You have not experienced Bonnie Tyler until you have heard her in the original Klingon.

I’m not sure there’s a lot to say about this one. I enjoyed it. The jokes didn’t land quite as well as they should have, but I have to take some responsibility for watching a stoner comedy at 9 am.

The Spirk enthusiasts should be pretty happy, though.

Yeah, I think I remember thinking the same thing.

I suppose that it would be sensible to keep someone with the shuttle Just In Case, though, and the Doc would certainly be more welcome on Kasq.

“The Enterprise crew encounters a phenomenon that forces them to face their innermost fears” is very well-trodden ground for this series, but this is probably one of the best examples. It coasts on a very well-executed horror story, and I thought it did a very good job in not tipping its hand as to which characters were real, and which were hallucinations.

Unfortunately, I don’t think the stories of our two main characters were advanced much, if it all. La’An is still afraid there’s a monster within her, and Spock still has issues with his duality, though this episode could mark the shift of his return to a more “Vulcan” way of being.

I thought the episode handled Kirk really well, though. From the moment they acknowledged that David was going to play a role in the series going forward, I had pretty high hopes - there are a lot of blanks to be filled in, since he was retconned into Kirk’s backstory in 1982. Kirk’s fears of being an absentee father, and of dying in some forgotten corner of space, feel very real, and I think they would feel real even if you didn’t know how it’s all going to turn out for him.

I thought the scene between Kirk and Uhura at the end was very…interesting. Not sure what to say about it, but it was interesting.

Tellar is an overseas territory - doesn’t count.

Surely you mean Qurelane… ̄_(ツ)_/ ̄

Start looking around for a Dukat drawer. She looks lonely.

Coming 2023

As far as actual news goes, this SDCC was pretty thin, to say the least.

No one can say the franchise is dead!

It got a second season, which has yet to air, and then got cancelled. So we’re going to get to see their second year at the Academy, eventually.

Our new vulcan is a flanderisation of vulcans, and not in a good way.

I’ve gotta be honest, I think she’s uncomfortably representative - Vulcans are, by and large, dicks. But the appearance of…

…will likely balance things out in the future.

If they’re going to keep making these, something more subtle might have worked,

Yeah, this was on-the-nose to the point of being kind of a strange thing for her to say.

I don’t think anything will ever top DS9 for me, but I’d put several of the newer shows above Voyager.

I would have loved some Voth references

My only “complaint,” because the Voth are one of my favourite dumb Trek things. But it’s not really a complaint, and you can easily assume the Voth are simply gone by this point in history.

Money never got nobody nowhere

I saw someone compare it to “Rascals”, and I’m hard-pressed to say it’s a sillier idea.

I find that absolutely fascinating if it’s somehow true - I would assume that anything written for Trek, like any other major franchise, is strictly “work for hire” and the individual authors have no rights to their work. It’s hard to imagine it any other way.

Not disputing that she said it, I just truly don’t understand it.

the characters are legally distinct so that the writers of that episode don’t get royalties for the entire run of Voyager

This is a very common claim, but I find it very dubious. You never hear about this sort of contract in American television. I don’t think anyone made a lot of bank when Chief O’Brien joined DS9.

What even is time

Dang, that is a solid lineup.

Frain played Sarek on Discovery - he was played by the late Ben Cross (who was also very good) in the Kelvin films.