It’s not that I don’t listen to contemporary music. It’s more that most of the artists I enjoy don’t enjoy a lot of front page success. I really like Royal Thunder, and The Heavy is the best band to come out of England since the Fab Four, but you’re not going to see these bands sweep the Grammys.

Are you including TOS in the list of first seasons you didn’t love? Because season one TOS is pretty obviously the best season.

I just listened to it and I really do like it.

Perfect.

I listened the The Nashville Sound last night. Very good album!

That’s kind of my big problem with The Orville. The episodes are generally getting better and the worst of the humor has mostly been discarded, but even at its best, it feels like a dumbed down version of TNG. And I mean, if all you want is a lighthearted, fun television show, then The Orville is great. But if you’re…

Eh...but it’s not so cut-and-dry. She basically kidnapped Georgiou, taking her back to Burnham’s universe, which was clearly not what Georgiou wanted.

Honestly, Janeway pisses me off. She has no moral integrity. She’s willing to infect the Borg with a virus and later, destroys them entirely. But she reprimands Seven of Nine for killing a single Species 8472 to save the crew from certain death. She violates the Prime Directive on a whim, but criticizes others for…

Even TOS played loose and fast with the details of Vulcans in Starfleet, though. For example, in The Immunity Syndrome,a Constitution-class cruiser crewed entirely by Vulcans is killed by the space monster, and odds are the captain would have been in Starfleet longer than Spock.

My guess is that, in the early days,…

He’s a Floridian? I just checked on Memory Alpha, so you’re correct, but I could have sworn he said he was from Texas. But then, I haven’t seen the show in fifteen years, so I think I just don’t remember all that well.

Doesn’t the Discovery have sensor logs to prove where they’ve been? They also have the data chip Burnham placed on Tyler. The quantum variance on that piece of equipment doesn’t match the Federation universe. That should be evidence enough.

I watched After Trek, and from what the producer said, they’re trying to set the stage for introducing a central ensemble. I’m not sure if that’s actually going to develop or not, but we’ll see.

The high body count of Star Trek is actually one of my favorite things about the show. And it kind of makes sense. It’s hard to sell the idea that people’s lives are in constant jeopardy when no one ever dies.

I mean, TOS even went so far as to occasionally kill off main characters, like when McCoy was killed by the…

I’ve heard that the last two seasons of Enterprise are pretty good. And I’ll get there and watch them, eventually. I haven’t really watched Enterprise since I was a kid, so I’m not the best judge of its quality. But I know a lot of people said the format was getting stale, and I believe it.

But from what I remember of…

I dunno. I’ve really enjoyed all of the episodes this month. I think the stint in the Mirror Universe was generally very strong stuff, and quite enjoyable for the most part.

This episode was damned good. Exciting, fun, and we finally got a big captain speech (from Saru!). What I can’t figure out is what the hell Burnham was thinking saving the Emperor. I mean, yeah, she feels guilty over betraying her or whatever, but this is the same woman who butchered thousands of people just a few…

Honestly, I would love it if Saru was the captain. We have literally never had a starship captain in the lead role who wasn’t human, and I think that’s a damn shame. Saru can be the first officer and still be the focus of the show. But it would be nice, for once, to have a captain who isn’t human. Because for all the…

Honestly, I think the fact that Zack has never watched Voyager or Enterprise plays a huge part in why he doesn’t really like Discovery. All three of those shows were generally excellent, groundbreaking science fiction - even the third season of TOS, for all of its stumbling, still managed to be enjoyable even when the…

His album “Night Life,” which I think was from 1961, is one of the best country albums ever recorded. Price was such an amazing talent.

I haven’t heard that album (wasn’t it his final album before his death?) but I have heard it’s excellent.