Yes and that was one of the things I loved about it. It explained the inconsistencies in a way that made sense. Meanwhile STD muddies the water up and leave a convuluted mess, eventually getting so bad they had to take the show into the far flung future to avoid fucking up TOS any more than they had.
I thought ENTs explanation of Klingon foreheads was totally unnecessary and screws up the timeline more than it fixes it. They got a bigger budget for TMP and redesigned their main villain, not a big deal. Then they joked about it in DS9 in a fan service episode, also fine. But actually taking it seriously and working it into an episode? Now it's even weirder that it hasn't been mentioned by anyone before.
Yeah. If anything I wish they had done SFDebris' idea in the DS9 Tribble episode where once they traveled back in time, Michael Dorn had the old Klingon makeup until they came back to the present.
That episode leans on the 4th wall so heavily that it feels more like an SNL skit tbh.
This is copium.
I mean there is an interesting idea, because I for one have always wondered why just because Humanity abandoned eugenics, why would the other powers? (Dominion certainly didn't. Volta & Jem'Hadar are both engineered.)
A case could be made that the inherent volatility of augments means that planets that experiment with them end in apocalyptic world wars before they're warp capable. Leaving genetic engineering behind is a "great filter" of sorts. The Dominion could be a rare exception, but the dynamic between changelings and their subjects makes them unique in some ways.
In this case, Surak was the one Vulcan that learned not to ree over every little thing, hence why the Stone of Gol was useless on him.
Try some empathy; Imagine you were in a TV show that has gained cult status...and you get constant fawning every single second you step outside your house - every other person you walk into you does exactly what you did. How would you feel after just 24 hours of this Happening to you?
Yeah, Shatner has had to deal with some of the absolute most heinous and borderline criminal autism ever known for the best part of a fucking *century* now, so he has a fair bit of leeway to be a crotchety old man as far as i'm concerned, especially with regards to those he thinks are trying to inflict more of that shit on him
Dirk was also a bit of a snake, one time he would accept to do a photo op with Katee Sackhoff to promote the new show and then later he would talk shit about them.
I have seen a few of episodes and I feel it too... mundane to my taste, but it's definitely way better than Nu-Trek because they try to make sci-fi rather than using the show as a propaganda tool. If you like it, I'd say you're a normal person.
It's just something to fill time. The best parts are the weird guest stars.
The producers have said his dialogue for season three was all recorded before he died if I'm not mistaken. I'd be very surprised if we got season 4.
I always question the wisdom of casting Rene as the villain.
I actually thought that made some sense, in fairness - the editor came across as akin to the occupation-era Odo that we saw in the previous season's "Things Past", i.e. someone who sympathized and on some level agreed with the people being oppressed, but was more concerned with the orderly running of things than doing anything to actually help change an unjust situation. If the editor was an out-and-out racist he probably would have shitcanned Benny as soon as he presented his first DS9 story, and would definitely have done so after Benny wrote a bunch more of such stories instead of what he was actually supposed to write.