They’re also completely absent from Discovery…

I love Discovery. Some of the criticisms are valid; every season has a few dumb moments that make me shake my head. But I love the characters, the actors are all great, Doug Jones in particular is a treasure, and the first contact in season 4 feels more like a proper science fiction scenario than any other in Trek.

One thing to keep in mind is that the tone shifts considerably season to season. It starts off quite grim and gritty, but don’t expect it to stay that way.

As foretold by Yogurt, it should be “Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money”.

I approve of asking for a source. I downvoted because they were a dick about it.

There is a trend this season of defining characters by their relationships, and since women are so often defined by their relationship to a man in media, I can see how that would ring alarm bells. But in this case, every character is being defined by their relationship. Spock is shown to have gotten past his relationship with Chapel by hooking up with La’an, and La’an is shown to have gotten past her trauma with the Gorn by hooking up with Spock. Pike and Batel spend the whole season focused on their future together. Chapel is now just Corby’s girlfriend, which sucks, but it’s equally true that Corby is just Chapel’s boyfriend - we learn practically nothing about him outside of that and his profession. In general, this has just been the romantic entanglement season of SNW.

That is, apart from Ortegas, who had the best arc this season. It’s ridiculous to say that her trauma with the Gorn is “not touched on” until Terrarium - I don’t see how you could watch this season and not see it playing into every scene she has up until that point. It feels like that the article writer knew her arc didn’t suit the point they were making, so they just tried to downplay it.

Rhys Darby saved the Q/Trelane episode by being Rhys Darby. Everything else about it was weak sauce. Which, honestly, can be said about most of John de Lancie’s episodes, so fair play I suppose.

I thought the holodeck episode was better, actually. I could have done without not!Uhura’s self-congratulatory speech, but other than that it was all good fun. But then, I usually think that of holodeck episodes. Who doesn’t like Moriarty, Doctor Noah, or Queen Arachnia?

It really serves nicely as a legacy sequel to the Universal horrors. I’d love to see a similar approach taken with Frankenstein.

I didn’t know about the game. Is it any good?

For my money we have more than enough fanservice in media right now. Something like that would mean losing the power of that quiet scene where Luke mourns his friend on the Falcon, knowing that it’s his own bad choices that kept them apart for their final years.

It’s an exclusive club. We’re very cool.

TLJ was one of the best films in the franchise and a beautiful farewell to Luke. Glad he was convinced.

Well, okay, I guess that sounds good, too. But make mine cellular peptide flavoured.

You know, I disagree. I think this season is genuinely significantly worse than both of the previous ones. No season has been perfect, but the past two had episodes I’d still rank close to some of Trek’s best. Memento Mori, Ad Astra per Aspera, Under the Cloak of War, all really great. I don’t know what happened this season, but none of these episodes come close to those. And a couple, like this finale, are just terrible.

No problem. Reverse the polarity of the main deflector dish, then reroute power from life support to transmit a resonance pattern laterally across the external inertial dampener array. The resulting subspace flux will energize your Heisenberg compensators, so you can simply purge the pattern buffers and attenuate their power output to re-energize your dilithium matrix. You got this! That’s the power of math, people!

Hate to be negative, but I have to agree. Bluey is a great example, and Sesame Street is another. There are shows like that I’d be happy to have a toddler watch. This just seems to offer a convenient distraction to allow parents five minutes of peace in exchange for familiarizing their kids with the Star Trek brand from a young age. Cynical and disappointing.

I’m only a casual Who fan, catching up on it sporadically every so often… does it actually have a cohesive view of the future? It’s hard to imagine that over decades of stories popping randomly throughout time they’ve maintained a intelligible future chronology. I assume fans have collated every single reference and tried to massage them together, but does it actually hold up at all?

Starring Captain Pike? I’d watch.

Beyond Tasha, I’d say there’s a lot of nuance in Yesterday’s Enterprise that calls for more context. You can’t know how wrong the wartime setting feels if you have basically no exposure to the uncorrupted timeline. A new viewer can certainly get by, but it’s a much better episode if you have some experience with the show already.

Throw in The Trouble With Edward and you’ve got a trilogy spanning the three very roughly defined eras of the franchise.

A purist would know that it’s not Star Trek if Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are not present. We don’t need French men with English accents or William T. Ripoff!