I don’t get the love for Buccees. The bathroom lines are long and the place is a madhouse every time I’ve stopped there. Is the gas cheaper or something?
I think as long as there is a Paramount+, there will be at least one Star Trek series on the air every year. Whether or not that show will actually be good 🤷♂️.
Not really, no. Strange New Worlds is the only halfway decent Trek show on the air currently, and though the casting and art direction are great, the writing still needs improvement.
Too many of the episodes are xerox copies of previous plot lines that have been done to death. (Steal the ship to go on a mission! Time travel! DNA fuck up!). There’s an over reliance on “previously on” when the 1997 trek was mostly bottle episodes.
And when I say the casting is great, I mean everyone but Spock’s mom (who looks nothing like previous actresses who have played this part) and Kirk. We didn’t really need Kirk to appear in this show — his brother was a nice addition though.
Lack of traffic enforcement, poor road design and management, getting rid of car inspections, and handing out drivers licenses to people who can’t drive is sending auto insurance rates through the roof in Texas. Not to mention all the uninsured drivers (again lack of enforcement).
To me, this felt like the first real, original, stand alone episode of this season. I didn’t care for the courtroom drama episode, or the time travel one. Those plot lines have been done on Star Trek so many times before.
Still wishing this wasn’t a series that insisted on the “previously on” intro. You never saw that on TOS or TNG unless it was a two parter.