I didn't expect the show to move towards the "Calpyso" storyline, at least not so quickly.
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
I am just catching up with episodes now. I got so excited at the start of the Talosian one because I thought it was going to be some cool mashup thing, but it was not good at all. I think every new Star Trek iteration tries to recreate the magic of the Wrath of Khan by revisiting old enemies and scenarios, and that's just not an easy thing to do.
But the Control episode after it was superb. Funny that Tuomas mentions Doctor Who upthread. I thought it had a real Who vibe about it, but without the messianic histrionics.
I am also warming to Spockolas. Jokes help.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
i hope tig doesn't get killed off
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 April 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
People Turing up on discovery like they popped round from next door whilst it’s taking 57 more minute for the baddies to turn up is getting really old.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 19 April 2019 07:29 (four years ago) link
That last episode was pretty good! Little confusing in places (if control got subdued by Philipa with the magnet whyd they even need to do what they did?) but yeah lots of action and tension.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that was some v good Trek there! Plot holes aplenty around death of Control but that aside, yes. I wonder how it is going down with the Trekkers.
― stet, Saturday, 20 April 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
have we had fighters/drones like that before in trek?
endless plot holes but it sure looked nice. spock should have kept the beard
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 April 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
he will... consider ithttps://s.put.re/hiDQWpdj.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 20 April 2019 04:15 (four years ago) link
Loved the moire screen detail
#startrekdiscovery Some details go back to my childhood. I always loved Spock's science station on the Enterprise bridge. Thank to Alex Kurtzman and Olatunde Osunsanmi for letting me animate Spock's moiré. Such an iconic screen! pic.twitter.com/W1tXwRoYpZ— Timothy Peel (@timothypeel1) April 20, 2019
― stet, Saturday, 20 April 2019 09:29 (four years ago) link
things we didn't learn:
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
also, why did the signals appear briefly at the start of the season? why did burnham bother with saru's backwards shithole planet instead of getting someone like the vulcans to help out?
yes, i could deal with a few of these, but all together they come across as sloppy writing.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
"have we had fighters/drones like that before in trek?"
star trek beyond had lots of little ships. I did find the action sequences genuinely thrilling, which I hadn't felt before with Discovery. (If the budget overrun on the season premiere was spent on the X-Wing asteroid field sequence, they wasted their money.)
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
Also it’s seems like poor starfleet management practice not to nominate a captain from the legions of commanders on discovery before they disappeared into the future.
I did like Number 1s very 60s hairstyle and overall looks. The 23rd century is about to enter a very retro phase.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 21 April 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
• why vulcans are unable to use contractions
contractions are illogical
― j., Sunday, 21 April 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
somehow
Spock used contractions! He might be Vulcan, but he's no Soong-type android.
I really liked this for its pure spectacle! There's a million things that don't make sense this season (yes, the current writing regime continues the proud Trek tradition of not being able to do cool, well-considered sci-fi concepts*), but they hit enough beats that made up for it: Burnham's flight in the suit; the SFX for all of her jumps; Lrell and Ash with the requisite "TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE" (I seriously got choked up when they said it).
* Like they literally didn't need Burnham to send an additional signal! She appeared to Spock as a child, which should've been proof enough that she made it through the wormhole.
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Sunday, 21 April 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
I'm pretty sure we saw some in some of the big space battles in DS9.
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Sunday, 21 April 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
xp i think that was mrs burnham who appeared to spock as a child
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 April 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
ugh this was garbageso confusing, maybe i misheard but at one point they say they can't get through to the rest of starfleet, then 5 minutes later "we have 200 ships to [leland's] 30". huh?why didn't they just use the spore drive to jump to the delta quadrant and launch michael from there?so much awful technobabble but the enterprise bridge officer asks the discovery one to "speak english" because she doesn't know what an arc second is :(
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
pretty sure they could have tied a string to that blast door handle. also, blast door was pretty strong, maybe they should build the whole ship out of them.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
spock: did u ever knooo that ur my heeeerooooo
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
"section 31 requires more transparency"that went well, no-one's heard of it in ds9.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
i thouht the signal she was going to send to spock was the one from his childhood... so when did that one get sent?
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
we have 200 ships to [leland's] 30
i think this was a reference to all their lil fighters and drones (and then leland launched his own)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
That blast door scene made me cross. No way he could have stood directly on the other side of the glass and not been impacted somehow. WTF.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
spock's childhood meeting was with mike's mom. how the vision included the signals when mom didn't know anything about signals is a plot hole.
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 28 April 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
There are dozens of star treks, not just 6 or 7, and if trek is a feeling then everyone has a different one. But i keep thinking of The Measure of a Man; it might not even be my favourite episode but in the writing, the problem posed and the solution offered, it was something of a peak. Nothing in Discovery was remotely of that calibre - in season 2 certainly. Season 1 had some things going for it, e.g. Tilly pushed the boundaries of what a starfleet officer could be, while staying true to or even exemplifying trek values; by season 2 she was mostly reduced to comic relief.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Sunday, 28 April 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
I missed some of the wtf-ness that Jason Isaacs provided last season, but I really enjoyed this one. Shame the last episode was a Marvel movie climax laser fight though.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Hells yeah that massive pew pew scene hurt my head, I couldnt tell who was shooting what at some points.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
logic extremists
lol
― j., Monday, 15 July 2019 06:41 (four years ago) link
Anyone else been watching the new Short Treks?
They seem to have annoyed all the hardcore Trekkies (not difficult) but I've enjoyed them.
Assume the last one will tie into Picard somehow?
― groovypanda, Monday, 20 January 2020 10:26 (four years ago) link
The last one is indeed a Picard teaser.
I only watched the cartoon one and really liked it, it was equal parts Looney Tunes and Disney.
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Monday, 20 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Oh and I watched the Picard one as well, it was ok.
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
The Trouble with Edward one is a blast although apparently Star Trek isn't allowed to be funny.
― groovypanda, Monday, 20 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
Just watched it and yes, it's funny as hell.
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Monday, 20 January 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
two years later and series 1 has made it to terrestrial tv in the uk. am about 8 episodes in, but i've nothing really to say other than i'm disappointed that the DISCO shirts don't say VERY on the back.
― koogs, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
I love the DISCO shirts.
― trishyb, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
it's currently only on E4 and has already been moved from 21:00 to 23:40 on sundays after 8 episodes.
― koogs, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
this changed a lot around episode 9.
lol at episode 8 though. "Just one more jump before i retire..."
― koogs, Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Hey I circled back to S1 recently & after being bored again for lije 3 eps shit turned a corner in ep9, am now on episode 11 and :D : D man they really waited to kick things into high gear, huh? PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD1 TO BEAM UPSPOCK GOATEES FOR EVERYONEanyway i’ll come back when i’m caught up
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 April 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
is s3 even happening or what
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 April 2020 05:32 (three years ago) link
after the disaster of s2 they should take their time, correct their errors, fire 100 more producers
― wasdnous (abanana), Saturday, 25 April 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
oh no have i made a terrible mistake
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 April 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
It is remarkable how many series Fuller has started on then promptly bounced from, but since everything he kept working on is great and everything he abandoned (or was forced out of) turned out to be a mess I'm choosing to see this as a condemnation of the medium
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
I enjoyed the hell out of S2 but between this and Picard I think the notion that someone can make a contemporary Trek series is kind of a false premise. The days of running 7 seasons of 25 eps per year is long over, and all these shows are so plot heavy that you can't afford to have duff character eps in a 10 episode season that is all in service of the narrative arc.
That said, Pike was a legitimate great addition to ST lore and the actor played him well. I'd happily see a Pike-led TOS style show.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 25 April 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
I don't get the love for Disco Pike! Shakey bafflingly called Picard a nullity but I think that title is more applicable to Pike.
― Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Saturday, 25 April 2020 06:15 (three years ago) link
Totally agree that Pike brought some clear TOS energy (not to mention some proper mature hotness, instead of being another of these callow bearded younglings that the Trek casting teams seem so in love with these days). But season two of Discovery is a boring mess.
― trishyb, Saturday, 25 April 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
Thought the second season was miles better and more fun, even if it missed Jason Isaacs’s weird whatever-it-was. The last ep was stupid, though.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Michael is the nullify for me, in the sense that Sonequa M-G always seems weirdly uncommitted - although she had a good chemistry w/Spock iirc. Also! Discovery Spock >>> Zachary Quinto
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
the uncommitted thing seems like a misfire on the attempt to seem culturally Vulcan
― mh, Saturday, 25 April 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link