Oh man, I couldn’t agree less. Detach everything!

She also did an episode of “Enterprise” so I guess it’s all Trek canon.

That’s why Marissa isn’t in season four.

heavy sigh

Major…

I think they’re cool (but obnoxiously loud) on the slopes, and completely useless on the speed skating and luge tracks.

I think Braka and the Venari Ral are an interesting contrast to Osyraa and the Emerald Chain, which was an entirely different flavour of tyranny.

I thought about that, and concluded that the comic book probably took a lot of liberties with reality. Caleb did dismiss it as propaganda, after all.

It did look like a fun read.

Definitely a darker episode. I thought it was a bit of a mixed bag, but I enjoyed the Ake/Braka development.

I have to admit, I didn’t expect them to kill off a (guest star) cadet. Earlier in the episode, I’d been thinking about how nice it’s been that they’ve kept the supporting cast of cadets so consistent, but now we’re down one. At least we still have the Delta Swallower.

I didn’t love the basic setup - using a derelict ship that people died on as a training ground didn’t really sit well with me - but it was a decent story in that setting.

I get that - if not nostalgia, certainly familiarity goes a long way.

Yeah, it’s only the Vulcan encounter in the MU episode that’s archive footage, with a stand-in wielding the shotgun.

He’s a quadruple threat!

A fan convention, formerly known as Star Trek Las Vegas, now known as ST:LV Trek to Vegas ever since they lost the official license.

At last, Jaglom Shrek!

Finally, the branching storylines we’ve been demanding!

Up to 10 dead, including the suspect, now.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hold onto a belief that things will not always just continue to be shitty forever.

Neither does Star Trek. But neither the franchise nor I are so naive that we think that there’s a “mission accomplished” state in which bad things don’t happen any more.

Personally, I think the message of “things could be fine without struggle or setbacks” would go up like a lead balloon in the year 2026 (or really, any year since at least 2014, probably much earlier). I don’t see anything inspirational or hopeful when it seems like pure fantasy.

yeah but thats different

The title is “Come, Let’s Away”, presumably from King Lear Act V, Scene III.

No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison:

We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:

When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,

And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,

And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh

At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues

Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too,

Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out;

And take upon’s the mystery of things,

As if we were God’s spies: and we’ll wear out,

In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones,

That ebb and flow by the moon.