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Replace immortality with the decadence, long life, and free time of western civilization brought on by greater amounts of technology. Will our society have just a bunch of blithering old people and listless young people no longer being able to see any point in anything because all the fulfilling wo...

With an opinion you probably all saw coming, I, for one, absolutely abhor the British and French for their crimes against Germany following WWII. Yeah, big surprise, I know, but you cannot label a single nation as responsible for a conflict that, from all accounts, they all wanted to fight - that t...

Well, the Borg did in fact strategically assimilate Picard (and that was pre-FC, so it applies to both), so it is certainly an option, but they would probably pick up anyone they could. I don't think they regard a single person as representative of an entire culture, but it gives them an insight re...

You can take issue with how Starfleet conducts first contact scenarios in this episode, but it still feels as well planned as the D-Day landings compared to the most recent episode of The Orville ("All the World is Birthday Cake"). The lack of any kind of recon put them on the Jonathan "just give th...

Heh, I actually have a library copy of Incubus here on my desk. I've been meaning to check it out if only out of morbid curiosity. Why would an evil Kirk be a coward? Why wouldn't he be super brave? Reckless, aggressive to the point he doesn't care if he dies? Because he's running more on instinct a...

Do you think he feels like old Pike in any way? He's more exuberant and charismatic, but we're also seeing him a lot earlier in his career than previous takes on the character. There's not much to say about Pike in "The Menagerie" frame story--he's a damaged shell of man barely able to interact wit...

Since they announced this I've just had this idea in my head that future Picard retired from Starfleet and became an archaeologist. I thought he could either be assigned to a Starfleet exploratory vessel as a civilian expert, or called up in a time of diplomatic crisis to act as a negotiator. I'd re...

Holy shit, did this show finally get decent? The framing device of the second season premiere "Ja'loja", Bortus' "ritual", made for a genuinely hilarious teaser and got me hyped for the rest of the episode--which left me disappointed when it ended up being a bunch of lame 80s sitcom plots. But "Prim...

Don't forget, they recently announced another animated series in addition to Lower Decks. Lower Decks is (as I understand it) supposed to be more adult while the other series will be either aimed to kids or at least kid friendly. CBS really does seem to be in a "throw it all at the wall and see wha...

So overall, I wasn't impressed with The Orville . There were a few good gags, but for the most part the comedy was lost on me. There were one or two episodes that were pretty solid, and another one or two with a promising premise but lousy execution, but as science fiction it was mostly a lot of rec...