La'An fell head over heels for someone who had never heard of her. Absolutely makes sense. An entire lifetime of being treated differently, because everyone knows. Even if they don't treat her negatively, they still know.

This Kirk was the first person since grade school that she met someone who didn't know.

Absolutely makes sense.

Splinter the community, I'm going to stay with the people who went through the mess of setting up a new place that isn't beholden to Reddit. It may be forever smaller, but of the 600,000 subscribers, how many of them contribute?

Darmok, his spear thrown too early.

hey all! I see that /r/strangenewworlds is also going to remain in restricted mode indefinitely, would you perhaps reach out to the mods there, and see if they'd like to join the Federation? :-D

SpaceX pretty much kept US Spaceflight alive between the time of the Space Shuttle, and... whatever comes out next. Tesla corporation has proven to the rest of the car manufacturers, and other startups, that the way of the future is not via burning fossil fuels.

Elon showed the world what a shitheel he was after that.

So, I'm pretty sure that this dialogue was written before Elon became the obvious shitheel that he is now. And, as many point out, mirror universe Elon Musk might've been even more instrumental to their world, than ours.

I believe one of the admins said that it was hosted in Germany because of their data privacy protections

One of my viewing partners said "They only know humanity from call centers."

If I remember correctly, the very first scene of S1E1 was Batel waking up in Pike's bed, so.. yeah :D

and subverting the "hero goes back in time to kill a mass murderer" trope, with "hero goes back in time to save a mass murderer"

They want it so that people in areas such as Detroit, where there are often long lines due to lack of sufficient number of voting precincts, aren't willing to spend an entire day in line to vote.

I've always lived in either farming communities or relatively wealthy areas. The longest I've ever had to wait was about 30 minutes, during Obama's re-election voting.

I can't imagine having to wait hours upon hours. The whole situation makes no freaking sense to me at all.

And then I realized that they don't have a separate voting precinct for every few hundred people in the areas that aren't as well off. They have one for many thousands of people. Instead of every church and school being a voting location, people have to go miles, and wait in insanely large lines.

And that's what the Republicans want for the areas where "certain" people are living.

So... what was up with the door in the transporter room slamming shut in Pike's face when he turned to leave Amanda and Spock? lol

“For Nichelle”

I cried. I also teared up a little bit when Celia briefly channeled Nichelle early on in the episode.

Pelia remembers it, that meeting was before the timelines diverged, so it happened in the current timeline.

I think they broke into that facility pretty easily. Why did the door open in response to La’an’s DNA? Isn’t Khan just a little kid? Can he enter and leave as he pleases? I thought he was like an experiment they are trying to keep under wraps.

Seems Khan and all the other kids are probably derived from older Noonien-Singh DNA, considering the name of the facility.

I'm going with the thought that others have posted, since it's probably quite unlikely that the Klingons just stole an entire ship, that this ship must've been hacked together out of salvage from the War.

I bet we're going to see that Pelia was involved in things during the ENT era, and possibly also that she might connect to Scotty too.

"My behavior, while not criminal, was inappropriate and out of character."

Why does he think that slapping his wife across the face, throwing her phone in a pool, and then ramming his brother through a plate glass door is not criminal?

I'm here, and as long as this community keeps going, I think I probably will remain. Especially since my login is through a community that I am trying to actively participate in growth of.

Section 31 speed walking!

So.. La'an goes back in time to bootstrap paradox Pelia into becoming the engineer she is in the current timeline, and saves Earth's next Hitler from being killed, because without that, humanity never really gets it's shit together. And ::speculation alert!!:: maybe her leaving that gun there begins his murderous spree, so maybe she bootstrap paradoxed Khan into being the tyrant he becomes, too.

What a wild ride.

I just ... this series.. is just so consistently enjoyable. I love it.

I think in that particular case, it's quite fine to pass judgment that this was a very bad thing.