It’s a popular theory, based on aesthetics (people point to the bridge windows, as well). However, the producers have said repeatedly that DSC is set in the “Prime” timeline, not the Kelvin Timeline.

Rescuing an enemy from certain death, even against their will, seems pretty in line with those “traditional Starfleet values” people have been bemoaning the lack of in this series.

There have been conflicting behind-the-scenes explanations for her, but the consensus seems to be that she’s a cybernetically-augmented human.

The reason I do this is the temporal war would have changed things enough that 2011's Star Trek wouldn’t have existed in the first place... no? Or do people not consider Star Trek to be canon for the Tv-verse like every other movie was?

they could have had multiple ships/sensors take readings and get the same measurements the Discovery did.

I’d agree with that assessment. I find myself defending the show when it’s harshly criticized, and criticizing the show when it receives a lot of praise, so that suggests I’m pretty firmly in the middle.

“Breaking: Genre Film Follows Genre Conventions”

Spock was supposedly the first vulcan in starfleet

I just finished badmouthing ENT, so it’s only fair that I now encourage you to watch it with an open mind, and take it for what it is, rather than what you think it should be (kind of like with DSC, honestly). Despite the formulaic structure, boring characters, and the occasional gratuitous use of “decontamination…

Let’s be real, though - Enterprise S1 and 2 were pretty tired retreads of the old formula. There’s some good stuff in there, but a lot of it was pretty...not great.

I can’t figure out why the reviewer is so insistent that this series must have a 10-words-or-less sentence which fully—and to the exclusion of anything else—describes what the show is about.

I think that’s pretty fair. In my opinion, the depth you’re looking for is there, but they’re not doing enough to bring it to the forefront.

I don’t really have an issue with Terrans being cannon fodder - alternate universe characters are even more expendable than red shirts.

True. To be honest, as much as I’d like to see Isaacs stick around, I hope they move on from the MU stuff as quickly as possible. They made it more compelling than I thought possible, but it’s time to move on.

I think if you’re able to accept the concept of a fungal network that spans time, space, and universes, and binds all life together, it would stand to reason that destroying it would...unbind all life.

Not clear, but that’s how it worked on TOS, so I’m assuming they switched places.

Upon rewatching it, I think it was less the editing and more the lighting that I had an issue with. It was occasionally difficult to tell which characters were getting vapourized.

I think Bryan Fuller’s original “anthology” concept may have looked like this, with plenty of time jumps, but I don’t know if that’s the case any more.

Good points, all.

Y’know, maybe it’s because I didn’t watch Enterprise until it was streaming, but I really didn’t mind the Nazi aliens. It seemed like a perfectly classic Star Trek concept.