The contemplative and slower tone of the coda really highlighted what was lost in switching to shorter seasons with a long serialized arc to babysit. Imagine if we had those arcs but with a handful of bottle episodes peppered throughout.

I wonder if they cut down the Moll resolution a bit to make room for the series wrap up. It did feel a bit abrupt.

I totally called Kovich being a time traveler, but them folding him into Daniels was a neat surprise, and felt like a naturally revelation. “Oh, of course he’s bloody Daniels.” It expanded both characters without diminishing their mystery at all.

Knowing that Calypso was meant to be the whole focus of season 6 is a hard blow, though. We’ll likely never get that story now. I’m glad they were able to at least tie it firmly back to the show, but man, it would have been fun to see how it played out. Why does Kovich need this Craft, and why does it require the ship to be de-refitted? Maybe now that the show is done they’ll give it a proper continuation in novel form. One can only hope.

This is an excellent distillation of what makes Tilly great. Imho she’s the best written character across the board in any Trek of the past two decades. I missed her sorely in season 4.

It’s definitely a a nice nod to the character. If bar patrons 600 years later still get the reference, that speaks well of her lasting influence on the Federation.

I don’t really see it with Paris, but I’ve often thought Anthony Rapp and Alan Tudyk should play brothers in something.

I wonder if they ginned these up for Section 31 or Starfleet Academy (if that’s still a thing?) and figured they could use them here, similar to the First Contact uniforms being ported over to DS9.

I really think they just overplayed their hand, and he really did overdose by accident - or because he thought it was the only way for Moll to get away. I don’t believe either of them are basing a strategem on the Progenitor tech actually being able to resurrect him, but Moll is desperate now, so she’s willing to believe it might work because it’s the only hope she has left.

I don’t think Reno was referencing The Littles, as she referred to the treasure hunt as sounding like something out of a holonovel “for the littles”. Unless there’s something specific in Peterson’s stories relating directly to this, I’m pretty sure it was just a cutesy way of saying “for little kids”.

Thanks for making these posts every week. I come here after every episode to see what references I missed.

The focus is more on Burnham and her belief in personal connection, not the crew and their own piccadillos. Discovery has always been first and foremost the story of Michael Burnham, like it or not. Docking it for what it is not and has never attempted to be isn’t really valid criticism.

In that episode more time had passed, and Zora never mentions the crew by name, so the crew she was waiting for to return might have been replacements who never arrived.

Would have been funny to bring fellow Cylon Landry back and have Rayner say “wait do I know you?”

Also, what is dragging him along with Burnham and Rayner, while the consciousnesses of everyone else are presumably unaware of the jumps? Come to think of it what’s the point of the Time Bug if nobody involved is usually aware of it? Is the jumping just a side effect of the ship being “frozen” in time?

St. Patrick’s Day in America has always been more of a celebration of Irish-American immigrant culture than it is of Ireland itself.

Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.

I used to get up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons, and remember being really bummed when they weren’t on because Saddam Hussein was invading Kuwait.

And I can sort of mentally mark when I started to sleep in later because by the time I got up all I managed to catch was Saved By the Bell before the broadcast switched to a golf tournament or a fishing show.

And ATMs charge fees, which you don’t pay if you use the teller.

“Real old heads”? Blu-rays are older than Silly Bandz.

My bluetooth headphones still do this when I use the microwave at work. I have learned to stand back from it when it’s in use.

Apple IIe’s in the computer lab at school, magazines with whole programs in basic that you could type in to make the computer draw something.