Star Trek Discovery: The Bryan Fuller TV reboot

whole lot of standing around in decontamination showers in underwear iirc

Pretty excited about Pike Trek. Hope it's more optimistic and episodic, but not holding my breath.

hope there are lots of worlds

They won't be able to resist making half of them other Earths

My household is excited for more Rebecca Romijn as Number One

Pretty sure that's her name, i.e. Lt. Commander Number One.

would you take a beagle on a submarine

hello i am 10 episodes into season 2 and here are my thoughts

1. Captain Pike forever

2. Could watch Michael & Spock play go-fuck-yourself-space-chess forever

3. Did it need to take EIGHT episodes to find Spock? Seriously, that drove me round the bend. But maybe I’m just impatient, the leadup episodes were decent.

4. Can we make Michelle Yeoh fight more? I love her so much

5. TALOS IV!!!!!!! So great.

6. Captain Pike forever. Also down with this Spock. Bring on the spinoff because I am so down with these two actors.

Disco 3 premiere is the sappiest thing I've seen in a while, and I loved it. Stoned Michael is a lot of fun.

I'm cautiously optimistic about this season in that it hopefully won't be as beholden to established canon as it's been in the first two seasons (and which Picard suggested from, too), which seemed like they were overcompensating (natch) for something and had to prove they were real Trek by throwing in as many references to previous series, instead of working on e.g. better world building. Interestingly, Lower Decks manages to drop a ton of references while both creating its own identity and training an undeniably Trek ethos.

haha yes more stoned michael

otm

she has the BEST reactions

One bit where she's hiding behind a pillar, pops out to take a shot, pops back and has this "....fuckin rite!?" look/grin that made me and B crack up.

It was a good episode! Wish they hadnt called that guy Book though, thats Firefly's thing!

I was a bit thrown because he played exactly the same character with his "strong Manchester accent" in Supergirl last season.

But much more Stoned Michael please.

I kind of agree with the AV Club's complaint that Discovery is too focused on Michael. But I also very much enjoyed stoned Michael. I've never seen Sonequa Martin-Green smile so much.

Hopefully they keep playing with that now that she’s far away from any Vulcans

Good episode. My expectations for the season remain low, given how S2 and Picard S1 turned out.

S2 was good idk why everyone rags on it

Season 2 was great! Picard was naff but I enjoyed it regardless

yeah i didnt like Picard that much

weird that phasers seem to be less effective in the future

They seemed to work well in the first episode

I got the impression the second episode guy just had the power cranked way low because he’s a sadist who likes microwaving people

yeah that was my take too

ah

Two decent episodes in a row! And Kurtzman is a credited writer on both, whaaaaaat

i know it’s been said before but i really love Tig Notaro in this

she's great but is never going to escape the B story, unfortunately

appreciate the weirdo security officer with the breathing orthodontics much more after hearing her canadian accent

Getting through S2 but I do not like dirty indie rock boy Spock.

how dare u

I don't want my Vulcans to hit me up for an American Spirit.

btw is detmer possessed or did she just have an undiagnosable concussion we will never hear of again

still pretty cute tho; good pilot

i reckon so? seems like part of her robot hardware went kerflooey & obv left allthat hanging for a later murderous fugue to come idk

would fugue

lol rmde

fair

I am enjoying Discovery - it's very exciting, and the production values are through the roof... but it still is not really trek to me, and pretty evident that the producers of the show will never care about that. I was skeptical about Lower Decks but it plays more like a classic Star Trek show than anything they've put out since Discovery started.

my theory as to why burnham had longer hair in the promo photos was right!

Teenage genius queen rules

but it still is not really trek to me

i understand what you're saying, but i don't think it's fair at all. there have been literally 700+ episodes of star trek even before this one started; merely to find something new to say is an accomplishment.

discovery at least adheres to the prime directive far more than kirk ever did.

and for people complaining about too much burnham, georgiou is the real star. starfleet dorks are entirely predictable but yeoh is not

handy that georgiou showed up to take out the bad guy by (checks notes) pushing a stool towards him. and that his henchmen stood around waiting their turn to be taken out. and they didn't have backup waiting or personal shields or anything so they could just be shot by regular phasers, like the miners had all along. probably not going to get any explanation of the lumps of rock hanging in the sky with 20th century bucket wheel excavators on them either. it's cool though! i'm enjoying it!

I mean that the emphasis is on big budget action movie spectacle more than anything else, and once again I just don't think the season-long arcs work well. Picard was much the same way. Like I said, it's enjoyable - if I didn't think it was worth anything I'd ignore it.

Yeah, S2 finale felt more like the climax of a Marvel movie than Star Trek. A million things buzzing around shooting and explosions and I tuned it out pretty much the same way I tune out at climactic Avengers battles.

Think the 2nd episode might have been one of the best so far? It’s the first time I’ve felt like all the crew clicked, I wanted to be in their company, and find out more about the background characters. Also Michael wasn’t in it much.

There are still some annoying bits of faux-adultness (the OTT sexual threats from the baddie, the unnecessary gore) that put me in mind of bad Torchwood episodes and seem tonally off-the-mark for Trek. And the fannish veneration for the Federation (last week they literally finished by saluting a flag, which was gross) is shading a bit Robert Heinlein for me.

BUT! Otherwise this was a fun hang-out episode with some cool sci-fi and zings and mild threat, which is totally my fave kind of Trek.

Hopefully Michael’s new hair signals a Rikers-third-season-beard-style change in fortune

Plus the third episode is directed by Frakes

Much as I love him I’m not sure he is a... good director? A little overfond of studenty Dutch angles

I forgot to mention that Detmer is dollars to warp bubbles infected by a Control remnant.

Very promising episode!

So, I assume Stamets is named after renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, as featured in this cool-looking documentary about fungi?

Yes. He was a consultant for the show too.

That viola refrain is godspeed you black emperor, right?