Oh, for sure. But we’re definitely supposed to have a sense of dread about it.

I thought Pike was still a Captain during The Menagerie, but Memory Alpha says he was a Fleet Captain, which I guess is a billet and not an official rank?

SNW has played fast-and-loose with what was established in “The Menagerie” - Kirk does call Pike “Fleet Captain” at the beginning of the message, and goes on to tell Commodore Mendez that he met Pike when he was promoted to fleet captain. It’s not explicitly stated, but the obvious implication is that this was the only time Kirk met Pike.

But, Pike has already been temporarily promoted to fleet captain, back in “Lost In Translation.” He does indeed meet Jim Kirk in that episode, which basically fulfills what Kirk said in TOS. Obviously, they’ve met many times since then, but it doesn’t technically break anything, even though it clearly wasn’t the original intent back in “The Menagerie”.

I thought I didn’t enjoy this season, but it turns out I actually did. So…there is that.

I actually think this will end up being a common opinion. For all the hand-wringing about the “gimmicks,” I think every individual episode was…fine, at worst. And I would strongly recommend taking another look at “A Case of Chiaroscuro” some day - I think it’s pretty top-tier.

Which makes me wonder how the next season will feel.

I’ve been thinking about that lately. I see a couple of possibilities:

• A single, six-episode arc (which doesn’t really seem like this show’s style).

• Standalone episodes with significant time-jumps in between (seems more likely to me).

Of course, there are other possibilities (maybe a bunch of two-parters like ENT season 4?), so who knows?

It reminds me of the Babylon 5 season 4 finale, which was written to function as the series finale when they thought they wouldn’t get renewed.

Even better, the actual series finale was filmed at the end of season 4 and withheld until season 5 ended (which is why Ivanova is in it instead of Lochley, for example). So season 4 sort of had two finales.

Yeah…I think Collider has fallen pretty far in terms of the way they write their articles and headlines - I assume it’s the brief mention about how season five has “essentially no genre hopping,” per Akiva Goldsman.

Trick question - there are no good episodes of Star Trek.

What’s wrong with space baby? If we start to exclude “space baby,” we’re actually excluding a fair number of Trek episodes.

Being physically unable to watch something seems like a medical concern. Might be worth looking into.

Pray for Future La’An.

They got a very early pickup for the second season, so it was filmed ages ago. The only question is when they’re going to release the thing.

Strange…the Euclid address does work for me. It should spit you out on Twhit V32 in the Sadessape System.

Oh, wow. The Cosmos update has been great, but these exploration issues are significant. You’ll likely find that your discoveries don’t “take.”

I did, but you’ve likely noticed that discoveries are completely broken right now, so that may be related.

I am…not confident that the portal system is working as intended this week. I know you’re not the only person who’s had issues.

Most frustrating. I’ll keep an eye on the patch notes.

I’ve edited the OP to include coordinates in Euclid, the starter galaxy - you should be able to use any Euclid portal to get there!

Looks like the news just broke - the terms can be found here.

Yeah, if they’re sending Uhura forward in time as the trailers have suggested, it would be the perfect opportunity to introduce them without actually introducing them.

Yeah, I fully expect the final “deal” to be rather toothless.

The fact that I didn’t claim a station in Euclid is proof that I wasn’t really thinking things through. We’ll be around once you get there!

I think I got a stomach bug or food poisoning

I feel you. I’ve been going through it this weekend, myself. Flu season came early.

In Picard, she becomes a vigilante and ultimately kills Bjayzl out of revenge even after Picard explicitly challenges that choice.

And you believe the show was endorsing the fact that she did it? Portrayal of an act is not an endorsement of that act. Seven did plenty of shady stuff on Voyager, from trying to take over the ship to disobeying orders and waking up the Vaadwaur.

That distinction matters to me: not “nobody ever does wrong”, but the narrative still knows that the means require moral scrutiny.

You seem very determined to make the case that the new shows don’t provide that, but I simply don’t agree.