Of all the Daily Show alums parroting this style of comedy/journalism, I think Last Week Tonight does it the best. John Oliver isn’t just reading and making fun of the headlines—a lot of the time he’s actually doing journalism and activism. I mean, most of it is just weird funny bits like airing commercials on FN…

Yes.

Golf courses in my state are still open, and I drive past a few on my way to take care of my sister’s kids each day as she works her essential job. I also ride my bike past about a half dozen courses regularly during my 3-4 bike rides each week. I can assure you that each course I’ve driven or ridden past has been…

These are the same assholes who complain about protesters blocking traffic, but they are willing to block a hospital in the middle of a pandemic for the right to play golf.

I didn’t realize the strawman was “It’s either perfect or nothing matters”.

If I hadn’t had my parents’ help, the cost of childcare would have forced me to stay in an abusive marriage and quite possibly could have cost my child her life.

No, but he shouldn’t’ve needed to. The Lucasfilm Story Group is there to do that job for him.

Yes thank you thank you thank you! The fighting about whether or not someone would beat him is fucking useless! He’ll be beat if we all come together and validate that truly anyone is better and if those Sanders fuckers don’t get on board they are not true progressives.  They are high-minded idealists who refuse to…

It’s inexplicable because she radiates absolute, total insincerity at all times except when she’s tearing into Buttigieg.

Seems like you are enlarging the relatively small difference between Sanders and Warren and making it a huge chasm.  

“Bernie has a dark money PAC funding him.”

The female protagonist speaking Norwegian with (as far as I can tell) an Icelandic accent is a nice touch. Icelandic is not that far removed from Old Norse, which was the regional language during the Viking era.

I read a comment a while back that I cannot shake off. “Dystopia” is just “Imagine if it happened to white people too”

I am looking forward to watching this and getting really invested before SyFy cancels it to the angst of millions of fan viewers.

This looks like guilty pleasure fun.

I am just fine with the ship action being un Trek like, because if there was anything that annoyed the hell out of me about Star Trek was this idea that spaceship combat should look like Roman galleys fighting it out in Ben frigging Hur. Especially when,if you go by what they’re acually saying, these ships are…

I think a little reality check is in order. Now, while I will certainly concede that the franchise has had its moments of out and out brilliance, the universe in which they’ve happened is a hodgepodge of things that have been cribbed from various scifi pulps, and thrown in as they went along, often without any regard…

I think the holograms are how Rios handles being a one man crew of his own ship without relying on anyone but himself, plus the previous episode hinted that something happened to him in Starfleet that led him to fly solo.

Santiago Cabrera is from chile!

Glad to have your commentary here. It just wouldn’t be Star Trek without fans angrily complaining that it’s not real Star Trek.