adamkotsko @ adamkotsko @startrek.website Posts 8Comments 7Joined 2 yr. ago
Is the Captain Pike we know from Discovery and Strange New Worlds really the same dude from "The Cage"?
The biggest recent example of someone getting backstory as prelude to killing them off is Airiam (Robot-Head Person).
On the first viewing of "Unnatural Selection" (TNG 2.7), are we supposed to believe Dr. Pulaski can really die?
I also like that he is the only main character in an ongoing series to be from the pre-Enterprise era (since the Tellarites we see there have normal warp engines and presumably would not still be using generation ships like his).
It still seems like they could have coordinated the two plots in a more transparent way, given that the shows are running concurrently and have overlapping staff. Fans shouldn't have to do this much mental gymnastics to reconcile episodes that aired two years apart. The in-universe claim that the pre-history of our era is constantly shifting seems like a cop-out in those circumstances.
Why did they have to show Khan shifting into the future just one year after Picard and co. travelled back to the same time and we saw Soong on trial for the Khan project (a past event)? What benefit is there to jacking around with what they just established?
SNW's version of Kirk is a genuinely insightful take on the character
Picard season 2 is structured like TAS "Yesteryear" -- and the Jurati-Queen knows it
The biggest gap in the existing series is the one-two punch of the Romulan War and the founding of the Federation, which we only missed due to ENT's cancellation. Finding some way back into that era, beyond Riker's holodeck program, would be number one on my wishlist.
The Klingon Augment Virus is the real reason for the ban on genetic engineering (includes spoilers from SNW 2.2)