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Maybe it's the intense lighting, maybe it's what they used for the "marinating", but that truly looks like rotten flesh. Zombie bites maybe, not steak

Didn't know about that formula. Is it used behind the scene but never mentioned, or just used retroactively to explain the difference between the different series?

In Voyager and TNG it has been established that warp 10 is infinite velocity, that means the warp scale is not linear (the differencr between warp 9 and 8 must be higher than the difference between 8 and 7). After all, Voyager's max speed of 9.975 is faster than Enterprise D's 9.6.

Then again, warp speed has always been quite inconsistent, so who knows which scale they are using...

This is just weird. Why make these changes? Customers don't want it, the company doesn't profit and they actually lost money and reputation by doing this and not backtracking. Who is benefiting from this? It looks like a perfect lose-lose situation

If you go down that route, the outer borders are of currently existing countries. "Middle east" doesn't have precise borders and the answer of where it is changed based on who you ask to.

You can have all the free time in the world, if you spend it all trying to have more, you don't get to enjoy it.

I mean, it's a gigantic million years old fossil, what can some touching do? It probably won't even tip over

Everyone feels emotions. Emotional intelligence means being capable of recognizing your own emotions (or other people's) and not let them rule you, but to let you rule them, so they can help you when necessary and not damage you.

About Pike's hair, am I wrong or is vulcanian Pike's hair even more erected than human Pike?

You are right, with 20+ episodes it's easier to have a common theme while still being episodic enough to have episodes that don't advance the plot but are either funny or explore some unrelated theme. 10 episodes season work for a serialized series (like discovery), but an episodic 10 episodes series is a hybrid of the two and more difficult to pull throught.

However, I still think they did a good job, the season was fun and enjoyable, and I don't really care there's no "big picture plot". After all, this is not telling the voyage of a ship lost in the galaxy or a multi-year war with a foreign dominion, it's a character build-up story that will eventually become the original series, it's a prequel and doesn't try to be anything else. Surely I enjoyed it more than galaxy-destroying-threat-of-the-year discovery.

Also, even if some more "experimental" episodes may be a little failed, I can surely appreciate the attempt and, even if more boring or over the top, at least they are memorable, si they have value.

Never seen boomer humor referencing furries, grindr and trans people. Usually it's about bosses, mondays and taxes

The entire episode, while enjoyable, was prettt rushed, if it was split in a two-parts season finale they would probably fit in more explaination scenes, like at least an aknowledgement from Batel and some more explaining/exploration of what she was.