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I took a look at IMDb and averaged the ratings of each episode in each season of Star Trek. Apparently, Discovery Season 3 was worse than every other season of Star Trek besides TAS Season 2? I smell some review-bombing... Below is each Star Trek series ranked by the average rating for the whole show. The average episode rating is in parentheses. Next Generation: 8.6 (7.4) Original Series: 8.3 (7.5) Deep Space 9: 8.0 (7.6) Voyager: 7.8 (7.5) Enterprise & Picard: 7.5 (Enterprise 7.7, Picard 7.6) Animated Series: 7.4 (6.9 [nice]) Discovery: 7.2 (7.1) Lower Decks: 6.9 (7.6) It's not IMDb users' favorite Trek show, but the average Enterprise episode is apparently better than the average episode of any other show. Interesting. TNG is the show with the largest discrepancy between the overall rating and the average episode rating. I guess people just like to remember the best episodes of TNG.

From an interview with Spencer Garrett, who played Simon Tarses in "The Drumhead":  "I was all of the sudden in this completely foreign world. And I think it was the scene in the trial, where I’m being interrogated by Bruce French, the actor who was representing Jean Simmons’ character, and I started crying, in the scene. And we ended up having to go back and re-shoot that scene because Rick Berman, the exec producer, said, 'No, a Romulan would never cry. He would be emotionless.' So we went back and re-shot that scene without me crying." Jesus fucking Christ. There are two interpretations of Berman's statement that I can think of.  1: there are inherent biological reasons that Romulans don't cry. That's clearly bullshit. In fact, Romulans (along with Vulcans) are supposed to be more strongly inclined to emotions than humans. Even if Romulans were emotionless, Simon is only one-quarter Romulan! 2: Romulans have a taboo against showing any kind o...

Watched Enterprise S3E10 "Similitude". Yet another episode in which Archer does something awful and he's portrayed as having made the right decision. If the clone is exactly identical to Trip, including having all his memories and skills, and you might be able to give him a normal lifespan...what exactly do you need the original Trip for? Just start calling this new guy Trip and pretend nothing ever happened. Isn't that what they did with Spock in the TOS movies? Also, Phlox apparently has no ethical objections to killing this person, unlike the Doctor in "Tuvix". This show seems intent on making me hate Archer.