It's a good show overall, but in too many ways it doesn't feel like Starfleet. I see it as more of a modern teeny sci-fi show with a Star Trek theme.
In the Ukrainian war, we still don’t have a credible source as to who blew up Nord Stream, and that’s been over a year ago already.
Supposedly it was done by pro-Ukrainian forces, not specifically Ukraine themselves but possibly some mercenary group, possibly even the US. It's kind of been brushed under the rug as otherwise it would damage support for Ukraine.
SNeW Pike is literally THE redeeming factor of Discovery.
If you're not put off by Lower Decks, be sure to watch a good chunk of it before you go through season 2 of SNW. The crossover episode in SNW is my most re-watched.
In my head I genuinely retconned SNW Pike into those movies.
You're just saying that because you can't throw your leg over that hairdo.
An audio recording from an Israeli HUMINT division, the kind that exists to create and spread propaganda. Reminds me of the recording the IDF released of Hamas members admitting the hospital strike was their own, which according to many impartial people featured them speaking the wrong dialect and in the wrong accent.
This article spends a lot of time saying nothing much at all.
So far no mammals — or any animal with a backbone, for that matter — has completed its life cycle from conception to adulthood in space.
I gotta ask, why the hell not?? Surely that's something that has been considered by more than just the Russians.
Edit: Lmfao, they did study sperm in space, and two of the job titles stand out: Payload Developer, Payload Manager XD
Edit2: OH MY DAYS THEY HAVE THEIR OWN MISSION PATCH!
I think this image explains it nicely:
Insects couldn't fit anywhere else.
Makes you think, though. There are a great many different animals, but then there must also be unfathomably more of everything else. And that's just life as we know it on one planet.
I have to strongly disagree with your premise there. Star Trek and Starfleet do have a singular underlying theme throughout, as defined by Gene Roddenberry. Yes, each series is different, but there is a thread throughout that binds them, a code of morals that someone in the crew always brings everyone back to every episode, even if a character strays. Even the other species have their traits that generally stay consistent. This maybe started to diminish with DS9 and Voyager, after Roddenberry passed, however others don't quite grab a hold of that thread well at all - specifically Enterprise and Discovery. The J J Abrams films also somewhat, although they follow TOS closely enough that it still fits.
It's not the action/flashy scenes (which were never what made Star Trek great, and frankly HDR and bloom are all too often overdone these days, like if Michael Bay did lens flare), it's the interactions between the characters. And overall it's a feeling, something that's really hard to put into words, but recognisable when it's there.
Again, the interactions between the characters. You'll have to forgive me for not having it fresh in my memory, I haven't seen Discovery for a while (dropped Sky TV and with that lost the only device logged into my mum's Netflix) but generally to me it felt like most other CBS shows in the way characters interact, and how so many of them focus on hooking up with each other to the detriment of their duties. It's cheap and lazy drama, in my eyes. SNW even still has a little of this around Spock, but in general it feels like CBS finally listened and relaxed on the reins a little bit, allowing it to be a "proper" Trek show.
You did bring up a bunch of things in your previous comment that make me want to go back and re-watch Discovery, though, so I'll be doing that soon.
Because I was speaking in hyperbole.