Thread by @pareene

i was taking notes to add to this thread while and after watching the most audience-insulting two-parter I can remember from any Trek franchise (I didn't watch much "Enterprise") and it ended at 1,700 words

https://twitter.com/pareene/status/963279826277818369

(i will not post the 1,700 words)

"Terra Firma Part 2" concludes with the crew of Discovery holding an Irish Wake for the Mirror Universe's Caesar of the Terran Empire, who notoriously enslaved *and ate* members of the race of Discovery's current captain.

She's good now because the Guardian of Forever sent her back in time and she decided they would no longer *eat* the (still enslaved) members of that race.

they had to write her out of the show because she's going to be in a spinoff where she is a member of Starfleet's equivalent of the CIA

at the end before she enters the spinoff portal, she responds to a Vulcan salute by doing the part of the "Terran Salute" where you put your fist on your chest, but *not* the part where you raise your arm full "Sieg Heil" style. Thus, our hero is officially 50 percent less Nazi

at said wake a member of the Discovery crew says, "She pretty much redefined the word 'badass.'"

anyway outside of all that easily the best season of this show

David Cronenberg's in a couple episodes and he's a delight

need to figure out how the Twitter paywall works. i want the twelve most deranged people who follow me to pay for the rest of this

I think people who genuinely love Star Trek and work on the current stuff remember successful emotional high points like Spock's funeral and forget that in the brilliant conclusion of The Next Generation, Captain Picard joins the officers' poker game for the *first time*

what if they made the whole series out of the awkward and unconvincing Tasha Yar memorial hologram scene