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I’m surprised this hasn’t popped up here yet!

And io9:

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BURNHAM: Sir, I don’t know who you are, but we need your help contacting Star Fleet.

PICARD: I… know you. I share memories with your adopted father.

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Hmmm…time to reactivate my CBS All Access account for a month so I can watch the second half of the first season. It’s an annoying way to watch and their app sucks hard, but no way am I paying continuously for a service that has precisely one show I want to watch, and no way am I missing new Star Trek.

Also, I cautiously second @TobinL’s squeeing. Don’t mess with me, Alex Kurtzman. A Picard in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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Good lord…

If nothing else, the new series clearly illustrated why Sarek’s kids all think he’s such a knob.

“Technically we are not related.”

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So this new series takes place back in the original timeline and not the timeline of the latest batch of movies, right?

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Correct, Discovery is not part of the Kelvin Timeline.

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In the wake of the Janus decision and the erosion of workers’ rights, Starfleet eliminated pensions for retirees, forcing officers to continue working into their 80s.

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Heck, Dr. McCoy was still on the job at age 137.

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Not by choice; he was forced back into duty after retirement:

Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldom-used “reserve activation clause”. In simpler language, Captain, they drafted me.

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