The episode (like so many others) is meaningless if they continue the fiction that this is a prequel to TOS.

This was the problem with the Kelvin timeline. It made no sense that the Romulan's and Spock's entry into the timeline impacted it in the ways shown.

I have been keeping up with the show, but it should be considered another universe like the mirror universe (since it also has a mirror universe this does get confusing).

What folks really want is a continuation of the prime timeline. That apparently is not going to happen. I would be excited to see a return to Talos IV in that timeline. Something where Pike's happy ending turns into a horror.

Netflix too)...

It costs $5.99 a month with limited commercials, $9.99 for commercial free. The first week is free. CBS All Access

star trek episode on Netflix, no luck (week after). Any more information you can give us? Thanks!

on Netflix one day! Take care.

The plots are so contrived at times and the technobabble so inane that I just can't put up with it. When waterbears navigating a mushroom network became the key technology last season, I quit watching. The mush-mouthed Klingons almost did it. Watching those actors struggle to enunciate around massive oral appliances was just painful. I otherwise quite liked the nosferatu Klingons.

This season, I couldn't get through the pilot. All the big changes last season are being swept up. Oh look, no more mushroom drive. Oh look, the Enterprise missed the war. Spock having an unmentioned sister could be interesting, but all of the dramatic buildup rests on OUR KNOWLEDGE of Spock. It's not what we see of her relationship. She should hate that moody little green-blooded asshole, instead we are treated to a wholesale strip mining of our own nostalgia.

The show has great design. I love a lot of the characters. I keep hoping the show will find its own voice and quit shoving its hand up the butt of the original series and calling it a puppet.

with the previously on Star Trek footage from TOS. So now we know that there is another force out there which threatens all sentient life in the galaxy. It will be interesting to know if it is a force that is already in canon or something completely unknown.

Every Thursday I get excited over the new Star Trek, and every Thursday evening I wake up to the final credits rolling. You would think the massive use of lens flare would overcome the slow pacing and predictable plots, but it never does. 😕

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Spock has seen the future thanks to the red angel, and it consists of all life being extinguished in our galaxy in some kind of attack. Spock is going mad because he is experiencing non-linear time. The Talosians help Spock back to sanity and share his memories of the future with Michael. Spock and Michael escape Section 31 with the help of the Talosians and start planning how they will prevent the future that they have seen.