Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it!

I know literally nothing about Discovery, except for The Burn, and that it leads into Strange New Worlds. So uh… I’ve been dreading this one. But hey, who knows! Maybe it’ll surprise me!!

It has not so far.

Scavengers - DIS 3.5/10

Discovery has been retrofitted with futuristic tech. A whole lot of “programmable matter” and holograms comiong out of the new ugly combadges which like, I dunno why you’d need any of this. “Oh now it connects to your biodata so only you can use that station”. That seems like a HORRIBLE idea, people die on this ship like flies.

Anyways Book sends Michael a message like “yo, I found a black box like you said you’ve been looking for”. Based on black box data, it seems the burn didn’t happen at once, but was instead a wave, and if we get enough black box data showing time and location at explosion, we can possibly triangulate the origin point. Yeah that seems important, sure. Also Book might be missing. But Michael’s like “okay, let’s go get it right now :)” and Captain Saru is like “uh no, we’ve been ordered to wait here because they’ll need our help at any point in the next 12 hours.” “Oh, it won’t take me that long :)” “Um. Michael, I said no.”

I hate this plot point. Michael being really into insubordination, after spending two seasons learning that was A Bad Thing, especially with how much she CLAIMS to respect Saru and his authority, she sure doesn’t. Anyways, since we can’t do this, thankfully we have our backup War Criminal to do our dirty work, so Michael asks Georgiou to help her, and they go AWOL.

Michael is legit the worst first officer I have ever seen.

Book’s cat Grudge is left behind, so now Tilly has to cat sit her. I want the episode to just be her wrangling this big ass cat as she crawls all over her. This also got one good laugh out of us. “Computer, locate Michael.” “She is not on board”. Tilly holds Grudge out and squints her eyes. “Did… did you eat her??”

Michael and Georgiou are on some shithole Orion Syndicate planet with a sadistic Geoffry like Orion who loves torturing his slaves. Book is enslaved by him, by the way. We get to watch a guy’s head explode! Modern Trek REALLY wants to Game of Thrones. They all work together to start a prison break, Book with his new Andorian friend he made in the prison. This Andorian is so dead.

Gah damn, that did not last long. They were really building that up. THough actually it’s a fakeout, he DID jump in front a bullet to save Booker, but he’s rescued by Georgiou and Michael before he can bleed out. Meanwhile, Georgiou is having some seizures or something.

Stamets and Adira bond over having dead boyfriends who’s souls kinda hung onto them. It’s a weird but touching scene.

Booker and Michael make out in the turbolift as she’s about to go get chewed out by Saru for insubordination. Does she have… a kink?? She ALSO gets chewed out by the Admiral. “Permission to speak, sir?” “Well, it better be the best thing I’ve ever heard.” It will be, because its Michael saying it. This series is basically a bunch of scenes of Michael saying a thing, others saying “no”, then her repeating exactly what she just said and them going “you know what you’re right”. They keep harping on that yes, she did a bad, but hey her intel was good and she saved lives. Saru also demotes her, which is a long time coming tbh.

This was annoying.

Unification III - DIS 3/10

HEY, Y’ALL REMEMBER UNIFICATION I AND II? WE’RE BACK TO THAT I GUESS. That was like TWENTY YEARS before this.

Anyways you know how the admiral has been like, multiple times, “we are uninterested in learning more about what happened to the Burn”? Well Michael gets more information and he changes his opinion. They need a thing though, from Ni’Var, AKA Vulcan. See, the unification succeeded and now it’s a Vulcan/Romulan planet. Spock succeeded, yay. But Ni’Var left the Federation after the Burn, believing through twisted logic the Federation did it. Once Michael learns that they left the Federation, she IMMEDIATELY becomes racist about the Romulans.

Turns out uh, no. Logic Extremists. You know how it is. I hate Modern Trek Vulcans. Anyway, even though Michael was insubordinate and demoted and everyone is angry at her, she’s chosen to be an ambassador to Ni’Var to try and get information from them and share the info she learned about the Burn. Sure.

THEY WATCH A RECORDING OF UNIFICATION I. DID PICARD RECORD SPOCK IN THAT CAVE?!

TILLY IS PROMOTED TO XO??? Good on her.

The Vulcans refuse to give them the data they require, so Michael invokes some ANCIENT VULCAN RITUAL that makes it so she can not be denied. Kind of… weird, but okay. None of the Vulcans are happy at her doing this and are of course rude, snooty, and racist. Lovely. They also give her an advocate, a member of the Qowat Milat. REMEMBER THEM, FROM PICARD? Also turns out she’s HER MOM!! Wow, how… coincidental!

Anyways, what proceeds is a court episode. Some of my favorite kinds of episodes! Unfortunately, most court episodes aren’t full of… whatever the fuck is going on with Vulcan politics right now. There are three people judging this. One is a Vulcan “purist”, AKA a racist. Another is a Romulan. And the last is a Vulcan-Romulan hybrid. All three are advocating namely for their own peoples and purposes, and are at odds. Mostly, the Romulan and the Vulcan are at odds, while the vulco-romulan abstains.

Her mom also kind of torpedos her chances by y’know, sticking to absolute candor, making sure everyone knows about her insurbodination and that she can’t really be trusted. Everyone in the room is subjected to watching a spat between a mother and a daughter and Michael crash out because she doesn’t know if she belongs in the Federation anymore. They are being forced to be witness to this. I’d be annoyed.

She almost causes a cultural schism between the Romulans and the Vulcans, but then fixes it by making some grand statement about how it’s not what Spock would have wanted. She ends up withdrawing her request for the data so it doesn’t cause a further schism. This, of course, gets them to give her the data. They ALSO are like “I wonder how much of who Spock became is because of Michael.” MICHAEL SURE IS THE SPECIAL BOY, HUH?

Tilly decides to be an XO and Michael decides to stay here, for “the duration”. Or as long as it takes for her to decide everyone is wrong and go rogue again.

Saru makes moves on the Vulcan president, who seems into it. Saru can get it.

The Sanctuary - DIS 4/10

Booker’s home planet is basically under attack by the Emerald Chain, the modern Orion Syndicate. So they ask the Admiral so send them to fix it. He says no. Michael asks, again. He says yes. Once you notice it happens so much its EXTREMELY distracting. We also meet the ruler of the Emerald Chain, who murders her nephew in a very Game of Thrones scene.

Tilly is following Saru around filling out his schedule. Imagine if we saw Riker do that for Picard. They do know XO isn’t secretary, right?

Woke? Adira comes out as nonbinary to Stamets who’s like “aight.” I like Gay Dad Stamets. And yeah, thats about how it’d happen. I already knew about this, for the record, because my dad complained at me five years ago about how woke Star Trek was being. Anyways Stamets and Adira bond more over playing music together. Adira can’t seem to contact their boyfriend and it’s bothering them, and Stamets distracts them with the music. I LOVE Gay Dad Stamets.

We have… too many plotlines moving at once. We’re on the planet meeting Booker’s brother and learning more about him and his people, and also Georgiou is having more episodes and being looked at by the doctors, AND the leader of the Emerald Chain is trying to coerce them into doing what she wants. Her name is Osyraa.

At least those two last things combine together, we learn that Osyraa is forcing Book’s brother to betray them. She wants Book, since he was her slave, and she wants Burnham now so she has leverage over the Federation.

Osyraa fires upon the planet, apparently these are photon torpedos exploding behind them? If they were they’d be vaporized. The Federation can’t go to war, so they send a rogue agent who’s totally going against rules, using Booker’s ship. Detmer goes with the Andorian from the other episode and attacks her ship. Also apparently this Andorian is the only person who’s ever stood up to Osyraa, which is why she wants him so bad. The ONLY person? She rules an immoral slave empire. Anyways we get a Star Wars scene, and she’s not buying their excuses, so she declares war. What a surprise. Just… blow her up?

The Emerald Chain leaves, and Michael solves the problem this planet has had for decades that they were relying on the Emerald Chain to fix. She solves it instantly. Cool.

ONCE YOU REALIZE IT HAPPENS EVERY EPISODE, IT IS VERY, VERY DISTRACTING.

Anyways the two brothers do the thing and save the day, and fix their problems.

We also find out WHY Osyraa actually wants Ryn, the Andorian. He’s the only one who knows the Chain is running out of Dilithium….. you mean THE THING EVERYONE IS RUNNING OUT OF?! NO FUCKING WAY, REALLY?!

Booker decides to join Starfleet, yay. The end.

Terra Firma, Part 1 - DIS 3.5/10

Georgiou is literally falling apart dimensionally. Apparently she has dimensional sickness from time travel AND dimension travel, which is bad I guess. They use the sphere data and find a cure. Also apparently off screen the sphere data merged with the computer and formed an AI. We saw it talking but they never… drew attention to it being a thing.

Anyways the Admiral was like “if you let her die, your crew will never look at you the same way again for letting a fellow crewmember die.” DUDE. SHE’S AN UNLIKABLE MURDERER. She literally ate sapient people.

I don’t know why they’re trying to make me like her. Michael goes to offer her help and she tries to kill her. THIS is our beloved crewmember??? She goes down to the planet and everyone tearfully hugs her and wishes her well, saying it was an honor. I…. dude. This is dumb. This could have been handled so much better if Georgiou wasn’t CONSTANTLY the worst person and showing no signs of being better in any way. If she was a Terran Grunt learning to be better this’d be fine, but she’s still evil as shit.

They go down to a snowy planet and find some guy sitting, smoking a cigar in the middle of a snow field. He introduces himself as Carl. He has a door just standing there, and is like “welp, go on through”. They don’t trust him. I trust him implicitely, cause he likes puns.

Meanwhile, we triangulate the SOS signal from the source of the burn. The ship is still sending out that SOS so it’s still functional somehow, even 150 years later.

Georgiou goes through the door and finds herself back in time, AND in her own universe. She’s there the day where Lorca and Michael attempted to kill her. So she’s going to change things, kill Lorca, and “return Michael to the fold”. I dunno how no one doesn’t notice she’s like, 10 years older.

You can see that her time in the Prime Universe has, in fact, changed her. She feels kind of bad about the Kelpien slaves they have. She saves Saru’s life. I kinda wish we had… SEEN this evolution through the entire series, instead of just now.

There’s something about this… so, Modern Trek is filled with violence and people acting nuts and evil for no reason, which means that the Mirror Universe isn’t like, a shocking thing, it’s mostly annoying.

It also seems to be addicted with the idea that fascism is cool and powerful.

Georgiou kills her would be assassin, Stamets, with no problem, and confronts Michael about her assassination attempt. Mirror Michael is… nuts, cackling about how Lorca loves her for her and totally isn’t grooming her, and Georgiou decides not to kill her but instead throw her in the agonizer. What a surprise.

Terra Firma, Part 2 - DIS 3/10

This episode does that thing where they change the intro for a mirror episode, like they did in enterprise. But instead of a cool unique thing like in Enterprise, it’s uh, just mirrored. And upside down. That’s a little more lazy.

Michael is tortured nearly to death, but Georgiou is SURE she can reform her, so doesn’t kill her. This weirds everyone out. Also Lorca isn’t coming, of course. Dude got what he needed.

She eventually breaks and swears to kill all of her co-conspirators, alongside Detmer. Detmer, notably, was ALSO a co-conspirator, so I dunno what SHE gets out of this. She is also eventually killed.

She also makes some changes. She stops other problems that were threatening the empire. She makes the Kelpiens… suffer less under her rule. Everyone suffers less. The Terrans are also weirded out by this. You know what this is?

This is an Isekai episode.

She enters into a story with knowledge of it and uses that to make the perfect story she always wanted. It’s an Isekai.

Michael is playing the long game, and build ANOTHER rebellion, everyone turning on the Emperor. Except for… THE KELPIENS! Yes, turns out not treating them like meat will make them protect you. Michael and Georgiou kill each other and bleed out next to each other. The coup… failed? Or succeeded???

Georgiou reawakens in front of Carl and Michael. We also find out that Carl is THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER…. remember him? He was the guy from one of the best TOS episodes. I dunno if this really… holds up to that history, but that’s fine. He explains he’s been in hiding cause everyone tried to use him to kill people in the temporal wars. He was testing her to make sure she wasn’t going to kill people, basically.

I kinda like Carl being the Guardian of Forever tbh. He’s kinda fun, and his avatar just being a shmuck in a bowler hat is fun too.

Georgiou is like “I wish I had learned how to not be evil earlier…” Well, people tried, but you kept threatening to put their heads on spikes and shit. Maybe if we had a better show we could actually have seen you growing and being a better character but instead character growth is shotgun blasted right at the fucking end here. Michael and Georgiou say goodbye to each other, and she heads off into the Guardian of Forever. Goodbye, Georgiou. You were… a SERIOUS waste of a character.

Admiral: “My condolences. We all feel her absense.” ???????????????

A toast! To Displaced Space Hitler! The greatest crewmate you could ever imagine. They go REALLY hard on this. The stuff earlier was hitting this uh, this is NOT hitting.

SHE WAS SUCH A GIRLBOSS. Fucking AIRAM hit harder than this, and she had had like 5 words.

It fucking ends on that. Christ, I was LIKING this episode until that point. She did not earn that. SHE REALLY DID NOT. WE SAW HOW SHE INTERRACTED WITH EVERYONE IN EVERY EPISODE SHE WAS IN. YOU CAN’T FUCKING PISS IN MY MOUTH AND TELL ME ITS RAINING. I DON’T CARE HOW MUCH SHE SAVED ONE KELPIEN IN ANOTHER TIMELINE.

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it!

I know literally nothing about Discovery, except for The Burn, and that it leads into Strange New Worlds. So uh… I’ve been dreading this one. But hey, who knows! Maybe it’ll surprise me!!

It has not so far.

That Hope Is You Part 1 - DIS 4.5/10

Already with this shit. Michael sure is the Special Boy, isn’t she?

We start with a weird scene of some guy scanning for signals every day of his life. Looks like a miserable life, dog. You know, when we used SETI, we had it running while we played Diablo 2. You could try that?

We’re introduced to a new character, his name is Book. As soon as we saw him Neli went “Oh hello new love interest”. Yeah, probably. I mean, we can’t have whatever his fucking name is anymore. Thank God. Maybe I’ll like this guy better. Anyways, Michael spins out of time travel and crash lands on some planet. She also vomits on screen. Great, thanks for that. She uses the suit and finds out that yes, turns out organic life ISN’T extinct in the future, so we won. Whoopie. I mean, we woulda won anyway, the evil AI was killed. Then she blows the suit up. What? Why???

She meets Booker, who she accidentally knocked out of the sky. They have a scuffle, he’s kind of a dick to her, refuses to listens her. Mocks her and treats her like crap. Oh goodie, I’m… real excited to meet this guy and have him forced into a relationship with the main character down the road. Michael ends up PLEADING for him to help her, so he finally does. He DOES have a cat though, which helps.

We learn a few things. 1) The Federation is no more. 2) Something called The Burn caused all Dilithium to just explode.

Michael reacts to this the same way she reacts to everything. By looking like she’s about to cry. They go to a place to trade some of her old tech, and then Book robs her, betrays her, and leaves her with the cops of this trade place.

The cops spray stuff in her face that makes her tweak out and tell them everything. Then while she’s tweaked the fuck out, she teams up with Book, AGAIN, and fights the cops AND the guy chasing Book. Uh… okay. The guy chasing Book is like “Can I shoot her? I wanna shoot her” WHY? SHE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING TO YOU??

Also it’s future, everyone has super futuristic guns. They’re MEga Man Blasters that makes people explode. Michael kills a LOT of Andorians. Michael punches Book THREE times in this sequence. After they escape, he does some weird magic thing to the water and heals Michael’s wounds. Also he’s shirtless, cause hot guy. He IS quite attractive, at least. He finally lets her use his communications, and she just… goes “DISCOVERY, COME IN”. Uh. Like, is she just broadcasting that to everyone??

The authorities catch up to them. They seem to know EXACTLY what he’s hauling, and then for some reason are still caught off guard when the giant worm thing eats them all. Her name is Molly. Michael and Book get a connection as they deliver Molly to a sanctuary where she can live in peace. Man, if only you had explained this all earlier, you didn’t need to be a weird asshole at first. After delivering the worm, Book shows Michael to a Federation station, one of the few that apparently still exist. He doesn’t help her at all. He’s the dude from the intro, and he’s like “God I’ve been hoping I could do SOMETHING for Starfleet so I’ve just been sitting here being useless for 40 years. Thanks for at least asking me to do something”. Damn dog. That’s…. sad. She gives him a reason to exist though by asking him to keep looking for her ship. Whoo, what a… triumphant moment. Book is just sitting there in the background watching.

This was… FINE if you look at it from a completely different perspective. Like, if you pretend it’s a new Sci-Fi series. It’s… more Star Warsian than Trekky, in many ways. Like, honestly, that’s how Discovery has ALWAYS been. I have nothing against adding new things, but it’s… a lot. And I haven’t even BEGUN to shit on the Burn as much as I should be.

Far From Home - DIS 5.5/10

…NOT That Hope Is You Part 2???? Weird.

We start with Discovery blasting through the wormhole and crash landing on some icy planet. Clearly not Terralysium like they planned. Some people are injured, but the goal right now is stability. They need to make sure the ship is livable, and get scanners up.

Okay, I’ve had some comments and complaints about Stammets and Culbur’s relationship. It’s been a lot of saying they’re in love but not really actually showing it or making it feel real, but they have a REALLY good scene here, it’s cute. Culber gives him a shot. “Ow! Are you punishing me?” “Yes. Also, I love you!” That’s adorable.

Georgiou is being shitty and awful, pushing for them to do awful illegal shit so they do it faster. …We are seperate from starfleet command, why are we still allowing her to be around? Lock her the fuck up. No one likes her and she’s extremely insubordinate. Why is she still here??? She’s a fucking tumor hanging onto us from the mistakes of the first season. Which is a REAL shame cause Michelle Yeoh is fantastic. Very bad use of your Michelle Yeoh.

Tilly and Saru go out and find some miners who are SUPER skittish but willing to help after they offer them some dilithium. We find out WHY they’re so skittish.

There’s a guy named Zareh, he’s their courier. He’s been abusing them and stealing their shit. He violently kills the guy who was offering to help them. Oh goodie. They hold REALLY long on him bleeding out the eyes and struggling as he dies. Wow they uh… they’re still like this, huh? They’re STILL doing this. We also learn the ice they crashed on is… “parasitic”, whatever that means, and will crash the hull.

Okay, I DID say they were wasting their Michelle Yeoh, but they are doing one thing well… letting her get into a bunch of fight scenes. She and Saru beat the shit out of the thugs and capture Zareh, but now it’s night time, and the Discovery is gonna be crushed under the ice. They let Zareh live, actually, and he is exiled to the frozen wastes in the middle of the night. That might be…. worse than death actually. I’m sure this won’t bite us in the ass. Anyways, the miners give them a personal transporter and they make it back to their ship safe and sound, as Stamets injurs himself to fix the ship. Stamets injurs himself a LOT in this show.

They try and lift off, but are captured in a tractor beam… by Michael! She contacts them and looks like she’s gonna cry, which is 80% of her emotions, as she tells them it’s been a year since she got there, and then the end.

People of Earth - DIS 6.5/10

Michael has been a courier for the past year, with Book. But now she’s reunited with her friends and family. So now I guess it’s time to find out what we’re doing here in the future. Also Michael has a new hair style :D She DOES look good.

We also finally, FINALLY get Saru as Captain. About damn time. We were teasing that for 2 fucking seasons. I can’t help but feel it’s a stopgap. We’re gonna get Michael as captain by the end of this show.

We get lots of scenes of people meeting people and/or re-meeting people. Tilly and Michael hugging it out. Book meeting Georgiou. Why is she NOT SEALED IN CARBONITE?! We also get a lot of people being like “why is Michael still here? She’s clearly not feeling it” even though that’s not coming through her acting at all. Show, not tell.

This quote is literally modern Trek personified.

They get to Earth and are IMMEDIATELY taken into custody by some Earth Defense Force that’s like “oh you’re clearly pirates. Please wait to be inspected.” They get inspected, and it SEEMS fine. But there’s no Federation here. Earth hasn’t been part of the Federation in years. They’re VERY standoffish, and rude. Michael got a message from an Admiral Tal that came out 17 years ago about Federation on Earth, buuuuut that guy died two years ago, and no one knows where the Federation’s HQ actually is now.

Some raiders show up and cause problems. Also, there’s a teen genius type character who seems to sabatoge the ship so that no one can beam off it. Also everyone keeps misgendering them, if what I know about this character is true. Michael does some kind of maneuver and captures the raider’s captain. They force the EDF captain and the raider captain to talk. The raider’s like “they just hoarde dilithium while people out here suffer!” “Well they’re mean and don’t like us being fascists >:(“ Uh okay. The bluster also goes out of the EDF’s sails when she finds out the raiders are Human. “Oh no, I didn’t know I was hurting another Human!” I don’t like the EDF.

We learn who this teen genius is. Their name is Adira Tal, the kid of the admiral who disappeared. They’re been looking to a Starfleet vessel for ages, and just sabatoged the ship specifically so they could stay here a little longer to see if they could trust them. Turns out actually, twist, they are NOT the kid of Admiral Tal. They ARE Admiral Tal. Kind of. They’re Human, but they have a symbiont in them. Weird, but technically we’ve seen that can work, kind of. They ask to stay, which of course we allow.

To trade the new character, we get rid of an old one. Book stays behind, he’s not joining the team. Michael seems a way about this. Anyways, we have our goal. They need to find the pockets of where the Federation is, and help reform it to its former glory.

As the usual joke goes, this is like if a cog was transported to the modern day and attempted to reform the Holy Roman Empire. It’s a LITTLE silly. It’s not quite a fair comparison.

If I’m being fair? I do like this more. As a plot, it’s… interesting. And it can do some cool fun stuff. I DO like “this lost fallen symbol of unity and peace in a wartorn post apocalypse, but we have to live up to its standard and help people”. It’s unique and I like it. But I think the Burn is dumb as hell, and I don’t like that it’s just the Canon now.

Also some characters are fun. It IS weird that our three best characters are now all engineers. You shoulda spread those out.

Forget Me Not - DIS 6/10

Their best thread is Adira Tal, the human with a symbiont in them. But they have no memories. So either we go digging in their hypocampus, bad, or we go to Trill and ask them for help. Obviously we do that. The Trill are like “holy SHIT, Federation?! Uh, yeah, come on down, we’ll help the symbiont, of course.” Ohhh please don’t fuck this up.

Meanwhile, Stamets is having a moment. Saru asks him to PLEASE try and come up with a way to jump that doesn’t involve him, cause if something happens to him again (like being hit with a spike and going into a coma for example, which happened), they are fffffucked. He is not happy about this. He was trying to do that for DECADES.

We got A and B plots :o in the A plot, Michael and Adira are going to Trill, and are treated like Adira is an abomination. Oh great. In our B plot, everyone is stressed and Saru needs a way to get them to come together. Uh, trust falls? Also for some reason the computer starts freaking out and acting weird. Not… MALICIOUS, just weird.

“The Burn decimated our numbers, and now there are barely any Trill who can be joined.” Um. DS9 proved that’s fucking bullshit, like 50% of Trill can be hosts. Yes, that was a secret, but it’s been a thousand years. The leaders want them off the planet cause they’re a freak. But someone leads them to the caves, hoping they can save the Trill.

Saru throws a chill dinner to bring the crew together. He invites Georgiou for some reason. I don’t think that will help the vibes. Honestly I expect the communion with ancient Trill in a hostile environment to go smoother.

Also, remember Detmer? She’s… being REALLY weird. They’re doing Haikus and she does one about Stamet’s blood. Jesus christ. Yes, it does in fact, not end well.

Adira goes into the pools and then for some reason gets DRAGGED INTO TRILL SPACE UNDER THE POOL. Just… not in the physical realm. They send Michael in there to get her out. Luckily Michael is the best at everything and helps Adira realize the Symbiont is trying to help her, even though it feels scary and weird. Man, imagine if this was a character moment where Adira figures it out herself. No, we need Burnham to fix everything.

Anyways, we learn more about Adira. Adira had a boyfriend, Gray, who was an unjoined Trill but was about to become joined. Also, Gray appears to be trans, which is neat. We see scenes of them being all in love and shit, but it keeps getting interrupted by Adira being like “NO I DON’T WANNA REMEMBER, IT’S BAD” and Michael keeps pushing them “NO YOU HAVE TO SO THE SHOW CAN HAPPEN”. Shut up, stop interrupting us and show us how Gray died.

Gray dies in an accident, and Adira takes the Symbiont to keep some part of them alive. Yeah, that’s… about what was obvious, but okay.

We get Adira finally connecting with their previous hosts, and Tal accepting her. They move past their traumatic block, and grow… and also Michael is there! Why is she there? Why???

The Trill leaders apologize for being awful, and are like “okay maybe we’ll rejoin the Federation if that ever becomes a thing again”. We’re gonna be doing that for all of the different planets I guess, right?

And yes, the dinner didn’t go well, but Tilly and Stamets make up! Stamets gets his head out of his ass and apologizes for not telling Tilly how important she is to him as his little scrimblo. Meanwhile, Detmer goes to therapy, which she CLEARLY needs, and the crew all reconnects by watching a movie together. Holy shit. Watching the crew just interact and watch movie night is nice…

We were complaining earlier, why the fuck does no one in modern Trek have hobbies? Just watching them watch movies is a good start. I dunno why they’re laughing so hard at the black and white movie but whatever. Maybe they’ve just never seen a movie before.

The episode ends with Adira having a mind date with their old trill boyfriend, who is now in their mind.

Die Trying - DIS 3/10

We reach Starfleet HQ, and we see what Federation ships look like in the new modern day. They are… a design choice. Neli, my partner in watching Trek, is a HUGE ship design nerd, and spent this entire time complaining about the ship designs. I don’t relaly have that bug so they’ve always looked okay to me, I guess.

Saru, Michael, and Tal go to HQ and meet our new Admiral. His name is Admiral Charles Vance, and he is agressively hot. I am EXTREMELY normal about him. God I love being a bisexual mess. I don’t really trust him though, cause he is, in fact, a Starfleet Admiral. And you can’t trust any of them. He is also quick to take over Discovery, kick Saru and Michael out of this. They’re breaking everyone up, and retrofitting the Discovery. People can be moved anywhere, based on their whims.

We get lots of scenes of them being interrogated by AI about all of this. Everyone is kind of…. blown away by whatever the fuck Discovery is.

We also meet this guy who quietly watches Georgiou. I’m sure he’s important. He looks like he’s generated by AI, but that’s just what Cronenberg looks like tbh. They end up having conversations about Terrans. That’s fun. I like Cronenberg.

What basically transpires is Michael going “You have a problem we can fix it.” “No.” “Yes.” “No.” “Yes.” “No, and stop being insubordinate.” “Yes.” “Okay.”

We get an away team mission where they need to go on a seed vault ship and collect some plants. Culber gets to go on an away mission, yay! Nhan is here too. The ship is a little scary, with holographic logs playing in loop. They also hint that something Bad happened. The guy in charge of the ship froze his kids, who were dying of a disease, and then seems to have disconnected from reality, phasing in and out of existence. This guy is actually one of Nhan’s species, and after they fix his phasing problem, they need to get his help to get the seeds they want.

According to Nhan, their species doesn’t view death the same way, and even though his family is actually dead, he hasn’t fully accepted it. Nhan tries to ask him for their help so they can save other families, he ignores her. Culber is like “only you can do it Michael”, so she says the EXACT same thing Nhan did, but decides to help them instead.

….

Like, we’re not just making up the Michael Is The Special Boy joke, right? It’s EXTREMELY distracting. WHY DID SHE HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM? SHE JUST DID THE SAME THING NHAN DID BUT HAD LESS OF A CONNECTION. LET OTHER CHARACTERS HAVE CHARACTER MOMENTS.

The guy decides to stay and die with his family, which is weird but okay. It’s his choice. Oh wait no, Michael is forcing him to go and get healed instead. Uh… sure. Nhan decides she’ll stay instead, so that his family gets a proper burial, and so she can see her home planet again. Uh… okay, bye Nhan. But not before she strokes Michael’s ego, like “you’ve ascended to something special, Michael.” YES WE KNOW, SHE IS THE SPECIAL BOY. PLEASE.

It’s a tearful goodbye for Nhan, who was barely consequential for any episodes. I only remembered her name cause I looked it up. Whoops. Her character trait is she can’t stay in one place, cause she was from Enterprise, then decided “no I’ll go to the future with my NEW family, Discovery” then in just a few episodes went “actually no I’ll be on this ship of the dead for a while”.

The mission is a success. And with MICHAEL GIVING ONE LAST SPEECH FOR “YES”, the Admiral decides “okay fine we can accept you now.” Cool.

We also get some hints about a melody being important, and Georgiou is acting weird, being frozen in the hall, as people just walk past her, except Michael who stops to ask if she’s okay. Usually I’d say it’s weird the crew doesn’t care, but it’s Georgiou.

I didn’t like this one as much.

source: A Yuri Story About Breaking a Pretty Girl Who Keeps Insisting “I Won’t Lose” into Submission

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it!

I know very little about this show except it was made by nerds like me with a very different sense of humor. God, please be good.

Grounded - ENT 7/10

We pick up shortly after where we left off. The captain has been arrested for conspiracy to blow up Pakled Planet. They also have footage of her cackling like a maniac as she plants the bombs herself. Okay. Beckett is PISSED, and it seems she’s being railroaded, so she teams up with Boimler to try and prove her innocent. Also Boimler’s family grows grapes in a vinyard, like Picard. But unlike Picard it’s for raisins, and Boimler HATES it. Also it’s filled with horny girls who keep trying to get in his pants.

lol the hot sauce is “ketrecel-white hot” thats cute.

They plan to kidnap an old man and steal his transporter to get onto the Cerritos, but they do not cause he’s VERY nice. He actually udnerstand and helps them figure out where to go next which is uh… Montana??

They steal the Phoenix, Cocrane’s ship, from what is basically Cocrane Disneyland. Thats pretty funny. They also accidentally kidnap a kid named Gavin, who after crying a bit, is happy and steals the Phoenix for himself. Cute. Unfortunately, this plan kinda falls apart. They were GOING to get Boimler’s logs, which are a direct copy of the captain’s… but ALSO filled with him talking about passing gas and shit. They’ll be laughed out of court. So she kicks them out and steals the Cerritos to go get evidence herself. They sneak back on and stop her.

By the way, the animation is clearly stepped up, pretty impressive

They’re saved from all of this by Captain Freeman, who shows up in the nic of time to clear them of stealing the Cerritos. Turns out she was cleared, because yeah, she didn’t do it and the system worked. The entire show, everyone around Beckett was like “Dude, Starfleet is good, trust the system” and she’s like “NO, THEY PUT HER IN THIS MESS TO BEGIN WITH, I DON’T TRUST THEM”, and then we found out, yeah, uh, they solve it immediately. It was always a setup by the Pakleds.

I gotta say, that’s really nice after watching Picard, where everyone is like “Starfleet are the good guys though!” and Starfleet keeps doing evil shit for no reason

Anyways, she fucked up. So Freeman puts her under the jurisdiction of Ransom.

This was pretty good for a starting episode. Fun, actually good jokes.

The Least Dangerous Game - ENT 8/10

The gang are playing a D&D type game with a fake Martok (played by ACTUAL Martok, nice to see DS9 characters). Beckett is dragged out to do work with Ransom, while Boimler finds out that a previous one off character, Vendome, got promoted to captain cause he “lucked into it” by agreeing to do everything. Tendi convinces Boimler to try and do everything that’s asked of him now, aaand it goes about as well as you’d expect. Though he has SOME hits. Turns out he’s a great tenor.

Ransom for some reason forces Beckett to do engineering shit with him while the engineers to command stuff. He’s clearly not good at this or up for it. Why is he doing this??? I guess some jealousy shit. I still don’t like Ransom. He’s mostly just annoying. He’s watching Youtube tutorials to figure it out, which is fun. Like, cross training IS good, but do one and one? Also apparently the engineers are “enterting the sacred hallway without an exposed navel” which is a serious faux pas. That’s one of the most Star Trek thing I’ve ever seen.

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This is K’Ranch. He’s stuck on the ship while waiting for something to be repaired. He’s kinda bored, and asks Boimler to let him hunt him for sport. Boimler is now trying to say yes to everything aaaand he gets hunted. What a surprise. This is… REALLY funny, actually? Boimler is running like a maniac while K’Ranch is SUPER lovely to everyone just, y’know, wants to hunt Boimler for sport. “THANKS FOR THE MIMOSAS EARLIER” he growls at the captain as he crawls past on the ceiling.

Another good joke: Boimler dives into Cetacean Ops and they go “wtf? Don’t dive in here with your shoes on man, that’s messed up”. I’m glad we’re seeing them again.

So yeah, the stuff with K’ranch? FANTASTIC. The stuff with Beckett and Ransom? Eh. Take it or leave it.

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Boimler tries to “become the hunter”, which apparently is VERY common. He gets a fucking spear in the shoulder, and then K’ranch takes a selfie with him. The hunt is over. This is really funny.

Ransom finally says he fucked up and was just trying to get Beckett to flake and insubordinate… AS she was flaking and insubordinating. He doesn’t catch her, they save the day, he’s still egotistical and annoying. The end.

This is the first episode filled with banger jokes, IMO. There were good ones here and there before this, but really good ones here.

Mining the Mind’s Mine - ENT 7/10

We get to RIGHT after what is basically another episode. Some scientists upset some silicon lifeforms, the Scrubble, on a remote planet, and they planted glowing rock mines that read your mind’s deepest desire, then turn you to stone. The Cerritos brokers peace, and now its up to them to clear the mines.

Meanwhile, in the B-plot, Tendi has to go through senior science officer training with Dr. Migleemo, the ship counselor, a overly optimistic and kind bird guy who is kind of a bird brain. I feel I’m not gonna like this B-plot as much. He gives very bad advice and has never done this kind of training before and has no idea what he’s doing.

Back in the A-Plot, they are working with another ship to take care of the rocks. The other ship will dismantle a thingy, while Cerritos takes care of hte rocks. The other ship people are mean and rude, cause of rumors about the Cerritos. So Beckett decides she wants to show it to them! They can handle it! All they have to do is ignore these fantasies!

These… extremely inaccurate fantasies. NO, BECKETT DOES NOT WANT A HOT ANDORIAN GIRLFRIEND, SHUT UP.

Yay, homosexuality.

Their superior officer fucks up and breaks all the rocks, so now they summon nightmares. Horribly nightmares like Kukulkan, from TAS, cool. Horrible klingon clowns with batleth arms, horrifying. This.

This is your nightmare????? This is MY fantasy.

They all hide in a cave and wait for hte nightmares to end, and find out that actually, the other ship was jealous, they’ve heard of Cerritos’ exploits and wanted to seem cool. So they work together to figure out what’s going on… they find that the cave actually holds the core of the mind rocks, and find out that hte Scrubble are working with the Federation scientists to spy on people. They were also trying to spy on the captain by planting a spy rock in there, aaaand Tendi fixes it all by getting so fed up she breaks the rock. She got the courage to do it from T’Ana, who she views as her REAL mentor.

All’s well that ends well.

Room For Growth - ENT 8/10

Things have been pretty hectic lately. Nonstop shenanigans. Apparently the captain touched a mask and has become an ancient godqueen. I remember that TNG episode! So, the past two seasons did this kinda joke a lot, a reference to an old episode, and I was mostly not into it. They felt very “ha ha, laugh, nerds”, but here they are SO much more smooth. I really don’t know why?? I can’t tell the difference. But it’s very much better. Honestly everything else. I’m laughing WAY more often.

Anyways, shit’s been rough, so the captain is demanding a mandatory vacation for everyone. The engineering crew gets placed down on a pleasure ship for a while, which they handle by finding work to do. Meanwhile, in the B-Plot, there’s a raffle coming up for who gets the 1st deck rooms. Delta shift is cheating, and they decide to try and cheat back by sneaking to a terminal. So we go through some very random scenes. First, they go through the holodeck to find…

These two are apparently in a relationship, and it’s VERY kinky. Thats fun. Then they sneak through a botany place and accidentally get high. Well, Tendi is immune. The others are not.

The captain goes fucking bonkers after finding out the engineers are finding ways to pretend to be relaxed. This makes it clear SHE’S the one who needs to relax, and is taken away for ULTIMATE RELAXATION.

Anyways, all of the sneaking around, they run into Delta Shift, and then actually find out they like spending time together and are actually kinda cool with each other. Wait no, that was a twist, the Delta Shift stab them in the back to get to the terminal first.

The engineers solve a problem by making a machine that makes you unstressed. This feels like it’d be addicting, but okay. The people on the relaxation ship IMMEDIATELY destroy it cause it undoes everything they are. That’s funny.

Our team loses, Delta shift wins, the end.

This show really weirdly has clicked together? I don’t even know what changed, but it all just works.

Reflections - ENT 9/10

We get our A and B plots real fast here. Rutherford is having nightmares he can’t fix. This ends in him getting mind controlled… by himself? But ruder? Meanwhile, Boims and Beckett are assigned to a Starfleet recruitment booth at an alien job fair. They have an asshole “freelance archeologist” next to them trying to ruin their day, and if Beckett can’t get people to sign up, she’s being reasigned.

Rutherford is being an asshole to everyone and they somehow aren’t noticing, while True Rutherford is stuck in reflections. FINALLY Tendi steps in and IMMEDIATELY notices something is wrong, which is nice. They manage to phaser stun him, so it turns into a Fight In The Mind.

We learn some LORE. Damn, imagine that, Rutherford Lore. Imagine building a fucking character and giving them background lore and characterization. He used to be a cool kinda assholish racer. They have a race in the mind to determine who gets the body. Rutherford uses the Delta Flyer, Old Rutherford uses a ship he designed himself.

Meanwhile, Boimler goes fucking apeshit after everyone’s been disrespecting Starfleet all day. He starts screaming in everyone’s face. There’s some fun references here. “THE DOCTOR DIDN’T SPEND SEVEN YEARS IN THE DELTA QUADRANT TO BE DISRESPECTED. HE HAS RIGHTS!” Yo, I agree. This actually ends up getting them sign ups. Ransom returns to find Beckett happily signing up people and Boimler foaming at the mouth attacking people.

Rutherford wins the race because he has friends, and old Rutherford doesn’t. He imagines up his friends helping him with the race. Old Rutherford fades away, going “…Maybe this is for the best. It’s better to grow.” But not before reminding Rutherford that he got the implant in a coverup. This scene is good and gives feels. Also it sets up stuff for the future!

Boimler is thrown in the brig, but everyone commends him for it. Also, the archaeologist, Petra apparently, hits up Beckett being like “Yo, if you ever want out, you can hang with me”. She tells her to fuck off, but I feel we haven’t seen the last of her…

Yo this show is getting good????

Hear All, Trust Nothing - ENT 10/10

The Cerritos is suddenly randomly assigned to do work on DS9. They need to save face for a moment by pretending to be in awe and flying around the pylons…. so they recreate the DS9 intro, interrupted by “so uh, another go round?” THis is unironically my favorite joke in this show.

Holy shit Kira is here. And it’s ABSOLUTELY Nana Visitor. I love this fucking episode already. I’ve been craving a sequel to DS9 since DS9 fucking ended.

Everyone goes on DS9 to be a touritst, except Beckett. She stays behind because her “hot Andorian girlfriend”. I already know how this B-Plot is going to go. Beckett is scared of committment and will ruin her relationship because of it. There’s nothing WRONG with that plot point, I just don’t like watching it, it makes me sad ): I want a hot Andorian girlfriend.

Meanwhile, Tendi meets another starfleet Orion! He’s… very Orion. She is not happy. Rutherford keeps trying to include him in stuff, and she’s NOT happy about it. Tendi does not like being from a planet of hats. I love Tendi.

C-Plot, the captain needs to do trade talks with some Delta aliens. She tries to get them into it by introducing them to Quark, who is VERY unhappy. He’s like “THEY DID NOTHING DURING THE DOMINION WAR WHILE MY CUSTOMERS WERE DYING!” Dude, when did Quark get so woke? This is a setup of some kind. They kidnap Quark and knock out power.

The power is out so now Jennifer’s friends are freaking out. Beckett is still trying to be polite, but Jennifer is like “dude what’re you doing? I like you cause you’re rude and can handle shit like this.” WHAT. NOT ONLY DID THEY MIX THE B AND C PLOT PERFECTLY, BUT THEY ALSO ENDED IT IN A WAY I EXPECTED???

The A and B AND C plots???? Turns out the orion they met was a faker. He’s from Ohio. But they need a REAL Orion pirate to handle this. Anyways Tendi pulls some WILD shit out of nowhere. She’s perfect. Tendi moving into S tier.

This is very cute. I like them a lot.

Turns out Quark stole stuff and they were just arresting him. They get a deal where they get 76% of Quark’s profits on their technology. Quark is NOT HAPPY. This is like a good episode of DS9??? We even get some nice smooth references to DS9 stuff, like Quark’s head on Kira’s body.

A Mathematically Perfect Redemption - ENT 6/10

Remember the end of season 1? We get to see it again, but from the side of Peanut Hamper, the Exocomp who beamed herself off the ship to avoid having to do scary dangerous stuff to help people.

It’s been like two years. She’s turning the junk of the battle in a makeship nacelle to get her out of there. She’s gone NUTS. She makes a rock named Sophia to talk to.

Peanut Hamper crash lands on an alien planet, some bird people who aren’t space faring. She’s taken in by the village elder, who’s kind of a bird brain and unable to tell that Peanut Hamper is clearly a bitch. She’s really awful. Everyone else notices cause like, yeah, obviously.

She uses her technology and knowledge to save the elder, help hatch more eggs that were going to die, and help improve life. All while being awful. The Elder’s son, a buff as fuck owl, is originally apprehensive of her, but they grow close.

This is a Disney movie. Like, intentionally. It’s pretty good.

The two of them enter into a sexual relationship. Peanut Hamper slowly becomes a better person. Okay, it’s actually quite fast, cause it’s a single episode. But she IS improving.

Some scavengers come to tear up the land and steal ancient ships that their ancestors left down below. They’s destroying the village and hurting people. Peanut Hamper risks herself by giving out a distress beacon to Stafleet. She also risks herself to help save the others. She saves the day, everyone loves her, she’s going off to Starfleet, they underestimated her… oh whoops, she called the scavengers here.

Yeah she’s still kind of a shithead. This was all just a ploy to get her back off the planet and NOT in a penal colony.

God damn, what a bitch.

Instead, her now ex-fiance risks HIS life to get on a ship and save everyone, including the Cerritos, which is getting its ass kicked.

Peanut Hamper is sealed away with the evil robots, the end. Weakest one so far, but still fine. Peanut Hamper is slightly too annoying.

Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus - ENT 8/10

We get another sequel episode to a season 1 episode! This time it’s a sequel to the movie episode. I liked the idea of a holodeck recreation trying to make a take on the TNG movies, but this time it’s just the friends fucking around on the Holodeck. And not Beckett being weirdly psychotic. I like that!

Boimler needs to step out for a minute, and comes back real sad. Uh oh.

Suddenly, the vibe VERY much shifts. Boimler is really bummed and unable to really connect with it. I wanted this to just be them hanging out and having a fun time! This is kinda a shame ):

They split the party, Tendi and Rutherford still doing the original thing, it’s kinda cool. Rutherford is not taking this seriously, Tendi is getting real into it. Beckett and Boimler are doing weird side stuff with background extras. This is Knicknac. I like him a lot. Beckett flares out at him over this and leaves, and finds out what the problem is.

Remember Boimler’s clone? He died. Gas leak. Whoops.

Beckett goes back and cheers up Boimler by being there for him and helping him come to terms with it. Also turns out Boimler was thrown in the brig. But KNICKKNAK SAVES THE DAY! And he’s gay for Boimler, which Boimler accepts and is cool with. Yo what the fuck???

Turns out Tendi is being real try hard about this movie cause she wants to be a captain IRL. Rutherford is like “oh shit, I’m sorry, I’d love for you to be captain, I support your dreams.”

TENDI IS MY CAPTAIN.

Boimler finds the God at the end of the story, asks it the meaning of life, and it’s just a quote generator. Cause yea, it’s the holodeck. He has a freak out, cries that life has no meaning, and then finds himself in some kind of idyllic dream world… He’s at Kirk’s! Wait no, it’s actually Captain Sulu. “Even better.” Hah.

He has a good talk with Sulu, then gets dorky at him, and Sulu is like “this horse will bite you now.” CHOMP. It was actually a hypospray. He passed out from dehydration. They all walk away like “acutally your movie was fun, let’s go”

ALSO BOOM, BOIMLER’S CLONE ISN’T DEAD! He’s part of Section 31 now! ….Oh come on, I’m starting to LIKE this show!!!

At least they make fun of MODERN Trek with this. “Why does Section 31 have badges??? Aren’t we a secret???”

Trusted Sources - ENT 7/10

While Cerritos is doing a new project, “Project Swingby”, a plan to go visit first contact planets and make sure everything is still good, they get a reporter on board to keep an eye on them and write a news report. So now the captain is SUPER on edge about this, making sure the ship is SPOTLESS. Beckett can’t take a hint about how she would fuck up the captain’s plans.

Also apparently their first swingby planet is that fucking Very Special Episode TNG episode with the drug addicted aliens. Jesus. Those fucking guys. “Picard just LEFT?!” Yeah. Yeah he sure did. They go down, and it SEEMS fine at first… but it’s slightly uncomfy. They only suffered for like, 14 years, but are now addicted to fitness. :)

The reporter is like “Hmm, this project is superfluous”. SUPERFLUOUS? THERE’S NO MONEY INVOLVED. Isn’t it GOOD to check on people who might need help even if they don’t? God damn.

Beckett is annoyed by all of this, and plans to do something about it. She’s going to make sure the reporter sees the TRUTH. She tells her things that ACTUALLY happened.

The reporter of course runs with this for her own sake, aaand Beckett is kicked off the ship, sent to Starbase 80, the shithole of the Federation, apparently. I dunno if I really like that this is a thing in the canon, but okay. Everyone treats her like shit, including her girlfriend who unceremoneously dumps her. There goes my new ship ):. She didn’t really do anything that heinous, but everyone acts like she did. Goodbye Beckett.

Anyways they continue on, reaching Brekka, the other planet from that episode. Everyone is missing. Turns out the Breen are here, taking the planet by force. They beam off, now at battle with the Breen.

They’re saved by a Texas Class, a new automated ship. Welp, that’s sure to end poorly. Anyways project swingby is completely ignored for this new project, thrown to the wayside, aaaand we find out that the only person who DIDN’T say bad things during interviews was Beckett. Whoops! Beckett quit starfleet over this, and they can’t contact her, cause she’s with that shitty Archaeologist from earlier in the season. Dang.

This one made me sad and gave me bad feelings, but the turning point is that I feel BAD about it instead of MAD ABOUT IT. It felt a bit rushed, too. But it’s a setup for the following episode, so, it’s fine.

The Stars at Night - ENT 9/10

After the fallout from the last episode, the best friend admiral who’s been “helping” Captain Freeman all season throws her under the bus to push his new unmanned ships forward. They’re going to shutter the California class. I’m sure this won’t go poorly. Why are Starfleet back to making stupid-ass decisions cause of one clearly biased media interviewer that did spliced interviews. Jesus.

Everyone finds out about this through the grapevine. “Those AI are gonna take our jobs!” God damn, Trek, as usual, talking about the modern problems of the world, huh?

Boimler is kind of unravelling without Beckett. Beckett, however, is having a great time being an unethical archaeologist. She is a LITTLE sussy of how they’re getting the money for these operations though. I’m sure that won’t be a problem.

They come up with a plan. A Race. If they can do the second contact job better than the AI ships, then they keep their jobs. The admiral pushing this is super sussy and smug about it. They are on MAX alert about this, they need to be at tip top shape to keep their jobs.

They lose the race cause they slowed down cause there MIGHT be life. The admiral cackles evily about this. That’s just a normal STarfleet admiral.

Rutherford remembers. The person who wiped his memory? That was the admiral. The AI of the ships? Based on his code. It’s unstable, and he was silenced to stop him from talking about it. The Admiral unlocks their safety protocols to have them kill the Cerritos. The AI IMMEDIATELY kills the admiral and blows up a starbase, killing hundreds. Holy shit.

Meanwhile, we find out who the mysterious benefactor is for this archaeology guild. It’s Picard. He just really likes Archaeology. That’s funny, actually. Beckett learns that there’s a huge battle going on, and asks to go back. She needs to help.

Cerritos risks themselves to get the AI to stop killing civilians. God damn. And then they need a plan, how to stop them? Shax FINALLY to do what he always dreamed. We all cheer for him as he goes down, and does the dream he’s always dreamed… He’ll eject the warp core, directly on top of those AI ships. I love you, Shax.

Unfortunately, one ship survives the blast, and the now unpowered Cerritos takes heavy its, almost being destroyed… but someone comes to save the day!

Beckett’s ship can’t take the AI ship, obviously… but she called some who could. EVERY California class ship is here to defend themselves, and their sister ship. After a great sick battle, the evil is defeated.

Beckett is brought back. Everyone apologizes to her (except her ex, who kinda just stares, shocked). We ALSO get another new member of the crew…. T’Lyn! YAY, SHE’S BACK AND A MAINSTAY! Whoo, let’s hear it for the Cali-class!

….after credit sequence, Oh no, Badgey is back D: It’s interesting that as this series goes on and gets better, it doesn’t ERASE the things from the first seasons and ignore them, it just makes them better.

….Okay.

Wow.

This kind of blew me away? I think maybe cause Trek Night has been so fucking dire since Enterprise started. Honestly, this is the best Trek thing on average I think since Voyager. It’s prolly better than most of those seasons honestly.

The characters are a LOT more likable. It’s a lot less mean spirited “ha ha look at them suffer” humor. It’s a LOT more Star Trek vibes. Problems are handled not in Rick And Morty conclusions, but in Star Fleet ways.

It’s so much better that it honestly astounds me. And it’s not like it’s amazing. It was mostly 7s. But it CLICKS, and it’s really not that much that’s different, every little thing is just BETTER. The writing, the animation, the characters, even the pacing. The pacing was so much better, we can LET SHIT BREATH, HOLY HELL.

Also, uh, may I say? I love the gayness of this.

Star Trek has been a thing that’s had a… we’ll say difficult history with sexuality. It did have flirtations with it back in the 90s, I remember the Dax Kisses A Woman episode, which it handled rather well, but that was veiled in the “oh they were a man inside cause Trill” shenanigans. And don’t even get me STARTED on Bashir and Garak, who were intentionally seperated cause they were too gay and had too good chemistry.

Then we get Discovery. Discovery WAS gay. It finally allowed homosexuality. But it felt… not quite right. It is like Trek’s equivalent of corporate pride. Like a “of COURSE we support gay rights! Here, we have your gay couple right here!” I DO like Stamets and Culber, but uh, their relationship is… weird. They are never shown being just a couple. But like a lot of Discovery, it doesn’t really get development. It just is. It feels back patty, and it feels weird that their entire on screen chemistry is them talking about their relationship. At least show them existing as a relationship!

Don’t even fucking get me started on Picard’s homosexuality.

And then SNW was…. a little worse even? Nurse Chapel is canonically bisexual, cool, into that. We gonna do anything about that? No? Just gonna… throw that out there, but do nothing about it? Obviously bisexuals don’t GOTTA date women, but I dunno man.

And then there’s how Lower Decks handles it. If the other Treks feel like they’re meeting gayness with the Corporate Pride vibes. This feels like it’s made by queer people who’d understand what queerness would be like in a Trek utopia. The first time it’s mentioned, it’s Beckett going “Yeah, no, I’m into anything, who cares.” Pansexuality, fuck yeah. Then this episode really dials up how it’s handled.

It’s NATURAL.

No one makes a thing about it. There’s no “look at us, we’re so gay!” It’s Beckett blushing about the girl she likes. It’s a fucking one-off hologram character going “BOIMLER! I LOVE YOU! I LITERALLY ROMANTICALLY LOVE YOU!” And Boimler laughing and going “Aww, hey man I love you too.” BECAUSE THAT’S JUST A NORMAL THING IN OUR SOCIETY. COOL.

This is exactly the homosexuality I wanted in Star Trek. And even though Beckett and Jennifer’s relationship ended messily, that’s also… normal. That happens. Relationships are messy, and people make mistakes and fuck things up.

I am genuinely SO excited to see how this show progresses in the future. Consider me hooked.

…sadly we’ll have to go back to Discovery next week. Sigh.

source: The Curious Cat Town

Transgender.

source: Garden in the Closet

It was probably noticable if you’ve been the type to pay attention to my blog, but I slowed down on writing these posts. I actually slowed down in doing RA in general, and that didn’t help. From October to February I only mastered a single game. Before that, this was the last thing I had mastered. And there’s a reason for that.

This game kind of broke me.

So, there’s an NES game called Castle Quest. I’ve talked about it before, I mastered it like a year ago. I owned it as a kid, and have beaten it twice. It’s one of the most unforgiving NES games, filled with ways to softlock yourself with no warning. I’ve done research on that game cause it always interested me, and found it was actually the sequel to this game, The Castle. I’d done a bit of playing of this for like 5 minutes every here and there to see “oh yeah, it’s just like Castle Quest”. But In that fateful October of 2025, I decided, yeah, I’ll sit down and actually play it.

That might have been a mistake.

In The Castle, you play as a prince trying to save a princess from a castle. You start in the bottom left, the princess is in the bottom right. It’s a 10x10 grid of rooms, all single screen, seperated by doors, which you need to open using keys. Often throughout the rooms are treacherous obstacles like enemies or block puzzles you need to get past in order to proceed.

If you’ve played Castle Quest, you might know it is VERY succeptible to soft locks. This one is too, but actually less so, because it’s kind of linear. It’s TECHNICALLY open, but you’re following a pretty linear path of like, a snaking line right then up then left then up then right, etc etc. But you can absolutely still softlock yourself.

Your prince controls VERY strangely. Basically, you jump, and you move very slowly and floaty. You hang in the air for about two to three seconds, then float back down. You actually have a LOT of control over this jump, and every facet of control is important. Everything kinda works on ticks in this game, notable. So you’d take like, 5 ticks to get to the top of your jump. But, let’s say you get yourself stuck on a ceiling, then break free by moving to the left. You just get stuck on that ceiling for 2 ticks. Well, now you’re hanging in the air 2 spots lower. This is actually VERY important for some tricky jumps to avoid spikes. Yes, this is the level of percision that this game requires. Some rooms are KIND OF A NIGHTMARE. The jump may seem like an ugly mess at first, but by the end, it is your single life saving rope.

Like, here, let’s look at this room for a second. This is a room I called “The Tangela Room”. These enemies go from passable to impassable death machines every few seconds. Meanwhile, those platforms are moving side to side, moving once every tick. Your goal is to jump over to the other side, and probably ALSO to go up and get all those tasty points and extra lives up there, cause god you’ll need them. This room is hell, and is my utter nightmare. But it would be straight up impossible if not for that hideous ugly and awkward jump. God bless that thing.

While we’re showing levels, let’s show the OTHER kind of level you’ll find here. We’ve got the tough gameplay portion, but what about puzzles? Well, we’ve got lots of those too! They’re mostly block puzzles, so we’ve got some big sokoban energy going on. This is one of the middle of the road ones, honestly. Each attempt takes about 3-4 minutes of attempts if you know what you’re doing.

Also, take a look at that level again. Those things there are corkscrew elevators. They move up and down every few ticks. They can and WILL crush shit, including against the very top of the screen. Your goal is to move a block from one side to the other so you can grab that key. So yes you can die, but ALSO you can break your block. If your block breaks, you’re fucked, it is now unsolvable. But don’t worry! As long as you don’t leave the screen, you can just die, or press F1 to die and restart the room. If you DO leave, uh, sorry buddy. Time to restart.

Each attempt at this game takes about three hours. Oh, and it’s important to note, the musical loop is like 10 seconds, and its the only song in the entire game! And it sounds like it belongs on an ice cream truck. It will drive you absolutely fucking bonkers. This game is quite hard, and after 3 hour attempts, you will probably get further, and further, but need to start over and over and over. I actually beat this game. I beat this game…. and had to play it again. We need to talk about the cherry.

So. The cherry is an item here in the top right, right below the princess. If you pick it up, every single door will open. This actually means MOST block puzzle rooms can be ignored, cause the goal of most of them is to pick up a key, or to let a door be accessible. To open a door you need to be on the ground, so if they’re already open, you can just jump into em. This is an AMAZING item. But the obvious way to get to it, falling from the princess’ room, is A TRAP. YOU WILL SOFTLOCK YOURSELF. Which I certainly did.

There are two ways to properly get this. Either get all the way here with an invincibility power up, and letting the elevator push you into the ceiling (this involves dying over and over each level), OR use buffer overflow. In the room to the left is a box. Drop it down the hole, it’ll buffer overflow to the top, allowing you access to the cherry.

This actually is the best way to get through the game. Once you realize this, you can basically just ignore the stupid block puzzles, and it JUST becomes dexterity challenges. Which are actually hard, but y’know, it’s better cause you’re not wasting six minutes on some of these puzzles.

I played this game nonstop for like a week trying to beat it. Like I said, I beat it, got the cherry, and then had to do it all again because I had just walked past the damn princess to get that cherry and made the game unwinnable. My chat hated this. But I couldn’t stop playing it.

There’s something about this game. It really gets into you. Okay, no. It really gets into ME. I genuinely believe in the year of our luigi 2026, this game is for 1% of the population. Unfortunately, I am part of that 1%. This sucks ass. I want other people to get into this game, I wanna share it with people, but then if I do people are like “why are you torturing me”.

Is The Castle a good game? Uh, no, probably not. But it’s EXTREMELY interesting, and has a lot of good parts. If you want to play this but don’t want to play something that’s aged in such a way it might literally kill you, I’d suggest just playing UFO 50 and playing Barbuta. It’s another one screen game with like, a 10x10 map you explore around on, with clunky movement and dastardly puzzles, but it’s just modern enough. In many ways, I feel like Barbuta is DIRECTLY inspired by The Castle. Right down to the collectable cherry possibly inspiring UFO 50’s Cherries.

But if you want to play something old to the point of just a LITTLE too clunky, just a LITTLE too awkward, just a LITTLE too mean, check this out. DO NOT CHECK OUT ITS SEQUEL. I am currently attempting to beat Castle Excellent, the MSX sequel to this that was turned into Castle Quest, which is mean to the point of intentionally trying to kick you in the dick. It’s NUTS.

This isn’t actually THAT bad. It’s full of mean rooms, especially the fucking Tangela Room. But it’s BEATABLE. And it genuinely feels amazing to beat. I felt like a GOD finally getting that mastery.

….But it still broke me. I dream about the castle. I think about it constantly. After beating the MSX version, I immediately went to playing the SG-1000 version and PC88 version, and it drove my chat NUTS. I want to learn how to hack these games. I feel like you could do something magical with that.

I love the Castle. I hate the Castle. It doesn’t love me back, but it sure does hate me.

source: Pale Blue-green Color Saudade

At this point, Aleste might actually need some introduction. It certainly wouldn’t have at one point, though. Aleste was one of the biggest shmup series of its time, with around 12 titles on all kinds of consoles in the late 80s and early 90s. Unfortunately, its time is long over. The series ended up fading away in the mid 90s, and its parent company, Compile, ended up dying some time shortly after that in the early 2000s, kept afloat up to that point only barely by Puyo Puyo.

It’s important as well to note what most shmups were like in the 80s when Aleste came out. They were a popular genre, but most of them were top down samey shooters like 1942. Almost like a gallery shooter with a moving background, more than anything else. Aleste is a step above that for sure, with more fluid action, and a unique upgrade system. Fun space ship blasting action.

We’re not really here to talk about that Aleste, though. We’re here to talk about Aleste Gaiden.

A Gaiden is a side story, and this certainly is one. A completely unrelated game in almost every way. It’s got the traditional Aleste upgrade system, little colored power ups you get that’ll charge up your weapon to stronger variants, but that’s about where the similarities end. In this one, you’re a robot guy running along the ruins of what appears to be New York, if they went fucking nuts and built a million Statue of Liberties. Also notable, you’re a guy. You’re a lady in almost every single Aleste game. That’s another thing the late 80s and early 90s was good for with shmups, 60% of them had anime girls as the protagonists. It was a good time.

The series would really blossom after this, with games like MUSHA being considered one of the best of the era, but Gaiden would stay forever in the background. It’s not bad! It’s honestly quite good. But this is not where the series went, this weird robot shmup design. And despite everything, it’s pretty short at five short levels, and the movement is sliiightly clunky. It’s harder to dodge shit than it should be.

It’s certainly worth playing, but I think you’ll end up enjoying the rest of the series more.

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it!

I was not looking forward to DIS, but I think the thing I’ve been dreading the most was this. I have NOT been looking forward to this. Every thing about this sounds bad.

Broken pieces - PIC 2/10

God, TELL ME ABOUT IT, title.

The last time on has a lot of stuff about Rios. My guess is he’ll die this episode, or next episode.

We start with the Zhat Vash or whatever they’re called, which are a secret order INSIDE the secret order. They’re in a like, cult meeting where they’re standing around a glowing thing on THE GRIEF PLANET, as it’s called. They get visions from some artifact thing on it about how all of life is going to be killed by AI. THEY GOT A FUCKING REAPER VISION. And then as the new generation of Zhat Vash sees the vision, all of them kill themselves except for the incest girl, who’s like “WE MUST STOP THEM.”

We also learn the Romulan fortune teller who was borged and insane, adopted the incest twins, and that’s why she knew about the future, she saw the vision from THE GRIEF PLANET. Also her grief about this is why the borg cube broke. Everything about this is stupid. Also it’s trying REALLY hard to make Incest Girl sympathetic now? You can’t do that THE EPISODE AFTER THE LAST ONE. Did you all forget her torturing Hugh, killing innocent ex borg just for the fuck of it, and then killing him just cause?

Back on the Millenium Falcon, things are tense. They do at LEAST realize that the doctor is a spy. But this also means Rios and Raffi don’t trust Soji, at all, and think this is going to fall apart. Rios is also super checked out, and wants out as soon as he transports them to Deep Space 12. He ALSO calls for Starfleet to send a fleet out to help him, and they do. Okay then? NOW they want to do that??

We get a scene where Seven debates reintigrating the ex borg so she can take the borg cube out. But if she does that, might not want to be released after, and she might not want to release them. Then, immediately after, we get a scene with Raffi talking to all 4 of Rios’ clone holograms discussing why he’s so upset. THIS. SHOW. HAS. A. TONE. PROBLEM.

You know, when they said “We’re making a sequel to TNG that brings back elements from the show”, I wasn’t expecting them to do the clashing A, B, and C plots. This scene is really hard to follow btw. No shade on this actor but there are 4 of them, their only differences is they have different accents, and he is NOT Brent Spiner.

Doctor’s awake. She doesn’t want to talk about the vision she saw. She’s like “do you believe in hell? I didn’t. Now I do.” Okay.

We need to talk about Roko’s Basilisk.

This FEELS kinda like a take on Roko’s Basilisk? And if you dunno what that is, content warning, because some fucking idiots view it as a cognito hazard. Basically, it’s a super AI in the future that will become a god. If you don’t help it to exist, it will torment you to hell. It is Pascal’s Wager, just straight up, but for tech bro AI dipshits. Some people have actually killed themselves over this. This reminds me of that. But it doesn’t have a good thing to say on the topic, or much anything.

We get a scebe wgere Rios finally explains his dark traumatic past, but it’s interrupted with edits where it cuts back and forth to the Doctor harassing and interrogating the AI, like “DO YOU EVEN DREAM? DO YOU CRY? DO YOU EAT?” Fuck off, lady, I’m trying to understand the sexy man’s trauma to see if he’s fixable.

So apparently some point in the past, his captain got some envoys from someplace, then a message from Starfleet. A “black flag order”, which means follow this order or your entire ship will be destroyed. That’s not a thing Starfleet has. You cannot convince me of that. Anyways, the captain then killed the envoys violently, then himself. Rios saw all of this and got severe PTSD about it. Honestly, understandable. Will anything happen to the starfleet higherups who ordered this? :) Probably nooooot! Also one of the emmissaries looks just like Soji, so she’s like, a recreation of her.

Seven sees Incest Lady is STILL killing exborg for LITERALLY no reason, and decides fuck it, bring them into the fold to try and save them. It doesn’t work, they’re all killed anyway, thrown out into space. Dude, what IS it with modern Trek and its love of spacing people?

From learning about this tragic backstory, Raffi pieces EVERYTHING together. She’s like “Oh, Commodore Oh is half Romulan.” How did you know that? “Also the Romulans did 9/11” I mean, sure. This is obvious shit I discovered as soon as the characters showed up. Romulans want to kill all AI because they assume from a random thing they found on a rock that AI will kill everyone. Soji hijacks the ship and flies to a Borg warp center, which is apparently only 9 hours away?

Incest Lady gets away so Seven re-borging herself means nothing. But it doesn’t matter cause she breaks away anyway.

Rios is like “Oh okay, since Oh gave the order, it’s fine cause that means Starfleet didn’t betray us and isn’t evil” and Picard goes “No, no they still are, because THEY Were the ones who decided to do an evil ban on AIs.” Oh good, glad we aren’t absolving starfleet of their sins. But also I still hate Starfleet being weirdly unrepentantly evil in modern Trek.

This entire episode was weirdly hard to follow, honestly.

Et in Arcadia Ego Part 1 - PIC 2/10

They make it to the homeworld. Alongside the Borg Cube, and also Incest Brother who was somehow still tailing them, THROUGH A TRANSWARP BEACON. They are all subsequently eaten by a giant orchid-like space plants that drag them down to the planet. Including the borg cube. No. No, that’s dumb. Soji: “They used an EMP” THAT’S ALSO VERY DUMB. IF BORGS WERE RESISTANT TO EMPS WOLF 359 WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED.

They crash down, the ship out of energy. Picard wakes up and decides to tell everyone the plan. He will take Soji to her people, and tell them “I am dying btw, it’s terminal. Don’t treat me like I am, you’ll piss me off”. “Remember that scene in the sequel trilogy in Star Trek where C3PO thinks he’s going to die and says “I’m just taking one last look at all my good friends” and looks at the people he’s known for 2 hours? This reminds me of that.” - Neli

The Borg cube landed nearby so they head to it. Yeah uh, no. Those explode so no one can get the technology. They do that. I guess MAYBE the Borg could have turned that off? But okay.

If there’s anything I can say, at least Seven is hot. They lament Hugh for a single sentence then move on.

The Zhat Vash, notably a secret organization of a secret organization that no one thinks exist, are sending 218 romulan warbirds. Reminder that Wolf 359 was 40 ships.

“It’s all on you now” Picard says, leaving Elnor (I legit typed elrond by accident) and Seven behind as he walks into the light. God, I’d be such a good director if this is all it takes.

We reach AI Heaven. We also meet SOONG! Not that Soong, his son actually. This is the THIRD Soong Brent Spiner has played. If you think for even 2 minutes, Soong having a secret son we never heard about before is kinda weird, but look. I’m happy to see Brent Spiner again.

ONE OF THESE AI HAVE LEARNED HOW TO MIND MELD. THAT REQUIRES PSYCHIC ABILITY, AND SHE IS A ROBOT. WHAT? Well at least this one is CONSENSUAL I GUESS.

Fuck this noise so hard.

They think that the message the Vhat Zash found isn’t actually meant for organic minds, but instead for artificial minds. It’ll just drive organics insane. She…. mind melds, and finds out what the message is SUPPOSED to be. We get a weird message with video behind it, INCLUDING A FUCKING FOX DYING AND DECOMPOSING, REALLY WANTED TO SEE THAT, THANK YOU STAR TREK. Basically, at some point in the past, an AI species killed its creators after they turned on them and tried to destroy them. They then went to another dimension, but left a message behind of “hey, synthetics, call for us and we’ll help you kill all organic life.”

The Vulcan synth is now REALLY evil, going to others and going “we should kill organics actually :)” Oh great. Also they drag Incest Boy in.

This episode is giving lots of death flags for Picard. But it’s ALSO showing that Soong is developing a kind of mind transfer device, SO IT’S REALLY OBVIOUS WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN.

Narek, Incest Boy, tries to emotionally manipulate Soji again. She tells him to fuck off and he goes “Well it’s fine cause we’ll just kill you all anyway :)” he then manipulates another innocent synth on the planet. Can this guy die yet? Nope, the Evil Cyborg lets him out, he kills the innocent one, and runs off, now working with her. She uses this death to prove that the organics should all be killed. Soong is all good for this for some reason. I guess cause he’s coded to be dying and will mind transfer himself?? Wait IT’S JUST ROKO’S BASILISK AGAIN ISN’T IT. GOD DAMMIT.

Hey, remember how all of these AI arte based off of Data? Remember how Data was unstable and wanted to kill all humans? No? You DON’T remember that??? They end up arresting Picard and decide to kill all Humans. Oh goodie.

One more. We’re almost done.

Et in Arcadia Ego Part 2 - PIC 1.5/10

We are sitting here waiting for the final battle to come as it clearly is. Picard is like “please don’t let the Romulans turn you into the monsters they fear”. Look, if I was more engaged in this, maybe I’d be like “wow, that’s a terrible thing to say to people trying to keep alive who are hunted and hated by the entire galaxy”.

Wait, I just… realized something, watching the incest twins talk about the prophecy. So, they follow the prophecy. But it’s not real, it’s nonsense put into their brains from a beacon meant for synthetics saying “call us and we’ll kill all Humans :)”. But… they knew things that only a prophecy could explain. They knew the destroyer, and the messenger, they knew they were twin robots, and could tell who was which. Okay.

The doctor joins Soong and the synths in killing all Humans, because she’s “their mother”. But she’s clearly going to just kill them to try and stop this.

This dude calls Romulan Fuckboy a “snakehead”, which is 100% a slur. He ends up teaming up with them to stop the AI. Uh, dude, YOU’RE THE ONE WHO DID THIS AND STARTED THIS. Not gonna own up to that? No? Okay. We get a scene of them doing a heist, sneaking fuckboi back in. They do that classic heist scene, them talking about the setup, interspersed with them doing it.

Soong FINALLY looks through the murdered AI’s data and finds out, yeah, clearly, it was the evil android. So he joins them for their heist. Okay, sure, he’s on our side again and is good. What the FUCK is going on with everyone’s sides here? The doctor also breaks Picard out.

Picard: “They have to learn what living is for. And I will lead by example.” He steals Rios’ ship and goes off to fight the Romulans. I’m sure Rios will LOVE that. Soong also shuts down the evil AI? But uh… doesn’t actually do anything? To stop the other AI from building the Kill Humans Device???

The Romulans show up. More of those orchid plant ships come up to meet them. Dude, 5 of those orchids killed a borg cube, how the fuck couldn’t they kill this fleet? There’s ten of them.

Seven kills incest sister. Thank god. They were fighting btw.

“Soji, I will give you something I hope will make you reconsider killing all Humans. My life.” The doctor, next to him, thinking “WAIT, I DIDN’T AGREE TO THIS”.

Picard does the Picard maneuver. Using the eyeball thingy they stole from the dead AI, they make a million fake images. This holds them off just long enough fooooor

A hundred copies of the exact same 3D ship file they had to show up. Kind of embarassing.

At least he’s here. God bless you, Frakes. He’s like “Alright Commodore or General or whatever the hell you’re talking about. I’ll say stand down, but I’d love nothing more than to kick your Tal Shiar ass.” I love him. Actually good line.

THE EVIL AI FROM ANOTHER GALAXY ARE WRITHING MECHANICAL SPACE WORMS. WHY ARE THEY SPACE WORMS?? Anyways, Soji breaks the beacon, General Oh fucks off, and Riker is like “What was I supposed to do? Just sit there and eat pizza?” and then leaves. No, please, PLEASE stay. Picard immediately has a Brain Attack and dies.

There’s no tension or stakes here. Because they ALREADY SHOWED HOW THEY’RE GONNA BRING HIM BACK FROM THE DEAD. Also there are two more seasons after this, of course. We get signs of them all sad and crying around Picard’s dead body, but like, c’mon.

We then get a bunch of scenes of everyone sitting around sad and crying in pairs. Wow, they’re going HARD on this aren’t they? A butterfly flies between each of the scenes, cause butterflies are human souls or some shit. Then boom, he’s alive again. Kind of.

They are in a simulation. Data has a like, pearly gates talk with Picard. And gives him closer on his death. And then is like “you have to go, goodbye Captain”, as he walks into the light. But he asks for one last thing. “Please kill me”. His consciousness is still here, through that neuron Mattox harvested, but he wants to die to finally be Human-like.

HEY.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I NEEDED TO SEE?

DATA DYING AGAIN.

I AM GOING TO MORB. I’M GOING TO BECOME A BIBLICALLY ACCURATE MORB.

Watching my favorite Trek character die, SHOULD have been like… some kind of emotion. Mostly it’s just annoyance.

Anyways yes, Picard is obviously revived in this golem. He’s now a replicant. No super powers, no AI anything. He’ll still naturally die in 20 years, just have his body turn off. Which is even more fucked up tbh. But gotta have that… status quo I guess.

We get a scene where Picard talks about how great Data was, in the show called Picard, as they turn his brain off and kill him, again.

Why are we suffer?

Just to suffer?

They all get in the ship, the AI ban is lifted off screen, and Picard says “engage”, and it ends.

I hated this. The entirety of this season. It is, in fact, worse than Discovery season 1. At least that didn’t assassinate characters with bad writing. It just had bad writing.

But in the end, I need to wonder. What is this even about? What was Picard’s goals, what was it trying to say? I mean, my first immediate thought, is it was trying to just be Game of Thrones. It was VERY Game of Thronesy without really understanding it. It wasn’t trying to be Star Trek, that’s for sure.

Picard is cynicism. It’s endlessly cynical and dark with no positive shining light. Star Trek is about optimism, but this series is very much NOT about that. And I cannot wait to never think about this ever again.

Okay apparently I missed this. Apparently Seven and Raffi are a thing? They really did not earn this. I mean, am I happy Seven is gay finally? Yes. It’s been a long time coming. But I think they literally said 3 lines to each other.