Manic Pixie Dust

The Enterprise goes back in time and doesn’t prevent a genocide, but Anika and Liz would like to go back in time to prevent this episode from ever being made. Oh, did the fourth season premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds displease us? It sure did! 

“Don’t overthink it!”

This episode provides more evidence for our argument that Pike is bad at his job

Words we use to describe this episode: “nonsense”, “dreadful”, “terrible”, “morally broken”, “anti Star Trek“, “almost clever”

Why does SNW want us to hate La’an? 

Leaning into the biological determinism with this Kha’an arc

The Martians and Spock are totally incurious about each other, because this is The Least Curious Star Trek

No fate but what we make.

Cassidy: You are the love of my life and I will never get over you

Tucker: I got married, but you’re the one that got away

Stone: I compromised all of my principles for you, I have to leave before I get worse

Elliot: I love you so much I had to move to another country before my marriage imploded, ten years later and I’m still hopelessly in love with you

Olivia Benson, a ten in every category, yet still surprised every time:

Anika and Liz are petsitting a tardigrade while we discuss the fourth episode of Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season, “The Butcher’s Knife Care’s Not For The Lamb’s Cry”. This episode introduces Admiral Cornwell, and we are gonna be so cool about that. You wouldn’t believe how cool and chill we are. 

This is decidedly not one of Discovery‘s stronger scripts

“Lorca is so clearly flagged as evil,” we said back in 2017, “that there absolutely has to be more to it than that.” Anyway…

Michael’s skills and flaws are all on full display here

“I also do not respect Saru.” 

Okay, but why is Saru the first officer? He frankly does not seem up to the job. Is Lorca keeping him around as a snack? 

“Let’s talk about Elon Musk.”

Michael and L’Rell: parallels (parall’rells)

“It is the most man cave to ever man cave….It's just like an ode to toxic masculinity.”

“I don't blame Jason Isaacs for doing it. I fully and with prejudice blame the editors for keeping it.”

“You already killed her and now you ate her. It was already a bridge too far. And now you have like catapulted the bridge to another planet.”

Thanks for tagging me, @vagueeyes <3

Rules: Make yourself with this picrew and then take this uquiz to find out how fandom would see you if you were a fictional character.

My results:

Thank you!!

So with SFA, @pixiedane and I decided to create a TikTok account for Antimatter Pod. Her daughter wanted to make us reels, and I knew TrekTok was an active fan space and we could be Down With The Kids.

And it worked! We have some new listeners, and it has been a fun little space.

But then SFA's season ended, and I decided to create a silly slideshow ranking our favourite captains from worst to best. In our very subjective and specific opinions. (I did the work, but Anika signed off on the rankings. I also forgot to include Kirk at first, and Anika didn't say anything because she thought I did that deliberately as a bit. Extremely on brand for us.)

Anyway. You can see our rankings at the link above, and while my reasoning is facetious, it's also very sincere. Pike is bad at his job! It's a problem!

The comments. Have not been hinged. Here are the highlights.