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Yeah, if the article was just her being evasive about season three spoilers, I probably wouldn't have bothered sharing it.

My cynical take is that season three was pretty shallow overall, and I'm not sure there was anything in it that would make someone say, "wait, what?"

I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.

Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):

“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’”

I think a story being a little too "inside baseball" and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we're talking about ideas like this:

The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.

The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.

The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series' biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.

And regarding the Jurati Borg...I don't know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.

I'm not a fan of the season, but some more time to let things breathe would have been welcome.

My immediate thought was "Hotter Now" by Lu Kala. It's a bop.

Pretty efficient, keeping the sandworm on the inside.

They're regular "no spill" mugs. Pretty useful on a boat.

And, I guess, in space.

Interesting - whatever it is, it seems unrelated to the series ending.

On Xbox One, there's still a noticeable amount of jank, but to be honest the story is good enough that I didn't care.

I think this is the correct interpretation, though one of Spock's lines makes is needlessly ambiguous:

Therefore, to ensure the Federation never finds itself facing the same danger, all officers remaining with knowledge of these events must be ordered never to speak of Discovery, its spore drive, or her crew again.

Some people have interpreted this as a complete disavowal, but given that the rest of the scene talks at length about how it's the time travel that needs to be kept secret, the fact that they "saw Discovery explode," SNW's "Memento Mori" gave us a Discovery pin on Starfleet Remembrance Day, and "Strange New Worlds" (the episode) gave us a shuttlecraft named Stamets, I think it's safe to say the intent was never for anyone to deny that the ship and crew existed.

Yeah, this was a known thing when I was an undergrad, and that was not that recent. It seems it's only gotten worse since then.

Except it isnt f2p and doesnt have any microtransactions.

That part of it is appealing, though not if the game itself isn't worth the price of admission.