Mariner always has the funniest way of being annoyed or angry

Ah thanks.

I must confess that I don't get the reference. Where was this from?

I know Cecile Rose Gooding is the Grammy winner from Broadway. Who is the other Broadway performer?

Oh that's cool

They should take the idea of "storing people in buffers" all the way to extreme and explore it like Black Mirror does. What does this mean if everyone had the opportunity to store people in buffers? Can everyone sign up for this service and instantly beam you into a buffer whenever you have an incurable diseases at the time? Is there a service to auto-beam you into the buffer if the ship is about to crash-land? Can richer people pay to have poorer people's buffer be deleted when you run out of buffer space? What happens if there is a glitch and people who are in the buffer experience 20 years in real-time?

I think there's so much potential for more exploration here. It would be cool to have Charlie Booker on a Star Trek episode, as he kinda did a fun/excellent/dark Star Trek Black Mirror episode too.

Yeah, I couldn't stop thinking about DS9's Duet with this episode. Lots of comparisons, though I think there was a lot more grey-ish morality in the SNW world. War is complicated and it sucks for everyone involved.

I didn't quite get the reference with Spock's arm. Was this supposed to reference something in previous Trek?

Also, at the end of the LD Season 4 trailer, Mariner and Boimler mentioned something about "the Pike thing we are not supposed to talk about". Maybe there will be some more LD/SNW developments.

And this "Previously on" was also not actually that useful/needed.

Rowan J Coleman's Star Trek Retrospective series is superb and is what made his YouTube channel famous. He has now branched to other SciFi movies too which are equally interesting.

It's unfortunate that he said that he won't have in depth retrospectives about new Trek series but hopefully he'll change his minds when series like Discovery will end.

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