I didn’t expect Ceti Alpha VI to go “boom” quite so soon but here we are.

If anyone was still concerned that Khan would be somehow lionized by this series, his immediate decision to attack the crashed aliens should put that to rest.

Marla continues to be the most interesting character, trying to be the voice of Starfleet in the situation.

The framing story is beginning to get more interesting, as well, continuing to explore what the heck caused Ceti Alpha VI to explode in the first place.

The way they’ve been talking, it sounds like they’re playing with the idea that Kirk seemed pretty comfortable on the Enterprise in his first episodes, so there may be unseen stories to be told before TOS season one.

I think we’re good to go now, albeit possibly still catching up.

Have I got bad news about Ellison’s overall vision for the company…

Though to be fair, he said:

"I don’t think AI is a replacement for creativity. It’s actually quite the opposite. The thing that has been really problematic from my perspective in media, is people thinking that technology is something to be feared. It’s not. The artists and the filmmakers that we work with are first, second, third, fourth, fifth on our priority list, we are a storytelling company first.”

That…may or may not be terrible?

In any case, this position seems more concerned with licensing and stuff like the Universal Fan Fest nights from last year, and the upcoming parade float. As much as they’ve been a little better with that stuff lately, I don’t think new blood is a bad thing in this case.

Yep, looks like you’re right - looking into it.

Yeah…it would be nice if they could give it a permanent home, or maybe do a touring exhibit.

Paramount got rid of its theme park division back in 2006, but is some Prodigy(!) content at a theme park in Turkey, and there were plans for a Paramount park in China that included Trek content, but I have no idea if it’s still in the works.

It was temporary, after regular park hours - they had a bunch of IPs that aren’t normally part of Universal.

They’re already planning one for next year, but details on what it will entail are scarce.

As the series continues, I find I’m a lot more interested in the worldbuilding than the story itself.

There’s a lot of cool stuff in there - I hadn’t considered the fact that Khan and his people were unfamliar with Federation technology, and the fact that McGivers uses that to her advantage is a lot of fun. I enjoy listening to them go about the day-to-day business of survival - maybe it’s the Naveen Andrews of it all, but it reminds me of the first season of “Lost”.

The framing story continues to be pretty irrelevant, but it’s nice to hear them diving into the burning questions surrounding TWOK. How could the Enterprise crew have missed the fact that one of the planets in the system was about to go critical? How could the Reliant crew not have not noticed a missing planet upon their return? Now that these questions have been raised, I assume answers will be provided…

we don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here

I would say this is the part that’s unreasonable. Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn’t exactly a point of pride.

IGN has a (very) brief teaser trailer

Sure, I think the key is balance in all things. I absolutely loathed the third season of “Picard”, but I’m not going to jump into every conversation about it I see just for the sake of saying so.

But if it makes sense, and is relevant…I might, if I feel like it. There’s room to talk about what you disliked about something, and why. It just shouldn’t be your entire personality, y’know?

I think it’s completely possible to enjoy a flawed creation.

And in this case, I think La’An’s story this season was fairly strong, even though it was heavily (if not entirely) tied to her relationship with Spock.

Ortegas got an entire episode devoted to her, but the criticism about her experience with the Gorn being largely overlooked prior to that is completely fair.

Uhura certainly had less to do, and I think Una was pretty short-changed this season.

She sort of sidestepped the question in the interview…my answer would be “no, but who cares if the story’s any good?”

Interestingly, I see someone at Memory Alpha has been incorporating stuff from the first two episodes into related pages…we’ll see if that sticks.

See, I meant what I said last week about being bad at listening to podcasts!

That’s an interesting question. Kirk seemed pretty determined to let Khan and his people have a real chance on Ceti Alpha V, so it makes sense that he’d allow them some tools, and even weapons.

But this episode also makes a bit of a big deal out of Khan’s reaction to Starfleet technology that’s much more advanced that what he’s used to. Some kind of throwback/antique weapon would make sense.

I thought this was a decent one. They continue to walk the line of adding depth to Khan without necessarily casting him in a positive light.

I’m a little surprised they dropped the Sulu/Tuvok framing device, but I didn’t really miss it.

RIP Joaquin, I guess the guy in TWOK is your kid.

I don’t think that this is something that should be done without the explicit, case-by-case consent of the mod teams of both communities - the one hosting the original post, and the one to which it is being cross-posted.

the fanatasy/hallucination wss made by Batel

Yeah, I think you’re right - that’s the only anwer that makes any kind of sense. I was just thrown by the fact that Real Batel showed absolutely no awareness of, or interest in, what had happened when Pike snapped out of it. At least, that’s what I remember - I haven’t gone back to double-check.

It does beg the question of what about the project “requires further development” - it seemed like a pretty comprehensive plan when I looked at it.