Star Trek: Discovery

[maomao]

No worse than TNG (although Patrick Stewart was a class above anything seen in Star Trek before or since)

Brent Spiner gave good android.
Always thought Levar Burton was underrated.
Marina Sirtis was famously terrible but I fancied her so I'm allowing it.

 

[Poi E]

I didn't mind Enterprise. Also preferred Voyager to DS9 and TNG. I saw Lifeforce before TNG so that was it for Patrick Stewart and me.

 

[maomao]

I didn't mind it. Also preferred Voyager to DS9 and TNG. I saw Lifeforce before TNG so that was it for Patrick Stewart and me.

Voyager was unforgivable. How the fuck they managed to film seven series of fucking Janeway and Neelix skipping round Brigadoon on the holodeck but they cancelled Enterprise after four I will never fathom.

 

[DotCommunist]

Voyager wasn't that bad. I like the episode where 70f9 fights the Rock in some alien gladiator pit

 

[donkyboy]

a side note:

i remember when voyager was still airing on BBC 2 just after 9/11 happened. The Beeb made the decision to change the episode to one they had already aired 'due to recent events'. the planned episode was deemed not to be in keeping with the mood of recent events. Completely daft as 9/11 happened on a wednesday from what I remember and voyager was broadcast on sundays.

 

[trabuquera]

Voyager was dull as, but /and it kind of intrigued me that the only sort of female captain they could imagine back in those days was literally a reincarnated Katharine Hepburn, right down to the Edwardian style hairbun and the clipped vowels.

 

[Steel Icarus]

9/11 happened on a wednesday from what I remember and voyager was broadcast on sundays.

9/11 was a Tuesday.

 

[donkyboy]

makes it even more daft.

 

[cybershot]

Voyager was dull as, but /and it kind of intrigued me that the only sort of female captain they could imagine back in those days was literally a reincarnated Katharine Hepburn, right down to the Edwardian style hairbun and the clipped vowels.

Someone else originally got the part. They walked off set on first day of filming.

 

[donkyboy]

Someone else originally got the part. They walked off set on first day of filming.

u make it sound like she left because it was crap. she quit as she realised weekly tv episode formula was too demanding.

 

[cybershot]

u make it sound like she left because it was crap. she quit as she realised weekly tv episode formula was too demanding.

she probably thought that too.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Someone else originally got the part. They walked off set on first day of filming.

Genevieve Bujold. Everyone's been quite circumspect about what actually happened, other than "not a good fit for episodic television". Who knows - there's lots of lines to memorise every day, limited retakes etc

 

[donkyboy]

you basically just repeating what I said.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

you basically just repeating what I said.

No, I expanded upon it.

 

[Graymalkin]

I think it's a testament to how well written TNG was that it never had to resort to this mirror universe lark.

Could you imagine an evil Picard with a goaty!

It was done last year in comic form. Haven't read it.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mirror Broken

 

[cybershot]

Comics aren’t cannon.

 

[agricola]

I think it's a testament to how well written TNG was that it never had to resort to this mirror universe lark.

Could you imagine an evil Picard with a goaty!

I suppose the Mirror Universe Enterprise-D (and its attendant bearded Picard) must have been present with all the other parallel universe Enterprise-Ds that turned up in the seventh season episode "Parallels".

 

[DotCommunist]

I suppose the Mirror Universe Enterprise-D (and its attendant bearded Picard) must have been present with all the other parallel universe Enterprise-Ds that turned up in the seventh season episode "Parallels".

Lets just enjoy divorce-beard Riker in all his hirsute glory:

 

[Santino]

What I liked about all the parallel-universe Enterprises was that most of them didn't have Picard on, suggesting that in most possible universes he had been killed by the Borg or something.

 

[cybershot]

I suppose the Mirror Universe Enterprise-D (and its attendant bearded Picard) must have been present with all the other parallel universe Enterprise-Ds that turned up in the seventh season episode "Parallels".

Good episode that.

 

[DotCommunist]

What I liked about all the parallel-universe Enterprises was that most of them didn't have Picard on, suggesting that in most possible universes he had been killed by the Borg or something.

or locutus never got rescued and so with his biological distinctiveness added the borg were able to out think the federation

 

[agricola]

I think todays episode may be in my top four or five Star Trek episodes ever made.

Spoiler

and not just because of the mirror universe underwear

 

[Santino]

or locutus never got rescued and so with his biological distinctiveness added the borg were able to out think the federation

Then there should be a Borg version of the Enterprise somewhere in that pile.

 

[Orang Utan]

Lets just enjoy divorce-beard Riker in all his hirsute glory:

He directed last week's episode

 

[agricola]

Then there should be a Borg version of the Enterprise somewhere in that pile.

Perhaps the changes brought about by the Borg would have resulted in "their" Enterprise not being enough of an Enterprise to be affected by that rift, or whatever it was.

 

[cybershot]

Right let's get back on topic, because if you haven't watched this weeks Discovery, get on it!!

 

[donkyboy]

another great episode. really loving star trek back on our screens

 

[Vintage Paw]

Excellent episode. I love how it's all coming together now. Are we doing spoilers? I'll put stuff in spoilers in case.

Spoiler

Excellent to know everyone was right about Tyler being Voq. It became more and more obvious with every passing episode. It's especially hilarious that the tribble on Lorca's desk played absolutely no role in uncovering him

I haven't read what you've all been saying the past couple of episodes, but I'm guessing we're all on the same page with Lorca being mirror universe Lorca? I'd say this episode finally started to tie that in—that absolutely was a little smile at the end when the Emperor came on screen. It's all part of his plan to see through his coup. All the speculation over Voq/Tyler is essentially the red herring, and the main not-who-he-says-he-is has been Lorca all along.

I'm guessing the rest of the season will be about Lorca continuing to position the pieces for the coup through the unsuspecting Michael, her finding out, Stamets and Stamets finding a way back home, and her killing Lorca (or letting the Emperor do it). That way by the start of season 2 Burnham will be captain of the Discovery back in our universe again (since I assume mirror Lorca killed real Lorca when he first came across).

Oh, and mirror universe number one (I don't know her name) is totes starting to suspect Michael isn't what she says she is.

Loving this so much.

 

[DexterTCN]

Set your faces to stunned.

 

[Vintage Paw]

And of course mirror Saru will become an ally. But might double cross her in the end because stockholm syndrome.