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I gave this one a rewatch, and not only is it much better when you're not half-asleep like I was the first time 'round, I think it also works better when you know the Spock twist in advance.

Setting aside the silliness of the simulation, the actual story worked better for me once I realized that the re-creation room was manipulating La'An the entire time, planting the false Spock from the very beginning, and using the various characters to needle her about her feelings - both that she has them at all, and how she's afraid people might take her less seriously in her job as a consequence of them.

Not-Uhura's speech is about the "Amelia Moon" stories La'An grew up with just as much as it's about Star Trek itself.

And Christina Chong turned in a really great performance throughout, too - this one should definitely go in her audition reel.

That was a pretty fun bit of silliness - low-calorie, but it looked like the cast had a good time.

The La'an/Spock storyline is unexpected, but damned if Ethan Peck and Christina Chong don't have chemistry.

Obviously continue to watch something you dislike, despite there being many other things you can do with your life.

What part of any of this was boys will be boys?

What part of any of this was hockey related?

Are those serious questions?

But [the case] also revealed the existence of a secret Hockey Canada fund, which the organization eventually admitted it had specifically created to pay settlements in sexual assault cases against players – apparently lifting the lid off a long-simmering culture of abuse and cover-ups extending far beyond the case at hand.

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. I'm not against puppets, but a TAS-style adventure would have been fun.

If they're really going to join the fleet from time to time, maybe we'll finally see this era's Enterprise.

USS Athena

They do look awfully Mogh-like...

This casting makes it easy to attack as woke and might limit its audience.

In all seriousness, that would be the absolute best reason for this series to fail. I would be incredibly proud of it.

I didn't expect the apparent flashback framing device - Russ and Takei are a nice surprise.

Whenever this happens, it looks absolutely fine on some Mastodon instances (I just checked, and this post looks fine on my own), and "wrong" on others (like yours).

That suggests to me that the issue may lie with the Mastodon server, but I genuinely don't know, and have no idea how to replicate the issue.

That is a bit of weirdness that happens sometimes when Lemmy posts federate to Mastodon. It sometimes grabs the thumbnail and headline from a completely different post.

I have no idea why, but it's incredibly annoying.