Honestly, healthy choice!

In general, I’m a firm believer in “stardates were made to be nonsense, and should be treated as such,” but they’re fun to puzzle over once in a while.

Kurtzman has made some nebulous comments about there being some overlap, so I was open to the possibility that this was happening between seasons or during season five or something.

Not a lot to say about this one - I’m just glad Reno found someone.

And we have a stardate!

868858.7 - that puts it pretty definitively after DSC season 5 (coda excepted), assuming stardates are, you know, linear.

this time we’ll get it right i swear

Unfortunately, that’s also made me wonder if his days are numbered…

While our cadets compete to join an elite team at the Academy,

RED SQUAD

RED SQUAD

RED SQUAD

I thought about this back when they had the wheelchair-using crewman in the first couple of seasons of Discovery - I think I’ve come down on the side of “sometimes the old ways are the best ways” with stuff like this.

You can’t suddenly lose power and crash your wheeled chair. For all we know, it’s got some sort of powered unit for use when the user encounters a steep incline or flight of stairs or whatever.

But for everyday use? Yeah, I’ll stick with wheels.

Didn’t he seem visibly shaken when asked about the Protostar crew, like he knew something SAM didn’t?

I didn’t think that at the time, but on rewatch…maybe? At least some of the Prodigy kids are on the memorial wall, but that doesn’t really mean much in context. I’m not sure how the production timelines of the two series aligned when this pilot would have been filming, but they may even have been attempting to do a little synergy.

I would say “yes” to “odd” (or at least unusual), and “no” to “out of place”.

TBH this piece didn’t resonate with me at the time, but I have to admit it’s just about perfect, thematically.

I’m not a huge fan of the opening theme, but c’est la vie.

I didn’t realize this was an original recording for the show.

I really hope they get into this at some point, but my assumption is that the main limitation of programmable matter is that you have to, y’know, program it first, which takes time.

Also, I had no idea that programmable matter is an actual theoretical thing that scientist have been trying to crack for a few decades now!

In the case of the tricorder…I wonder if that’s the Doctor being old-fashioned, since we’ve also seen that tricom badges have tricorders built into them.

I guess as a response to the youth movement that was pressuring him to negotiate. This sort of thing is unfortunately common IRL.

There are arguably spoilers in the track titles, so browse at your own risk.

Genesis is an interesting version of charming because at first glance she starts out as a “mean girl” but then you realize that she’s parodying it hard.

From the trailers, I had assumed that Genesis would be the stuck-up mean girl, and Darem would be the friendly tryhard. Turns out the reality is the exact opposite.

Edit: Also, there’s no need for spoiler tags in these discussion threads!

I think their initial demands were ludicrous because the president had no real intention of rejoining the Federation - it was all theatre.

Or at least a refit, which I suppose could be repairs following season 5, in theory.

are Betazoids really so vain that the shift of Starfleet HQ is enough to mitigate all their concerns?

I think this is actually a really big deal, especially since the Betazoids’ concerns were chiefly about security, and the Federation is hardly going to let their seat of government fall.

But “the Federation is too Earth-centric” is a concept that’s been played with since…at least the PIC era, so I thought this was pretty significant.

That has been a thing since DSC season three, and I really hope they explore exactly how that works in this series.