I expect it will be about the same. It’s got that very casual dry New Zealand sense of humor, similar to the original What we Do in the Shadows, Wellington PD and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. As with all comedy YMMV, but I happen to think the pacing and humor/drama mix worked quite well.

You can’t really hold the Writer’s Strike against the show, since they wrote and shot the whole thing a year ago. And given that the streaming era often consists of shows disappearing for years at a time, I can’t imagine the hype from this season won’t carry over to third season, even if it takes a while.

Does Batel have a first name?

Worrying about continuity with TOS is a mug’s game. We are far, far past that. There will be continuity in the broadest of strokes. Scotty obviously is going to survive the second half of the two-parter. Hang around long enough and Sulu and Chekov will surely pop up eventually. But anything more granular is a lost…

I’m excited they did a cliffhanger. Even if we probably won’t see the resolution for a year and a half, it ups the stakes and I think the anticipation and speculation will be a lot of fun.

This place is utterly dead.

I’m gonna cry, aren’t I?

I’ve longed to see what kind of Doctor she could have been with a much better showrunner. I see her tenure as unreached potential.

I agree with Six

Jeebus. I have fond memories of Star Frontiers back in the day, and what the leaked version describes is like a Nazi parody of what I remember. Truly appalling.

I don’t recall saying that. I believe you’re the one making the assumption in this instance.

Counter-point: getting upset on stage would likely get her an undeserved “B” status from the general public. I’ve noticed that it’s an impulse that women are good at suppressing. We may not find out what she was actually thinking in that moment for a long time, if ever. 

Ceti Alpha VI*

I can’t wait for us to somehow get super attached to the character over 9 episodes only for her to die at the end of the season revealing that every season will have a new chief engineer until we get Scotty.

THAT TRIBBLE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE ME, LILLIAN.

First time on Risian-Bathsalts dear?

(on an away mission) RUN LILLIAN!

I love this. I’m three seasons in on Discovery and just can’t get into it, but I’m over the moon about SNW and this just makes it better.

Also, Galadriel is supposed to be 6'4". “Galadriel Man-Tall” and all that. I remember thinking it would be hilarious if they used forced perspective, etc to literally make her the tallest person in every scene that doesn’t have Sauron or Celeborn in it. Impractical, but awesome. 

The HOME books (“History of Middle Earth”) have descriptions of Númenor being an industrial nation with steam-punk technology such as metal ships and even missiles: