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It's weird no matter how you slice it. It very often feels like Starfleet is the human space fleet that's only about as open to other Federation species as we'd expect any other individual member planet's space fleet to be. The only real indication to the contrary is the fact that none of these...

I think I agree with half of that: they have for instance the Intrepid, which is a science vessel that respectable Vulcans work on, and also Starfleet and a Connie besides. I think this is the one era where Vulcan's fleet-building resources are dealt all-in on Starfleet, and that's probably most...

Oh, right, duh. I was very bothered when I saw it by this exchange between Ortegas and Uhura when they and Chapel are considering their options before entering the portal again. So on the one hand, while watching it, I was very aware of the fact that they were still in the same star system...

I didn't recognize that as a real star. Logically it does make sense that the Vulcans would have got there first in a flat race, presupposing that time and space in Star Trek make sense. But it also seems plausible to me that there are things like the random portal on this planet that's been...

I had to go back and watch "I'm Ready" a few times in the days after I saw it, because I think that's a pretty okay number. Mostly I just randomly watch the 30s Klingon boyband number from the finale, which I find funnier and more listenable out of context. And yeah, I probably gave the wrong...

Yeah but they *really* want to play it as an equivalent fate. I think that two points in the favor of the showrunners here are that 1) his being removed from the life he knows and everyone he cares about is pretty similar to him dying as far as the world at large is concerned, and 2) the...

I will die screaming about the second disruptor from the grassy knoll and I think the need to protect the arbitrary timeline is exactly as much an issue with Tomorrows as it is with Quality of Mercy, but at least it's thematically meaningful this time. The version of the episode where they just...

Honestly, I've been assuming he's just around as a cameo like I thought Kirk was before Kirk became a weirdly present character. Never really considered him joining the crew....

I will be shocked and disheartened if anyone we care about is killed by the Gorn, doubly so La'an. I don't think "tough because she has trauma" is a very good character background to begin with, and losing her to making it her defining arc would be a complete waste. Just a biobed, not a...

"Sounds like a job then. When do we clock in?"

I think that was my favorite episode this season. I loved Erica's bit so much too 😁 The transporter pad they use to bring people into the field hospital is just like a ship transporter pad, a semi-mobile model that can be set up for temporary planetside facilities. It receives transports sent...

It's still a destiny thing though. Like, the bowling ball is invisible or doesn't exist yet, but no matter what you do, a bowling ball will somehow get to the bottom of the hill. That's why the Romulans had so much trouble with the Eugenics War, because they kept preventing it and it just kept...

It is deeply a movie that has seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. I blame that influence for why there's that bizarre and out of place transporter accident scene as well. But at least it wasn't Star Wars!

I was honestly convinced that he was two completely different actors until pretty recently looking it up. I had no idea who played Khan in TOS but thought it was some other dude. I would not peg them for the same guy. Mix of age, a very different presentation, and seeming difference of ethnic...

I'm impressed, not gonna lie, you've crossed the line into stuff that even non-Trek-fans know about. I have only the mealy-mouthedest of takes. I haven't seen The Flash, but I have seen the Bob Chipman YouTube video where he talks about how out of touch it is to be making time travel stories...

She has a super special immune system at least, which seems to be among other unspecified things. It's not the same for every Illyrian. Different groups give themselves different modifications depending on their environment. Sure would have been nice for this episode to answer that question! I...

A dragon would have helped, definitely. I disagree that it was filling any time, if anything it had too much to do to do it justice. We don't know anything in particular about this little girl who's going to die as of the beginning of the episode and by the end we have to be told not shown...

Yeah, it really didn't hit for me either, like, if I'd seen Balance of Terror, I hadn't seen it recently or remembered it as particularly notable. I can't tell if I'm really appreciating Captain Angel's master-level camp for its own right, or because it's within chiding phaser waggle range of...

Makes sense, since what we see on screen in that case could only have matched the official record, and anything that wasn't public knowledge in the 24th century couldn't have happened there. No other Star Trek episode explicitly frames itself as a historical reconstruction like that (which is...

Wild, I wouldn't have guessed that it was a full body suit thing (maybe a head prop, you know?)