Come on, Randall, we all lived through every horror of 2020. JUST LET US HAVE THIS ONE THING!!!
Come on, Randall, we all lived through every horror of 2020. JUST LET US HAVE THIS ONE THING!!!
The cause of—and solution to—all of the afterlife’s problems!
That’s why cocaine and speed together is called a speedball, and cocaine and alcohol together is called a “2020".
Except Saru didn’t step down so Michael should run the ship, he stepped down to help Su’kal adjust to life on Kaminar (ending the season with a nice parallel to Stamets and Culber’s de facto adoption of Adira). Saru’s spent the whole series torn between his ambition/devotion to Starfleet, and his missing Kaminar and… Read more
In fairness to Disco, no one’s really figured out pacing for the 10-episode streaming season. (see also: the first round of Marvel shows) I imagine if you stripped all the standalone episodes out of a season of DS9 and just ran the story-arc ones end to end, the pacing there would be weird too. (and as much as I love… Read more
That’s a great one. Adding it to my to-do list!
I enjoy this show a lot and have spent a lot of words defending it, but your very logical analysis of why there must be a Starfleet mole just tells me you’ve put more thought into these storylines than the writers have.
And at least Tilly loses the ship to the Federation’s most feared threat, and not, as you said, a videogame.
Yeah, but we also accept that Superman can turn back time by spinning the earth around because he’s Superman and that’s the kind of story a Superman story is. It’s not about somebody struggling against limitations, it’s about someone wronging rights in an unrealistic but satisfying way. Read more
The cloaking added so little to this episode I feel like “we have a cloaking device now, right?” had to be a Chekov’s Gun for one of the follow-up episodes (which I haven’t seen yet, so don’t spoil anything!)