Uhhhh you might want to skip tonight's episode.

None of the live-action series have done one, but the images have been floating around since...July 2025, I think.

This isn't even Star Trek's first trip to the well.

Chris Parnell, formerly with Apple TV and current EVP for Paramount+ Originals.

I wouldn't put money on it either way, but I would think CBS Studios would have more say in that than Paramount+ as the "network" - the two are very intertwined obviously, but I suspect Paramount+ just wants the shows, without being too concerned about who makes them.

More than most episodes, I don't think there's much space between "home run" and "faceplant."

star trek is serious business

I'm definitely enjoying the season more than you, but there's a high degree of difficulty here nonetheless.

This is a pretty average episode, and I don't have a good sense for what people think of it in general, but I've always been fond of it for one reason: the domestic approach.

Eddie Connolly is an absolute cartoon character, but he's a type of stock character that I like a lot. A petty tyrant in his own home, clearly a product of older times that are coming to an end, likely having experienced a fair amount of wartime trauma, who ultimately gets his comeuppance. Jamie Foreman's performance is a little over-the-top, but in a way, that makes it work even better for me. He's got so much impotent bluster, it really paints a picture. To a lesser extent, this expands out to the overall setting - this is a society in transition, and there's a palpable tug-of-war between the old and the new that I find compelling.

The core plot with the Wire? Adequate. It does what it needs to do, and not much more. Maureen Lipman plays the character well, and the notion that the Wire was "executed" by their own people is interesting, but there's not a lot to chew on.

Mark Gatiss seems to have a really good grasp of who the Tenth Doctor and Rose are - their dialogue, both together and separately, has a lot of energy. A fun random bit that I'm not sure I noticed before: when the Doctor is cornered by the police and does the bit about wrapping your hand around your elbow, the goon in the background tries it while Detective Inspector Bishop is trying to act intimidating.

Using an historic television signal to transmit to the masses is a good idea. Maybe the Doctor should keep that one in mind.

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This is another episode where the pair of Doctor and Rose feel to have jumped around a bit. After last episode’s downer ending they’re all upbeat again. This has happened a few times this series.

Yeah, I know I've been banging on about this all season, but it really seems the like episodic sequence is all out of whack.

Well, I thought that was quite enjoyable.

The black-and-white gimmick was well-used, and I felt it in service of the story, and not just a gimmick.

The story itself was an enjoyable noir caper, and it was fun to see Una getting her hands dirty, Uhura learning about spycraft, and M'Benga being entirely too comfortable with the whole thing. The guest cast was pretty great, too - I last saw Andy McQueen as Jesus Christ himself in "Mrs. Davis", a show that no one seems to have watched, and it was cool to see him in a very different role here.

Demore Barnes was very compelling as Kor...but the gravitas he brought to it was so reminiscent of Michael Ansara to me, I almost wonder if he should have played Kang instead.

I don't really have a read on Spock, but Pike certainly seemed to sense she was holding something back. I don't know if he actually knows what, though.

why the D7 never detected the shuttle

I think this one can be explained by the radiation - Scotty and Ortegas had to jury-rig something to track the D7, and they had the advantage of knowing it was there.

As for the stuff with Uhura and Kor...upon reflection, I think this might come up in the season finale, which seems to feature

AFAIK, Rogers still has the brand. It just won't be on CBC.

One thing I forgot to mention - since the preview photos and logline were released on Monday, I'd been wondering if we might see some ridgeless Klingons, but no luck. Maybe it's for the best, but maybe it's a missed opportunity?

Oh cool, GFR has finally gone mask-off.

This has always been the case, but I'm going to take this opportunity to state that links to that site are not allowed here, and will be removed on sight.

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 think Shatner is complicated because (a) he's 95 years old, and can't be expected to be fully "in touch," and (b) he has definitely had some questionable people handling his social media over the years.

Up to 10 dead, including the suspect, now.