I’m not sure if someone was trying to figure out ways to increase their profitability to avoid getting bought out, or if they were trying to increase their value to make buying them out a more attractive deal, or what… but there was definitely a whole lot of “wtf are they thinking?” moves at Paramount, just as there were at HBO a year or so ago.

They were definitely flinging options at walls to try to get some kind of effect. But they were doing it with no apparent rhyme nor reason, at least to us out here.

I suspect we’ll see another round of readjustments if/when Skydance gets their merger handled. I suspect there’s people over there just chomping at the bit to get their hands deep in some Trek productions.

I’d guess Zora didn’t want to run the DOTs to clean things up anymore

that… looks like it was a 480p source, playing on a 720 display.

Yeah, it might be just slightly higher quality than the broadcasts originally were, but not much.

On rewatch, I wonder if he was on the way to suggesting someone like Book when he was interrupted

Agree with this, it seemed like he was using Book for context, not for a real suggestion. Saru respects what Booker has done for everyone, but I don’t think he’s a real big fan of the guy, and certainly doesn’t think he should be the XO of a Federation ship.

I could be wrong, though

I’m told that’s Bigfoot with a hat on.

… hello?

I think I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 seasons of Picard, minus the pieces of plots that apparently went absolutely nowhere, and I presume they probably were things that ended up getting cut, but their plot threads weren’t completely cut.

Not exactly what you’re getting at here, but the first scene in the last episode, where we see Kirk on the UEF Enterprise, as La’An enters the bridge, and he turns to her, and talks, that is absolutely channeling TOS Kirk in virtually every aspect.

And then, outside of that, In both of the episodes we’ve seen him in, we’ve explored aspects of Kirk that are both the same as the Kirk we know, as well as very different from the Kirk that we know.

… so, Romulans were running the show. The Romulans believed that the mere existence of synthetic life would lead to the being(s) from outside the galaxy being called to raze all organic life in the galaxy. So, yeah. Of course, that’s what they did.

(of course, it turns out, that they misinterpreted the message – which was that if the synthetic life were in threat of being annihilated, then they would come and raze all organic life, so the fact that the Romulans were being racist pricks was the actual problem, not the existence of the synths)

Obviously one of the people on the panel there she was trying to convince was very much a bigot towards augments, but of course, a Janeway endorsement is going to be a big point. But unless Prodigy (being slightly before Picard, right?) is nearing the breakdown of the anti-augment laws, I doubt they’re going to be like “oh let’s just let him in on Janeway’s word”. Of course, there’s the “asylum” bit, but even asking for asylum, that only gets Una her position back because she was already established as one of the best.

Part of her argument, was that he’s a mishmash of 22 or 26 of the federation members species… and possibly part of that being that he’s not any particularly enhanced version of any of those.

Hopefully we will get that S2 … and if not, maybe the writers will at least tell us where they were going with it.

Bravo!

It’s worth noting probably, that a major plot point of Prodigy also hinges on Federation genetic modification laws, although it’s not clear what lead exactly to the Federation allowing Dax to proceed with his potential future admission to Starfleet, or where that plotline might end up going, were the series to get it’s second season.

i think my favorite feature is that errors while posting no longer silently fail. however, since they do show in a small popup box with a short timer, if i’m not paying attention, i’ll still miss them, and it’ll look like it failed silently.

The saucer section couldn’t leave the lower section fast enough and was caught in the blast radius. The end result was the same as if traditional life boats were used - the destruction of the entire ship.

… excluding that the lives of nearly everyone on the ship were saved, rather than everyone going kablooey in space?

no other ship had that feature moving forward

do we know that, or just assume it since we don’t see it used? I would think that it would be a standard feature, considering the possibility of the warp drive going kablooey. Or I guess warp core ejection could be the standard use case… ?

hmm

unsure

Could the Ent-D eject the warp core, or was separation the intended replacement for that…

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