To Boldly Go (Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson)

June 05, 2020 01:50:44
To Boldly Go (Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson)
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To Boldly Go (Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson)

Jun 05 2020 | 01:50:44

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Show Notes

Spoiler alert! Critiquing Star Trek: Discovery and Picard ... Serial vs. episodic storytelling ... Why Dan hated Discovery's main character ... Is the show too woke? ... Debating the big twist in Picard ... Dan: Two things screw up Picard as a Star Trek show ... Throwing science out the window ... Milton: Audiences don't know what they want ... Have younger viewers turned away from science fiction? ...

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