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Perhaps... though I suspect Star Trek: Picard's third and final season wouldn't get nearly as much praise that way. It's not great, or even particularly good, television being about on par with Nemesis or Insurrection. Much of the praise it's getting is a product of the two previous seasons lowering everyone's expectations significantly.

I'm really unhappy with this episode. Once again, the writers are so caught up in throwing in as many references to TNG as possible that they're not bothering to stop and make sure the references make sense in context. They have Shaw deliver three faulty premises in a single rant, when he: There was a similar gaffe in the previous episode involving the search for the... The whole idea of the rogue... Even moreso, it feels odd and out of place because they were always a problem in Sisko's wheelhouse. Jean-Luc Picard never had to deal with them and none of them had any real issue with him personally. I guess after they ruined the Borg and the Romulans, Picard was out of antagonists since the last surviving member of the Duras family is a disgraced mook with no influence whose grudge is mainly just against Worf and Sela's likely just dead since the showrunners have said Denise Crosby's not in the show. And the writers are back on their old bullsh*t bringing back another minor recurring character that Picard has history with just to kill them off. Given the teasers, that body count is likely to increase.

A Battle Bridge is mentioned on the MSD and several displays, so one would assume it can.

Well, that was predictable.

Eh... it can fairly be said that the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard does compare favorably to the previous two.* The reason that statement has a rather damning asterisk hanging over it is that Star Trek: Picard's first two seasons were such an absolute goddamn train wreck that the frankly basic level of competence on display in the show's final season comes off as a substantial improvement. It's visually impressive but otherwise utterly mediocre television compared to the pre-Kurtzman state of Star Trek, but compared to the previous two seasons it's actually borderline watchable even if the writing is frequently nonsense. If you love the character of Jean-Luc Picard as he appears in Star Trek: the Next Generation then you are pretty much guaranteed to HATE Star Trek: Picard. It goes way beyond character derailment to full-on character assassination. Its writers are deeply, depressingly committed to depicting the surviving TNG characters twenty years after the end of their adventures in Star Trek: Nemesis as deeply depressed senior citizens living sad and lonely lives with their repressed traumas in a dark and depressing future that hasn't just forgotten them and moved on but become dark and miserable itself. Deep Space Nine alternates between episodic and serialized storytelling, but was probably the best Star Trek has ever done in terms of an ensemble cast. Voyager suffered a lot from executive meddling because the network wanted another Star Trek: the Next Generation and struggled a bit towards the end due to audiences being burned out on what was then a solid decade of Trek on TV but if you liked TNG you'll probably like VOY.

Go in production order on the Trek shows... esp. when it comes to the TNG-DS9-VOY era, since Picard makes a fair amount of references to events from the TNG movies, and now the events of DS9's final few seasons.

After some research, it seems that a rather vague explanation was provided in Star Trek: Picard's social media accounts. So... based on that, it seems the reason for the Titan-A's outsized impulse drive cluster is that the class is designed to be a sublight speed demon that's quick off the line because that is somehow advantageous for operating in high traffic regions of space. As with so much in Star Trek: Picard, the writers can't quite seem to make up their minds about the Titan-A. The brief piece that the above quote was taken from starts off by claiming the Constitution III-class ships were intended for long-duration deep space exploration like the original Constitution-class, then reverses course almost immediately and describes it as designed for support roles within Federation space. The end result is the Titan-A sounds less like a successor to Will Riker's USS Titan and more like a patrol ship or logistics ship one level above ships like the Cerritos or Vancouver from Star Trek: Lower Decks. The latter would definitely fit with Shaw's by-the-book attitude and the way the ship was chilling out near Earth instead of being out on the frontier for five years at a time. EDIT: Just realized I forgot to include my hypothesis as to why this is advantageous. I assume it has something to do with Star Trek's off-again on-again stance that using warp drive inside of a solar system is dangerous (for reasons unstated). Populous systems presumably have quite a bit of traffic, so I could see there being a case for a fast sublight starship for patrol, security, etc. purposes in systems where the traffic pattern may be too dense to safely use warp drive to go to a ship in distress or intercept a criminal safely.

Now, if this Constitution III-class USS Titan-A were a late 23rd century design as its fan-made USS Shangri-La it was based on it would make a lot more sense. At some point between TOS and TNG, the way impulse engines produce their propulsive effect changed. In the TOS era, impulse engines were fusion rocket systems running off the same fusion reactors that also provided secondary power to the entire starship. Plasma from the fusion reactors was expelled as reaction mass to produce thrust and also provided power to a subspace field generator that reduced the ship's inertial mass to the point that the thrust the rockets provided could accelerate the ship to relativistic speeds and shielded the ship from relativistic effects while doing so. In the TNG era, according to Doug Drexler and Rich Sternbach, modern impulse engines are borderline reactionless drives that are essentially just sublight warp drives powered by the ship's fusion reactors and that the thrust provided by exhausting plasma from the reactors was negligible. The actual visible impulse engine is more like a tailpipe for venting plasma waste from the drive than a proper engine nozzle. The Titan-A's design looks like it hearkens back to the TOS-era design where impulse engines were producing thrust via reaction mass and needed to be relatively big. ... yeah, that didn't translate well from the original Shangri-La design, a Constitution-class derivative, to this new model that's supposedly several times the size. Each of those windows must be several decks high if that length is correct.

Most instances of the UN Forces roundel are the standard red and white one. There have been three separate versions of a ship's badge for the SDF-1 Macross which all incorporate variations on the roundel. The version scene on the floor of Brigadier General Global's office in Ep20 of the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross series and the version seen on the floor of his office in the Do You Remember Love? movie are very similar. They have the same basic design, but the TV version differs from the movie version you have attached in your post in that it has the normal coloration of the roundel with the red background and the white arrowhead instead of the colors reversed. It also has a block letter M superimposed on it and the text that accompanies it in the art book diagram has the UN Spacy on top left, SDF-1 top right, and Macross across the bottom. Another slightly different version appears in episode 21, which has the reverse colors of the movie version but no stars and a blue block letter M superimposed on it. That version shows up in General Global's address to the ship's population but has no text. Other than that, the roundel shows up on various items like cups of dishes in the ship's mess, though it's usually just the normal roundel formatted either as SD(ROUNDEL)F-1 or SDF-1 (ROUNDEL) MACROSS on things like cups, plates, and trays from the ship's mess. Thereafter, the only major variation in the roundel was the Macross II: Lovers Again version, which changed the proportions of the arrowhead such that the left side is much bigger than the right. That version showed up in a number of different colors including plain white with no background color, plain black with no background color, the normal red and white, red and gold, and also green and gold. Macross Plus and Macross 7 retained the classic roundel from the original series. It would not change again until Macross Frontier completely replaced it with a new insignia.

Yeah, that was my problem with the Titan-A when it was first unveiled too... these new designs look about a century older than they allegedly are. It would not have been quite so glaring had Picard's second season not shown us a number of new Starfleet ship classes that are far more aesthetically in line with the late 24th century designs seen in the TNG movies and classic TNG-era Starfleet designs. Coming after those just makes them look even more out of place. At the very least, they're not hideous like the Discovery or forgettable and generic looking like the La Sirena.

So... the Picard season three school of design is just copying old fanmade kitbashes? I guess it's better than season two's borrowing from Star Trek Online or season one's "fifty of the same minimum effort CG model" approach.

Expecting consistency from the characters in Discovery and Picard seems to be setting the bar far too high. That, of course, is another major problem with the whole Star Trek: Picard S3 setting introduced by the writers desperately trying to keep the fan-favorite characters they're ruining relevant to what we'll charitably call "the story". Both the season two closer "Farewell" and season three opener "The Next Generation" are set in 2401. Less than a year, and more likely just a few months, have passed between the encounter with Borg Queen Jurati that bookends season two and the distress signal that kicks off season three. Somehow, in that incredibly short span of time, [Seven of Nine/Annika Hansen] went from being a burned out vigilante operating on her own outside of Federation space to being not just a Starfleet officer but a Commander in the Command Division and First Officer of the USS Titan-A. It's doubtful she had ANY training, especially if she's been serving as XO aboard Shaw's ship long enough for them to have established an acrimonious-but-professional working relationship. Even if we assume her rise up the ranks would have been as meteoric as those of Starfleet's very finest, she's missing a solid decade of training and relevant experience that anyone else in her position would have. More realistically, we we took exemplary-but-not-flagship-command-exemplary officers like Kathryn Janeway as an example, she's missing more like 15-20 years of experience. Even if we assume that her time aboard Voyager counted as post-commission Starfleet service, she should still be an Ensign or at best a Lieutenant Junior Grade based on length of service. Command of a starship isn't a job you just show up for one day. It's the culmination of a decades-long career. (It's also rather odd that she's in the Command Division. "Borg people skills" being an oxymoron, she was a disastrously poor leader of any organized activity except when it came to managing the Borg children under her care. Her interests, and the knowledge she retained from her time as a Borg drone, would've made her a much better fit for the Science Division or Operations Division. She was always much more "at home" on Voyager in her astrometrics lab or main engineering.) Nepotism, it seems, is another little Human evil that is alive and well in the 25th century. Thinking more on it, it's probably excusable that Starfleet Command itself didn't consider that might happen. Seven is seemingly unique in that she doesn't regard her time as a Borg drone as the most horrific violation of the self imaginable. Any other ex-Borg except perhaps the now very dead Icheb would likely find being referred to by their former Borg designation horrendously offensive given that it is, for all intents and purposes, a "slave name" given to them by their tyrannical oppressor. Jean-Luc Picard and several ex-Borg seen on Voyager were very much of the opinion that assimilation was such a violation that it was better to be dead than a drone. Seven likewise probably wouldn't think much of using her Borg designation, since she was assimilated at such a young age, even though her insistence on using a Borg designation and occasional remarks about how the Borg way of doing things is better would potentially come off as offensive to people who'd suffered at the hands of the Borg. Where the ship's counselor is in all this... between Shaw and Seven, probably drinking heavily in the ship's bar. Can you imagine getting those two into a counseling session at the same time? Bickering beyond the wildest dreams of marriage counselors. The career path, naturally. Liam Shaw has been a Starfleet officer for at least 34 years given that he was a veteran of the Battle of Wolf 359. Given what he himself says about his service history, he's apparently a solid performer in the center seat. Someone who gets the job done without exposing his crew to unnecessary risk. He's not doing flagship work, flying into danger every alternate tuesday, but that's true for most of the fleet. Somebody's got to be doing the actual scientific research, disaster relief efforts, colony setup, and all the thousands of other comparatively more mundane tasks to keep the Federation going while the Enterprise is off getting shot at. Reg Barclay was already a Lieutenant Junior Grade when he joined the crew of the Enterprise-D, meaning he'd already been promoted once. Picard reads his service record in the episode he's introduced in ("Hollow Pursuits") and notes that Barclay had achieved satisfactory ratings from his previous commanding officers and his previous captain had spoken quite highly of him. That says more that Barclay's previous crews simply made allowances for his social anxiety so that he could perform his duties comfortably and it apparently worked well enough that it only became a problem when he was measured against the higher standards of the Federation flagship and the additional stress caused him to pursue escapist remedies. That, as I mention above, is likely a big part of their problem. Seven doesn't see herself as a victim of the Borg. Every other ex-Borg does, and the Federation as a whole views ex-Borg and Borg drones as victims, so Seven's insistence on using her Borg identity in public is bound to be upsetting to ex-Borg and other victims of the Borg. The Borg are mortal enemies to basically everybody. It's like flaunting a prison tattoo declaring membership in a hate group. To be fair, a lot of the stuff Picard and Riker got up to could fairly be described by that even by Picard and Riker themselves. They joke about it at Riker's wedding in Nemesis, with Picard referring to Data as a "tyrannical martinet" who will insist on following all those operational safety regulations that they spent the last decade-plus flouting. Shaw may be intended to be an arsehole... but he's an arsehole with a very sound, very logical point that the people he's scorning have themselves acknowledged in the past.

Is it, though? She was uncomfortable with using her original human name when the USS Voyager crew removed her from the Borg Collective and started removing her Borg implants. However, we saw that she went by, and thought of herself as, "Annika" in the titular virtual reality of the two-parter "Unimatrix Zero", went by her human name after being mind-wiped as a laborer on the Quarren homeworld, and was warming up to the use of her original human identity towards the end of Star Trek: Voyager. The first season of Star Trek: Picard implies that that continued, with her apparently using the name "Annika" in public life at least up to 2386 when Icheb died. (Regardless of the factuality of her remarks, her... admiration... for the Borg is unlikely to be well-received by basically anybody in the Alpha or Beta quadrants. By Federation standards, that'd be what TV Tropes calls "Admiring the Abomination".) She tried. Several times. Actually succeeded once as part of a botched attempt to steal a transwarp coil, before having second thoughts about it when the Borg Queen decided that maximum creepy was the best way to convince Seven to be voluntarily reassimilated. Failed another time because there were no Borg waiting at the Borg beacon she went to. Dunno. It seems unlikely that whatever Federation bureau or ministry is responsible for ID documents would object to numbers as a name, considering the Bynars are apparently either a Federation member or close ally and their entire species has numbers for names. Maybe she just expected that whatever Starfleet captain she ended up with would be as lenient towards her as Janeway was and got stuck with a hardass instead. "Stardust City Rag" seems to imply she's using her Borg designation as some kind psychological reaction to her trust being betrayed in a way that led to Icheb's death. (As noted above, there is evidence in Picard itself that she was using her birth name in public life after USS Voyager returned to Federation space.)

Which is 100% more actual Starfleet behavior than practically anything we saw on Discovery or in the first two seasons of Picard. Admittedly, the Shaw-Seven situation raises an interesting (to me, anyway) question about the Alpha (and Beta) quadrant's relationship with ex-Borg. Back in Voyager, we didn't really think anything of Seven and the partially assimilated children she rescues in Voyager's sixth season retaining some Borg mannerisms and even making the occasional remark about all the ways the Borg do things better than Starfleet. USS Voyager was already kind of a ship full of weirdos that'd relaxed their standards somewhat in the expectation of having to work and live together for decades in order to get back to the Alpha quadrant, so everyone there just sort of took it in stride as "Seven being Seven". The Alpha and Beta quadrants haven't suffered quite as much as the Delta quadrant has under the hand of the Borg, but there are still a lot of people who lost friends and loved ones in the various Borg incursions and two major Borg attacks on Earth. Shaw's insistence on Seven using her legal (human) name instead of her chosen name on duty is clearly meant to reflect a certain politically-loaded issue we won't get into here... and while that works on an individual level with Seven specifically, it doesn't quite track on a macro level because the Borg were/are an existential threat to sentient life that's destroyed at least several thousand civilizations thus far. To that end, wouldn't Seven's vocal pride in being a Borg be at best insensitive and at worst massively offensive to pretty much everyone in the Alpha and Beta quadrants? (And likely quite a lot of the Delta quadrant too.) We're supposed to think of Liam Shaw as a jerk for insisting she use her birth name, but she's rubbing her affiliation with a Federation enemy in everyone's face... especially those who've lost friends, loved ones, and colleagues to them like Liam Shaw. (It's actually kind of amazing that Jean-Luc Picard regards her with such affection, considering his feelings on the Borg.)

In all fairness to Captain Shaw, there are three mitigating factors in play there: The edge of Federation space is shockingly close to Earth in several different directions due to the close proximity of Klingon and Romulan space. (Demonstrated aptly in several previous titles, including Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Nemesis.) The Titan-A was REALLY humming... Seven states that they're off at Warp 9.99. The official warp formula breaks down into a log scale above Warp 9, but dialog from TNG puts that at around 8,760c and potentially as high as 9,000c. That's a light year per hour, plus or minus about two minutes. At that speed, the Romulan Neutral Zone's only about a day away from Earth. Shaw didn't really have a reason to believe that Seven would set a completely different course from what was ordered at the behest of two old fogeys who snuck aboard his ship under false pretenses. That'd be massively unprofessional behavior from someone nearly as starchy as him. It's not exactly unreasonable for him to be surprised by that, even if it's technically negligent of him to have not checked to ensure they were on the right course.

And for quite a few centuries after that, if Discovery's third season is any indication. Or at least promoting them. Lower Decks offered an interesting take on the reason Starfleet's upper echelons seem to be so generously provisioned with Admirals of questionable character and/or sanity. Once an officer makes Commodore (or above), they're basically stuck as a pencil-pusher in a glorified sinecure unless they do something to distinguish themselves. The ones who continue the climb up the ranks are that good or a chosen obsession that's useful or timely, while the "insane Admiral" types are the ones whose ambitions don't work out. It seems likely that the brass making these questionable personnel assignments are the ones who didn't feel like trying after they got an office with a desk. Shaw seems like the kind of Captain who leaves nothing to chance if he can help it. He'll send down an away team, but armed and with comm channels open and an armed security team on hot standby in another transporter room just in case. Ironically, if he could just get along with her, he'd probably find Seven's ruthless pragmatism extremely helpful in that regard.

Considering the sheer number and profusion of ways in which starships in Star Trek are inclined to violently explode when damaged, I can't imagine any starship captain wouldn't be profoundly upset that his ship is taking damage unnecessarily or avoidably. Shaw being a dick to Seven about insisting she use her original/legal name is one thing... but what blithering idiot at Starfleet Command decided to assign the only ex-Borg who's actually, vocally proud to have been a Borg to serve as executive officer to a captain who was one of the few survivors of the Wolf 359 massacre? That's tapdancing on the triggers for this poor schlub's PTSD. Literally any other ex-Borg except maybe Picard himself would probably have been fine... but Seven? The worst possible staffing decision. Having Picard around probably ain't helping matters either... given Shaw's feelings on the subject of Locutus of Borg. Now that's hardly fair. Strange New Worlds has wit, charm, style... it's actually fun and the crew of the Enterprise actually seem to be having fun together. Lower Decks is a bit full of itself trying to be Rick and Morty and all, but even that manages to find some genuine humor and fun among the firehose-like torrent of injokes. It's a galaxy apart from the miserable business of Picard and Discovery. Honestly, one of the things I like best about Captain Shaw is that he's not written as some old friend or protégé of Picard or Riker's and that he doesn't give Picard and Riker a pass on their bullsh*t. He doesn't launch into a Picard Speech about the value of honesty and respect, or go on a Jellico-esque rant about insubordination, he just returns the disrespect he's been shown in little ways like putting the retired stowaways in the most uncomfortable quarters he has instead of posh guest quarters and taking the occasional jab at the ego involved in doing what they attempted to do. He indulges them, but he makes sure they understand they're there under sufferance. He understands that Picard is a diplomat first and foremost, and needles him in ways calculated to annoy the piss out of a diplomat. The Borg do actually explain their reasoning to Picard after they abduct him but before they assimilate him in "The Best of Both Worlds". The Borg chose Picard because they concluded his position as captain of the Federation flagship and Starfleet's leading diplomat made him the perfect authority figure to cow the masses in the Federation's "authority-driven" society. One of the more entertaining takes I remember from the Star Trek novelverse was that the reason Starfleet didn't follow up on a lot of the Enterprise's discoveries in Kirk's era was that the reports were so outlandish and bizarre that there was a faction at Starfleet Command that sincerely believed Kirk was trolling them with fake reports. There's probably a replicator that dispenses only pepto-bismol, antacid tablets, and alcohol in whatever Starfleet Command conference room they use to discuss the latest antics of the USS Enterprise.

This season's got a few mildly diverting offerings. Nothing mind-blowing, but it's a good crop of romcoms if nothing else. Tomo-chan is a Girl! is more or less your form letter "Tomboy loves childhood friend but worries he doesn't see her as a girl" romcom. It's taking no risks and pushing no envelopes, but it's still entertaining enough to be well worth a watch. The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague is exactly what it says on the tin. It's a fairly conventional office comedy-slash-romcom but for the fact that somewhere around half of the cast are descended from various yokai and nobody seems to find that more than slightly odd. This one really loves the "opposites attract" gimmick, so the main duo are an emotional young man descended from a yuki-onna who struggles to control his ice powers when he gets excited and a very reserved young lady who both join the workforce at a nondescript Japanese corporation together. The satellite couples in the story are similar, a reserved young man and a bubbly kitsune girl, and a series young saleswoman and her downright bubbly part-phoenix guy friend. Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! is into its second season and is still... itself. They've hit the point where Nagatoro might have an actual rival, but it's still a first class ticket on the tsundere express. Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun has hit the point where it's now just a full-blown shounen battle anime, which kinda sucks all the fun out of the premise. I still haven't finished Buddy Daddies because it's like having my eyes sandpapered... what an unpleasant "me too" knockoff of Spy x Family.

If this weren't Gundam, and therefore Too Big To Fail, I'd wonder if they'd have even bothered with Part II. I'm not sure I'm game for another twelve episodes of largely directionless story punctuated by the gaslighting and emotional abuse of a developmentally-delayed kid. Maybe it's just been a while since my last non-IBO Gundam series, but it feels like Suletta Mercury gets treated especially poorly for a Gundam protagonist and it's kind of hard to watch.

True, though when they try that (e.g. Janeway) the writing tends to end up terribly uneven... even with far better writers than Star Trek currently has. IMO, while Captain Shaw is clearly meant to be an a-hole from the perspective of the main characters, he seems to mainly just be a "I run a tight ship" type who is irritated to hell and back by being browbeaten into Picard and Riker's rogue operation based on blatant lies and misdirection. I get the feeling he's probably a lot more pleasant when he's not smarting over being massively disrespected on his own ship. The one dickish trait he has that's seemingly not motivated by his dislike of Picard and Riker treating him poorly is insisting Seven use her legal name. Whether that's some lingering trauma from his being a Wolf 359 survivor like Ben Sisko or there's some Starfleet regulation requiring crew use their legal names in official duty remains to be seen. (It wouldn't be the first time Starfleet regs were mildly insensitive to the individual needs of certain minorities. Like how Bajorans weren't permitted to wear their earrings on duty without the ship's captain granting an exception to that part of the uniform code in TNG.) Given that Discovery and Picard have been something of a failed experiment, I kind of suspect they'll want to shift focus away from the characters and settings used in those shows to the better-received ones like Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and Prodigy. Michelle Yeoh's Section 31 spinoff is probably dead, and I wager they'd probably reject an offer of a Titan spinoff with Jeri Ryan too for fear of shunning-by-association with Picard.

He is hands down the most likeable character in Picard's third season, but given that his particular schtick is being an uptight and by-the-book captain he probably wouldn't make a very interesting protagonist. In a more lighthearted series like Strange New Worlds, he'd be more of an Arnold J. Rimmer.

Unpopular opinion, but as good as Aliens was as an action movie on its own merit it was a rubbish sequel to Alien. The Xenomorph in Alien was scary because it was this nearly invisible, inscrutable, untraceable, and seemingly unkillable threat that lurked among the crew of the Nostromo. It was so good at staying out of sight and hunting the crew opportunistically that it seemed to be everywhere and nowhere. That, combined with the lack of over-the-top generic horror movie reactions to it, lent its killing spree an air of subtle, claustrophobic, creeping horror that has seldom been equaled in modern horror movies. The characters were trapped, alone and afraid, with an unknown quantity that wanted to kill them but was in no hurry to close the deal. Aliens was a solid action movie, but IMO it kind of ruined the Xenomorph by having a bunch of them operating out in the open, giving them easily understood animalistic behaviors, and making them easy to kill. The Xenomorph wasn't a monster anymore, it was just a dangerous animal you could kill by running it over or shooting it and that sucked a lot of the mystique and horror out of it. If they're going to do an Alien TV series, we need something like Alien: Isolation not Alien: Covenant or Aliens. The Xenomorph is only scary when it's an unseen Implacable Thing that wants the characters dead but isn't about to let them see it coming. When it's running about in broad daylight striking poses so the audience can admire its CGI or the characters can Just Shoot It, it stops being scary. (And come to that, an Alien TV series needs characters who are competent and capable professionals. Even Aliens has shades of accidental comedy because of how arrogant Gorman's marines are and how quickly they get brought down, but it's nothing compared to Prometheus and Covenant where every single character displays such a breathtaking lack of interest in self-preservation that you end up rooting for the monster.)

"No-Win Scenario"... an apt description of the viewing experience. "There is a saboteur on this ship." "Keep it quiet."... he has a name, guys. Sir Patrick Stewart. He's been sabotaging this series from the moment he signed on. "Things are about to get a lot worse."... thanks for predicting the remainder of the show's run, Bev! "Dead in the water"... an apt description of the series, and really this entire hot take on Star Trek now that both this and Discovery are cancelled. "Noone's coming to rescue us, Will."... now that's hardly fair, Sir Patrick. Sonequa Martin-Green has been working hard to rescue you from your plummet to worst-rated Star Trek series of all time, admittedly by diving on that grenade herself.

Ugh, no... please no. Just... no. This is not a thing that needs to exist. Ever. We do not need any further demonstration from Mr. Scott that he doesn't, and likely never did, understand what made Alien a classic of modern horror. Prometheus and Alien: Covenant have driven that point home with a vigor far in excess of what was strictly necessary or wise.