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!
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.
Byrnian revisionism! This is clearly the golden age version of the character, where all his powers came from Earth’s lower gravity and the writer of the moment’s whims.
Superman is very fast, but slamming his steel-hard arms into the kid at a speed fast enough to beat the locomotive might not be all that different than just letting the train do its thing.
Yeah, it's thematically appropriate for Star Trek, and a solid episode by just about every other metric. And Star Trek has never exactly been hard sci-fi, so I mostly don't let it bother me.
On the other hand, having lived through the "teach the controversy" nonsense, I do get just a little more bothered when they get evolution wrong than I do when they mess up something else.
It’s a fun, well executed episode. It just happens to be one of those occasions where the Trek writers betray their complete misunderstanding of evolution.
If I were calling about a reference and heard this story related, I’d say to myself “great, so they’re willing to ask probing questions to clarify requirements.”
That could save weeks of work on some projects, and I’m not so desperate for clients that I’d want to work with one who would walk over a simple request for clarification.
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!