I had a girlfriend a few years back who was from the rural part of WA, out in farm country, and her descriptions of that whole area pretty much made it out as North-West Redneckistan. When we met, she’d not long moved to Tucson, Arizona, which is, by her account, practically a utopia in comparison, from a social…

Referring, I’d think, to Lorca (who, by the by, is Hispanic, and, yes, there are white Hispanics) pulling Burnham from the prison transport, where she was supposedly being transported to work in dilithium mines — essentially slave labour — and indenturing her to his crew on Discovery.

Gaff always *was* stylin’, man.

So now we know...some version of the Grateful Dead is still truckin’ in the 23rd Century. Shrooms in spaaaaaaace.

It’s hard to get wonkier than Janeway and Paris turning into giant lizards and fucking....

I assume they did, as somebody was flying the shuttle at the end, and I doubt Lorca gave them a loaner.

I’m expecting a Tilly/Burnham hair-off by the end of the season, when they compete to show who has the most lethal mass of curly long hair. I already adore Sonequa Martin-Green’s real hair, but, damn, Tilly turned out to be the real life Meridia when she let her hair free.

The network guy at NBC was Stan Robertson, the first African-American that high up in the broadcast network food chain.

Apparently my sarcasm flew over unnoticed.

Or how about the JLA/JSA annual crossover that one year...”Crisis On Eartrh-X!”?

How about this?

The official abbreviation is DSC.

“vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core

Despite some misleading promotional material, I didn’t think Yeoh was going to be in many episodes, and would go out in a blaze of glory.

I ran the app on both a Roku 4 and a TCL Roku TV. The only blips I had was with images not showing up in the listings on the TV, and with the after-show not streaming, apparently because the service was hammered.

Yeah, all those Netflix and Hulu originals that just died horribly, never to be heard of again....

TOS continuity basically changes from episode to episode, and never mind what happens when we get to the films.

I hesitate to think what the pilot for this cost (Enterprise spent $25 million on theirs, and that was, what, 2002?) I do know that the per-episode cost for this show is $8 million. $7 million of which seems to have been spent on Klingon prosthetics so thick and hard that you could stand a skyscraper on ‘em.

Vulcan Grief Counseling.

It’s a rights issue. CBS can’t use anything from the Kelvin timeline, Paramount now can’t do anything that’s Prime timeline.