It’s still so weird that they got the one completely charisma-free actor on the show to play Jim Kirk, and yet Sam Kirk lights up every scene he’s in

How do you say "devour feculence" in Klingon?

Brent Spiner, who has a story credit on “Star Trek Nemesis”

Life finds new ways to disappoint you every day

Their capital city being a bunch of egg-shaped buildings around a giant birdcage building was a hilarious touch.

Actually this brought up a completely buried memory for me. For a few years I lived in the same neighborhood as him – at the time, cool guy that I was, I had a Starfleet badge on my coat, and one day I was at the grocery store and had an awkward moment with him where our carts got sort of wedged together negotiating the too-narrow checkout lanes. He saw my pin and gave me a Vulcan salute as he moved into his lane. He seemed nice and a bit sheepish. The staff at the coffee shop I used to go to told me he was extremely lovely.

Real M'Benga erasure here

I struggle to think of a Trek character more Star Trek than Saru. DSC has its (sometimes severe, sometimes not) flaws, but it has an impressive track record of occasionally absolutely nailing how to make some of the trekkiest Trek characters.

It's going to be interesting where the series ends up in the inevitable reevaluation once a few years have passed.

Man, you have to watch the one with Giant Spock ("The Infinite Vulcan")

It's okay man, chronophages happen to the best of us

But what about all the interesting ideas they've pitched for Legacy? Like...the ideas that were come up with. That involved things. You know the ones.

As much as I want every Star Trek show to now have one musical episode once a season –– just to annoy Subspace Rhapsody grinches –– I don't think it's funny enough for Lower Decks. I would love to see an episode where, like, the same anomaly happens but it makes everyone speak exclusively in limericks, or some shit like that.

Weird way to spell Link Hogthrob.