Don’t you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!

I don’t know what the punch line would be, but the scene where Burnham and Spock fight over shuttle controls before flying into an illusory black hole is ripe for meming.

“Duck season!” “Rabbit season!” Black Hole: “Elmer Season!” Etc.

You didn’t forget anything, the universe is just wrong again.

Another recommendation to take a look at the Sofle. It’s got a lot of the positives from the Corne, but it also has a number row and plenty of mod keys to help ease the transition.

I went off script a bit with the flatbread. My grocery store usually has a pretty good pita or naan, but they recently started carrying an onion missi roti that I wanted to try. I believe it uses whole wheat, so it started off darker than your usual pita straight from the jump. I may have left it on the grill for a minute too long, but rest assured it was far from cracker-esque.

Wait, so stories with completely new characters and ships are bad, but stories using existing characters and ships are also bad?

Ceiling Picard is watching you replicate.

Alright, while Jeremy processes that, what did y’all think?

Picard and Strange New Worlds muddle things a bit as well. The date and details of the Eugenics Wars get pushed back a few decades, but time itself seems to always make sure the events happen.

Enterprise at a certain point just stopped engaging with the mechanics of the Temporal Cold War, but small changes to timelines were apparently are hard to detect and take a while to ripple out. The Temporal Prime Directive seemed to be less about making sure things played out exactly the same, and more concerned about the arc of history. A few time loops and predestination paradoxes weren’t enough to break history.

Yesterday’s Enterprise and Star Trek (2009) show that history eventually can hit a breaking point. The Enterprise-C going missing at a crucial moment or Vulcan exploding are hard to correct for.

As for the aesthetics of the Kelvin prologue, I’d just chalk that up to the presentation of the film rather than time rippling out in both ways.

If you have to ask, you’re streets behind.

Every sci-fi show with a budget eventually does, “Alien tech, but organic.”

If you want to talk about Star Trek borrowing from Mass Effect, the final threat from the end of Picard Season 1 is a way closer plot beat than the surface level Gorn aesthetics.

At the end of the day, fiction is a reflection of the time it was written in, and some elements are just going to echo throughout genre fiction.

Enterprise Season 4 is an acne faced teen trying to figure out modern episodic/myth arc storytelling, but it’s 2-3 episode mini arcs are Peak Star Trek.

Tea. Earl gray. Hot.

That’s Beth Toussaint in the TNG Season 4 episode “Legacy”. She’s playing the late Tasha Yar’s sister in that episode. Beth apparently gets mistaken for Linda Hamilton a lot though.

Season 3 was excellent as well! I wish 4 and 5 had a bit more futureness to them, but Discovery overall was good in my book.

I enjoyed Discovery overall, but I really preferred when the show was in the 23rd century instead of the 32nd century.

I can’t believe I’m being nostalgic for a 14 episode season, but early Discovery still dabbled in one off episodic adventures or 2-3 episode mini arcs. The later seasons were short enough that they really had to commit to their world ending plot lines. Running around the mycelial network for a couple of episodes was generally more memorable than, “We leaned a bit more about the 10C.” Plus Season 2 got us Jett!

The real world production drama fundamentally broke the season’s puzzle box and left some pretty glaring plot holes, but that finale was stellar.

The Voyager debrief would be an interesting creative writing exercise. What information would Starfleet need to know ASAP, and what would be the second tier, “Oh yeah, this interesting scientific thing happened.”

You’ve got your Borg intel, a head’s up about Species 8472, and surprise our holodeck is sentient and has access to future technology. But after that, what’s the priority on serving up the rest of the info? “We destroyed more Omega than Starfleet in its entirety has ever witnessed, and oh by the way the dinosaurs are still alive.”

Tuvix is interesting, but surely Amelia Earhart would come up first?

Spock can break General Order 7 and whisk a crewmate away to Talos IV. As a treat.