Stardancer Supreme

I'm glad Jin is not the only student of color in this high school. It would have seemed really weird for him to be the only one that Wei-Chen could be placed with, even though we know that Jin was chosen on purpose. I wonder who is going to clean up all the destruction that is in Wei-Chen's wake?

So you mean to tell me that Jin is the only Asian person going to this school? I really didn't like the way that the principal spoke to him. I didn't like the way most people talked to him. Brought back flashbacks of high school, which isn't really a pleasant place! That "Beyond Repair" show was hella cringy, but totally representative of the shows we used to watch. I'm amazed that Jin didn't hurt himself smashing the back of his head into the trophy case...

Heh. Nicky and crew was far too nice. I would have gone to jail after beating that girl into oblivion. Smacking her head with the door was not enough for the havoc she caused over a dumpling rejection!

Because like most competitors for the same product, they would tend to cut corners to try to beat out the originators in some way other than superior product. Melody was trying to get more product out than Harmony, since they couldn't beat out Mei-Li's better tasting recipes.

I'm binge watching Season 2 and 3 and I couldn't help but wince whenever Nicky's phone went off at the most inopportune times. I keep my phone on silent damn near every day; why on earth wouldn't Nicky silence it while slinking about in places where she doesn't want to be discovered?

I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one thrown by the elimination in episode 1. Alex and Gabe made such a big thing out of the gal who didn't cook anything that I was sure she was the one going home! Hopefully the Black chefs won't all be eliminated next...

The Borg had evolved with the help of the Changelings. The young of Starfleet got that new improved cellular assimilation package. Seven got the old fashioned metal and biological merger assimilation. She can't ever remove the implants on her face and hands. These kids got off light!

Sidney has the utmost respect for Commander Seven, so coming to her senses realizing that she was pointing a phaser at her shocked Sidney to her core. Plus it seemed that Alandra was closer to Geordi than Sidney was, so it wasn't really that out of bounds for Sidney to embrace Seven in front of her as opposed to her sister behind her. Remember that when Seven showed the girls to their father onscreen, she was standing between them.

Well, Seven saved the Earth 3 times if you count Picard Seasons 1 and 2. She is quite deserving of being Captain of the Enterprise. Shaw was going to call it a day had he survived this adventure, and she was going to be Captain of the Titan, anyway. As much as Starfleet owes Jean-Luc, they would never give a ship to his boy. As for Jack, his character reminds me of one of my favorite Cosby Show episodes; the one where Vanessa introduces her parents to Dabnes Brickey, her fiance that she told no one about beforehand. I don't dislike Jack, per se; it's just that TM presented Jack to us like a perfectly cooked steak dinner that was placed on a garbage can lid. Jack wasn't as appealing as he should have been based on the way he was presented to us.

Well, all I can say is that I hope the writers coming in take advantage of the considerable lore (pun intended) to craft tighter stories for Star Trek that doesn't shyt on what we already have been given. The writer's room needs people who are fans of the subjects and can remember what went on before they step in, so at least these stories can make sense to those of us who watched everything Trek these past few decades. It shouldn't be so easy to pick apart an episode based on what the previous ones already told us. I'm forgiving, so I am not about to declare all NuTrek is trash.

Seven was already a Commander at the start of this season. She wasn't in the Academy. She has been Captain for a whole year before the Titan became the Enterprise. Guess I will go to Twitter to harass I mean ask TM some more questions... I wonder if we will get all the BTS gag reels and scenes they cut for the Blu-Ray? As a fan of both Picard and Discovery, I wonder why people seem to want to watch something they really don't like? Real Life is eventful enough to experience rather than to torture myself by hate-watching entertainment media. It was her voice. They used portions of her work from the Star Trek TNG movie.

Yeah. It would have been a nice touch to have Q and his son to round out the father/son theme on the finale. I may watch this finale again; my memberberries are overflowing!

And this could be the Starfleet version of "We don't really know what to do with him, BUT we need to keep an eye on him. Let Seven babysit him." Who else to watch an Ex-B but another Ex-B? I think that if there is any residual hate towards the Borg invasion, it should be leveled to Admiral Beverly Crusher. It might not have gotten this bad if she only told Picard about his son twenty some odd years ago. Starfleet managed to forgive Picard for being Locutus, and most of the folks who survived Worf 359 perished in this battle. If Jaaaaaack is now an Ensign, clearly no one is holding Vox against him publicly. Does Jack still have his Borg powers? I guess they are saving it for the eventual series/movie. I need the future writers to make that a true ensemble Trek series and not focus on Jean-Luc and Beverly's boy when it happens. I need adventures with Captain Seven, Raffaella, Crash, and the other ex-Titan crew. Let's keep Jaaaaaccck to a minimum, no less than 3 episodes total with Q hijinks, please!

I, too, am happy that none of the Original TNGers died. That Post Credit Scene... I instantly forgave this finale for not mentioning Kestra at all and not actually showing us Guinan giving the TNGers bombastic side-eye! (aaannd for not telling us who Geordi's wife is and where is Worf's son? Just a mention, guys!) I startled my son with my hooping and hollering upstairs while he is in virtual class downstairs. Anyway, I was satisfied with the proper sendoff this crew earned and with Captain Seven of Nine of the USS Enterprise G. I thought for a moment that the ship was going to be called the USS Picard, but I guess he would not have wanted that. So is Ensign Jaaaaaaaaaccck still going by Crusher or is he now a Picard? So Jean-Luc's trial is over now, Q is going to f*ck with Jack's life? NOW I feel sorry for Jack. At least he has Sidney LaForge to pal around with! So is this finally the End of the Borg as we knew them? I don't want to see them anymore. I was tickled that Philadelphia, PA is still around in the Future! My stomping grounds! I'm sure they worked feverishly to clean up the mess the Borg left behind in the year. I'm especially glad that they cleaned up the fallen ship graveyard. I never understood leaving the debris of great battles in space when you have the capabilities to retrieve everything left from the fallen ships. It may mean everything to the familes of those who were taken to have something to remember them by. I'm down for a new Enterprise series or movie, since Jaaaaaaack will hopefully not be the center of it with his Q troubles yet to come. I'm sure Seven will have plenty of reasons to not like Q. As long as John DeLancie is down for more shenanigans! Oh, and Terry Matalas also has to tell us what happened to Elnor. I liked him. Soji is traveling with Wesley, so maybe we will see them in another Star Trek feature. Section 31 is getting the movie treatment now that Michelle Yoeh has gooten more expensive, so I can't wait for that. I was satisfied with this finale. Happiness beats frustration with the media I choose to partake in. They better give Discovery a decent finale...

The thing is, most of the chefs already had nicknames coming into TOC. Maneet is the Dancing Spice Queen, Shirley Chung is the Dumpling Queen. It's just when Guy tries to "Guy up" the nicknames or give a chef a nickname that they didn't have previously. Shirley is the Dumpling Queen whose fans are the Dumpling Mafia; what does Guy do? "Dumpling Mafia Queen", which is a no from me, dawg. Shota Nakajima doesn't have a chef nickname, so why does Guy go to the lowest point of his imagination to come up with "The Ninja"? Because Shota is Japanese? That's the best you could think of? If the chef doesn't have a nickname (or you can't use the name of their restaurant like Guy did for Tobias Durzon), let them be Chef Whoever you are talking about unless they do something noteworthy in the competition, say "Bracket Slayer" Britt Rescigno....

According to what we are shown in the show, the chefs are shown who is in the bracket and where they are positioned before the first battle. So if you know that you are going up against Jet or Maneet, then you can quickly formulate a game plan to use Asian or Indian type flavors in your dish. Only Randa and her foolishness could either mess you up or deliver complimentary ingredients to your dish! Other than Aarthi, Maneet is the only one making Indian adjacent dishes. However, Jet isn't the only Asian chef in TOC, so his opponent could get away with parroting an Asian style dish like Adam Sobel did.

*i will NOT jump on my feminist soapbox* Sigh. On to Star Trek: Jaaaaaaaaaacck... As soon as I saw the Borg Cube, I thought, "So... are we going to see Agnes Borgati?" I was thrown when Beverly said that they hadn't seen the Borg in a decade... Did Picard Seasons 1 and 2 just not happen? I was like "Picard was mucking around with the Borg just a year ago! What do you mean you haven't seen them in a decade?" As much as my memberberries was overflowing this season, I just can't look past the way this story was written. I just shut my Vulcan brain off and enjoyed the ride. I was already done when they killed Elizabeth Shelby. (She was my favorite character in the Peter David Star Trek: New Frontier novels, which I am recollecting in hardcover versions.) I was really bummed that Shaw was killed. I guess this was the only way to get him to use Seven's name and get her to be the captain of the Titan. I also wondered why she and Raffi stayed on the Titan knowing that they aren't in control of her and the ship is overrun with Borg drones... I'm surprised that Alandra LaForge wasn't on the Bridge when she was assimilated. She practically spent every minute since we were introduced to her stuck to Geordi's side! (And who is their mother, Geordi?) I almost felt sorry for Jaaaaaaaaaacck, I really did. Knowing that he was going to run right into the Queen's arms tempered that feeling really quickly. If Picard was smarter, he should have sedated him the moment he found out about the Borg connection. So we are never going to forgive Picard for being Locutus, huh? Fleet Formation. Starships acting like Borg. Ugh. I would have liked to not be witness to the destruction of the Exelsior. That was the only ship without an abundance of crew under 25? Clicking my Vulcan brain back on for a second: I also hated the tone shift when the TNG crew got back to the Fleet museum. Ya'll just left the StarBorg Fleet, which is about to annihilate the Space Dock (so no one there was assimilated? Yikes!), and you are taking a leisurely stroll down memory lane? With no sense of urgency whatsoever. The Defiant and Voyager isn't spaceworthy? Gaah. Lines I laugh/snorted at: Data: I hope we die quickly! Deanna: I have never been so happy to see wrinkles in my life.

Well, the other chefs should already know who the #1 seeds are, barring Jet not returning to TOC 5. They will see each other at the beginning of the next season to see who comes in and who dropped out.

Now that is a good strategy for TOC when you are up against someone who only does one type of cuisine on the regular.

I'm okay with the winner. I feel for Jet and wonder if he will come back for TOC 5? Someone let Guy know not to call Shota "The Ninja" next year... *hopping on my feminist soapbox* I love that the winners of TOC have been women!

Because the Shrike was practically empty. Vadic took every changeling save one with her to the Titan! Worf dispatched the one guarding Riker and Troi and they, along with Raffi, was able to roam about the Shrike to stumble on Picard's body without issue.

She did say that she knew that the changeling wasn't Will almost immediately. The lines that should have been cut was how charming she found the fakeWill. "Good in bed, bad at pizza." I know she didn't have sex with something impersonating her husband! In fact, they could have replaced that line with a "I'm so glad Kestra wasn't there and that hopefully she is safe at the Academy..."

Same. I just had to shake my head at the continuing cliffhanger that is Jack... Jaaaaaccck. Please tell us what is up with him! I hope Kestra is safe somewhere. Knowing about Marina Sirtis' limited availability, I am glad thay didn't show us the torture she underwent. Please tell me that Deanna was joking about the "good in bed, bad at pizza" quip. And Vadic got what she deserved for being so poor at obtaining a prisoner when having control of the entire ship said prisoner is on. So clearly she took damn near every changeling from the Shrike to the Titan, leaving behind 2 prisoners who should have been crafty enough to eventually get free without help? Riker just let his old manness out. Also, does this mean that Picard's body is also destroyed for real now? What is so damned special about Picard and Jaaaccccckk that we are going through this nonsense? Sigh. Yep. Lowering my expectations to the floor for this one. Who's behind the damn door? Yeah. Seven needs a transfer stat.

Hell, they could alternate songs and do a cover song for the final song together!

I am #TeamKandiTamikaTiny in this piece. I never believed that Kandi was the problem in the group. Jermaine Dupri even crafted the songs around Kandi's voice, even though Tocha was the lead singer of Xscape. I'm cool on SWV because Coko always has her azz on her shoulders. (We watched the SWV reality show!) She kept Taj and LeeLee from making a bag when she decided to go solo her damn self! Why not have SWV make a gospel album? It would have killed! I'm a fan of both groups and this going back and forth on billing and set lists for a combined show distressed me greatly. Kandi wasn't being disrespectful towards Coko and SWV; Kandi has always been about her group and her coin. Keep your feelings out of business! Besides, you can't start AND end the show, Coko. This is not your sole show! If Xscape starts, then you end it. If you start the show, Xscape ends it. That wasn't that hard. Everyone is dogpiling on Kandi when Tocha was the real problem. I didn't know that the first solo project never came out; I need Jermaine Dupri to speak on that! I can't support Tocha's new project knowing that she stole from her sister. Sorry.