I think it was only season 7 that used canned laughter. Most of the series it was actual audience reaction.

Took me a minute to realize that’s the Dolby Cinema logo and not yet another new DC comics logo.

Cool poster though.

It was enough for me as a kid when Transformers had Spike exclaim “oh shit, what do we do now?”

So let’s dial that to 11 and let Ultra Magnus say “I can’t fucking deal with that now!!”

Quick spot check shows the totals to be accurate. 🤷 If an error did sneak in somewhere, we can probably survive the consequences of that.

Obviously, the Irish Unification happened on stardate 2024...

No I’m pretty sure they’re 57 years older.

There are two kinds of TOS episodes: the ones that are so historically great you absolutely have to watch them, and the ones that are so iconically bad that you absolutely must experience them.

That's a fair point. And I might be holding on too much to it as a perfect ending when it really was never going to be. Those characters will always be too big not to come back, whether it's another reboot, a recast, or a terrible AI homunculus.

Well, it's a different ship, different crew, 80 years later. It may carry on from TOS thematically in a lot of ways, but they also did a lot narratively to keep them in their own respective sandboxes. And I think that was for the best.

I'll compare it to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Those films are very concerned with showing us what happened to Han, Luke, and Leia, and with replicating the backdrop and villains of the original films, and I think it's largely to the detriment of really establishing the new characters as the stars of their own films. I think the TNG approach, keeping its distance to a much larger extent, was healthier.

They just needed some colour contrast. Kirk in this image looks great, but most of the crew looked like Spock does here -- completely monotone.

Glad you do! I do actually think it's decent TNG outing, and the 1701-D never looked better, but as something that supercede's TUC's very satisfying farewell to Shatner's Kirk? It's barely enough screen time to justify putting him on the poster, and no real new character development -- TWoK already hammered home that a quiet life doesn't suit him. I'd have preferred they let the TNG films stand on their own.

TIL Anson Mount is a doughy woman. Or are we referring to Rebecca Romijn? She’s not waifish enough for your taste?