What was the deal with usurper Klingon Kol-Sha needing L’Rell to sign his iPad so he could take over as chancellor? That’s how Klingons in this series take over empires? With their fucking signatures?
“You will sign, for I am Kol-Sha, of the House of FedEx!”
“You have been served by Kor!! No…literally served.”
But they do sign it using the Stylus of Kahless, forged in the fires of the volcano Kri’stak from a twist of his pubic hair.
FWIW the Klingons in TOS were more scheming and underhanded and less Honor and staby staby.
Just rewatched “Errand of Mercy” SO GOOD…Jon Colicos is masterful and the Organians are so subtly alien and good
That’s what DISCO is sorely missing is fantastic guest actors aside from their named actors like Pike and No.1
Well, that’s not how I expected them to bring back Culber, but I’m happy they did it. (Was this the entire point of the May plotline? If so, worth it.)
He looked younger, to me, though…Wonder if that’s just from the lack of facial hair, or if they’re actually making him up to look younger since it’s a new body.
In the latest one, I liked Pike’s reaction to his first exposure to a TNG-style communicator.
Also, the take-away quote from the episode? “What are you doing with your tiny finger?”
When we saw Tilly in the cocoon, am I the only one who had a PTSD-inducing flashback to seeing Barb in the Upside Down?
Nope - not the only one.
Yes, always a favorite of mine, a tribute.
I have a feeling that at some point all of Disco is going to be wrapped up into Section 31.
We’ve always known that Section 31 uses tech that is not available/not known to the rest of Starfleet, and the spore drive is right up there: remember, the drive itself is classified and most of Starfleet doesn’t know it exists.
Overall, this show has more of a DS9 feel than TOS or TNG, and I think that’s a good thing.
This show just boggles my mind and not in a good way.
What is it about??? TNG was a continuation of TOS. Its mission right in the theme. DS9 was about the Bajoran station and changed its theme more than once getting better and better. Voyager we know exactly what that was about. St: Enterprise was a prequel and had so much potential. I hate that i wished it cancelled.
What is Discovery about? Name the leads and their role on the ship. Burnham. ??? Saru is second in command and science officer isnt he? Pike we know. Tilly is a cadet in training. Stammets??? Reno i guess will become Chief Engineer. Stammets BF is back and will reassume Chief Medical Officer?
Is Burnham Communications Officer? I guess thats a nice homage if true.
Who is android girl, African girl, eye prothstetic girl?
I guess the theme is solve the season mystery box?? That’s shallow IMHO.
DS9 changed a lot and like i said earlier for the better. If I ran DISC…I’d fold it into Pike’s NCC-1701. Have the ship Discovery destroyed in whatever incident directly preceded The Cage, the one Pike talked about retiring over. Fold DISCs leads into Enterprises known officers. SHIT MAN, maybe Discoverys eye prosthetic girls name is Yeoman Colt? Or make Tilly Colt.
Then after The Cage, third season on is just To Boldly Go. The Cage, WNMHGB and the very early TOS eps are great because of how raw everything looks and how Final Frontier it is.
Saru is XO. He is not the Science Officer. Burnham is the science officer.
Tactical (maybe), Navigator, Helm, respectively.
Thank you. Two days ago, the actress who plays “android girl” (I know she’s stated her name. Ill look it up now)…Airiam. Is that a pun? Air I am? Advanced Integrated Robotics I Am. Anyhoo…
The actress did a small promo on her twitter account. I responded, “You’re a full Lieutenant Commander…and we still don’t know anything about you. But we’re getting Saru’s sister??”
She ‘liked’ it. So at least my complaint has reached someones ear. Prosthetic ear.
I’ve finally caught up with this season and I’m satisfied with how it’s going so far. Season 1 was great and so far, they’ve kept the quality high.
Among the positives: Great casting (generally), good acting and interaction, nice balance in the plots between action/tension and thoughtful issues in the Star Trek tradition. Everything looks great.
Michael Burnham is the best main character and the best actor to play a main character on Star Trek since … hmm … only William Shatner and Patrick Stewart were better.
Regarding casting, Anson Mount as Capt. Pike is brilliant. He didn’t have to be a near-ringer for Jeffrey Hunter for it to work (Bruce Greenwood worked too), but it’s amazing how much he is.
James Frain as Sarek and Mia Kirschner as Amanda are perfect. Seeing them in the roles doesn’t make me miss the original actors at all.
And speaking of that, kudos on the casting of Rebecca Romijn as Number One – perfect, gorgeous, and actually a better actor than Majel Barrett. Best stunt casting since Rainn Wilson as Harry Mudd.
“There are no fat people in the future”? … Thanks for wishing me and people like me out of my favorite show, dude.
I’m full of the tension of meeting adult Spock for the first time. Great stuff!
And continuity? Fuck that. Just make a kick-ass show for grownups and all will be forgiven.
My sole complaint: Tig Notaro. She’s just playing Tig Notaro. I drop out of the story every time she talks. I keep expecting her to make a quip about Taylor Dayne. Act gooder, Tig!
So, you wouldn’t take the pill or the genetic fix that would cure it? Those that wouldn’t take such a cure are the same ones that don’t take vaccinations now and wouldn’t be allowed to serve on a Federation Starship.
Fatness like Downs syndrome will eventually be a thing of the past.
Nm
Thanks for wishing me and people like out of any acting jobs on our favorite show.
Thanks for making it clear that you prefer a show in which we are non-existent it invisible. That’s not just a hypothetical sci-fi future but also affects our real lives in the present, knowing that people are wishing we just weren’t here.
Star Trek is about how humans have overcome their basest natures and achieved a future free from want where the goal of each person is to better themselves and society. And while I am sure you could gorge yourself on ice cream sundaes in the future to the point of corpulence, it is very unlikely that you could do so for a number of reasons. 1. Ice Cream Sundaes of the future would be zero calories, 2. You would have been genetically modified to not store excess fat, 3. There would be a pill to cure you being fat, 4. A doctor would commit you to a sanitarium to fix whatever desire you had to self harm yourself (or give you the pill to fix your psychosis).
It isn’t about justifying your poor life decisions.
I don’t wish you aren’t here, I wish you aren’t there. It takes me out of the moment when I see people running in a race, stopping to argue with their spoor friend (which they didn’t feel the need to report to a supervisor and which would have gotten them fired off of any ship I’d be in command of), and then passing obviously fitter ‘looking’ candidates to win. It is no different than the person with the artificial eye on the bridge. The medical tech is enough to rebuild an eye and remove any scarring in the future. Show the episode where she is fixed. Which means I’m pretty much against seeing disabled people in Star Trek as well. This isn’t Star Wars, where they bolt painful machines onto you when you lose a limb, but Star Trek where they use technology to help each other to live better lives.
You could be on that future star ship, but it would be a slimmer fitter you. Rule of thumb: if you can’t fit in a Jefferies tube, you can’t serve on a starship.
The Saru episode was disappointing. His planet seemed to only have one person on it until the end and tell other race could have been more interesting instead of goopy evil looking aliens. Saru is one of my favorite characters on the show so I am hoping they don’t break him.
Pike still rules and I hope they figure out a way to keep him the rest of the series.