Star Trek: Discovery

[rekil]

I think that was a case of having an analogue, mechanical backup for when all the tecnho crap fails.

If they can cobble a time machine together, a handle pulling robot or a bit of string probably wouldn't be beyond their capabilities.

 

[agricola]

the rumour is they have gone 900 years into the future. So season 3 gives them licence to come up with completely new story line. Should be good.

didn't the last signal emerge 55,000 light years away in the Beta Quadrant?

 

[SpookyFrank]

That was a mess. How did Burnham figure out the destination co-ordinates by going to visit all the other places? And if they were all her, where does her mum come into it? Felt like something that made so much sense to the writers that they didn't feel the need to explain it to the audience.

As for continuity bodge at the end, are we really supposed to believe that the antics of Discovery and the spore drive could be kept under wraps? Look what a crappy job they did of covering up the fact that Georgiou was actually an evil version from a parallel universe, they couldn't even stop her pulling campy evil faces every thirty seconds.

 

[DexterTCN]

That was a mess. How did Burnham figure out the destination co-ordinates by going to visit all the other places?...

She already knew the co-ordinates (or could work them out), she couldn't get there until she unlocked it by visiting the 6 other places first along the timeline which brought everything/one together.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

characters have god awful last minute dialogues between themselves (like the one between Burnham and Spock after Spock lets on his engines are disabled) whilst people are dying in a huge space battle behind them.

I know, right? And strolling casually along to maybe eventually get started on saving everyone in the known universe. No need to hurry at all.

 

[Ax^]

And all their techno crap and the only way to shut it is by pulling a handle from the inside?

I was think that wtf is the point of having a Blast door to a area of the ship that is facing out into space and having the blast door manual release on the inside

Major design fault

and also if only the TNG had used magnets on the Borg

 

[donkyboy]

didn't the last signal emerge 55,000 light years away in the Beta Quadrant?

Confirmed 950 years

https://io9.gizmodo.com/alex-kurtzman-talks-the-motivation-behind-that-moment-i-1834190233

 

[krtek a houby]

I was think that wtf is the point of having a Blast door to a area of the ship that is facing out into space and having the blast door manual release on the inside

Major design fault

and also if only the TNG had used magnets on the Borg

Ah, but Control wasn't/isn't necessarily the Borg. And of course, Borg technology had upgraded by many generations by the time Picard and co. fist come into contact with them. Having personal deflector shields, etc.

 

[Ax^]

true control was not the Borg

But see that the thing i remember if anyone in the future tried magnets against the Borg,
If they had magnetised the Area infected by the Borg it could of been interesting

 

[krtek a houby]

I think the Borg (might) have overcome such impediments, though? Their cube ships can self-repair, and that would have come from learning about potential weak-spots and so on...

 

[krtek a houby]

I think the Borg (might) have overcome such impediments, though? Their cube ships can self-repair, and that would have come from learning about potential weak-spots and so on...

And looking at First Contact again, when the Borg lads are dicking about on the Enterprise hull, they'd be magnetised to hang onto it...

 

[Ax^]

true

 

[Augie March]

I liked how they employed Judge Snyder's Armin Tamzarian ruling to explain why no-one ever talks about Discovery in the earlier series and films

 

[T & P]

As far as being able to destroy an enemy ship goes, I must say it feels a bit difficult to believe how hard it is and how many shots it takes in the Star Trek universe.

On that note, I’m sure this has been asked and explained many times so apologies, but why no nuclear weapons in Star Trek? I’m sure a good old fashioned 1mt warhead world destroy any ship, shields or not...

 

[Ax^]

this about cover it

World War III

Plus the weapons in Star trek release more energy than nukes

something something isotons if iirc

 

[fishfinger]

There's going to be a Discovery mini-series to cover the aftermath of season 2:

https://trekmovie.com/2019/04/22/id...h-of-the-star-trek-discovery-season-2-finale/

Edit to say it's a 3 issue comic.

 

[Balbi]

Finally caught it today. Enjoyed every minute of it, especially the long long long goodbyes in the midst of a space battle

"Get off my ass....sir, get off my ass sir"

 

[mwgdrwg]

There's going to be a Discovery mini-series to cover the aftermath of season 2:

https://trekmovie.com/2019/04/22/id...h-of-the-star-trek-discovery-season-2-finale/

Edit to say it's a 3 issue comic.

They'll probably reference it a lot in series 3, and 95% of the audience won't have a fucking clue.

 

[donkyboy]

You'd have thought after hundreds of years, the federation would have by now been able to create a inprenatable shield for their ships. Or do triple layers. One shield on top of another shield on top of another shield and so forth

 

[krtek a houby]

You'd have thought after hundreds of years, the federation would have by now been able to create a inprenatable shield for their ships. Or do triple layers. One shield on top of another shield on top of another shield and so forth

Wouldn't make for much of a story arc, mind

 

[Wilf]

You'd have thought after hundreds of years, the federation would have by now been able to create a inprenatable shield for their ships. Or do triple layers. One shield on top of another shield on top of another shield and so forth

"Shields down to 17% Captain!"
- Well, turn the other one on, you daft bastard!

 

[DotCommunist]

presumably the shield absorbs impacts from weapons and converts it into energy- the ships do matter/energy conversion as standards. So its not a matter of stronger or or more shields, but of capacity? I don't know, someone else can look at the shields wiki

 

[Ax^]

still slight surprised we did not get any techno garble about shield modulations

surely the first battle between 2 ships of the fleet should of be pretty devastating as Control would know what Discovery shield frequency was


Kirk was able to pull it up the Defiants from the Enterprises computer in Wrath of Khan

 

[Santino]

What a heap of... stuff. Some good ideas but so much nonsense. I kept thinking how much better the whole story arc would have been if done over two or three series like Deep Space Nine.

 

[strung out]

What a heap of... stuff. Some good ideas but so much nonsense. I kept thinking how much better the whole story arc would have been if done over two or three series like Deep Space Nine.

Yes, it's basically inferior to DS9 in virtually every way other than special effects. Which reminds me, I watched this recently and it's excellent: What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – A documentary film produced by 455 Films

 

[Rivendelboy]

I enjoyed it, but it was incoherent rubbish. Ash Vokkkkkkkkkkkkk is awful. Michael Burnham is singularly the worst character the franchise has ever created (including Stella Mudd, the Irish fella that beat the shit out of Kirk in the academy, and Sybok).

"Shields down to 17% Captain!"
- Well, turn the other one on, you daft bastard!

Have you noticed the shields basically do nothing. Whenever they take a hit, the ship rocks, consoles explode and redshirts get blown up. They essentially serve no purpose.

 

[Crispy]

What bobbins that was

 

[Poi E]

Yup. re-watched the first season in one sitting after episodic viewing. Can't be arsed doing the same for the second season. Not even sure what it was all about.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Have you noticed the shields basically do nothing. Whenever they take a hit, the ship rocks, consoles explode and redshirts get blown up. They essentially serve no purpose.

They reduce in strength at an arbitrary rate until they're almost at zero percent at which point a surprise plot thing happens. They're effectively an egg timer for deus ex machinas.

 

[MickiQ]

They reduce in strength at an arbitrary rate until they're almost at zero percent at which point a surprise plot thing happens. They're effectively an egg timer for deus ex machinas.

It's like rotating the shield frequency to buy extra time during a battle, no-one seems to think of this till things get desperate, you'd think by now StarFleet Command would have issued a memo making it standard practice.