The Greatest Trek had a great line in last week's episode: "I don't mind all the genre episodes, I'd just like one of the genres to be Star Trek."

Are you colorblind? Because I am and I feel exactly the same way

I think I would have liked this episode better if only the scenes on the planet had been black and white.

He works in Manhattan, for the Sheffields.

It's kind of frustrating that 90s Trek actually gave an in-universe description for the ridgeless Klingons, because it really should have just been a case of "the aliens are the same, but this is how they're portrayed now". Like, my head-canon is that the TOS Enterprise looks just like the one in SNW; they just didn't have the budget/technology to accurately show it in the 60s. But now, there gets to be a plot hole of why Kor has ridges now, but won't 5 years later in "Errand of Mercy", and then will again by the late 24th century in DS9.

"Blackbody radiation" is just… what makes stars glow.

Wish the Onion wasn't out here giving them ideas…

I don't know how, but I would love to see more of these characters in live action. Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid were fantastic in BNW.

Tawny Newsome is awesome, so I'm sure this will be good, but there seems to be a fundamental tension between Kurtzman saying Trek can broaden, while Paramount seems to be trying to contract it.

I thought this episode was a lot of fun. Haven't really been feeling this season of SNW as much for some reason, but I think this is my favorite episode yet. Managed to fit some character development in around all the craziness, and the post-credits scene with Patton and Ethan was great.

Sensationalist headline-writer: "These researchers are neutrally investigating language change? Let's throw 'fear' in there to get up the prescriptivists' hackles!"

I would not have released Patel into Pike's custody after how she lost control when confronted with "Gamble". Like, clearly the being inhabiting his body was malevolent, but "the enemy of my enemy" doesn't make it ok that she basically got taken over by a consciousness besides her own. Leaving her alone with the captain of the ship feels especially dangerous (and letting her captain her own ship again, for that matter).

"The only thing that allows me to bear my infinity is not having to love anyone" may be one of the most devastating lines I've ever heard.

I literally spent the whole episode whispering "don't kill SAM, don't kill SAM" to myself

I feel like there was a kernel of a good episode in there, or maybe kernels of several episodes. I'm not opposed to the documentary angle per se, and it fits in with SNW's general willingness to experiment, but I have a difficult time imagining that a documentarian would actually edit the finished product that way, on top of the other stuff. There's definitely room to critique Starfleet and the Federation, but this episode really feels like it was missing some important chunks.

Someone asked Patrick Stewart about this once, and he said that in the 24th century, no one would care about baldness anymore

Writers' Room: "We need a name for a mineral these scavengers could be looking for."

"Uh… (glances at Italian takeout) aldentium!"

Yeah, in the last few minutes of the episode, I kept thinking how in TNG they would have discovered it was an anaphasic lifeform or some kind of telepathic residue or something, and here we don't get any explanation. Maybe they're trying to spin off Section 12 as some kind of "X-Files in space".

I want to see the Spock/Pike dream dance!