Everyone looks good in a mullet. It’s time society recognized this again.

I approve of asking for a source. I downvoted because they were a dick about it.

There is a trend this season of defining characters by their relationships, and since women are so often defined by their relationship to a man in media, I can see how that would ring alarm bells. But in this case, every character is being defined by their relationship. Spock is shown to have gotten past his relationship with Chapel by hooking up with La’an, and La’an is shown to have gotten past her trauma with the Gorn by hooking up with Spock. Pike and Batel spend the whole season focused on their future together. Chapel is now just Corby’s girlfriend, which sucks, but it’s equally true that Corby is just Chapel’s boyfriend - we learn practically nothing about him outside of that and his profession. In general, this has just been the romantic entanglement season of SNW.

That is, apart from Ortegas, who had the best arc this season. It’s ridiculous to say that her trauma with the Gorn is “not touched on” until Terrarium - I don’t see how you could watch this season and not see it playing into every scene she has up until that point. It feels like that the article writer knew her arc didn’t suit the point they were making, so they just tried to downplay it.

Rhys Darby saved the Q/Trelane episode by being Rhys Darby. Everything else about it was weak sauce. Which, honestly, can be said about most of John de Lancie’s episodes, so fair play I suppose.

I thought the holodeck episode was better, actually. I could have done without not!Uhura’s self-congratulatory speech, but other than that it was all good fun. But then, I usually think that of holodeck episodes. Who doesn’t like Moriarty, Doctor Noah, or Queen Arachnia?

Oh, well, you know Vulcans. Always ahead of the curve.

Things were different back then. They didn’t discover reversing the polarity until the mid 24th century. Before that as long as you kept your dilithium crystallized and your deflector shields up everyone was happy.

You know, I disagree. I think this season is genuinely significantly worse than both of the previous ones. No season has been perfect, but the past two had episodes I’d still rank close to some of Trek’s best. Memento Mori, Ad Astra per Aspera, Under the Cloak of War, all really great. I don’t know what happened this season, but none of these episodes come close to those. And a couple, like this finale, are just terrible.

Astronaut, pointing his gun.

The first film used the TV series’ premise to good effect. It uses the TV status quo as a starting point - Cruise wasn’t an especially important member of his team. Then we watch the rest die one by one and Cruise is left panicked and on the run. He was never supposed to be a lone wolf and that was the point.

As the films progressed he became more and more a James Bond style superspy, of course, but that first entry will always be the best.

And on the Trans category that’s a J’naii right? Wouldn’t that make them be a more fitting representation of A or I?

I think that’s Soren specifically, who was assigned agender at birth but identified as female. So trans suits.

Agreed an Dax, though - definitely pansexual, not a lesbian.

It’s ironic that the least gracefully aged TNG cast member happened to be the one who played the ageless android.

That was her 22nd century “ancestor,” though, right? Picard was a funny show.

I often think how bittersweet it would have been to keep Picard season 3 mostly intact, but have Soji take Data’s place at the helm of the 1701-D in the finale. Instead they just dropped her like she never existed.

A purist would know that it’s not Star Trek if Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are not present. We don’t need French men with English accents or William T. Ripoff!

Kirk to Pike in SNW’s final episode. How did you get your hands on the script so far in advance?

Mount ‘im?! Don’t mind if I do.

Eh, as far as I’m concerned the series just ends with TLJ. A bit of a downer, but by resetting the playing field to ANH’s dynamic of ragtag rebels vs empire it emphasizes the cyclical nature of violence and resistance in the Star Wars universe. It’s a good enough conclusion on its own.

Absolutely agreed, I’ll never understand the hate it gets.

If they’re buying this, they’re taking care of their kid. Why else would they be buying a diaper bag?