Lethe

Six episodes in and I get the feeling that the writers are trying to placate the fans by dropping as many cannonical references as they can within the fifty minute window… don’t get me wrong I love it, but I just wish that the series could stand on it’s own two feet without requiring the previous 728 episodes to hold it up. I guess the time will come where this show will carve it’s own path and be able to rise above the need.

For now though, I enjoyed learning more about the Sarek/Burnham relationship and how it influenced the Sarek/Spock one… and despite what I said in the previous paragraph, I really enjoyed the retconning of the breakdown in the latter’s relationship – he’d chosen the half Vulcan to serve in the Vulcan Expeditionary Force, but Spock had other ideas and joined Starfleet.

By the way, just who is Ash Tyler?