Star Trek: Discovery

[SpookyFrank]

Pretty ordinary stuff this week. The plot revolved around some people who had spaceships but no functioning radios, apart from the ones on their spaceships which were seen working perfectly well.

 

[agricola]

Pretty ordinary stuff this week. The plot revolved around some people who had spaceships but no functioning radios, apart from the ones on their spaceships which were seen working perfectly well.

I liked most of it, but yes the Earth bits made no sense whatsoever.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Also I reckon far-future space torpedoes would have some kind of basic guidance system that would render any kind of 'jump in front of the bullet' maneuver ineffective.

 

[T & P]

I liked most of it, but yes the Earth bits made no sense whatsoever.

Maybe it’s me getting more thick as I get older or not paying as much attention as I used to, but with every passing year I feel I have less and less of a clue of wtf is going on with many series, certainly sci-fi ones. So I’ve made my peace with that and so long as I like what I’m watching, I just enjoy the ride.

From that standpoint things can look quite different. I found the parallel universe themes in past seasons of Discovery increasingly tiring and confusing. But whereas I probably might missed some subplots in this week’s episode, at least it was in the main a good enjoyable space standoff.

In fact this is a series that I think works very well as a standalone adventure per episode, with just a basic holding background premise arc- similar to what The Next Generation turned out to be.

 

[ruffneck23]

Maybe it’s me getting more thick as I get older or not paying as much attention as I used to, but with every passing year I feel I have less and less of a clue of wtf is going on with many series, certainly sci-fi ones. So I’ve made my peace with that and so long as I like what I’m watching, I just enjoy the ride.

From that standpoint things can look quite different. I found the parallel universe themes in past seasons of Discovery increasingly tiring and confusing. But whereas I probably might missed some subplots in this week’s episode, at least it was in the main a good enjoyable space standoff.

In fact this is a series that I think works very well as a standalone adventure per episode, with just a basic holding background premise arc- similar to what The Next Generation turned out to be.

I did get a very next generation vibe about this weeks ep.

 

[cybershot]

Struggling with Seadon 3. Find myself reaching for my phone and playing with that rather than watching.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I tried having a go at this. Watched the first three episodes when it started but then drifted off and forgot about it. I tried again recently, but started from the second series as I had head a lot of the plot already. I only managed about 15 minutes. Is there a sensible place to start where it picks up, or is it just the same all the way through?

 

[mwgdrwg]

Tilly had been having visions of seeing Burnham... even though from her point of view she had seen her less than 24 hours earlier. Who writes this shit?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Discovery Edition Wesley definitely has the potential to be really annoying.

 

[Dandred]

That was shockingly bad, just like the first Star Treks, love it!

 

[cybershot]

Yep. It’s pretty shit and next weeks episode looks ridiculous.

 

[danny la rouge]

That was very TNG. And a bit TOS season 3.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I enjoyed that, very old school Star Trek.

 

[Dandred]

I love her hair now, such a beautiful woman.

 

[Ax^]

if you never watched the short treks that were released after the first season

go watch calypso its in the trailers and more section of netflix discovery tab




was an interesting shout out to it on this weeks so and quite an interesting maybe foreshadowing

 

[DotCommunist]

Finally caught up with this season, I like it a lot more than the previous 2. This is what I want from trek, new frontiers. Also good to spot the great Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede in Hell on Wheels) as Wen in ep 3, he is value for money.

 

[strung out]

Finally caught up with this season, I like it a lot more than the previous 2. This is what I want from trek, new frontiers. Also good to spot the great Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede in Hell on Wheels) as Wen in ep 3, he is value for money.

Agreed - a huge improvement so far in season 3. It actually feels like a Star Trek show now.

 

[danny la rouge]

It needed to get away from being a prequel in order to find its feet. (I did enjoy the previous two serieses, though).

 

[trabuquera]

Also good to spot the great Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede in Hell on Wheels) as Wen in ep 3, he is value for money.

Always! And - it's a small world - his dad was a cousin of Kon-Tiki nutter/explorer Thor Heyerdahl

 

[agricola]

Quite good that for a throwaway episode, just the right mix of possible foreshadowing and bottle story.

Spoiler

Although I am not sure Nhan deserved a five minute sendoff, and the blinking was just daft.

 

[SpookyFrank]

A swing back towards 'complete bollocks' this week.

 

[Pesty]

Redeemed by David Cronenberg

 

[T & P]

A swing back towards 'complete bollocks' this week.

I liked it a lot myself. I am finding myself liking the ‘self contained’ episodes more than those episodes solely devoted to the overlapping story arc.

 

[danny la rouge]

I really liked it. Too much crying and hugging for me, but that’s true if modern life anyway. And the drawing attention to the dysfunctional family thing was part of that. Don’t state it, just show us it happening. But aside from that, it was proper Trek, which Disco hasn’t always been. Liked the nod to Voyager too.

 

[strung out]

I really liked it. Too much crying and hugging for me, but that’s true if modern life anyway. And the drawing attention to the dysfunctional family thing was part of that. Don’t state it, just show us it happening. But aside from that, it was proper Trek, which Disco hasn’t always been. Liked the nod to Voyager too.

Me too.

One of the many differences about this season that has really changed my view of the show is that it's finally about something I'm invested in.

Seasons 1 and 2 were about the mirror universe and time travel/control respectively, neither of which I gave much of a shit about, even in old Trek. This season is about Starfleet, the Federation and the values that bind them together. Following a string of small scale episodes that bind those themes together with a story about rebuilding the federation and rediscovering its values is precisely the kind of thing I want from 21st century Star Trek. More of this please.

 

[trabuquera]

it's sort of all over the place but oddly charming. and Michelle Yeo is absolutely bossing it. Blinking the holographs into distress and showing how interrogations can be subverted...
"Much as I enjoy being fetishised .... and I do ... (smirk) ... let's move on"...
I am too thick to understand: what's going on with her tuning-out moments though?

 

[SpookyFrank]

it's sort of all over the place but oddly charming. and Michelle Yeo is absolutely bossing it. Blinking the holographs into distress and showing how interrogations can be subverted...
"Much as I enjoy being fetishised .... and I do ... (smirk) ... let's move on"...
I am too thick to understand: what's going on with her tuning-out moments though?

Probably upset about her entire civilisation having apparently gone to shit.

Although how the future people know what's going on in a parallel universe but not on the planet down the road remains unclear.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Redeemed by David Cronenberg

Is that who that was? Yeah that guy was great.

 

[Dandred]

Liked that quite a lot.

Still can't like Tilly though.

 

[fucthest8]

Well, luckily for me I broadly don't give a shit what other people think about films or TV that I love and

I FUCKING LOVE THIS

I don't know whether it's this shite year, my age, my personal situation over the last few years some perfect storm of all those and more ... to be clear I give not one single fuck about any of the Star Treks after the original, not one fuck at all ... but this? I am SO invested now. Feel like the first two seasons were just all set up, to draw me in to this point ...

So yeah, whatever. I fucking love it.