This is what I wanted from this. It’s the same device that worked for Captain America. You give them a standalone period piece and then at the end they fall through time and do a big team up movie.

I mean it’s your choice to walk around with shit in your hat, but you do you.

Politics is not a zero sum game. You don’t vote for the good choice. You vote for the less bad choice.

Might as well just shit in your own hat for all the good that will do anyone.

Best case scenario at this point is one of them croaks before November. It’s insane to me that Biden even contemplated a second term, when the whole point of picking Kamala Harris as his VP was so she could be the young fit successor. It’s time to roll out plan B, guys.

I see Simone Giertz, I click. She remains one of the best people on YouTube.

Weekend discharges occur less frequently than discharges on weekdays, contributing to hospital congestion. Artificial intelligence algorithms have previously been derived to predict which patients are nearing discharge based upon ward round notes. In this implementation study, such an artificial intelligence algorithm was coupled with a multidisciplinary discharge facilitation team on weekend shifts. This approach was implemented in a tertiary hospital, and then compared to a historical cohort from the same time the previous year. There were 3990 patients included in the study. There was a significant increase in the proportion of inpatients who received weekend discharges in the intervention group compared to the control group (median 18%, IQR 18–20%, vs median 14%, IQR 12% to 17%, P = 0.031). There was a corresponding higher absolute number of weekend discharges during the intervention period compared to the control period (P = 0.025). The studied intervention was associated with an increase in weekend discharges and economic analyses support this approach as being cost-effective. Further studies are required to examine the generalizability of this approach to other centers.

The contemplative and slower tone of the coda really highlighted what was lost in switching to shorter seasons with a long serialized arc to babysit. Imagine if we had those arcs but with a handful of bottle episodes peppered throughout.

I wonder if they cut down the Moll resolution a bit to make room for the series wrap up. It did feel a bit abrupt.

I totally called Kovich being a time traveler, but them folding him into Daniels was a neat surprise, and felt like a naturally revelation. “Oh, of course he’s bloody Daniels.” It expanded both characters without diminishing their mystery at all.

Knowing that Calypso was meant to be the whole focus of season 6 is a hard blow, though. We’ll likely never get that story now. I’m glad they were able to at least tie it firmly back to the show, but man, it would have been fun to see how it played out. Why does Kovich need this Craft, and why does it require the ship to be de-refitted? Maybe now that the show is done they’ll give it a proper continuation in novel form. One can only hope.

This is an excellent distillation of what makes Tilly great. Imho she’s the best written character across the board in any Trek of the past two decades. I missed her sorely in season 4.

It’s definitely a a nice nod to the character. If bar patrons 600 years later still get the reference, that speaks well of her lasting influence on the Federation.

I wonder if they ginned these up for Section 31 or Starfleet Academy (if that’s still a thing?) and figured they could use them here, similar to the First Contact uniforms being ported over to DS9.

I really think they just overplayed their hand, and he really did overdose by accident - or because he thought it was the only way for Moll to get away. I don’t believe either of them are basing a strategem on the Progenitor tech actually being able to resurrect him, but Moll is desperate now, so she’s willing to believe it might work because it’s the only hope she has left.

I don’t think Reno was referencing The Littles, as she referred to the treasure hunt as sounding like something out of a holonovel “for the littles”. Unless there’s something specific in Peterson’s stories relating directly to this, I’m pretty sure it was just a cutesy way of saying “for little kids”.

Thanks for making these posts every week. I come here after every episode to see what references I missed.

The focus is more on Burnham and her belief in personal connection, not the crew and their own piccadillos. Discovery has always been first and foremost the story of Michael Burnham, like it or not. Docking it for what it is not and has never attempted to be isn’t really valid criticism.

In that episode more time had passed, and Zora never mentions the crew by name, so the crew she was waiting for to return might have been replacements who never arrived.

Would have been funny to bring fellow Cylon Landry back and have Rayner say “wait do I know you?”

Also, what is dragging him along with Burnham and Rayner, while the consciousnesses of everyone else are presumably unaware of the jumps? Come to think of it what’s the point of the Time Bug if nobody involved is usually aware of it? Is the jumping just a side effect of the ship being “frozen” in time?

It’s always sad when someone who clearly cares so much gives up or resorts to irrational methods to fight against what he perceived as an insurmountable threat.

The world has always been run by self-interested bastards who will gladly sacrifice thousands and millions of people to enrich themselves. This is nothing new to anyone who has studied any history.