Finally, representation for the struggle of being a young Immortal.

I find it peculiar how they’ve hidden the creeping Boimler Beard from the trailers a month ago.

Twisting the usual Star Trek species formula a bit and having an entire culture center around food critic reviews is really funny. Especially with how this has been built up since Season 1 with Migleemo relating everything to food—I thought it was a individual person thing but it turned out to be something cultural.

They show us a canon depiction of the transparent skulled Gallamites and then they bring back that one species from ENT that was offended by public eating in the same second? It’s like they were targeting me specifically.

OMG they’ve added a green hand to the intro.

I’m hoping they won’t go too long with the Multiverse stuff / council of

thing. I’m kind of fatigued with multiverses as it is.

“There are no bras in space.” ~ George Lucas

That space and time comment kind of rubbed me the wrong way. By the nature of planetary bodies and ships moving at incredible speeds things have to move through space anyway. Episode 19 at 11:54 had a minor animation mistake going on Bribble with some weird clipping. I’m glad that other Val N’Akat supported Gwyn in that climactic battle. It was starting to feel like the dad and the BBEG were the only ones on the planet between the time duplicates in the earlier episodes.

I felt the synergy between this show and Picard went a little stronger than needed. Especially considering the first season was a little weaker than the others. It also felt a little late.

I’m still looking forward to any sequel though. I like the hook of slightly unsanctioned exploring.

I didn’t expect Holojaneway to be casually flirting with the Doctor but dang did I need that scene with them.

I liked the “boldness isn’t only for the young” speech although I do wish some of my elders aren’t so bold these days.

I figured splitting up would’ve been the bad idea but they were going to do it anyway.

Gotta hand it to them. They sure know how to keep back-to-back interesting cliffhangers for their episodes. This show would’ve been so tense as a weekly release.

Those red leaved trees are known to produce a lot of sap. Watch out as it can stick to you.

Anyway, I expected more of a “Be careful what you wish for” resolution with L’ak, but they just told Mol what would happen instead of actually doing it / creating a copy with no memories. I was disappointed with that.

I’m also kind of disappointed that Vulcans are so often seen kissing instead of doing the finger thing.

I learned the term from Baldur’s Gate 3, personally.

When I was doing a all Star Trek movies marathon recently, I did wonder what that Species that looked like a Klingon but wasn’t a Klingong was, but it seemed hard to look up. Now I know he was an Efrosian.

“Euclidean Geometry”; this is the first mention of a species called the Euclideans.

Hehe

What else can be expected by someone nearly as legendary as Miles O’Brian?

Well, anyway today I learned the word Pataphysics.

I thought that the twist to Burnham’s mindscape challenge would have been that she needed to empathize with others, and thus take a look at what Book was reading the whole damn time.

It is the 31st Millennium. For centuries the L’ak Emperor of Breenkind has sat immobile on the silver throne. He is master of Breenkind by the will of of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of His inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the progenitor age of technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the vast Imperium of Breen for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that he may never truly die…

Better safe than sorry. People might have been surprised that the voyage home on the Klingon ship following the Search for Spock would have included whales.

Ah yes, a War in the Stars. My favorite Star related story outside of a Gate in the Stars or The Star of Galactic Battle.

The beginning and last line of Dr. Culber’s conversation with his grandmother recreation felt a bit stilted, as if he wasn’t fluent, which was strange because the middle part of the conversation had a goof flow to it. It made me wonder if there was some failure in directing or if Wilson Cruz is just not that fluent in Spanish compared to the actress for the grandmother, which is understandable and I’m not knocking him for it.

Anyway, I quite liked this episode. Very classic “planet of the week” Star Trek deal that I’m always down for. Break that prime directive. Save those natives from themselves. You can splurge on a plot or two of those. We’ve seen it before, we’ve seen it again. It had a solution more rooted in a character moment rather than Treknobabble which I appreciated. Thumbs up for Tilly’s endurance, they made that whole run not look easy.

I can’t help but think them teleporting to Moll and L’ak with the fresh new clue would essentially play right into their own hands.