have any actual food or water on board when the replicators don’t work.

Maybe. A couple of points to consider:

I’m not seeing that, but that’s Kinja for you. It’s probably showing you the code for “line separation” for some reason.

I’m more concerned with how they’re telling the story they’re telling, but thanks for the suggestion.

No, but they should understand the universe they’re setting the story in.

The symphony showcase was pure MacFarlane, who loves to indulge in this kind of stuff (symphony gags pop up all the time on Family Guy). The conductor was played by Mark Graham, who is listed as the show’s “head of music preparation” and serves the same function on Family Guy and such movies as Bumblebee, Solo and the…

Yeah, that’s just drunk Tasha banging a sex toy, mostly because Gene Roddenberry was kind of a pervert and was obsessed with the sexual habits of the aliens and cultures he created. He envisioned humanity’s enlightenment of the future extending to its sexual proclivities, and as such kept pushing for stories in which…