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My feelings about Enterprise compel me to say that I really respect the Andorians and Tellarites for taking the long view of history and the most enlightened kind of self interest, and accepting cooperation and mutual investment in the future with such unlikely and unpleasant allies as they did.

SNW is the most prominently featured image on Paramount Plus's poster ads at Walmart. It's gonna be fine. When SNW comes back in two or three years, if Paramount Plus has folded, it'll go to Netflix or something, it'll be fine.

I honestly think children on the Enterprise is a 1% effort that didn't mesh with any of the other things going on in the way the show was conceptualized or designed. To make that really work, you need to drop the idea that the Enterprise is a cool ship that shoots torpedoes and is part of a...

It just did! Oh, that part could never have been otherwise. Star Trek takes, and has always taken, its sociology way more seriously than its hard sciences. Deep Space 9 is slightly better at it than most at capturing verisimilitude and leveraging the various humanoid species as fully realized...

Okay, sorry for being a dick about it. = / I don't quite follow the reference on that last part though (Q?) Edit: As much as it shocked me in my DS9 rewatch to remember how much Bashir's arc was ready to simply characterize Section 31 as the bad guys without qualification and treat them like...

You're invoking "Gene Roddenberry's vision" so I can't take any part of this opinion seriously, but please just at least tell me you're defending Discovery S2 for the sake of your decades-old hateboner for DS9 and not because you genuinely want to be in the position of defending Discovery S2...

I just heard a complaint about the episode and realized it was a fantastic choice I hadn't given due credit for.

Yeah, I'd seen headlines from comics sites about that. I want closure in canon though, and since Trek, even in animated form, doesn't recast characters, that means getting back Avery Brooks. Apparently he would come back for the right story. They'd have to do it right though, there's a lot to...

Ah, gotcha! In my case I've only seen the Young Justice cartoon version (of either of them to be honest.)

I don't know about anyone else, but I intend to be very careful with the spoiler tags. So far everyone discussing the episode has used them, so!

Not beating the dead horse, I'm not going to go on about the musical episode, but I I just saw a comment on a YouTube video about SNW being their favorite series because only it could pull off a musical episode, and I ugh'd inside, and then I remembered that thing I'd said and I thought I was...

Apologies for the misunderstanding then, because I wasn't referring to the performances - the vocal talent on display was inarguably phenomenal. However, I don't consider the episode's shortcomings to be a matter of taste. If anything I had the impression that they simply expected the vocal...

The "Balance of Terror" episode is also the season finale, it was going to be an occasion no matter what. For me it was Sir Ortegas. Delightful to see the cast playing unexpected characters in any case, though. And a much better device for it than the old crutch of Mirror, Mirror episodes, I...

Oh come now, Cumberbatch is a funny meme man because the first thing the internet saw him on was both popular and terrible, but he's a good fit for Strange and it's not like he's actually a bad actor. And if you want monumentally, cosmically bad casting, he's got one of those roles too and it's...

Another non-metahuman who gets superpowers and immediately steps out of their normal life into an all superbusiness, all the time lifestyle is the other doctor, Doctor Strange. He just stops practicing medicine and starts practicing wizardry instead. I mean even his superhero name is just his...

Oh, I don't think you did, don't underestimate yourself, you're great! The last thing I want is to dominate conversation even more than I already am at like 5k words in XD

I should qualify now since I'm looking at that again, because there was some handwringing in writing it - I know I did go on to immediately characterize why suspicion about someone's stated cookie preference does differ from suspicion about genders in terms of context and power. I felt that...

Ah, okay, so having been a normie prior to becoming a superhero is an important qualifier too then. I guess the Tick had to be a normal guy who went to superhero school too. And by the same token, if a Damian Wayne type showed up and didn't bother wearing a mask or talking to non-super people...

Second time breaking the word limit, whee. I'm going to belabor this point slightly, but because it's an often stated misconception, not because I'm badgering your own pronoun usage. "They" is grammatically plural, in the way that "biblioteca" is grammatically feminine; it takes a plural verb...

I agree that a person can lie or be mistaken about a subjective fact. Perhaps I believe I dislike sugar cookies, but my tastes have changed since the last time I had one, and it is no longer true that if I tried a sugar cookie now, I would dislike it. We can take as given that I am not mistaken...