Star Trek: Discovery

[T & P]

STill thing that bloke that escaped from the Klingon ship with Lorca is a wrong ‘un.

 

[emanymton]

STill thing that bloke that escaped from the Klingon ship with Lorca is a wrong ‘un.

It's so obvious, I'm thinking it's a bluff.

 

[T & P]

It's so obvious, I'm thinking it's a bluff.

I’m hoping Lorca has his number. I think he does have suspicions.

 

[Orang Utan]

Disco t-shirts for running. That was a bit strange.

Why? It's just an abbreviation of Discovery innit

 

[agricola]

Why? It's just an abbreviation of Discovery innit

Its much less sexist than Overy would be, especially as there were two of them.

 

[Balbi]

"Wah this Captain isn't like the others"

Spoiler: ....nek minnit

Lorca's downing single malt and boning someone. Proper Kirk style

He's obviously mad though, which is great.

 

[Supine]

Why? It's just an abbreviation of Discovery innit

Haha I'm such a dumb ass. I was thinking they were rocking out the tunes while they ran.

 

[fishfinger]

They could have a new T-shirt:
DISCO?
VERY!

 

[Vintage Paw]

The theories about

Spoiler

Tyler being Voq

are very much in full swing atm. It seems that

Spoiler

the actor listed as playing Voq has zero internet presence, at all, from ever, and essentially doesn't exist.

I'm hedging my bets on this one, wary of making another fool of myself a la the Black Lake fiasco.

 

[yield]

Surprised how much I'm enjoying this.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'm enjoying this just enough to keep watching. But I'll allow that it is getting better.

 

[cybershot]

Must be the only one thinking this is getting worse. I actually picked up my phone whilst watching the latest one, never a good sign!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Must be the only one thinking this is getting worse. I actually picked up my phone whilst watching the latest one, never a good sign!

After a couple of OK episodes the latest one wasn't up to much. Too much time spent on revealing the Spock connection that everyone had already figured out, and playing out a classic TNG-style spirit-crushingly dull psychodrama.

Also Lorca is increasingly behaving like someone who would never even have made it past the rank of starship janitor.

It speaks volumes that they had to crowbar in a bit of next week's plot at the end to create a bit of drama.

 

[SpookyFrank]

And the starfleet uniforms are terrible. They seem to be designed so that you can't help but focus on a character's armpits.

 

[Dandred]

Getting better, they are going for a few series though, you can tell that.

 

[emanymton]

Also Lorca is increasingly behaving like someone who would never even have made it past the rank of starship janitor.

It will all work out ok when Micheal ends up taking command of Discovery.

 

[rekil]

Dark Matter did this week's already this year.

 

[DotCommunist]

Dark Matter did this week's already this year.

latest episode of The Orville is a blatyant rip from a recent Black Mirror.

laziness is what I call it

 

[Ax^]

ahh the time loop episode..

nostalgic feels

 

[cybershot]

Sometimes I wonder if he’s stacking the deck.

 

[DexterTCN]

Stayin Alive

The (major) ending was a bit deus ex but they're expanding the roles/depth of more characters, lots of humour and awkwardness, Mudd was wonderfully evil. Pretty decent.

This episode was brighter than the others, probably because Lorca wasn't in many scenes.

 

[cybershot]

Despite the been done before story. It was the most ‘Star Trek’ episode yet. I enjoyed it.

 

[Ax^]

set up for my da to watch the new trek...


had a 20 minute conversation about how the fuck this was before the original series

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I mean, I'm kinda hoping Al Green's music survives way into the future, but I'm reasonably convinced Wyclef Jean's - for all his virtues - isn't going to. It'd be like organising a pretty happening party right here, right now, and having folk dance to the latest JS Bach beats.

Apart from that, good episode.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

set up for my da to watch the new trek...


had a 20 minute conversation about how the fuck this was before the original series

If my mum was still alive, she'd be having *strong views* about this too

 

[Lord Camomile]

Despite the been done before story. It was the most ‘Star Trek’ episode yet. I enjoyed it.

Yup, pretty much this. It's a common enough trope, but it was an enjoyable departure from what we've had so far and as you say, certainly felt more like a traditional, self-contained ST episode.

 

[donkyboy]

How the fuck can anyone be allowed to go jogging in such confined corridors FFS?

Dont they have health and safety protocols in the future? And I would be pissed off if I had to keep getting out of the way of couple of idiots deciding to go for a run. Just looked weird.

And by god I find that tilly woman fucking annoying. "Comedy" clown behaviour is tiresome...

 

[T & P]

Yup, pretty much this. It's a common enough trope, but it was an enjoyable departure from what we've had so far and as you say, certainly felt more like a traditional, self-contained ST episode.

How lightly the villain got off was certainly very in tune with traditional Star Trek canon. I was left half expecting Picard would materialise and make a witty comment about hoping the baddie bloke would learn his lesson from the 'ordeal' he'd been trapped into. Based on how this series has developed so far Lorca or Michael should have blasted his arse into molecules.

But still, I really liked this episode. A proper tribute to the Cause and Effect TNG episode, which in my view is one of the all time greats.

 

[Lord Camomile]

How the fuck can anyone be allowed to go jogging in such confined corridors FFS?

Dont they have health and safety protocols in the future? And I would be pissed off if I had to keep getting out of the way of couple of idiots deciding to go for a run. Just looked weird.

Ha, I did wonder about that too! It also looked like Michael was having to do some weird bouncy jog in order to be slow enough for Tilly and/or the camera to keep up.

How lightly the villain got off was certainly very in tune with traditional Star Trek canon. I was left half expecting Picard would materialise and make a witty comment about hoping the baddie bloke would learn his lesson from the 'ordeal' he'd been trapped into. Based on how this series has developed so far Lorca or Michael should have blasted his arse into molecules.

Yeah, seemed particularly odd for Lorca to not obliterate him. I suppose there could be the argument that because the solution involved an outside party, they couldn't say "hey, come get your dude!" only to then say "here are his remains in this jar". Bit thin, though.

 

[donkyboy]

some weird bouncy jog in order to be slow enough for Tilly and/or the camera to keep up.