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Yeah, I watched Picard. My comment was supposed to be tongue in cheek.

If I recall correctly, Ryan herself was not exactly happy about that either. She was a huge Star Trek fan and playing a regular on a ST series was like a dream job for her. And they used her unabashedly as eye candy. But what is she supposed to do? Walk off the set of her dream gig? If they...

It would tie in with the theory that the Nexus ribbon will make an appearance somehow. It was due to return about now. Given the amount of Trek tie-ins with all the previous shows, it honestly wouldn't surprise me. And then a dapper and young Captain Picard will suddenly come storming out of...

I mean, we are debating the merits of fictional people.... But from what the show has given us, she has next to zero command experience whatsoever (that I can recall, anyhow). I've never seen her issue an order to anyone, ever. She appears to mostly be Stamet's assistant that shows up on the...

Yes, it was very understated, but that is exactly the impression I got as well. He is a classic egotistical jerk that makes everyone feel small, but on the inside he is deeply insecure. It was well handled, and Detmer basically forcing him to confront that about himself at dinner was great.

My first 10/10 episode from Discovery, ever. A great stand alone episode that advanced the plot season arc. An actual good use of serial storytelling in an episodic framework. An actual episode of serious character development. More of that in one episode than in two previous seasons. I...

I'd forgotten they mine it on Remus. I suppose it would make for a very nice export if they have a lot of it. You could be right and it uses dilithium somehow or another all the same. But since dilithium is used to regulate antimatter reactions, and the Romulans don't use antimatter, it is...

Overall, I thought it was a better outing that the first two episodes. 8/10. Would be higher, but the first 15-20 minutes grated on me enough that I almost wanted to turn it off. A bunch of sappy reunion stuff that would have had a lot more oomph to it if there had been ANY CHARACTER...

I can. Even with other options available, the destruction of nearly your entire fleet, probably most of your starbases, and the deaths of most of your field officers would pretty much cripple you. If nearly all the dilithium went off at once, it probably would have taken out all their...

Yeah, that guy wouldn't have lasted one day on DS9. Sisko would have thrown him out of an airlock for bugging him about flag protocol during a war. Assuming someone else didn't beat him to it.

Wait, what? I'm sorry, but I don't buy that at all. The Federation may have known she would pop out somewhere in the 32nd century. They may have even sent out an advisory for all liaisons to be on the lookout for her. But not because they would have known she was the key to their salvation...

May the Union be perpetual!

That's true. Only being 100 years removed from being a major power, and having not disappeared entirely makes it more reasonable to try and rebuild from the ashes than if it had been conquered/collapsed 500 years ago. It depends on what vestiges are actually left. There may be more left than...

Agreed. I didn’t buy her shock that the Federation had collapsed sometime within the last 900 years. That ought to be almost expected. If I traveled 900 years into the future, I’d be more surprised at any geopolitical powers that remained in continuous existence the whole time rather than...

A bunch of really crappy dialogue, but a setup for a decent story. A nice opener. Let’s hope for a smaller in scope story this season. I’m pretty over this “the entirety of sentient life in the galaxy is on the line!” stuff that was in season 2 and season 1 of Picard. A basic mystery arch...

So.... Petabytes? We already have machines with hundreds of petabytes on them, so that seems small for a futuristic starship. I always assumed “Quad” was a deliberate attempt to use an fictitious unit that wouldn’t seem ridiculous in ten years.

The biggest remaining plot hole for me is this: Let's just assume that the Zhat Vash (and Commodore Oh) know with some degree of certainty about this horrible terrible no good very bad future where life is eradicated from the galaxy because of synths. So, if that is a given, why the...

I’m glad I am not the only one who noticed that he seems to get a bit younger and more vital every episode. Clearly done on purpose.

Agree. The novel “the naked and the dead” has a lot of meaningless death, but is one of the better books on the senselessness of war that has ever been written (IMHO). Meaningless death can be quite powerful.

This was my only complaint about this episode, and the only thing that kept me from giving it a ten. The intro was way over the top gory, and for no good reason than to say “look, this lady is baaaddd!” It is better to be subtle, and Seven finding Icheb’s mutilated corpse after his parts had...