My initial thoughts. I’ll probably have more to say once @g-h-brothers and @ani-hatzis and whoever else chime in.

This finale fell flat on me. It’s like they shoehorned in a million loose ends that had to be tied. Sure they explained why we never knew about Burnham as Spock’s adopted sister but because of how everything was rushed, that final…Read More

My thoughts and reactions:

1) If Culber and Stamets truly end their relationship, that’s a bunch of bollocks.

2) I cried during the conversation Burnham had with Sarek and Amanda. That touched me very profoundly as someone who was in foster care and is only here today because a variety of people “adopted” me and let me know I had value, even…Read More

Okay. This episode was another good episode and if it ends up that Control isn’t the beginnings of the Borg, I think I’m going to be pretty angry because there are just too many similarities, especially when it comes to assimilation and identifying threats and neutralizing them.

I really enjoyed Spock and Burnham calling each other Brother/Sister…Read More

@g-h-brothers Yeah, that’s the problem with only having 14 episodes per season: They have to fit in a lot of things in just over half the episodes of a full-length season and it can be too much for one episode.

Despite that, I enjoyed this episode. I really enjoyed Spock’s lecture to Burnham about instead of dealing with the emotions of what…Read More

@scott-carpenter Let me know if you’ve done watching so I can add my two cents. I’m going to start typing the GeekDad article at around 1 pm Pacific time.

@g-h-brothers What did you think?