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The language with which both men talked about their families as possessions really stuck out to me. It's what led to one being unable to grieve his dead family and the other being unable to connect to his living family. The ending showed how viewing women as mere set dressing for men's lives ultimately leads to tragedy for not just the disposable women but for the men living in misery and loneliness.

Brilliant commentary on the commodification of real life tragedy.

People criticizing the phone scene when that was an emotional high point of the series. In fact, that epitomized the show, which is more of a drama exploring human emotions than some alien action series. I feel the alien hook just attracts the wrong people who aren't able to appreciate the emotional aspect, which is the major part of it.

I like the slow buildup instead of just focusing on aliens for aliens' sake. It's more of a thoughtful character drama with impending doom in the background to create persistent tension.

I never expected to hear the word "bisexual" in classic Star Trek.

So Shiv has to relive dying every time they reset.

The time travel is easier to believe than how clueless everyone is about George.

There are so many characters and different motivations and so many Chucky's dying/surviving/transferring it's getting hard to keep track of what's happening and also makes it all feel less impactful.

Love how gay this show is and whiny bigots can't take it. Y'all are media illiterate if you can't see how queerness fits in perfectly with Chucky.

At some point you have to realize it's not a "slow burn", it's just a character drama and not an action series.

There's a big problem with stories that present oppression as the result of two groups who just can't get along. It suggests that the oppressed are equally culpable in their subjugation and hating injustice is the same as the injustice itself. In reality, oppression is the result of one group having disproportionate power and using that against another group who (rightfully) try to fight back. Trying to stay neutral or "both sidesing" such conflicts only serves to tacitly aid the oppressors.

Very cool to see G'iah so powerful and fighting Gravik. The final scene between Fury and his wife was also quite heartfelt and kinda beautiful. Overall, I thought the series was mediocre but I did enjoy this finale.

How technology can be used to exploit and exacerbate our anxiety and self-loathing.

This episode was a delightful homage to Clue and the murder mystery genre. Also awesome to finally see Glen and Glenda again and the ending was particularly entertaining if you're familiar with Liv Morgan and her love of Chucky.

Nadine is so adorable omg

I'm loving this series. Really excited to see what happens now that Lexy knows Chucky's alive.

I wasn't feeling this episode very much but I was still a sucker for Burnham's speech at the end and that Enterprise reveal.

Captain Tilly is just :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

So we now have the forced heterosexual thing on star trek now :(

That Elon Musk reference already aged horribly :grimacing:. Did he pay them for that line to be added???

It's a shame that Star Trek always seems to get preoccupied by war and fighting. It makes Star Fleet look way more fascistic and regressive than was ostensibly the original vision for them. But at this point, Star Trek has failed to live up to its purported ideals more often than not so I'm not sure we can really say peace, prosperity, and exploration were ever really its essence.

Okay, this feels different from any Star Trek thing before but not in a bad way. It's interesting that the lead character is not a captain or even anyone who is respected at all at this point. It creates a strong sense of uneasiness since we the audience are seeing things through the eyes of someone who is so unwelcome at Starfleet. The tone is somewhat dark but this episode did introduce more levity compared to the last two episodes, which was appreciated. The humor helps make it still feel like Star Trek. The sense of discovery is also still there as well--not just for the universe but for discovering more about Starfleet itself. And this episode didn't lean as much into action as the last two, which was a welcome change since we got more meaningful character moments.

This show has already made Klingons waaay more interesting and frightening than they have been in any other Star Trek series or movie.

So far, the show is more action-oriented than I would prefer from Star Trek but it is at least also getting into some of the deeper issues around cultural differences and politics.

I'm surprised at how many aspects of this show are recycled (both plot lines and the Enterprise set in this case). I know it's an old show and budgets were different back then but I didn't know just how low the standards were even for a now "classic" piece of media. So much of this show feels like it existed way before its vision could even partially be realized.

Disappointed that the protagonist started directly attacking the hijackers. It's more interesting when he's being the cautious one waiting to think through the situation, since we don't see that as much in media. I'm hoping his botched attack is still part of a smarter plan he has.

This was my favorite episode so far--mainly for the performance by the actress who played Roberta (although it was horrifying when they implied she'd get together with the Seven guy). I had no idea it was attempting to launch a separate series.

How many times has Kirk been captured and then forced to fight in some alien ritual.

This episode really shows how taken-for-granted white Western values/culture was back then (and often times today as well, at least to white Westerners). They played it as if all of these things were obvious and good which really just happen to be aspects of the writers'/performers' cultures.