marinw

Great point. When I was watching Dowton Abbey I thought that the folks in the 1920s had most of the stuff we have now: phones, cars, radios, electricity and movies. Cultural change can be slow, but 900 years is a huge chunk of time.

What feels weird about the later seasons of Disco is how little society has changed in 900 years, even if there was some regression or stagnation post Burn. We still have the same social structures and Starfleet is more or less the same in terms of ranks and overall missions. It's still super difficult to leave the Milky Way Galaxy. I would think that society would be vastly different, like the Middle Ages compared to the 21st Century. Maybe things just got to a certain point and stayed there? Or did the Temporal Wars frak things up to the point that society stayed largely static? Or do the Disco writers lack imagination? Given that last night's episode was another version of a plot that's been done a bunch of time in Trek already makes me assume the later. (One of the best examples of imagining a future with a vastly different society and political and system that I have seen or read is Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series)

The Mintakans would like a word.

Would it have been better if Michael declared: “Yep. I’m a God! I order you to fix my machine.”? I did like her little speech about how technology and religion are not mutually exclusive.

This way I won't binge it in one weekend.

Shows you how closely I was paying attention! LOL.

How did Michael know that the locket was the actual clue? And why has there been no contact between the Prime and Mirror Universe for centuries?

The Crew of the ISS Enterprise becoming refuges in the Primeverse is a cool idea. But I did not need another tedious backstory.

Dadmiral!

It says a lot that we are still talking about Jellico thirty years after Chain of Command. And he got Troi in a normal uniform.

IMO Rayner is not an asshat the way Jelllico and Shaw were asshats, I think he's a good person. Being gruff does not automatically make a person bad. I know a lot of gruff yet nice people IRL. Rayner's method of interviewing the crew was unusual, but demonstrated that he genuinely cares about and is interested in the crew. Rayner is a great addition to the crew, and Michael made a good decision to make him her XO. I look forward to seeing what he does next.

I wish they would just jump ahead to The Testaments.

It will be hard to see LD go, but if this great show goes out on a high, that will be good.

Agreed, the show can now explore some new territory without retconning everything. I would like to see the tech develop to the point where they can think about visiting other galaxies, that might be a good way to end the series. They can say hi to the Andromeda folks from "By Any Other Name" who turned people into cubes.

I am shipping power couple T'Rina and Saru.

"The real mission was to learn about ourselves"! Yep, the Lower Decks comment was me! LD and Strange New Worlds still has lots of character development and world building with efficient story telling.

By coincidence I am now watching “The Chase” which essentially the plot of the whole final season of Disco, but in one episode.

I’m confused. If they decommissioned the Spore Drive why is Disco still going to Black Alert?

He reminds me of Shaw in Season Three of Picard. He is sure to suffer a similar fate, but not before we learn about his traumatic backstory🙄.

Agreed. I have a soft spot for big, ambitious TV Shows and Films that don't always quite hit the mark but still have a lot to offer. This was one of the most original show I've seen in a long time. Hoping for a second season. I'd be fine with a 400 year time jump,.

Michael must be thinking: "This Picard guy sure get mentioned a lot."

I predict conflict! Roddenberry would not approve. Every other captain ever has done something like that.

So another season-long arc for a plot Lower Decks could wrap up in 22 minutes. I’m here for the ride though. The actress playing T’Rina must have neck strain from looking up at her betrothed. I’m sure Fred can be reanimated.

And it’s back on CTV Sci Fi! Ok then.

Finally some gorgeous clothes!!! I liked how all the employees wore lab coats, I was reminded of Phantom Thread. Question: the fashion industry is very gendered. So what’s a male seamstress? A tailor is something different. I’ve always considered Coco Channel as the person who helped revolutionize fashion, liberating women from the restrictive dresses that were worn at the turn of the 20th Century. Here she is doing…something else. That said, I can’t be too judgemental of what anybody might have done to survive the Nazi occupation.