I watched the first season or two of Enterprise back when it aired. Obviously that was a long time ago now, and I don’t really remember much about it. T’Pol was awful, though. I remember that much.

Kevin James is certainly a lot funnier and more charming than Adam Sandler ever was.

Sure. Surviving a world that has fallen apart is one of the most essential facets of post-apocalyptic fiction - which TWD basically is. I just feel like zombie apocalypse is the least interesting way of approaching post-apocalyptic storytelling. Sure, a nuclear holocaust is more cliche, but it’s also a lot closer to…

The mirror universe was cool in TOS, and it was used occasionally to good effect on DS9. But they just kept going back to that well over and over.

I haven’t seen In a Mirror, Darkly, but I’m sure I will at some point. I have to slog my way through Enterprise eventually, don’t I?

Exactly.

I probably should. It’s just that I don’t watch anything on ABC because they don’t really have any good shows. Maybe Black-ish is okay?

But that doesn’t change the fact that Disney’s long-running cable television network almost exclusively features television shows starring white people.

It’s pretty hard to imagine Disney ever making a show like Empire.

Mark Hammill made Star Wars what it is today. He deserves whatever they’re paying him and more.

What if Luke Skywalker became a gray Jedi like Jolee Bindo?

True, but that same company also gives us shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl and Empire, all of which are very inclusive of minorities. Even The Orville has three black actors in leading roles. Compare that to the programming on Disney, which is almost universally white.

I don’t like Fox News, but 20th Century…

Don’t even get me started on all those fucking Apple fanboys.

Oh I agree. But don’t try to tell that to someone who “loves Disney movies.”

Agreed. Disney has a romantic image in our country, but they’re still a heartless international corporation. They just have a lot more fanboys than most heartless international corporations.

Yes please!

I think Lorca’s redemption may have to come through his death, much the way Matt Decker’s does.

Also, I could never get into The Walking Dead. I don’t mind occasional one-off zombies on shows like X-Files or whatever, but I am just really tired of the zombie obsession in our culture. In my mind, they work better as…

I agree. My hope is that they’re focusing on standalone stories to give people a feel for what’s going on, but that they’ll develop it into more of an overarching plot, hopefully one involving Max’s estranged wife.

I’m not familiar with any of those shows.

Nothing about this episode came across as a mockery of TOS. That’s just not the vibe I get from the show. This isn’t a parody or a spoof, because at least to me it’s far too earnest for that.

The original Star Trek frequently included elements of humor in their plots. No one has ever accused Star Trek of being a comedy. Why? Because it takes more than just a couple of jokes for a show to be a sitcom instead of a drama.

Guess what? Inserting levity into a drama doesn’t suddenly make the drama a comedy. In…

Well, in the most recent episode ***SPOILERS*** he intentionally put his ship in harms way in a desperate attempt at saving another Starfleet vessel. I just have a hard time believing that he’s actually a bad human being. But I could be wrong.