She probably asked for it given her background and experience, and this a promotion of sorts from transport minister.

I didn’t get the music analogy but I agree with you that “dumb shit” can apply to a large part of this season.

Hope so! Season 3 wasn’t the worst thing ever but not really good or memorable.

You are thinking it over way more than the writers did. This hole-ridden plot is just there to justify the action scenes. But I think it’s implied that Batel left the messages. Why were they vague and in those other languages? Just because!!

2/10

Worse sequel to the season’s so-far worst episode.

Felt like the writers were like “wouldn’t it be cool if we do this… and that… and this again…”

“science so advanced it might as well be magic”: yeah, pretty much, this was more of a D&D campaign (bad one) than a good sci-fi episode. Even the silly Prophets / Pah-wraiths arc of DS9 was preferable to this.

Doing my part! I take credit for preventing a taxpayer funded contract with IBM to provide software solution, where there was an open source alternative (that’s actually better than the product IBM was selling).

I watched… I have no idea what to say as I don’t have or know any pre-schoolers.

I usually dislike “back in my day” comments, but when I was a pre-schooler I watched TNG. Did I understand anything? Not at all. Did it instill a lifelong love of the franchise? Possibly.

Prodigy was an excellent show, I guess it’s also “for kids” but older ones, I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult. Scouts, from what I can tell from those 8 bizarre minutes, is more at the level of Discovery in terms of quality of writing.

I’ve never been to Costco! I shop basically exclusively local in Downtown Toronto, but I recognize it’s a privilege to have that option being so convenient.

Yet the floating boulders are so scientifically accurate 😜 (these aren’t other moons, we are told there are 396 moons, to be exact)

the episode did not even need the aliens running things behind the scenes, it would have been perfectly fine to just have the spatial anomaly and a crash landing as the setup.

I think having the Metron running things behind the scenes helped a bit. I did a huge eye roll when there just happened to be a recently-occupied tent within walking distance from the crash site on a desolate moon, given the vastness of space this is so ridiculous (not that it stopped Star Trek or other sci-fi before).

That was pretty good sci-fi! A solid 7/10.

I loved it that for the first time in SNW the gorn are a bit more than just space orks. Uhura was especially annoying this episode, and got off way too easy with fudging the numbers. Seeing the Metron was fine, I don’t know if most people who watch this watched Arena or are going to, so it gives them a taste. My favourite human-gorn interaction has to be this though: https://youtu.be/4hnBp7x2QAE?t=10

They just scared her off

About Culber:

he’s gonna come back, we just haven’t figured out how, and we don’t know how we’re doing it because it’s gonna happen in season 2.

So they didn’t know what they were doing? Shocker.

Reading this article I wonder if the actors realize how bad the writing was for that show.

Thanks for clarifying. I responded to the title only as I didn’t actually care what Michelle Yeoh thinks and just want to put this sad story into the dustbin of Trekstory. Georgiou was the only mildly interesting character in Discovery and season 2 was the only mildly not-awful one, so I had moderate hopes for that movie.

Good article.

The answer is capitalism and authoritarianism.

Understatement of the century

I think they are not very good at doing funny by themselves, but can do it with outside help. For example, the crossover with Lower Decks was good. In this episode, the only saving grace was Patton Oswalt (Doug), he was just hilarious!

4/10. It was 30-35 minutes too long.

Thanks! I had no idea about it. Submitting the claim was quite straightforward.

Very sad state. Maybe hope lies in emulation? What I want ideally for my phone is for it to run a Linux-type desktop OS, and have light VMs (if containers won’t do) running fully locked garbage Android systems for those apps that require them.

As an exclusive Linux user since the early 2000s I remember well the days programs were unavailable and website only supported Internet Explorer. Wine and virtualization remedied much of that pain.

Right? 😂