I went off script a bit with the flatbread. My grocery store usually has a pretty good pita or naan, but they recently started carrying an onion missi roti that I wanted to try. I believe it uses whole wheat, so it started off darker than your usual pita straight from the jump. I may have left it on the grill for a minute too long, but rest assured it was far from cracker-esque.

Wait, so stories with completely new characters and ships are bad, but stories using existing characters and ships are also bad?

Ceiling Picard is watching you replicate.

Every sci-fi show with a budget eventually does, “Alien tech, but organic.”

If you want to talk about Star Trek borrowing from Mass Effect, the final threat from the end of Picard Season 1 is a way closer plot beat than the surface level Gorn aesthetics.

At the end of the day, fiction is a reflection of the time it was written in, and some elements are just going to echo throughout genre fiction.

Tea. Earl gray. Hot.

That’s Beth Toussaint in the TNG Season 4 episode “Legacy”. She’s playing the late Tasha Yar’s sister in that episode. Beth apparently gets mistaken for Linda Hamilton a lot though.

Season 3 was excellent as well! I wish 4 and 5 had a bit more futureness to them, but Discovery overall was good in my book.

I enjoyed Discovery overall, but I really preferred when the show was in the 23rd century instead of the 32nd century.

I can’t believe I’m being nostalgic for a 14 episode season, but early Discovery still dabbled in one off episodic adventures or 2-3 episode mini arcs. The later seasons were short enough that they really had to commit to their world ending plot lines. Running around the mycelial network for a couple of episodes was generally more memorable than, “We leaned a bit more about the 10C.” Plus Season 2 got us Jett!

The real world production drama fundamentally broke the season’s puzzle box and left some pretty glaring plot holes, but that finale was stellar.

The Voyager debrief would be an interesting creative writing exercise. What information would Starfleet need to know ASAP, and what would be the second tier, “Oh yeah, this interesting scientific thing happened.”

You’ve got your Borg intel, a head’s up about Species 8472, and surprise our holodeck is sentient and has access to future technology. But after that, what’s the priority on serving up the rest of the info? “We destroyed more Omega than Starfleet in its entirety has ever witnessed, and oh by the way the dinosaurs are still alive.”

Tuvix is interesting, but surely Amelia Earhart would come up first?

Spock can break General Order 7 and whisk a crewmate away to Talos IV. As a treat.

Before you go too far down the 3D printed resin route, look and see if laser cut acrylic might work for your needs. There are services where you upload a vector file, and they’ll cut out a piece of clear plastic with whatever shape and thickness you need. At that point you just need to sandwich the pieces together and apply some fasteners.

That’s awesome! For a second I was worried you had stumbled across the time she accidentally did some narration for a geocentricism documentary.

Sure, why not? They look almost identical.

If one of my posts draws in three more subscribers, I finally get my Tom Paris commemorative plate.

This is wonderful. 🖖

True, but it makes for less amusing acronym jokes.

Also, whoops, I really should have checked the username before Discovery-splaining in the comments. I know you’ve been back for a bit, but good to see you around Stamets. 👋

You can make this whole spectrum with unambiguous and canonical Discovery characters alone.

• Lesbian: Jett
• Gay: Stamets & Culber
• Bisexual: Georgiou
• Transgender: Gray
• Queer: Adira (Non-Binary)
• Plus: Michael Burnham, who’s also involved for some reason

To say nothing of the representation on Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds. New Trek’s been killing it.

That all makes sense. I wish the game were a bit fresher in my memory, but your observations are all valid.

I’d generally agree with your points. I liked Resurgence overall, but it has a lot of smaller plot beats that are never followed up on or explored satisfactorily. They help contribute to a sense of paranoia before the true shape of the story is revealed, so I tend not to judge it too harshly. For a narrative so on the rails, it does feel like they could have potentially used one more script pass.

Spoiler bits for Resurgence: