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ST Discovery: Choose your pain
mirrorchaos
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I putting this up early because there is a Hurricane heading for the UK and i have no idea what will happen to the power or internet after it comes through. With that said, When the latest Discovery episode is released, what do you think of it?
T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
ST Discovery: Choose your pain 39 votes
I like it
56%
22 votes
I don't like it
15%
6 votes
I don't care
17%
7 votes
Other
10%
4 votes
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-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Also, hurricane!?
Nobody tells me nuffink.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
I will now bump that thread to the top to make your duplicate more obvious. Don't be a nitwit.
I can do that next time, but that depends if someone else posts first as tunicate pointed out.
Just for your information i already reported on the duplication, however the insult is not needed. i am willing to be reasonable but that does go both ways.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
there are rules, there are 3post fake acc's, that exploit the rules and then there are unwritten rules. which basically means respect is everything.
Oh and one other thing, that "D7" designation was a load of horse manure.
All in all this was some great Star Trek even if the orcish (Zug Zug!) speaking klingon fish people in their little fish of prey fighters made me long for real Klingons, and dulled an otherwise brilliant show so far.
Member since December 2009
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Will hit Ireland, Northern Scotland and western parts of the UK mainland today.
Haven't seen the ep yet so not voting yet, still 25 minutes 'til it hits Netflix, but if it's anything like what I've seen so far, I'm going to like it.
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Good episode. Trek-style solutions, lots of character development and a few mysteries to look forward to solving. Lorca gets to kick donkey, Saru gets to show why he's First Officer and Tilly gets a Trek first (as well as remaining fantastically fun).
Tad suspicious of Tyler's story, been some speculation he might not be who he says he is (we'll see if that pans out when he meets Lorca's desktop guard Tribble
Didn't see the point in changing the D7 design (even if it's a "house custom" why not just call it something else ?). It's the ship Kol had last episode, with the "boom and ball" but with long triangular wings running the length of it. Makes me wonder if there's some licensing issue at work. My Klingon characters really want those disruptor rifles though (ouch L'rell).
I'm not entirely convinced the bad blood between Saru and Burnham is resolved that quickly despite the peace offering and honesty of both, there is still alot of history to resolve there. I think Burnham is starting to understand and learn that her way isn't the only way that works, it happened twice, once with Stamets around the creature and the second with Saru confining Burnham to quarters.
Now i am wondering about Lorca's state of mind, the female Klingon torturer and how much she will become a problem later on like Mudd and what the Federation and Klingon responses are to the Discovery and the capture and escape of Lorca. Tyler is the question mark and like Lorca, his state of mind is likely to play a role in up coming episodes.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Saru continues to develop into the most likable and character of the series and seems to be among the few that actually fit in with what I would expect from a Star Trek show. His short time as acting Caption, I thought he did a good job in making the tough choices to get the job done. The actor who played Harry Mudd did an excellent job.
Starfleet's standards seem to be exceptionally low at this point in time. Giving Lorca another command after he blew up his previous crew to prevent them from being imprisoned by the Klingon's, while he escaped. His previous actions fit in well with him giving Burnham a place on his ship. Trash tend to surround themselves with trash, which makes me feel sorry for Saru. Lorca seems to have something over that female Admiral. He basically tells her; his ship, his rules. That seemed out of place. He doesn't fit the misunderstood Captain profile because one of his superiors seems content to allow him to do whatever he likes. The D7 designation annoyed me a bit. I really like the TOS D7 and that thing looked nothing like it.
The F-bombs seemed very out of place and unnecessary. Some shows need the language to fit the theme, like Ash VS Evil Dead, but Discovery still doesn't fall into that type of show for me.
I wish they would give us break from the Klingons for at least one or two episodes. We get it. They are incompetent brutes with a speech disorder. On the other hand, most of the Discovery's bridge crew are still nothing more than cardboard cutouts to us. We know absolutely nothing about them. Not even about the woman who served aboard the Shenzhou under Burnham. How about an episode that focuses on the crew and their interactions instead?
Meanwhile Lorca is even darker than we thought. He blew up his former crew and escaped as the sole survivor. He was then given command of Starfleet's most advanced science vessel as 'reward'. Ok..?!? Well at least the new guy, the one Lorca saved from the Klingon prison ship, seems like an interesting character.
I'm glad that at least some relationships were developed further. Saru and Burnham, Lieutenant Stamets and Doctor Culber. I liked Culber in particular. He made it quite clear that he wouldn't sacrifice his principles not even if their own survival was at stake. Saru's decision to let Burham free the creature was also a step in the right direcion. I'm curious to see Lorca's reaction to this.
6/10
As I said earlier. I think what this show needs right now is a break from the Klingon war. Let us see the Discovery and its crew. Let us at least get emotionally invested in some of the characters before you kill them off. I'm still a little bit salty about how they 'got rid' of the chief of security in the last episode. Her and Lorca against Burnham, Saru and Stamets would have made for some interesting dynamics in the future.
The show's writing though remains very uneven, while the script is good at fleshing out characters and developing their relationships, the general plotline remains rather weak. It really leaves me conflicted about the series estimation.
I especially dislike the way they portray both the Klingons and the Federation, which is almost completely incompatible with all the previous canon. These attempts at being all dark and gritty, The Expanse with a bunch of alien races, do not fit in the previously established universe - and The Expanse still does it like 2x better despite lower production values, because that is what it was supposed to be from the start.
1. Federation. The more they show the more it looks like Kelvin timeline dystopian Federation. Only this episode adds such as points as:
Cornwell all but confirms that Starfleet Command is quite aware that the war is not Burnham's fault, but chose her as a scapegoat anyway - people wanted someone to be punished, so they've given them "this organization's only convicted mutineer". (BTW, interesting choice of words there "only convicted" - which somewhat implies that there were others, which were not convicted). Nice sleazy politician move there, Starfleet !
A bunch of Starfleet admirals are totally on board with the idea of using living and possibly sentient creatures as an engine part, what has demonstrated negative effect on the said creatures, and don't question it in a slightest. Way to go there, Federation ! What's next ? Releasing bio-engineered plague in Qo'nos atmosphere ? Thalaron weapons ? Deathcamps for Klingons ?
Starfleet Command has given a crucial position to a man, who had just murdered his own crew, time and time again demonstrated neglect for the lives of his current crew - moreover, they are basically handed him a carte blanche for any actions he deems necessary.
Also apparently ST:D Federation has both quite poor and extremely wealthy people.
So much for optimistic vision of the future.
2. Klingons. It is episode 5 already and they are still portrayed as murderous brutes, whose main meaning of life is killing, destruction and torture. They are not in this for territory, resources and power - they apparently enjoy the process itself. However this raises one big question - how the hell the surrounding civilizations didn't wipe out such "nice neighbours" long ago, while they were "still small" ?
Also a sex slave on a warship ? Really ?
The portrayal of Klingon Empire in ST:D is extremely one dimentional and lacks nuance. They are some kind of space orks, but not the Klingons of TOS, TNG, even DS
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Gotta wonder if Lt. Tyler is a Klingon spy. If that turns out to be true, bonus points to the writers.
We do not agree here.
I think there is a "design triangle" to play within, placing the 1966 Enterprise model in one corner, SOMETHING like the early concepts of the Enterprise from the 2009 movie, and the Discovery in the final corner. Find a sweet spot between the two Connie models, then bring it closer to the design language of the Discovery. There's room in there for some interesting designs, while still holding true to the PRIME Connie. There's also a reason why Jeffries' model is iconic, after all.
You're not getting the 1965 "Cage" model. You're just... not. At best, you'd get a re-skinned model of the 1966 model.
Politically-driven admirals are nothing new to Trek. Nacheyev (or however you spell it) takes the cake here, but TOS even had commodores/admirals that were driven by the wrong motives, if not outright incompetent.
I agree that this should have been addressed better in the episode, but you are jumping to extremes. Burnham, of all people, already cited the illegal nature of biological weapons in this universe. This episode also brought up the illegality of eugenics experiments. And, even though it was handled in a clunky way, they weren't sure that "Ripper" was sentient. In fact, once the subject was finally addressed, Burnham, Stamets, Tilly, and the doctor guy all began to act like your stereotypical Starfleet officer.
So, yes, potentially poor writing, but no need to go off the deep end.
There is also some "meta" information that makes it suspicious, as I learned:
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