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Star Trek: Discovery

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it seems like once giant shaggy dog story, 'we were looking into these strange signals and then this happened and then that happened and then we went looking for spock but bumped into this 100,000 year auld creature that wanted to pass on its last will and testament and then we had to save tilly from the mushrooms where we found the dead doctor and brought him back and then we went looking for spock again but there were other people after him...'
 
cybershot said:
I think the most crazy thing I’m waiting for is when the series finishes. What bad thing does discovery do that it never gets mentioned ever again for 80 years onwards. The spore drive alone clearly gets wiped from all knowledge banks or like the tech in discovery are we going to be expected to just accept its one of those things and get over it. This is the problem of doing shows based before the original and countless movies and spin offs.

At least with enterprise they at least tried to fit in with existing canon and tech. Discovery must be a nightmare for writers of wikia and encylopedias of Trek tech.
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i reckon there's going to be something with the science which prevents it being used much, that it brings the universe to the brink of disaster but they manage to sort it out before declaring the tech's too dangerous.
 
Pickman's model said:
***MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS***

it seems like once giant shaggy dog story, 'we were looking into these strange signals and then this happened and then that happened and then we went looking for spock but bumped into this 100,000 year auld creature that wanted to pass on its last will and testament and then we had to save tilly from the mushrooms where we found the dead doctor and brought him back and then we went looking for spock again but there were other people after him...'
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That's an improvement on the original series and TNG, where there was no overarching plot purpose, just "we're flying around waiting for stuff to happen to us".
 
Buddy Bradley said:
That's an improvement on the original series and TNG, where there was no overarching plot purpose, just "we're flying around waiting for stuff to happen to us".
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not really. the first series of discovery was really very good, packing in a huge amount without you feeling like you were carrying baggage. but the second series, esp the last episode, i'm having great difficulty suspending disbelief: not to mention the damn thing going all over the fucking shop on its way to find spock. at this rate spock will be antique by the time he's found.
 
Pickman's model said:
i reckon there's going to be something with the science which prevents it being used much, that it brings the universe to the brink of disaster but they manage to sort it out before declaring the tech's too dangerous.
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Plus their is a little mini episode where discovery is sent into deep space to await further instructions

:hmm:
 
Pickman's model said:
not really. the first series of discovery was really very good, packing in a huge amount without you feeling like you were carrying baggage. but the second series, esp the last episode, i'm having great difficulty suspending disbelief: not to mention the damn thing going all over the fucking shop on its way to find spock. at this rate spock will be antique by the time he's found.
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Agreed, Spock needs to show up sharpish. There's an episode or two before the half-way mark of this season, and US TV writing often uses that as a turning point, so I expect it'll be soon.
 
Personally, I thought that was terrible. Hard to pick up the worst bit - Burnham's disguise, the conversation at the end between Pike and Tyler, but probably the worst was how the Ba'ha'ul under-lake base was clearly the transporter room painted black.
 
agricola said:
Personally, I thought that was terrible. Hard to pick up the worst bit - Burnham's disguise, the conversation at the end between Pike and Tyler, but probably the worst was how the Ba'ha'ul under-lake base was clearly the transporter room painted black.
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Burnha's disguise was what every kelpian on the planet was wearing. That room was also the toilet in Russian Doll though. Basic story...Saru gets to be Muad D'Ib for an episde and everyone gets crab claws for dinner.

I enjoyed the stuff at the end more than the stuff at the start.
 
DexterTCN said:
Burnha's disguise was what every kelpian on the planet was wearing. That room was also the toilet in Russian Doll though. Basic story...Saru gets to be Muad D'Ib for an episde and everyone gets crab claws for dinner.

I enjoyed the stuff at the end more than the stuff at the start.
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I know, but she was about half the size they were - it was like dressing an ewok up in stormtrooper garb.
 
These red angels are straight out of Stephen Moffat's big book of Story Arcs For Dummies.

And...

Fucking with an entire species' biology without their consent? In the knowledge that they may well go on a genocidal rampage shortly afterwards? Not very starfleet. If the angels were looking out for the Kelpians' welfare (even though they chose not to intervene until they'd checked in on Spacebook and then waited for someone else to show up and start fucking with everything) they should by rights have whooped Discovery back to the stone age.
 
the red angel is actually someone in a very advanced suit. Its future spock obvs

Absolutely not here for twee Dawsons Creek/Wonder Years internal monolouges.
 
i was hoping it was like the red dragon out of tom harris's er red dragon

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I quite enjoyed episode 6 if I'm honest, seems I always seem to be the polar opposite of everyone else on here with this season, although the whole main story arc itself is getting such little progress it's a starting to get a tad annoying.

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the transporter room.
 
SpookyFrank said:
Fucking with an entire species' biology without their consent? In the knowledge that they may well go on a genocidal rampage shortly afterwards? Not very starfleet.
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That was my biggest problem with that episode too.
We're going to forcibly inflict extreme agony on an entire planet's worth of sentient beings and fuck with the most central tenets of their belief system, purely on the say-so of a single person who's currently having problems controlling his emotions? I can't think of a more unethical action in ST history.

I thought the effects were rather good this episode though, the thing in the pool wouldn't have looked out of place in a horror film and the base coming out of the lake looked pretty cool as well.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
That was my biggest problem with that episode too.
We're going to forcibly inflict extreme agony on an entire planet's worth of sentient beings and fuck with the most central tenets of their belief system, purely on the say-so of a single person who's currently having problems controlling his emotions? I can't think of a more unethical action in ST history.

I thought the effects were rather good this episode though, the thing in the pool wouldn't have looked out of place in a horror film and the base coming out of the lake looked pretty cool as well.
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Sisko did a couple of things as bad / worse, though both of those were in episodes (For the Uniform and In the Pale Moonlight) that were far superior to this was.
 
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