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Hmm, my take has been that Stamets is offering advice that he thinks is helpful, but is more glib than what Culber seems to need right now. It's interesting.

I've been really enjoying Culber's journey this season. I don't know if it will dovetail with the main plot, but I'm optimistic they'll wrap it up.

I'm not sure I'm completely on board with the role Stamets is playing in it, though. He went through a spiritual experience of sorts in season one, so I'm surprised Culber doesn't feel like he can turn to him. Maybe Stamets is just too chill to provide the kind of support that Culber needs.

I don't know specifics, but I think STA took that from some of the novels - they're pretty good about drawing from existing material.

I was referring to Discovery specifically, but I have heard good things about that doc.

I'm a big believer in "stardates are nonsense, and should remain nonsense," but there were efforts made to standardize them in the '90s. They weren't particularly consistent efforts, though. The full history can be found here.

In early TNG, this was the explanation:

A stardate is a five-digit number followed by a decimal point and one more digit. Example: "41254.7." The first two digits of the stardate are always "41." The 4 stands for 24th century, the 1 indicates first season. The additional three leading digits will progress unevenly during the course of the season from 000 to 999. The digit following the decimal point is generally regarded as a day counter.

By TNG season 6, they were going with:

A Stardate is a five-digit number followed by a decimal point and one more digit. Example: "46254.7". The first two digits of the Stardate are "46." The 4 stands for the 24th Century, the 6 indicates sixth season. The following three digits will progress consecutively during the course of the season from 000 to 999. The digit following the decimal point counts tenths of a day. Stardate 45254.4, therefore, represents the noon hour on the 254th "day" of the fifth season. Because Stardates in the 24th Century are based on a complex mathematical formula, a precise correlation to Earth-based dating systems is not possible.

One day, I'd really like to get an oral history of the making of this show, particularly those tumultuous first two seasons...

It's funny, I have a character that's completely Dyson themed - he wears the uniform, uses the ground and space sets, you name it...but he doesn't fly one of the Dyson ships.

My expectations for this one were low based on the preview, but I enjoyed this one more than I thought I might. A very "traditional" Star Trek plot in many ways.

Watching the Culber/Stamets interactions, I wonder if they're going to address the "awakening" that Stamets had following his genetic modification. That's something that's been mentioned a bunch of times (as recently as two episodes ago), but I don't remember them ever digging really deep into it. It seems like there are some parallels there that could be explored.

I think they use that name for the AR wall facility - they stuck a sign on the door and everything.

The episode was dedicated to Allan “Red” Marceta, a set dresser who passed away in 2022.

I wonder if the bar is named after him, too.

They got my many, many letters!

It is indeed a bundle of T6 Dyson ships. The blog will probably go up within the next day or two.

Any time the Tzenkethi aren't on screen, the characters should be saying, "where are the Tzenkethi?"

Note: The Tzenkethi will never be on screen.

It's kind of funny that this big reveal happened while Discovery is sitting in the territory of another famously mysterious species, the Tzenkethi.

Understandable, but this is better than your average screenrant content.

It was a pretty big red flag when they announced that every episode this season would be 1701 minutes long...

There was also the stuff in this episode about "two faces," one of which they say they have evolved past (or whatever their phrasing was). The Breen of this time could be a little more complicated than the Breen of the DS9 era. I assume we'll learn more about what that's all about later this season.

Does the problem that Georgiou had due to the drift between the two universes not effect the ship?

Probably not - it sounds like it didn't actually travel through time the way Georgiou did - it just sat derelict in the wormhole for a few hundred years.