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166. His Holiness Pope David Cronenberg (Disco 5.01 and 5.02)

50 min • 9 april 2024

First, we both have essays out!

On Raffi by Anika Dane is in the current issue of Star Trek Quarterly

The Diversity Paradox: Star Trek, Star Trek fandom, and the limits of fandom as progressivism by Liz Barr is in Speculative Insight

SECOND, it's time. Anika and Liz are being called away from a fancy 32nd century cocktail party to stand in an empty void and discuss the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery's fifth and final season...

Compared with the over-the-top emotional drama monarchs of Star Trek: Picard's third season, it's just nice to be with competent professionals who get the job done
Picking up the threads of Star Trek: Picard's first season
Captain Picard is still the most important individual who ever existed
This arc so far has the Star Trek V problem: they can't actually meet God, so the real meaning of life will be the friends we made along the way
Tilly has a rare but valuable anti-ambition arc
Moll and L'ak have wandered in from another series, but we're not mad about it
It's nice that Vance has a wife and Tilly has a love interest, but we're still shipping Vance/Tilly and we're not sorry