My favorite thing from that episode is how genuinely disappointed both Kor and Kirk were that they weren’t given the opportunity to kill each other.

Definitely!

I love this show. Robinson and Scott riffing off of each other is genuinely great. They’re going to have to do one better though if they want the show to get renewed for a second season.

Still, the last couple episodes have both been strong. Here’s hoping the ratings improve.

It’s never out of the line to hope an asshole named Tad gets possessed by an evil entity and killed.

Oh for sure. That was obviously ad-libbed.

That would explain why I had a hard time finding Zack Handlen’s old DS9 reviews when they made the switch.

Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?

With the one notable exception being the stalemate/cold war left over from the Klingon/Federation conflict after Errand of Mercy.

I love watching people go crazy on Star Trek. You always see it coming, but you never know just what it will look like.

Also, I realize the mistake of waiting so long to watch the show. I only just started tuning in, and now it’s going to be on hiatus for two months. This sucks!

The good news is, my dad hasn’t seen it yet, so at least I get to re-watch all the episodes with him. I love the sly feeling when you know what happens and the…

Me too. I freely admit that I have no idea what just went down on that Klingon ship.

I don’t know that Kol is an “ancestor” of Kor at all. They’re contemporary to one another, mind you. He could be an uncle or a cousin or something else entirely different - we don’t exactly know how Klingons structure their Great Houses, after all - but almost certainly not an ancestor.

This was, in my opinion, the best episode of Discovery since the soft reboot that introduced the titular starship. the visuals on Pahvo were absolutely breathtaking, and I really appreciated the logic of Saru’s desperation. I don’t know if I actually like Saru, but I understand him.

I must be the only one who enjoys watching the Klingon scenes in Klingon. It really helps those moments come alive for me.

I know, I know. I’m a huge giant fucking nerd. But listening to people having real conversations in genuine Klingon is freaking amazing.

I have to disagree with your assessment. It definitely has a different tone that the Star Trek we’re used to, but I wouldn’t say that it’s abandoned the optimism of Star Trek. If anything, it’s a show about how hard people are willing to fight to preserve something beautiful. The most recent episode was gorgeous and…

I don’t think Lorca is a bad guy. He’s definitely traumatized, and almost certainly suffering from PTSD. But it’s hard to say this soon.

You know, I looked at Latif’s face and what little we can see of Voq’s face through is Klingon prosthetics. It could definitely be the same guy.

And one of the virtues of having all the Klingon dialogue in Klingon is that it makes it harder to identify a voice.

Really, I don’t know if Latif is Voq. But I don’t trust…

There’s a big difference between listening to Al Green at a party and watching an episode of Seinfeld while you’re on duty on the bridge.

Do you want to show me where I said the Orville was a “serious show without comedy?” I’m looking at my comment, and I don’t see those words in quotes anywhere.

I never claimed that this show doesn’t have comedic elements. But its core component- the plots that drive the episodes - have all been rooted in dramatic…

Agreed. I don’t hate the Orville, and I definitely think it has the potential to outgrow its proclivity for juvenile humor. But the constant animosity towards Discovery really gets my goat. I wasn’t alive when people were bitching back in 1986, but at least they didn’t have the internet back then.

You ain’t wrong.