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Thanks for the article. I didn't know the character Kyle existed in TOS too. I wonder why the actor left SNW though -- his character could have developed more in the future.

EDIT: from another comment, it seems there was a scheduling conflict with him filming Vampire Academy. Maybe he can return in the future?

I agree. SNW has a really strong cast, and great writers. The show truly can be episodic without referencing any previous canon and still be fantastic and even appreciated more by new watchers of Star Trek.

The love interest between them developed to quickly in my opinion. It felt a bit unnatural, especially for La'an who is usually much more in control of her responsibilities and composure.

Minor thing but the teaser jumped straight into the opening credits (without fading into black first) and I thought that was cool.

The mentioning of DuckDuckGo seemed weird/misplaced

Toronto passing as New York for characters was so meta and hilarious.

Ouch, that must hurt for Kate Mulgrew and the team.

Why would Paramount remove the existing episodes from streaming service though? They have everything else Trek.

Oh yeah. That stood out to me as well.

I didn't particularly loved Ad Astra Per Aspera but I agree that this episode demonstrates the tone difference between Discovery and SNW very well, but honestly all of SNW feels like it was a 180 degrees shift from Discovery (and that's good).

The crew quarters with those slanted columns look really sleek.

Hm... I suppose I might get downvoted, but I thought that the episode was just okay. Don't get me wrong, I love Star Trek episodes that aren't action-oriented and have actual good drama, but we have done courtroom dramas already multiple times. TNG had it with Measure of a Man, which was superb at the time. Battlestar Galactica had that one space court drama that was well executed too. While this episode was maybe emotional and had the allegory on modern society, I thought the episodes borrowed too heavily from so many courtroom drama clichés (objections/"you may proceed, but treat carefully", making someone who would otherwise be on your side be the prosecution, having the defendant lawyer make their own client look bad at the beginning, making prosecution read off a law in front of the court).

I am here already waiting to throw my money at the inevitable IndieGoGo campaign for their TNG documentary.

If you haven't seen it yet I highly recommend Rowan's Star Trek Retrospective series.. That's how his channel became famous.

She was in Star Trek Beyond though.

Yeah, that was pretty dumb too.

I agree. That's why it would have actually been shocking if there were to really kill Chapel. I only watched Games of Thrones lately (yeah I know), and boy was I shocked at the various kills of main characters.

Actually the entire having to jump into space without a space suit was what reminded me of The Expanse more.

Regarding Nurse Chapel almost dying - this is one of the TV/movie tropes that I think is such a cheap and terrible device and I am tired of it. Discovery was full of these scenes where they make you believe a main character really almost died, only to survive after all, and having their crew mates weep for them (I am looking at you Burnham). There are much better ways to create good drama.

In one of the panels Anson Mount was saying that if you think the Lower Decks cross-over episode was the craziest thing they've done for season 2, we would be surprised what else to see, so yeah, I think we are in for a good treat.

Agree. That action sequence was also unusually long too. I mean, it might be cool to watch, but it didn't really serve the plot it any way.