Star Trek: Discovery

[krtek a houby]

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I feel violated. I hope you don’t have p’nar syndrome

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dammit, danny. I'm a scruffy nerfherder, not a hardcore Trek nerd

 

[danny la rouge]

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dammit, danny. I'm a scruffy nerfherder, not a hardcore Trek nerd

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If something's worth doing, it’s worth taking too far and alienating everyone around you

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I kind of want to see Wilson Cruz as the lead in a John Wick-style action thriller now, wandering around unshaven and brooding all in black.

 

[steveo87]

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Bit meh. Thought her story was a bit rushed. Spock was all right though.
Also, was the fight scene meant to be funny?

 

[agricola]

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Big let down after last week that, from start to finish it was dull and there were bits of it that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I also hated how everyone just turned up on the bridge to watch someone die.

 

[DexterTCN]

It developed the major plots, showed who the enemy was, had a Matrix fight, was primarily about the women on the ship, was directed by Frakes! and had some decent lines like "Fair point" and "Shitstorm" and "The best of Starfleet"

This Pike person is growing on me.

If you watch the credits you can hear the ocean waves.

 

[T & P]

I loved it myself.

 

[Wilf]

Just a thought about the Daedalus bit. Daedalus was father to Icarus. Is the reason Spock has been chosen because the Angel is his time travelling pa?

 

[DexterTCN]

Just a thought about the Daedalus bit. Daedalus was father to Icarus. Is the reason Spock has been chosen because the Angel is his time travelling pa?

More likely to be his mother if either of them.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Pretty good episode - but why didn't they just

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beam them back aboard when they started fighting and let security subdue the cyborg?

 

[agricola]

Spoiler: episode 10

Decent, though without many highlights - apart from the one that I will remember every time I go to have my eyes tested from now on.

 

[DexterTCN]

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oooh that's Kima from The Wire

 

[krtek a houby]

Well, I didn't see that coming!

 

[mwgdrwg]

Time Crystal...wtf

 

[Wilf]

Well, I didn't see that coming!

Can't be bothered with the spoilercode, so I'll put it like this: wasn't the angel supposed to have Michael's dna and/or genetic profile. But the person who it turned out to be wouldn't have the same dna/genetic profile?

 

[krtek a houby]

Can't be bothered with the spoilercode, so I'll put it like this: wasn't the angel supposed to have Michael's dna and/or genetic profile. But the person who it turned out to be wouldn't have the same dna/genetic profile?

I'm not an expert in DNA but

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I'm guessing that there would be strong similarities with close relatives

I'm bothering with spoilercode because it's not fair on danny

 

[Cid]

I'm not an expert in DNA but

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I'm guessing that there would be strong similarities with close relatives

I'm bothering with spoilercode because it's not fair on danny

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Genetic code of a parent and child most certainly would not match though, you share 50%. Unless... Er... No, that's not a very likely storyline in Star trek. Clones though, clones or twins work.

 

[magneze]

Good episode although the essential bit of plot didn't really make sense.

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Trap the angel by making Michael die, but she won't die because we'll save her. Erm, so if you are always going to save her she won't die so the Angel should not appear.

 

[danny la rouge]

Good episode although the essential bit of plot didn't really make sense.

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Trap the angel by making Michael die, but she won't die because we'll save her. Erm, so if you are always going to save her she won't die so the Angel should not appear.

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Spock’s actions showed he understood that paradox. So he was prepared to let her die. Which is why the Angel appeared.

However, it looks like the Angel is coming from (DISCO’s contemporary) past, not the future. So the AI is either also not future, or isn’t “following” the Angel.

 

[krtek a houby]

Timey wimey makes my head spinny winny

 

[DexterTCN]

Michael's DNA was recorded so that she could be found/tracked by the angel from the future. They only assumed it was the angel's own DNA .

 

[mwgdrwg]

I enjoy this show, but it does not make sense at all. So badly written and thought out.

Hey, here's an eye scanner with a massive fucking spike in it lol.

 

[Balbi]

So I've caught up on this series in the last week.

It's silly, but it's Trek silly.

 

[agricola]

Spoiler: episode 11

I absolutely loved that from start to finish, in fact (though this is being written after I've just finished watching it so I might have to rewatch it tomorrow) I'd probably list it among my favourite Trek episodes - possibly because the bleakness of it was similar to the bleakness of the best episodes of TNG (Best of Both Worlds, and Family) and the Dominion War episodes of DS9, and possibly because some of the acting in it was magnificent (Sonequa Martin-Green especially, especially the first scene with Burnham and her mum). Control was also the rare sci-fi villain that is plausible and terrifying, just like the early Borg.

 

[Wilf]

Spoiler: episode 11

I absolutely loved that from start to finish, in fact (though this is being written after I've just finished watching it so I might have to rewatch it tomorrow) I'd probably list it among my favourite Trek episodes - possibly because the bleakness of it was similar to the bleakness of the best episodes of TNG (Best of Both Worlds, and Family) and the Dominion War episodes of DS9, and possibly because some of the acting in it was magnificent (Sonequa Martin-Green especially, especially the first scene with Burnham and her mum). Control was also the rare sci-fi villain that is plausible and terrifying, just like the early Borg.

Yeah, but...

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good as it was, we are going to get into one of those chasing after a thing that jumps from body to body, wristwatch to supercomputer type thing. After 3 weeks building up to a final battle with the AI, they'll find it again in the next episode. Or something like that.

You also know that Michael's parent(s) are going to end up sacrificing themselves again in some way or other - or shift permanently into the future or even the parallel universe. Just for once it would be nice if the long lost relative who saves the day managed to stay.

 

[krtek a houby]

Spoiler: episode 11

I absolutely loved that from start to finish, in fact (though this is being written after I've just finished watching it so I might have to rewatch it tomorrow) I'd probably list it among my favourite Trek episodes - possibly because the bleakness of it was similar to the bleakness of the best episodes of TNG (Best of Both Worlds, and Family) and the Dominion War episodes of DS9, and possibly because some of the acting in it was magnificent (Sonequa Martin-Green especially, especially the first scene with Burnham and her mum). Control was also the rare sci-fi villain that is plausible and terrifying, just like the early Borg.

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The penny only dropped when the nanotech bots went into Leland and his skin got all veiny. So, I guess he's going to escape into the past/Delta Quadrant?

 

[mwgdrwg]

Everyone is great in this except for Burnham....can't act at all. I was really laughing out loud at some of her "emotional" scenes this week.

 

[krtek a houby]

Everyone is great in this except for Burnham....can't act at all. I was really laughing out loud at some of her "emotional" scenes this week.

I'm the opposite, after

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Airiam's death and then the emotional encounter with her mom, I was tearing up

Also,

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Sonequa Martin Green nailed it in her death scene as Sasha

Just don't get the negativity...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Can't be bothered with the spoilercode, so I'll put it like this: wasn't the angel supposed to have Michael's dna and/or genetic profile. But the person who it turned out to be wouldn't have the same dna/genetic profile?

They patched up this plot hole in the next episode with a reference to mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited via the maternal line and so changes little from one generation to another.

 

[Wilf]

They patched up this plot hole in the next episode with a reference to mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited via the maternal line and so changes little from one generation to another.

Yeah, I saw that, thought you'd think they'd have been a bit better at working it out in the 24th (?) Century. There were also phrases used like 'we are certain it is you Michael, there's no doubt'.