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Picard suffered from the same thing for sure. Too much time telling too little story. Somehow it felt both rushed and drawn out. I still enjoyed Picard for all the fan service and old characters, but it was definitely in spite of the overall structure of the show.

I've been slogging through the latest season of Discovery, mostly just so I get the references. I'm just finished 5x05 and I'm not really enjoying it.

It suffers from a lot of the problems with the prestige-ification of TV. Everything feels too serialized and too cinematic. The episodes don't seem to have a unique identity, and the serialization means that you have to enjoy the commitment to that one serialized plotline (which I admit is not grabbing me). I prefer Star Trek when it's episodic or has shorter story arcs within a larger season. The story itself is also very fast-paced, in that it's a race against time/the enemy, which sucks because everything then has to happen inside of this very tight window of time. That's fine for a movie, but I don't know why it's a good idea for a full season of a TV show (unless it's something like 24 where that's the whole gimmick). Star Trek is famous for using ticking clocks to keep the action moving, but they resolve at the end of the episode, and the next episode might not have a ticking clock, or the clock is caused by a fundamentally different thing with different stakes. In this season it's like they're doing laps around a racetrack. "Okay, we're ahead now, let's keep up our lead while we do basically the same thing next episode." And we have to keep up the idea that it is a race despite having a ship that travels anywhere instantly. Incredibly boring.

Mostly I just hate Alex Kurtzman. I hope his next Trek show flops hard enough that they decide not to renew his deal and they go find someone who doesn't have obvious contempt for the audience.

Apologies for the ranting. Short answer: DSC season 5, not great

No offense to the moon but I could go way further than that in 28 days.

If you think you're struggling for enthusiasm now, just wait until you start watching it.

Flawless. No notes.

The actor of captain Picard

Do you honestly not recognize Sir Patrick Stewart? No shade, it’s just wild to think there would be people who don’t recognize him at all, given the length and breadth of his career.

In answer to your question, I can’t speak for Patric Stewart, but my guess is that he chose to play the scene that way because it’s likely that very few people in the Federation smoke, and that’s probably doubly true for people who spend most of their time on a spaceship. My guess would be that Stewart was trying to indicate to the audience that smoking would be somewhat of an anachronism in the 23rd century.

I’ve seen every episode of both shows and this didn’t occur to me once. She doesn’t even look different, she’s just a great actress.

This is terrific, but why isn't panel 3 a picture of Thomas Riker? Literally the second Riker, who also has a fuller beard (Thomas doesn't shape his beard the way Will does).

Didn't he go back to Earth to live with his human relatives? My guess would be that Worf would be his eccentric uncle/cousin who came to town every now and again to take him hunting and tell him war stories. Plus the Rozhenkos are on Earth, so I'd imagine Worf would ask that they keep in touch with him, too. I bet that, aside from the trauma in this episode, he probably had a pleasant and uncomplicated life on Earth, but he could tell kids at school that he was also a member of a Klingon family and they'd have to believe him or else his Klingon crew would have to show up to defend his honor. That would be rad, imo.

chef's kiss

The backbone of the fleet, no question.

Oof, this might be the thing that gets me to lose myself in a Paradox game.