Just saw an interesting bit on his Bluesky, Mike McMahan’s story in this issue is the idea he had for how a season 6 of Lower Decks would have kicked off.

Naturally I’m watching debates about the canonicity claim break out in assorted places.

As far as I can find, the whole “it’s canon” claim comes from Webtoons in their press release, and no one from Paramount is being quoted making that claim. Unless there’s a separate Paramount press release I can’t find.

So this whole claim is just silly.

I find the idea that anyone is still talking about “Year One” with a straight face pretty frakking hilarious.

I feel like she kind of missed the part where no one was clamoring for her and Frakes and any other TNG cast member you care to name to headline the thing.

But it’ll never happen anyway. If anyone was even considering it, I doubt they would have let IDW start a new comic book series that’s broadly the same idea.

Oh shit, that was fun. I hate having to wait now. Also, the end credits are sublime and must be paused and read in their entirely. This is non-negotiable.

Personally I’m happy if there are no more pre-TOS series. And I really am “meh” about Paul Wesley’s Kirk so I don’t need a series with him in the lead.

I mean if they make it, I’ll check it out. But I’ll be perfectly fine if they just don’t.

Quieter episode but I enjoyed it. I wasn’t expecting a Genesis story this season from what’s been said, but I was glad to get one.

The Furies are part-Lynar, which makes their inner ears sensitive to high sonic frequencies.

Just wanted to note that Lynars are a throwback reference to “Chain of Command Part I”.

The title is from Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act V sc iii: "Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage”.

The line also appears in “Romeo and Juliet” and perhaps might be taken as an allusion to the Caleb/Tarima relationship.

I hadn’t heard that, other than they got his blessing basically (and the licensing) and he was given a copy of the script to read. Cirroc Lofton seems to be the one that was as close to hands-on involved as you can get when you’re not a writer of the script.

Presumably it’s a combination of “thank you for what you contributed to Star Trek” and maybe a way to acknowledge him letting them license the final scene narration off of an album he did some 20 years ago.

I’m just replaying the last 30 seconds over and over again and punching my feels into oblivion.

Loved the episode, no notes.

I wonder if the production staff just couldn’t make up their mind to begin with honestly, because if you look close at Lura Thok’s personnel file from E01 it says she’s born in 3145 and is 50 years old, so you’re back to 3195 again.

Personally I don’t really trust relying on stardates for years in this future era since DIS wasn’t really consistent about it, so I’m hoping someone will actually cite a year out loud at some point and get rid of the wondering.

The closed captioning says “Orillian lung maggots”, but I wonder if they didn’t mean “Aurelian”, a bird-like species that first appeared in TAS: “Yesteryear”.

“Orillian lung maggots” is correct. Neelix calls someone one in “Fair Trade”.