I think Discovery is perfectly OK Star Trek. However, because it had a few changes in show runners things progress very strangely.

Season 1 is a 10 hour movie. I liked it for doing something different, and thought the plot twist was interesting.

Season 2 starts off good, but then jumps the (metaphorical) shark at the end.

Season 3 thru 5 starts to feel more like traditional Star Trek, just with wacky doom's day scenario in the background until it's resolved at the end of the season. It honestly feels too formulaic, but I thought Season 4's ending was fantastic, some of the middle stuff was a mixed bag.

Anyway, I still think you should watch it. It's perfectly adequate. Didn't make me throw up at all.

The link to the stream is broken. It should point to Gigguk's channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-P3HWXGYm4

Interesting short film. It moved at a quick pace so that I didn't get bored, and was slow enough to let scenes breath and let you think about what's happening.

Also, I've never heard of Gigguk before this point. But apparently he's a anime fan/influencer, and once upon a time worked for the BBC. I hope this ends up being profitable. I really enjoy indy anime. It can just do a lot more experimental stuff.

I'll add my comment from the other post here too.

Naveen Andrews is doing a great job with Khan sounding very charismatic.

Not to throw shade at Andrews, but I do kind of wish maybe they got Earl Boen who can do a very good sound alike to Ricardo Montalban. Boen filled in for Montalban as Señor Senior Sr. in Kim Possible, and sounded really spot on.

But if we ever see Khan on screen again, I think Andrews would be great casting.

I also did the unthinkable, I'm listening to this podcast at 1x speed. Because I wanted to really be immersed in the story telling. I usually listen to podcasts at 1.5x or 2x, whichever allows me to consume the content quicker while understanding it.

It'll be intersting to see what hell comes from this that will inform Khan's revenge for Kirk in Wrath of Khan.

2. Yeah. They waste at least 2 days trying to get Ortega back when maybe they should have just accepted the calculated loss. They even risked the Enterprise in a very dangerous maneuver to force open the wormhole. All around it is a bad call from Pike, but it's pretty on brand for Starfleet Captains to put an individual over the needs of the many. It's why Vulcan captains probably suck.

1. I think this can easily be handwaved away since the scenario is artificial in the first place.
2. Odds are it'll take a few days or possible weeks of travel to rondevu with the Constellation.

This show is so wholesome and peak.

Kyoto Animation is doing such an amazing job at animating this series.

Also, who is that girl that rigged the race for Matsuri and Eri? I don't remember seeing her before this episode, but there are so many characters it's easy to have missed her.

I didn’t appreciate that despite the extra long (and extra long feeling) runtime of this one they had three of the Vulcans return to human off screen.

I feel like Pike and Uhura already had external character growth on screen to explain why it wouldn't take much convincing for them to go back. I kind of wish they showed what convinced Chapel.

But I think it makes sense to also emphasis La'an because they're trying ti build up the relationship with Spock, so they do kind of need more screen time.

If this is FTL but Star Trek Voyager, I'm going to be in heaven.

Survival horror and Star Trek is not something that instantly seem like it goes together to me. But this does look interesting. Being able to Vulcan death grip and mind meld with people in VR looks interesting and sounds like cool mechanic combined with Star Trek lore.

This looks pretty fun for some reason, and I do own a Valve Index, so happy to see this not locked behind the Meta store, like so many other VR games.

I literally thought this might be a prequel to that. I was disappointed.

Yeah, it is a bit weird to introduce zombies but then to only use it as window dressing instead of dealing with the scientific ramifications of creating the walking dead that are invisible to tricorders. They're a distraction to M’Benga's more personal story of him needing to confront the consequences of his actions.

Not to like completely say the episode was bad, it's just with a bit more thought it could have been better and more impactful to the meta narrative.

I think there is a fan theory that Romulan space is pretty small (relatively speaking), which is how they're able to defend it well with a small number of ships. Which also explains why they're not able to have enough ships to evacuate Romulus.