Meanwhile.
Anyone else notice this season is very âBlueâ?
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Next week.
Kenneth Williamâs as guest star.
Carry on
Star Trekking
Across the Universe. âŚ
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Oh, yeah, Star Wars was mentioned as well. We may not live in Pap time but weâre not stupidâŚ
The really annoying thing about Discoveryâs plot hole is that they dig them all themselves, needlessly.
Since Iâm having a moan, Iâm going to bitch about the Emerald Chain. Theyâre not a good villain. Theyâre basically the Orion syndicate without the Federation keeping tabs on them.
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But apart from needlessly picking holes in the plot it ainât bad 
Thatâs a bit like excusing a violent maniac because heâs nice when he hasnât had a drink.
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Have you been drinking tonight then
Seriously though - Fam C_S did have a good chat about plot holes v enjoying the episodes for the entertainment they were actually made to be.
Guess wot won?
Mediocrity?
Nah, entertainment, just like everything else on the telly-box. People either like or hate what they watch. Lifeâs too short to dissect everything tbh. Donât like something then donât watch it, simple.
Iâll discreetly email all of the worldâs professional critics and tell them theyâre out of a job.
The good news is that theyâll all be able to get into writing because there is no longer any quality bar.
Itâs fantastic news. I saw it on the side of a passing spaceship with the naked eye from my garden.
In my defence, it was Trek nerd reviews that mentioned the Star Wars comparisons.
I was happy to see some colour other than blue in this series tbh.
The 2009 movie borrowed heavily from Star Wars.
Bar scenes, weird aliens, planet killing weapons.
Iâve never understood the oil and water reaction of some fans to both franchises. e.g. if you like one, you canât like the other. Itâs a US thing mostly.
However, Iâve always liked that they were very different propositions.
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itâs always good to have a hobby, ⌠
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Hobbies have basically saved my sanity during lockdown.
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I loved the Trek episode that followed Disco.
They âshuttleâ down onto an alien planet. Weird Rock circle formation
Strange force inside the rock circle
Then a battle at the same location as Kirk v the Gorn.
Oh waitâŚ
@papaâs review (& tbh mine) put more eloquently
Spoiler alert
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Itâs nothing like my review. I wouldnât go as high as 3.5/5.
Itâs a 2.5, at most from me. The one thing I did like about this review is the word âbrotherâ being in quotes. I forgot to mention that yesterday.
Are they actually biological brothers, because they donât seem to be. One is Hispanic and the other is black. Thatâs fair enough; adoption or even blood brother status might solve that. It doesnât explain the fact theyâre from the same place and have different fucking accents.
This is what I mean about the bad writing. How hard is it to get this shit right? Either cast another black English actor, or come up with a different angle. They donât HAVE to be brothers for this episode to work. The fact that they are makes this episode worse.
The other thing Iâd mention is the utterly ham-fisted way that Discovery and Picard try to graft a contemporary woke agenda into the show.
âHasnât Trek always done that, pap?â, I hear you cry. Sometimes, but a lot more bravely than this shit. Kirk snogging Uhura bordered on incitement at the time.
This? Itâs wank. Itâs like they donât even understand the concepts theyâre trying to shoehorn in. Take the pronouns stuff with Adira. She is full of multiple personalities and memories. âTheyâ in this context clearly isnât as embarrassing as âtheyâ in the Sam Smith context.
If this is another example of Trek doing what Trek does, what comment is Trek making on all the non-binary people in the world? That theyâre all like Adira? Raging with the ebb and flow of multiple personalities coming and going?
As I said, utterly ham-fisted.
They did clear up the âbrotherâ bit in the episode but yeah the accents caused a bit of merriment at Chez C_S
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Picard had Irish Romulans.
One of the best things about this season of Discovery is that it didnât.
Very fond of the Irish, but theyâre not Romulans.
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