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You're still really hyping this, big words like "valid", are you saying you want SNW to have a letters page you can write into? X ]

Yeah, I think in the rare case I've actually seen something recently, I have the problem of taking for granted and leaving "the obvious" unstated despite the fact that it's not actually obvious unless you've been right there immersed in that space recently. God, I know the age gap cuts both...

Maybe you and DVD can get together and write that episode!

I was waiting for that shoe to drop as soon as they realized the singing was making them communicate their feelings. Their entire reason for interacting with the subspace fold was to use it for communication. The turn that it was trying to help them communicate all along seemed obvious. Depends...

Yeah, keeping it light and silly while giving the crew something to wave their tricorders at, like a Christmas special one-shot. I honestly took it as a direct reference, since immediately after the parallel universe argle bargle, La'an asks if they'll turn into bunnies and Spock tells her they...

(Some people just NEED to find fault with people....) No, I held off for 14 frickin' hours dammit. Gimme a cookie. I think you understand how wrong that characterization is, mostly because you are also a human who also experiences experiences. I wanted to love this episode to the very deepest...

That's, uh, that's hyperdefensive as hug, actually. I actually noticed the term used was "mek'leth" in between when I rewatched it with subtitles on and (gasp) didn't even correct myself. Why do I get the feeling you've already read the comments about the class name.... So, yeah. The joke is...

I honestly think the writers were focusing on "funny because boyband", which is an expired MRE take on par with "tough guys don't sing" IMO. 😣 Edit: My tactical rather than strategic solution to the Klingon interlude, inspired by mishearing the lyrics the first time, would be to make the last...

Aaaaayiaargh. Two things I still can't get over: 1. Uhura has a solo about singing solos while she's making the final discovery about the nature of the problem and the solution. Spock has just left the room singing about being alone. The solution literally is singing together. It is a thematic...

Yeah, but we all know the thirty-second century isn't the real present and that right now "is" happens somewhere in the range of Lower Decks to Picard. Oh right, duh, how could I have forgotten! I was only thinking in terms of it being Ezri Dax's first relationship while she is still deeply in...

The only symbionts we know had had something in the upper single digits of hosts. I want to believe that they live long enough on average for about a dozen hosts, but there's no solid evidence. I do kinda wish the symbionts had a species name, though, or that the name we used most commonly...

And is now part of a person who's possibly in another different relationship with Bashir, though who knows how long that would have lasted. The takehome lesson is that if you're going to be sci-fi'd away into a noncorporeal parallel reality for a few decades, you probably shouldn't expect...

It was fun and it looked like they probably had fun doing it. I ended up feeling a greater appreciation for the art of the musical by the illustration provided by this episode (not complimentary) but a couple of moments like the dancing starships and the Pirates of Penzance callback made me happy.

To be fair, that would be true whether it was the same timeline or not, accepting that as in TOS Pike was the captain of the Enterprise first. But I'd forgotten that detail until my rewatch of DS9 and it sure was more meaningful this time 😁

That whole Picard / Jack / Queen scene would have been very different if Crusher had gone instead huh. Wonder where she'd have got the power loader. "Get away from him you

A lot of fandom menace types have spent years insisting that particular details about Discovery mean that unbeknownst to CBS and the creators themselves, the series was somehow "really" in an alternate timeline. That's not how fiction works, and those guys were never right and never will be...

It's from Discovery S2, which is about Spock and features Pike, Una, and briefly the Enterprise. That's what created demand for a Pike show in the first place, so no complaints on his role, although Spock gets sucked into the melodrama in unfortunate ways. The trouble is, it's also the...

Nice! That's a really neat connection! Really brings it full circle. Neat. Here's a showerthought I never thought about at a convenient time to express it: Seven handing over her phaser when she's caught with one to the back of her head. Except um, Seven, theirs isn't a real phaser...

War in Star Trek seems to be Top Gun as long as you're on a ship and The Things They Carried the moment you beam down, and somehow that seems to actually be consistent across series. What Discovery saw of the war with the Klingons, most of it happened from a ship perspective. DS9 did the cool...

I love when genre fiction wraps around back on itself. Vulcans are space elves, so naturally elves would be relatable X ]