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"Tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore!"

I seem to recall some of the Romulans saying something very similar to Ni'var Science Directorate vulcans' faces in the episode Unification III.

"It seems like a reasonable response to me. As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero. "

"So, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the Ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of Barclay on 'em. 'Give me five Barclays for a quarter,' you'd say. Now, where were we?"

...Is this a meme or a cry for help?

Don't think they're including shuttlecraft. It's a bit hard to read but I can't see the Cerritos' Death Valley scanning through that area of the alphabet. I do note that Discovery is there in both original and -A format, which might be contentious since the ship is its own refit.

For me the Prodigy and Lower Decks theme songs are among the best in the franchise because they're versatile. You can have a slow, tender violin motif from the LD theme such as when Tendi was telling Mariner that the Beta shifters were her family at the end of season 2. A slightly different part gets a brassy remix as the swelling Crisis Point theme music for the Cerritos.

Not all Trek melodies do this. Voyager's got a lovely melody that feels appropriate for a grand trip homeward, but they tried using it at some big plot moments and it just felt wrong. Disco and TNG have the opposite problem where their themes are CONSTANT INTENSITY, so you don't often see them used in softer moments. (The latter is very weird to me considering we have heard softer variations of the theme, maybe I just can't think of any such uses in the series offhand).

Look, the man also directed First Contact (the movie, not the episode) and Those Old Scientists, which are generally well received. I think we can begrudge him one ghost-fuckin' episode.

Dunno what you're on about, that's Captain Sonya Gomez.

Ensign Gomez was indeed not seen again.

(yes, I know this is still inaccurate)

You might want to see a doctor about that. But have fun!

In fairness, Adira does have a weird moment where they seem reticent about switching pronouns. But I'll defend Disco's representation because I think it's just written with a different lens of how to treat queerness. The themes feel more modern, and more willing to explore what queerness is rather than treating it as something to be tolerated.

I'll never forget my first watchthrough of Season 3 where Stamets refers to Adira as his child. I was floored because I'd mentally joked that Staments shoulda adopted them by now, but here the narrative was coming out and saying it. The writers dove deeper into themes like found family rather than retreading old ground. It's heavy-handed at times, but it feels like queerness written for queer people.

T’Lyn’s story in Season 5 involves her and another character in an interesting way, and you see T’lyn embrace science and Starfleet more than I think people anticipate.

Until proven otherwise I'll remain on the Sokel-is-T'Lyn's-father boat and will assume this to be about him.