That’s alright. When I first saw the episode USS Calilister I thought he was Matt Damon.

Plemons is actually married to Kirsten Dunst. He’s got quite a lot of acting credits under his belt. Friday Night Lights, Varsity Blues, and most recently Killers of the Flower Moon with Leonardo DiCaprio.

That’s Jesse Plemons. I don’t see Video Game Highschool on his list of acting credits in IMDB.

You might be thinking of Bryan Forrest.

Sony didn’t have both versions readily available in the Playstation Store. While I did eventually purchase the DLC (which is the deluxe version, not a typical DLC), I’ll be damned that Sony didn’t make it easy to find the OG version in the store.

And I put that on Sony, not the game publisher. Regardless, BG3 has been a breath of fresh air to gaming this year. About time a studio put out a full game without divvying it up into expansions and DLCs.

No, the orange spine books are all 1st Edition rules. They were the second printing published around 1983.

Legends and Lore was 2e.

The 1985 2nd printing of L&L (where the name was changed and the Lovecraft items were removed) was still under 1st Edition rules. That’s the copy I have.

Was Legends & Lore really originally a 1st edition book?
Yes. Legends & Lore was originally a reprinting of Deities & Demigods with a new title and cover. It was later recast into a 2nd edition book. The 2nd edition version contains new content.

Source

I might still have all the basic D&D rulebooks from Basic through Immortals, however they’re no longer in their boxes.

IIRC Cthulu was in there. However I have Legends & Lore, not Deities & Demigods. Basically the same book, except TSR changed the name because “the devil.”

EDIT

I did not recall correctly. The Lovecraft stuff isn’t in the 2nd printing.

I still have almost the entire first edition library of these at my brother’s house. I need to get them back.

To be fair with Ortegas they lean heavily into the thrill seeking flyboy archetype.

They do, but man an Erica Ortegas centered episode would be awesome. I would love to have an episode where we aren’t reminded that “Hi, my name is Erica Ortegas; I fly the ship.” Because at this point it feels like it’s trolling the audience.

And considering the way the season ended, there’s no guarantee that Ortegas makes it through alive. She’s one of the few characters that doesn’t have plot armor if TOS canon is to stand relatively unaltered.

Let hbomberguy tell you how Sherlock is bad by talking about it for what feels like an entire season of Sherlock.

Moffat…Moffat…Moffat

While I understand your hesitation, I definitely believe there could have been at least five more relevant episodes in Season 2. This season was overall character driven instead of a “planet of the week” format we’ve seen before. So, there could have been some extra episodes that extrapolated on the seasonal Gorn arc, or an Ortegas episode, or a Pelia episode. There’s a lot of potential to provide spanning character and seasonal arcs while delivering episodes from different planets over a 15 episode season.

I definitely believe 20 episodes is pushing it, but a 12-15 episode season could work if the stories are laid out well.

I knew Sean was going to give a down for that as soon as he mentioned it. You can tell by his inflection just where he’s going with it.

I’ve been watching his videos way too much…

If Abrams would have offered I bet Olyphant would have been great as Pike, for sure.

I would surmise that Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow has somewhat altered the main timeline, and there could be some minor adjustments with the characters to accommodate the story that showrunners want to tell.

I’d consider the Pike/Kirk relationship to be a minor thing. If they meet again, I’d be okay with it if the story broke some of the canon. I mean, they already changed the timeline of the Eugenics War, so is it a huge deal if Pike and Kirk come face to face a couple more times throughout the series?

I like it as well, yet I didn’t find a place in Trek forums until I left Reddit last month. So this is new territory for me. Take it in stride, there are other Discovery fans out there.

That’s an interesting metric. Apparently the vitriol for Discovery is mostly contained to the internet.

This comes as no shock at all.

I could only keep drawing parallels in Babs’ performance to Jamis in Dune. It’s like he brought the tension in that fight scene with Paul Atreides to the entirety of this episode. He is an amazing actor, and I love how he brings this mystery to M’benga, and how writers continue to peel his layers away as the series progresses.

I would like to see an Otegas focused episode though. While there was some focus with her in this episode, it was definitely overshadowed by M’benga and Chapel.

Sean, while I love it when you point out uniforms, I really don’t enjoy a five minute conversation on uniform comparisons between shows as you give it a down.

/end rant

But seriously, this episode was grim, and I really liked it.

Literally translates to “Time Portal.” Yeah that was hilarious.

Sean didn’t mention La’an’s timing in the shuttle when she catches Boimler and Mariner in the shuttle just after she says “I never get caught.” That was really funny as well.

Honestly there’s just so much in this episode, that even after several viewings I’m sure you’d still be picking out small references and easter eggs here and there.

I have to admit, like Sean, this is probably my favorite episode of the New Trek Era. There’s been so much to unravel.

Riker!