Star Trek Discovery: The Bryan Fuller TV reboot

it was surprisingly easy for some dudes to break out of their agonizers and take over, but hey, plot. guess it helps when the emperor kills all her lieutenants just beforehand

I was left wondering how they pulled off better action/effects than multiple movies in a late season episode

i'm generally not too bothered by the quality of special effects but the show looks amazing. (there was one episode in which the director *really* loved zooming the camera in from outer space through the hull, but i forgive her/him)

My only complaint was that one ep where they spun the camera around the talking scene over and over til I thought I'd vom. I think someone else said similar upthread.

yeah that was riker directing!

I noticed Frakes also directed an episode of The Orville recently.

Think Enterprise is the only post TNG one he hasn't had any involvement with.

wise

except when he turned up in the last scene in the last episode!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkecbH6an0w

he was in that ENTire episode

it's been a long rooooooad getting from beard to beard

Was actively guffawing at Lorca's brilliant battle plan of engaging forces in a hallway/shooting gallery when you have less than thirty people at your disposal

half the point of the mirror universe seems to be demonstrating how you're the biggest hardman, at all times

ROLLING HARDMAN THREAD 2255

I didn’t like how dude went from heelturn reveal to complete genocidal maniac in like 15 minutes across two episodes. That seemed a bit much.

Poor Rehka Sharma.

Also disappointed a certain ship never made an appearance after being alluded to in multiple episodes

we still have 2(?) episodes left. i'm hoping we still get to see that ship

I was thinking throughout this week's episode that they'd end up setting up Georgiou in a position where Burnham ends up handing her too much power under desperation

but no, they went... the other direction

this episode hurt me in my heart because all I could think was "why couldnt Bablyon 5 have looked this good, this is exactly what Babylon 5 could have been like with a budget, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhh"

(as in, this ep reminded me of the earth vs Minbari standoffs and such)

so i guess they cut the kelpian dinner scene out of the previous episode. thank you censors.

it was in the version I watched

after that scene where Burnham had to pick a kelpian, the emperor pushes her to try one dish at their dinner and says it’s kelpian brain sashimi

It was several eps previous.

why would the censors cut that scene???

yikes, I missed that.

given the show, i thought they'd do some sort of foie gras thing or maybe the monkey heads in temple of doom.

It wasnt gorey or anything, just commented on while they sat at dinner iirc?

not gory in visuals, but in essence...

looked like they were eating lotus root.

I was confused by the ending and thought they'd brought back the *original* Girorgiou.

Otherwise, solid episode! Science and problem solving and corridor walking - it felt like the most old school Trek episode so far.

And "my lorca is dead" seemed like a clear cue that he's alive, somewhere.

one’s missing, one is a spore lad now

Namedropping Archer so conspicuously seems like they're itching to bring out Scott Bakula in old-man makeup to give some rousing braveheart speech while porthos softly weeps.

like old man Sarek in TNG

that was the worst episode

i liked the groovy vintage theme during the credits tho

Well that was one of the weirdest first seasons of a show I’ve ever seen. It started to grow on me after a while even with it making zero sense most of the time.

That said, rolled my eyes hard at the last shot in the finale.

it's settled: clint howard is the throughline that ties all the series together

Just realized that it was Evil Lorca who dropped Elon Musk’s name as important space pioneer, suggesting Musk’s prominence in the evil fashy MU

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/star-trek-discovery-elon-musk/

"Oh, she's not..."
unh-unhh

"So she's from.."
mm-hmm

poor Tilly

Yeah, Tilly bursting out of costume with such effusive excitement in her entrance was a lot of fun.

she really had a hell of a day, get your hopes up that your captain's back from the dead, then get smoked up by Clint Howard

"I'm very high right now but I'm pretty sure the emperor is trying to blow up this planet"

akiva goldsman: the episode

that was pretty bad

so star fleet doesn't commit genocide, they just threaten to commit genocide huh

akiva goldsman: the episode

That pretty much says it all.

Been hit with heavy depression the last couple of weeks and over the last couple of days I shotgunned all of Star Trek: Disco (so who is calling it STD?). Powering through the first couple of episodes was a dreadful slog and reminiscent of the terrible Cylon-heavy episodes of nuGalactica, but after that this was.... great.. I was watching four or five episodes a night - the block of mirror universe episodes alone were better than any recent ST movie. Tilly is the best. I hope Michelle Yeoh will have a recurring role in season 2.

The last episode was a little all over the place and underwhelming but overall this series is a blast.

Last episode thoughts:
- Why not just have the Federation say "we can blow up Q'onos"? Seems like more effective bargaining. I guess some Klingon groups wouldn't care and would keep on prosecuting the war regardless.
- WTF did they do to Paris??? Buildings almost on top of the Eiffel Tower? Nothing like what we've seen in TNG etc.
- New/Old Enterprise looks GREAT (and I'm a purist) - although the engine struts should have been straight.

Season 2 of Discovery promises just as many shocking revelations of the first, as the showrunners reiterate they want to include the show in more of Star Trek‘s extensive canon.

This is one of the more tiresome aspects of sandbox narratives.

lenny kravitz is no beastie boys

Half way through this. Just had the cliffhangar episode devoted to finding a way to detect the klingon's cloaked ships. Half way through, before they've found the solution, a crewman says 'long range scanners detecting a cloaked klingon ship dropping out of warp'. WHAT?

Overall it's a solid crew and cast, passes the bechdel test in spades, Klingon redesign is great, loved the old skool timeloop episode; shame the spore drive central macguffin is such hot garbage.

Back today in the UK.

Netflix has also got the Short Treks available now too but they're stupidly hard to find:

If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’ll want to search for “Star Trek: Discovery” and then click for more info. Next to the tab “episodes”, you’ll find another tab called “trailers & more”. Click on this, and then scroll all the way to the right and – SUCCESS! – you’ll find four episodes: Runaway, Calypso, The Brightest Star, and Escape Artist.

Loved Calypso

Wow, this was so much better a season opener than with the first season! Feels like proper TV Trek again, with exploration and sense or wonder, not fights and war. And they managed to give almost everyone nice little character moments too. Seems like the pattern they've had with every series since TNG still holds, that they get better after a meh first season... Or at least this ep gave me hope it'll be the case with Discovery too.

!!! I didn't realise this was already happening.