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They do still have a one-week trial free with any new account. If you're curious to see whether Discovery, Picard, and SNW are worth paying for, you could pick a convenient week and binge some stuff. Personally (as you can already tell from this thread) I'd start with Disco S3 and whatever SNW...

Oh, okay, I see what you're saying, if some white liberal fan wants black people cast first and foremost because it will make the (also white) 4channers angry, then they're being racist themselves by reducing that actor to a pawn and only thinking of them in terms of their race. That's probably...

There certainly are disturbingly racist takes out there. I took a look at the comments section of that video from earlier: Black people are stealing Star Trek from its rightful owners, white people. Sure. Now, obviously, YouTube comments are a reliable cesspool of bad takes and regressive...

I thought it was cheesy at the time and I still do. Just own up to the fact that you're making a reboot and don't call this Galaxy-sized Buck Rogers-ass starship a Connie and tell me it's raining.

I feel like people slept through the 90s though. Recasting random characters as black or women and occasionally even black women is just a thing that happens. "Canon" is a non sequitur. "Just make new characters" yeah in a prequel that's deliberately stocked with existing characters we'll get...

Yeah, and a lot of what was new to Kelvin wasn't picked up by the Kurtzman stuff, that zeerust chic thing, or the fact it was the only Trek that didn't know fans want to see the warp core. I just lump them together in that they're both big, loud, glossy, and expensive, and represent a collective...

Supposedly, there are people who were upset about Commodore April being black. I can't confirm that, because I've only seen the responses (like editing new Commodore April into TAS in TAS style, or people pointing out that if we're going to get upset about TAS canon, the holodeck in Disco S2 had...

That's what I did to Caboo after I'd watched it and realized she'd probably enjoy it. I'd literally pause to say "that's the doctor" or whatever the first couple of episodes. Genuinely don't feel she missed out on much, and she's way more positive about Discovery than I am. And I think the Buck...

I call that era Berman Trek for convenience, despite it starting with TNG firmly under Roddenberry's direction. It technically overlaps by a few years with the TOS movies, and conveniently does not overlap at all with the Kelvin movies and Paramount streaming series, which I'd collectively call...

Yep. I did compare the first two seasons of Disco to being bashed around the head and the following two to a wobbly cart and a cold sandwich for a reason. Now, personally, if we're talking about faithfulness to the source material, I'm way more bothered with all of that sobbing they retconned...

Yep. It's not even to say that SNW wasn't notably efficient and fluid in how it characterized its main cast through just the right little moments. Discovery had a harder job to do, and it also made a much less impressive effort when you give it that handicap. Acknowledging that is different from...

Yeah, as an enjoyer of both Lower Decks and Disco S4, I don't feel the need to diminish what those shows are doing to recognize what SNW is pulling off. I think Disco eventually figured out how to be a Trek show of its own sort, and I think LD has been until now uniquely the show that knew...

So I watched Jessie Gender's review of Season 2, and it's a good and insightful review that has much more productive things to say about the show than I do. It's a very fair autopsy. But I'm bringing it up now for a petty and superficial reason, because a particular interview came up that bears...

You know, Spock in particular has proved to be much bigger than just Nimoy's portrayal of him, so maybe there's a world in which the same is true for Picard, but I really think the TOS crew have some advantages getting to that iconic status in the franchise. In our world, though, this show was...

I like how at the end of the first season we could say "we'll see if that has any meaningful impact on the story in the future", and we still can. I mean, I guess he did blow up one defibrillator. Maybe it was a really significant defibrillator to someone.

Perhaps Data is the first Soong to be able to evolve beyond his programming 🤣

And Soji's appearance seems to have come from Data's painting. Which means not only are all Soongs obsessed with making Kores, but Data was programmed to be, just like daddy.

Actually the Menasor arms are much cleverer than that. The arm cars peg onto the arm, then the arm extends, splitting the car. It's never in your hand in two pieces. Still the GoBots Courageous thing, but of course, the Stunticons have a trailer to keep all that jive in.

Am I seeing that right that the figure splits in half, with the top half hiding inside the foot and the bottom half plugged into a slot on the combiner shin? Is this like a GoBots Courageous thing?

That's going to be a good looking monke with paint. Definitely looks like he fits the vibe of the rest of the team.