I love all Star Trek.

… huh. Releasing a large clip from an episode of a season that doesn’t presently have anyone to broadcast it.

weird.

I don’t think most instances have enough users to get 20 upvotes on their posts. That’s not a very good indicator.

maybe we could get a crossover with Shaw so they can make that look together

the crew was constantly backstabbing, betraying, lying, and being all around bad towards each other

… what???

Millions of people watched it. It brought us the entire rest of everything in Star Trek now.

I love it.

Orville has not been renewed or cancelled, officially, at this time, as far as anyone’s aware?

Section 31 speed walking!

The first several episodes of Orville I’ve described as “what if Star Trek had dick jokes and occasionally tapped the well of ex-wife jokes”… but yeah, I loved that too.

SpaceX pretty much kept US Spaceflight alive between the time of the Space Shuttle, and… whatever comes out next. Tesla corporation has proven to the rest of the car manufacturers, and other startups, that the way of the future is not via burning fossil fuels.

Elon showed the world what a shitheel he was after that.

So, I’m pretty sure that this dialogue was written before Elon became the obvious shitheel that he is now. And, as many point out, mirror universe Elon Musk might’ve been even more instrumental to their world, than ours.

I thought it was Cuyahoga? correct me if i’m wrong pls

Outside of Pike and Batel’s relationship, are there any points in this episode that look to connect to anything else in the currently ongoing plotline in SNW? I didn’t really notice anything, it seems like this might be the most standalone episode.

If I remember correctly, the very first scene of S1E1 was Batel waking up in Pike’s bed, so… yeah :D

and subverting the “hero goes back in time to kill a mass murderer” trope, with “hero goes back in time to save a mass murderer”

La’An fell head over heels for someone who had never heard of her. Absolutely makes sense. An entire lifetime of being treated differently, because everyone knows. Even if they don’t treat her negatively, they still know.

This Kirk was the first person since grade school that she met someone who didn’t know.

Absolutely makes sense.

So… La’an goes back in time to bootstrap paradox Pelia into becoming the engineer she is in the current timeline, and saves Earth’s next Hitler from being killed, because without that, humanity never really gets it’s shit together. And ::speculation alert!!:: maybe her leaving that gun there begins his murderous spree, so maybe she bootstrap paradoxed Khan into being the tyrant he becomes, too.

What a wild ride.

I just … this series… is just so consistently enjoyable. I love it.

One time to refresh everyone’s memory of how SNW does things, here are the stardates mentioned in season one:

so… how do we reconcile figuring out how stardates work here? it would seem to not be linear.