Assorted thoughts and observations as I watched (reposted from the other place):

• Oh, shit, we've got a space-ring!
• Don't you hate it when the god-computer starts lagging?
• Ransom: Hidden art critic.
• Boimler leading an away mission. What could go wrong?
• "Everything that has ever occurred is science stuff."
• "And or dismemberment"
• Was that fucking NOMAD?
• Lancelot the Ferret.
• The update is going to screw it all up, isn't it?
• Yep.
• I love how the artists just go and start painting the fallen freeze-cloud.
• Is this the first time that the Kzinti ensign has talked?
• Blindfolded saber fight!
• "A mountain, or possibly a volcano has appeared." (boom) "Ah, it is a volcano."
• T'Lyn is great.
• Move Along Home
• "He overdosed on Ketracel white"
• "BRADWARD, NO!"
• OH GOD, IT'S A KOALA!"
• Very 2001
• "You never forget your first death."

Observations and thoughts as I watched (initially posted at the other place):

• We begin with "Twovix".

• Holodeck waste material, AKA jizz, poop, and god knows what else.

• Oh, hey, T'Lyn!

• DAT VOYAGER THEME!

• Oh, hey, the probe from the one with the whales!

• Neelix cheese!

• Shit did get freaky.

• Oh shit, they're going to Tuvix Billups and T'ana!

• "Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix."

• MACROVIRUS.

• The Pike Thing, of course.

• "Back in the 70s"

• "Captain, I caution against socializing with the organism."

• So many VOY deep cuts.

• "Holy shit. Janeway didn't mess around."

• Macrovirus of Borg. And robotic warp salamander of Borg.

• "Water, room temperature."

• This is definitely T'Ana's side of T'Llups.

• Oh god, they tuvixed the Matt the whale! Wait, what about Kimolu? Is he alright? Is he okay?

• A Tuvixy meatball!

• Heh, the real solution to the Tuvix conundrum was just to keep merging until it's a nonsentient blob of meat so there is no murder, so to speak.

• Oh god I just realized that we're going to get so much Tuvixy fanart.

• Bizarre series of Voyager-themed obstacles.

• SHE GOT A PIP

• Beckett Mariner receives the fate worse than death for her: promotion.

• Nothing ever good happens "somewhere in Klingon space"

• RIP Klingon lower-deckers.

And now, episode 2:

• Heh, Romulan lower decks.

• Goodbye, Romulan lower deckers!

• Heh, those 80s workout stuff.

• Oh, cool, Boimler still has his Tom Paris tplate!

• Please tell me Denty has a Memory Alpha page.

• The Nacelle is right there!

• Non-botanicals

• I have just met Moopsy but I would die for it.

• Oddly enough, this is the SECOND time this year that a Jack Quaid character looked at a VERY bright light. Shoutout to my boy Richard Feynman, the one man crazy enough to watch a nuclear test without goggles.

• Okay, I would no longer die for the moopsy.

• Tucker Tubes! Good old Trip got stuff named for him!

• The Ad Astra Per Aspera poster!

• I do feel like Starfleet would have better soundproofing, but then again this is the Cerritos.

• RIP corn guy.

• LIVIK!

• Aww, D'Vana Tendi giving orders.

• Teeth as bread crumbs.

• Heh, the humans really are the worst.

• Hah, he could have just used the viewports.

• Overall, I think I liked this second episode more, even though I loved the VOY fan service.

James is Sam Kirk’s brother, who was introduced in the episode “Where No Man has Gone Before”.

Deep cut. Love how they continue to flesh out these obscure characters from Trek canon!

We see lieutenant Mitchell in the captain’s chair, I believe for the first time.

Kind of hoping they promote Rong Fu to a regular simply so that she is no longer the only bridge crew person who isn't.

IKS par’Machstreet Boys

This is canon now.

Oh, c'mon, why do you have to do Frakes so dirty like that?

”But flipping it open’s the best part.” Pike is objectively correct.

Okay, that part is true.

Edit also how could I forget what seems an inspiration of this episode MAS*H

Yes, definitely had a MASH vibe.

"We must personally attack Burrito Truck and his sanity." -The people behind SNW

I can only presume that you are currently doing "Those Old Scientists" but may die in the process.

Thoughts as I watch:

• So, I'm wondering: is Cayuga a reference to Rod Serling? He named his production company that in reference to the lake in New York.

• Relationships suck when you are a Starfleet captain who knows your destiny to one day be in a beepie chair.

• Rigel 7, a deep cut!

• We have gone (ZERO) days without some sort of Starfleet prime directive problem.

• Finally, some Ortegas action!

• "THE HAT IS SUPREME." I'm going to have to use that in conversation.

• Oh man, at least she keeps the hat.

• "Subdermal universal translators" are the new translation microbes

• Oh boy, they have starfleet tech.

• Ah, we've got a good old-fashioned "Federation citizen takes over a world" episode!

• "This is a cage." Heh.

• Forgetting is a scary side effect for a planet.

• I get that they were only on there for like four hours, but shouldn't they have noticed stuff like this their last visit? Or maybe... THEY LOST

• "Welcome to Memento/50 First Dates Planet"

• Can still remember how to fight!

• So I'm guessing Spock is probably one of the more resistant to all of this due to his Vulcan-ness.

• Man, La'An is having a REALLY bad pair of weeks.

• Captain Pike even without his memories is still Captain Pike. Makes sense.

• Okay, I guess Spock isn't immune.

• Glad to see the Connie class had GPS.

• I gotta admit, I feel like Pelia would be good in this episode given just how many memories she has to lose and how many skills she has.

• SHE FLIES THE SHIP

• The ship's computer is great this week.

• Damn, that is some tough silverware, standing up to phaser blasts.

• Is it just me or is that a fresco or whatever of Alexander the Great... Zac-ized?

• Okay, that logic doesn't quite seem sound, but whatever.

• So, uhm, be careful about telling her about the Beepy-chair, Chris.

”It would seem that the rules of Starfleet only apply when a captain deems that they do.” Please see “All of Star Trek”.

Ain't that the truth.

The content will be shopped around to other platforms. You can probably expect some of it to end up on freemium/advertisement-based streaming services. The rest will just go into the proverbial vault.

What's weird is that Paramount HAS perhaps the best Freemium service: Pluto TV. One has to wonder if perhaps that is where Prodigy will end up (it may seem strange for a company to totally remove it from one streaming platform and move it to another that they also own, but the legalities of streaming rights are WEIRD. For example, some of the Looney Tunes shorts were removed from Max but can still be found on other WB/Discovery platforms, like their YouTube channel and the Boomerang streaming service- ultimately it was just an accounting trick)

Thoughts as I watch the episode:

• Previously on Star Trek: Una is an augment, and Starfleet greatly dislikes that.

• Oh, Kid Una!

• “How can he council me when he works for you?” Good point!

• This was the ready room scene last week.

• Illyrians hiding on a poisonous planet is a nice touch.

• So, this is an allegory for Don't Ask-Don't Tell and similar anti-gay and discriminatory policies, isn't it? Hiding who she is, for example. Timely.

• Damn, Batel's boss is an asshole.

• Damn, that took awhile to get to credits.

• Oh, more case law for Starfleet!

• “I know you hate giving inspiring speeches.” Heh.

• Ortegas imagining a Vulcan conversation is hilarious.

• “I regret that you had to witness that outburst.”

• Seriously, that outburst, it was so horrifying. Not sure if I can ever emotionally recover from it.

• Oh, those dress unis! Look so much like the TOS ones while still being all modern.

• Hahaha, she's using all the times they ignore the Prime Directive to show the hypocrisy of rules.

• The stuff about her being tried for stuff her parents did calls to mind the stuff with the DREAM act.

• Hang on, wouldn't the fact that La'an has Khan blood flowing through her veins kind of give a possible method of pointing out how much hypocrisy there is to the law?

• “An affinity for Gilbert and Sullivan Musicals”

• Good point about how family isn't destiny and also how the discriminated against can be led to self-loathing.

• I just noticed that the mural/engraving behind witness stand seems to show a bunch of humans, tellarites, andorians, and so on... wonder if it's meant to show the founding of the Federation or great legal scholars of the Fed species.

• Oh shit, she turned herself in.

• “Starfleet is not a perfect organization, but it strives to be.” We all should try to live up to that.

• My Badmiral Sense is tingling.

• Ah, so an asylum loophole! Clever way of allowing her to stay in while still keeping the anti-genetics stuff still in place come Bashir and Dal's time.

• Pike Hugs must be the best hugs.

Fun as always, although a bummer that Lemmy can't let you have the full post all in the top post.

Also, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught the reference Korby's specialty.