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Also, as this episode notes, Janeway will straight-up murder people.

Yeah, but there's the flip side of nepotism in terms of family expectations. Mariner's mother is a Starfleet captain. Her father is a Starfleet admiral. Think about what little kid Mariner's life must have been like. Figure Starfleet was shoved down her throat and in her ears at all times. She probably got a parental career plan to take her from Cadet to Admiral at age eight. I don't think Mariner was ever really rebelling against Starfleet so much as against others' attempts to carve her into a Starfleet shaped peg to fit into their Starfleet shaped hole.

That was cool, but Mariner was pretty smoking in her workout outfit, too.

None of that seems out of character. Even back in the first parts of the first season when Mariner was her most... Mariner, she liked going new places, learning new things and meeting/helping new people. She's just not a fan of Starfleet's occasionally rigid proceduralism - especially things like "Your people are dying of a plague that we could easily cure, but we won't because the Prime Directive says "Fuck you.""

Whenever Luke, Han or Leia aren't onscreen, someone should be demanding to know where they are.

Questions in order: We don't know where Ezra is but the other characters hope that finding Thrawn will lead them to him. Ezra was a teen and eventual apprentice Jedi of Kanan, the father of Hera's kid and another member of the core Rebels group. Well, when a mommy Bridger and a daddy Bridger love each other very, very much...

They were "snuggling up" to Boimler to mess with him. With Una she's still a special case. Also, Bashir is who the rule is really for - somebody whose parents decided to use genetic manipulation to try to turn their baby into a superman. The entire LD universe being high on Orion booze would honestly explain a lot of things.

I want Tendi to show up in a "sequel" to this or something. With this one the focus was "We've got to get these annoying future people out of here before they wreck time!" With Tendi it would be "Awww, Captain, can't we keep her? She's so adorable and nice. Plus she kicked the shit out of two adult Gorn in hand to hand."

And all that stuff needed to be formally established on the record. I mean look at it from Star Fleet's perspective. The Protstar, a top-secret prototype, went missing for years, it's crew vanished. It returns with a crew of unknown aliens (who are teens/children, but still) and causes the destruction of a Federation outpost. It's new crew repeatedly refuses all attempts at communication and eventually a weapon aboard it causes the destruction of quite a lot of vessels on a scale not seen since the Dominion War. As well as probably quite a lot of deaths of Star Fleet personal. It's completely understandable that Star Fleet wants both answers and someone to be held accountable. Fortunately for the kids, Janeway was in their corner as a respected vice-Admiral and Star Fleet is generally a decent, fair-minded organization, so the kids are on record as being cleared and now they get to start their new Federation/Star Fleet futures.

The Diviner created/grew Gwen after he came from the future. Ascencia specifically stated that she had been sent back. She's not "Future Gwen."

Presumably we'll find out some of that in future episode. For the last question, so the show can happen.

Not every Ferengi female is going to be okay with their misogynistic agenda. Nandi went out to make some profit on her own and to hell with what the males think.

No reactions thus far? This was a good, spooky episode that made the Borg scary again.

I doubt that Freeman will be demoted. If nothing else, Dawnn Lewis is a main cast member and nobody wants to go through the silliness that ensued in the later Original Series movies where most of the cast was on the Enterprise except for Sulu who was off by himself on the Excelsior. The journalist's stories were basically true. She was going on the information she was freely given by all those "Chatty Cathy" crew-people.

I'd have agreed with you about Season One Mariner, but that's not who she is anymore. That said I think she's good for the show and the ship. Beckett doesn't blindly believe/spout Federation doctrine. That's important to showcase the Federation when she's right, but also when she's wrong, like in "Grounded."

Even though this wasn't the season finale, this would have made a pretty good season finale.

That's a casualty of the Marvel Production System. With other shows you'd have the Fall season with some more filming during the winter or whatever so that if there was an unexpectedly popular breakout character, the showrunners could take that into account and do more with that person. But She-Hulk has likely been "in the can" for at least six months to a year. We might get more Madisynn in an eventual Season Two.

I liked what this episode represented - that the show is willing to experiment, break the format and try new stuff. I'd have preferred checking in with the Cerritos crew a little earlier, but screw it. Setting up Peanut Hamper in a "Dances with Avatar" story and then revealing that no, she's still the same selfish, vapid person she's always been was hilarious.

Badgey for a triple threat.

To be fair being there whenever a super-powered person is supposed to be around is probably a good way to get ahead and "control" the likely damage. And for my part, I don't want her to go She-Hulk smash on Intelligencia. I want her to go Jennifer Walters smash. Jennifer is a former ADA. So I want her to use her training and skill to unmask those fuckers and destroy them, starting with Josh. Because she knows who he is. "Josh, it's simple. You can give up your fellow cretins or you can go to prison. Real prison. Where you will wish that you could be celibate." I might be indulging in wishful thinking but I think Holloway will support her. She-Hulk is the face of his new law division and these assholes just slapped that face and devalued it. For that they need to pay in money and tears of regret.

I hope it turns out Holloway and the firm has Jen's back on this.

I'm not sure how much "resolution to the plot" there's actually going to be next week because of the nature of said plot. This show isn't about alien sky laser or gun-toting conspiracies. It's about a woman who happens to have superpowers living her life in LA. The blood-thief people can wait until next season (or maybe the... There will probably be some resolution/comeuppance for Josh, shit-bag that he was.

I didn't read it as that. Gil-Galad wants Galadrial to go West in part because he doesn't want her fanatic obsession with hunting Sauron to infect other Elves. It's the fanatic obsession that concerns him because he remember Feanor's obsession with reclaiming the Silmarils, which led to the Kinslaying and a bunch of other horrid stuff.

Well, technically the Numenoreans are joining one elf in battle and that elf is one that the other elves think is kind of an obsessive nutbar.