It was briefly syndicated, I think; I watched the first season on the local ABC affiliate. In my area a tiny little TV station in the middle of a cornfield got the rights to TNG and I honestly think that’s what kept that station afloat. The affiliates fought over DS9 and VOY. There was a UPN station in my region but it was too week for me to watch it OTA.

I feel like they tried to learn from BSG without bringing in Ronald D Moore for insight, and just said, hmm, yes, the things that make BSG work so well are depression and alcoholism.

If you like that one and you’ve never seen the original Rat Pack Ocean’s Eleven movie, do yourself a favor and watch it. It’s not deep, it’s not fantastic cinema, but it’s entertaining as heck.

I’m also going to give a curve ball: M*A*S*H.

Movie recommendation: Run Silent, Run Deep. It’s a WW2 Pacific theater submarine movie with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. But it’s directed by Robert Wise (Star Trek: TMP) and the story beats will be recognizable by fans of both TMP and Wrath of Khan. It also focuses pretty heavily on the lower decks crew.

Go back and rewatch TOS. Spock is emotional.

Yeah, basically they took the intro Dennis McCarthy wrote for TNG, and replaces his theme with the TMP theme

https://youtu.be/jzpeulsbv8o

Good Lord they established that Pike and Batel have a relationship in the first episode.

Rigel 7 is literally a callback to The Cage

Has some real “why doesn’t Tesla put an alternator on the wheels” energy

I don’t want to be thought of as rude, but it’s incredibly insulting to use the word “genocide” to describe, say, cochlear implants.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Hitler and Stalin didn’t force Jews, gay people, etc. to convert to Christianity; they were killed for being “wrong”. An entire people were nearly wiped out via mass murder.

That’s what genocide is. MASS MURDER.

You’re comparing possible genetic therapy to allow people to blend in, to !!!MASS MURDER!!!

EDIT: I thought of a better analogy: people who are paraplegic due to spinal injury, and stem cell research. There’s promising research into curing some spinal injuries previously untreatable, which would allow people to walk again. The argument many disabled communities make, is that doing so deprives that person, and the world, of a different life experience where they can live a meaningful life in a wheelchair, and that treating their injury is no different than throwing them into an oven at a Nazi mercy center. It leaves out entirely the wishes of the individual, suggesting it’s more important to be a visible disabled person than their personal wishes.

Suggesting that, say, your child could avoid having to learn coping mechanisms to deal with ADHD by never having ADHD in the first place, isn’t murder. Now, testing your fetus and aborting it because it’s going to be disabled, on the other hand…

I don’t know that I fully agree. I think a lot of people who get upset about attempts to cure autism are people who are able to function in society independently, along with people who get upset on behalf of people with autism and/or are self diagnosed because they do things that fit the profile.

Contrast this with some people I know who have a now-adult child who is, to be clear, very intelligent, but he’s nonverbal, will probably never drive, will probably have great difficulty holding down a job, all things that make life in current society difficult. Add the message of last night’s SNW’s episode in. Not everyone is an angelic, understanding soul. These folks I’m thinking of have had a lot of problems with prejudice. Add in that they’re probably on board with having their child at home for life and having to worry about who takes over for them when they’re not able to.

As far as I know I’m not on the spectrum even though honestly I should probably be checked. I do know about other, diagnosed problems that get in the way of what people would call “normal”, and honestly if someone said I could get an mRNA injection to change that, I would. If they’d come to me 20 years ago and said, we can’t cure you but we can make sure this ends with your generation, absolutely, no question.

I personally honestly think the line should be disease and disorders, full stop. Gattaca, in other words. I know we won’t be able to stop rich people from ordering pretty and athletic kids eventually but the line should be drawn nonetheless.

You know, I can’t argue with most of this. I think other than TAS, Discovery S1 is about the only Trek I’ve never rewatched. It doesn’t really fit in with the era it’s meant to be set in, it brings back a lot of things I don’t really care for in Trek (Mirror Universe, Section 31, etc) but it mostly knows what it is and where it’s going.

Season 2 might be, but I’m not sure. The Enterprise was revealed at the end of S1 of course and by golly it sure seems like Anson Mount hit the ground running as Pike.

I seriously wish the beginning of S3 had been Rod Roddenberry doing a soft reboot of Andromeda. He’s talked about how one of his “jobs” is taking his dad’s ideas and pitching them as new shows, and I feel like Andromeda could have been an interesting direction for Star Trek to go. I’d love for more resolution on Calypso. I’d love more talk about how the ship’s computer got taken over by an alien AI and they’re just sort of letting it do its thing as a part of the crew. But at a certain point the show just…sorta…trailed off.

And despite liking that it felt like a soft Andromeda reboot, it simultaneously felt like they used the time shift to not deal with why Discovery looked nothing like any of the other ships of the era, and to ignore the “black ops” nature of the ship.