I think that you have got to learn and come to accept that people have different tastes. Stellaris certainly can be too difficult for some people, but that doesn't take away from its brilliance.

Really strong episode, although I am skeptical about the Locarno reveal, I could've imagined cooler things, but we'll see where they'll take it from here

Frame of Mind is the scariest!

One damn minute, admiral!

I am re-watching Picard and are near the end of season 2 now. I've found the show to be much better and indeed extremely enjoyable if one binges it. The one episode per week scheme at release when I first watched Picard was really detrimental to such a heavily serialised story, in my opinion. After Picard, I will be re-watching all three seasons of Lower Decks to prepare for the fourth in September.

It's Brunt, FCA!

I could give many labels to the Gorn arc but "uninteresting" is definitely not one of them!

Beautiful

However, the message of Trek also is that not all change is good, already evident in the M5 episode of TOS. There's no shame in taking a step back if the prior state was superior, which some think it is (with regard to the 20 episode scheme)

Yeah Spiner's acting in that episode is great, it's a bit ridiculous and over the point but I believe that that was intentional, and I am not holding it against the episode

Wow thanks, that really explains well why the modern shows respect (at least some of) "beta canon" more than what I would expect. A natural consequence when some of the authors sit in the writer's room :)

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