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  • Generally Doctor Who gets into a quagmire when it starts mining the backstory for story ideas. Too much of it and the show becomes unwatchable. Chibnall didn’t appear to have many plans for it beyond introducing Jo Martin’s Doctor so it’s hard to understand why it was brought up in the first place.

    That said RTD seems to have found an interesting take on it with the orphan angle and seems to have used it as a soft continuity reset of the backstory. With the new “happy go lucky” Doctor that we have in the 15th and the fact that we are back to being the “last of the time lords” (at least for the moment) I think it’s going to hard to explore the abuse angle in any depth without bringing the angst back.









  • A lot to unpack here. Definite ‘Best Of Both Worlds’ vibes. Great end of season episode. Hopefully this time they have the resolution to the cliffhanger written.

    I figured Batel would suffer the fate she did, even before the episode started. It was lazy writing that she should end up in the situation she did and so it happened. The writing team can and should do better than this.

    Scotty appearing was a nice touch, and was well played by the actor. Given that Chapel is probably going to be rotated out for a while I think pairing him with Pelia for season 3 might be fun.

    The Gorn were also well done, although the Aliens homages are getting tiresome and unless they are going completely retcon ‘Arena’ then there isn’t a huge amount more than can be done with them. Thankfully so far they seem to using them sparingly. Hopefully they will move onto other TOS races in season 3. The Tholians, for example, have a unique feel and less alpha continuity to worry about.







  • I think Star Trek is one of Paramount/CBS’ more bankable franchises so will continue in some form. I think for the moment that will be on streaming. I don’t think the movie format works particularly well given the size and ensemble nature of the cast.

    As for the future, Discovery is closing out after S5. Not sure if they will try and spin something out of that. Maybe that rumored Star Fleet Academy series?

    SNW will get another couple of seasons with Pike in command. After that I suspect it will continue with Kirk et al. If they are smart they will jump forward to the point just after The Motion Picture and pick up there. That gives them the opportunity to lean into The Motion Picture redesign to make it visually different from SNW and a fairly clear 5-10 years of timeline to fill before the red uniforms and ST:TWOK.

    I think having 2-3 shows with 10 episodes a season and a season per year is probably the right balance.