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And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.

I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:

• "God" lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
• Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
• V'ger
• Q and the continuum
• Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
• Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
• Mirror Universe
• Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
• SPACE FUNGUS

Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco's first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.

Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.

Not just aliens. Alien, aliens.

While hardly a first for Star Trek, it's always a treat when alien-looking, and alien-acting, aliens show up.

The season had a good pace, but in my heart, I wanted more. I really feel like it would have made a fun (if not nerdy) season if we had a few more episodes decoding mysteries and getting to know this new culture and species.

Ha! First thing I thought of when seeing the headline: "Glad Destin got everyone's attention."

Do I still have a case?

We actually have a class action suit for that very thing. Let me DM you the details.

Transporter buffer imprisonment

This is a horrifying concept and you bet I would send a Klingon law team after someone for that.

Console explosion

Do they have experience/success with suing The Federation? I heard they recently added Borg parts to all their ships - seems reckless to me.

sent to Rura Penthe

I have good news and bad news for you.

The good news is: Since you now live at Rura Penthe, Gowron Law can represent you for your new Mesothelioma suit.

It's basically that. These have a lot in common with pro-wrestling moves. They all carry some element of risk (like the drop kick), but the physicality isn't impossible to achieve with some coaching.

"O'brien in Agony"

Is just a picture of Miles with Keiko

For a moment, I though this was a play on how holodecks work versus the current state of AI.

Then I realized what an utter nightmare it would be to build a full-blown VR environment using nothing but present-day stable diffusion prompts.

Oh man, that's really close. And no callback to that episode either. Picard or Worf remarking that "they must have gotten the idea from our own logs" would have been way better foreshadowing for the (b)admiral's involvement. It would have also changed the tone to be more Trek thematic, as it would say something deeper about unintended consequences through so much cultural contact.

Holy shit. That is amazing.

I'm also a fan of Discovery's take on this trope: Everyone is going to die unless we do something immediately, but let's monologue and/or argue for five on-screen minutes first.