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No room for "Star Trek Year One"?

It seems like something along those lines. I wonder if it's something they plan to circle back to, or if they're going to leave those toys on the shelf for someone to play with in the future.

La’an saying “fascinating” makes me wonder if Spock is rubbing off on her.

Considering the extreme side-eye Chapel gave her, I don't think you're the only one.

Sure, but "Relics" had a built-in caveat (which I think was an intentional piece of writing): it had a 50% mortality rate.

Some Orions are privateers!

Enjoy the con - I hope everything goes well!

Yeah, there's a single line that says, "some independent carriers raised concerns that it would make it more difficult for them to compete against larger players," which is vague.

The planet they were visiting was Vadia IX, which "Trelane" referred to as "the old homeworld" in episode two, so I'm thinking it's an origin story for something else...

RIP Ensign Gamble. You knew what you were getting into.

I liked this one a lot - I'm generally a fan of "ancient, unspeakable horror" stories, and this one was pretty well-told.

The Enterprise is seemingly able to declare its own red alerts - not much fun in that.

My biggest complaint is this show's continued abuse of the transporter buffer - it should not be easy to use it as a form of stasis!

even the holodecks on Enterprise D can’t do the same thing until the Binaries enhance them.

I think this is a little different from what the Bynars did - La'An had to wear the brain scan thingie for the day for the computer to get a sense of her personality, while the enhanced TNG holodeck was able to do it on the fly.

I gave this one a rewatch, and not only is it much better when you're not half-asleep like I was the first time 'round, I think it also works better when you know the Spock twist in advance.

Setting aside the silliness of the simulation, the actual story worked better for me once I realized that the re-creation room was manipulating La'An the entire time, planting the false Spock from the very beginning, and using the various characters to needle her about her feelings - both that she has them at all, and how she's afraid people might take her less seriously in her job as a consequence of them.

Not-Uhura's speech is about the "Amelia Moon" stories La'An grew up with just as much as it's about Star Trek itself.

And Christina Chong turned in a really great performance throughout, too - this one should definitely go in her audition reel.

That was a pretty fun bit of silliness - low-calorie, but it looked like the cast had a good time.

The La'an/Spock storyline is unexpected, but damned if Ethan Peck and Christina Chong don't have chemistry.

Obviously continue to watch something you dislike, despite there being many other things you can do with your life.