Hugh

• “Genocide is fine sometimes, and the entire bridge crew just gets on with their day”
• Vulcans are just genius humans with autism
• All traces of the previous species are just gone entirely on Mars?
• “I should have broken not only the prime directive but also all the time travel rules and immediately told you everything about me so you would trust me, my bad”
• ”we have discovered a new weapon, we must immediately right this second do a genocide in a suicide mission, destroying not only an ecosystem of species including a presumably sentient one, but the entire planet they live on, and we must do this without concern for:
  • any orbital stability modelling
  • where the debris of an entire planet might go and what it might do to the other planets
  • our own ship
  • any consultation with leadership of any kind”
• “I don’t want a promotion, but give that promotion to my first officer”

This episode was duuuuuuuuuumb! Hoping for better from subsequent episodes.

Better question: has any job ever not bait and switched me? No.

It’s really refreshing to see a gay relationship happen organically on screen in a context outside of the contemporary stereotypes - and indeed, outside of human culture altogether. I realize Trek has done this a bit in the past with Culber/Stamets, and Reno - have you had to think about how LGBT culture exists in a multi-planetary society in the 4th millennium? Is it just plainly a utopia to strive for, for everyone? Is Jay Den’s family’s Triad House a non-issue in Klingon Society post Qu’onos, or was that something that happened out of necessity to preserve Klingon culture?