So weāve been given āCaptain Killed-my-last-crewā, āBlack Gay Doctor Manā and āGinger Nerd with Big Titsā. Picard, holodoc and Troi they aināt but they sort of match the formulaā¦
Just abouot to sit dow and watch this weeks episode and BOOM!
Discovery is renewed for a second season!
Finally.
An old fashioned ST episode. Self contained geeky almost fun.
Some great lines Iām going to enjoy killing you. Again. What is it? 58 times now but whoās counting?
And homage to Q - Adieu Mon Capitanā¦
Easily the least cinematic but best so far.
And clearly has now set some of the characters at the right level so we can now feel they are real and could become loved- something Enterprise never managed to achieve.
Beer Pong & Stayin Alive - priceless
Two weeks without a Star Trek Discovery update? That is unfortunate, especially given the quality of last nightās mid-season finale. Perhaps Iām still basking in the warm glow of its joys, but Iām having trouble remembering a better episode of Trek, especially if I constrain myself to the more action-oriented episodes.
Last weekās cliffhanger set us up nicely. The crew of the Discovery are orbiting a planet of newly discovered sentient life. The Klingons are on their way to destroy the life on that planet. Burnham states the stakes pretty firmly. If Discovery leaves the planet, the sentient beings on the planet will be annihiliated. Here we begin.
Fearing the loss of the Discovery to their foe, Starfleet orders Lorca to return to Starbase 46, an order he appears to obey, but defies as soon a the Admiral is off the blower. Plan B involves hanging around, waiting for the Klingon flagship, and attempting to eke out the secrets of the cloaking technology. This puts the entire ship at stake, naturally, but few more so than Tyler, Burnham and Stamets.
Tyler and Burnham have to secrete themselves onto the Klingon flagship to place some sensors. Stamets, the navigator of the spore drive, has to make 133 jumps in quick succession, something that everyone knows is a risky idea by the time he has asked to do it. The cat is well and truly out of the bag regarding his condition this week.
I donāt want to spoil the end of the episode, but a lot of things get tied up very satisfactorily. It has both kinds of classic Star Trek scrap, ship to ship battles and intergalactic fisticuffs, and itās all in service of the narrative.
Theory Trek wise, thereās more evidence that Voq = Tyler this week, which will end up being the worst kept secret in Trek if true. They tried. Another interesting theory doing the rounds is that the whole of Discovery is set in the Mirror Universe. Something to reflect on until January, perhaps. There is no more Trek until then. Itās just as well that the mid season finale will live long in the memory.
Personally Dr Who is better than any Trek
And i have watched most episodes of both series.
I think youāve got rose-tinted specs on, or youāve forgotten many years of low budget Who. Didnāt Pertwee spend years just hanging out with The Brigadier?
Good review Pap.
That was one of the best Trek episodes since Voyager
Really enjoying the love the writers have now for the show and itā history.
Youāre caught up in the flashing lights @pap
Dr Who has always had a superior script, whilst being 50% shorter(never been interrupted by an advert either).
That episode could have been really good, but what a shit start. You have to send two people, to what should be their obvious death and you allow two of the most important senior officers to go? Fuck off, youāre sacked.
The middle was good.
The end was predictable dross(but the middle was good enough to over look this(but not the start, that was unforgivable)).
What the fuck is a mid season finale?
Have you all gone mental? A season is weather related(as people are soon to remember). And stopping a series under any guise half way through is taking the piss out of the gullible.
American tv is a fucking idiots game.
Not really sure you understand how fiction works, SoS.
The two people were sent on the away mission because these are two of the people we know the best. Furthermore, Lorca really didnāt want to send one of them. That, by the way happens because the writers are showing that given a similar situation, Burnham has grown.
Then you look at how both their times ended up by the end of the episode, and it makes total sense, from plot and fiction perspective.
As for the end of the show, yes, we all saw most of that coming, because the show telegraphed it big style earlier in the episode. Perhaps you missed it, but I never predicted Lorca would deliberately stitch the jump (and Stamets) up.
Iāve got two months to stew on it. Thatās what they call a mid season finale.
You mean I have to wait 2 months for the next episode oh shit!
Anyway Dr Who will be back by then
I understand it just fine. I also understand there is good fiction and shit fiction.
The two people were sent on the away mission because these are two of the people we know the best. Furthermore, Lorca really didnāt want to send one of them. That, by the way happens because the writers are showing that given a similar situation, Burnham has grown.
Then you look at how both their times ended up by the end of the episode, and it makes total sense, from plot and fiction perspective.
One was a new character just the other week, but since then the two of them have been on every mission together. Itās been turned into fucking love boat in space.
As for the end of the show, yes, we all saw most of that coming, because the show telegraphed it big style earlier in the episode. Perhaps you missed it, but I never predicted Lorca would deliberately stitch the jump (and Stamets) up.
I didnāt predict it either, but itās not surprising and has been done before. Lazy writing.
Iāve got two months to stew on it. Thatās what they call a mid season finale.
Mid series and finale surely donāt belong together.
Youāre a marketing manās dream punter
Alright then, @saint-or-sinner . Tell us how that episode could have been improved.
And as for marketing, guilty as charged. I was plugging this show before it had even been cast.
They could desist from turning it into love boat in space. That would help a lot. The way they have forced it is laughable. There is no real story to justify it. Weak and predictable to tick a required marketeers box.
But, iām still watching it remember, so itās not all bad(until they stopped me watching halfway through the series. That is bad).
I like it @pap but they do seem to be doing all in their power to ruin it. The base of all the stories have been good, but diminished by shit brain dead filler. I find that very annoying. The captain, her with the blokes name, the gay bloke and the lanky one are the only characters in it(need to dump the love interest, heās shit and the whiny one is just there as filler. Although, as i predicted, she has been told, she will indeed make captain. Thatās fucking laughable). They really need to expand it. Whoās the little one with the facepaint that looks like they should be in Covent Garden? That one layer of facepaint is one more layer than youāll ever get out of the love interest.
Remind me in two months(your honesty in your last paragraph makes this a given) and i will watch it again(and moan, iām sure).
What a script! Letās get that on screen, sharpish.
Iām kind of surprised everyone missed one epoch changing moment in this weeks episode.
The first ever Gay Kiss.
Now about Mid Season Breaks.
Next weekend it will be Thanksgiving. So every traditional TV show will be pulling out the BIG EVENTS.
Then every show on US TV runs intgo Christmas and Holiday Season and audiences tend to only watch stuff with Santa and shit.
Finally, they were pushing the envelope all the way and filming was delayed. However the CBS All Access Pass is their game changing platform entry into streaming - which EVERY other studio is now doing. They had to hit release date which was already delayed.
Simple fact is that they only finished filming about 3 weeks ago and the VFX/CGI crew simply arenāt ready to release the completed new episodes yet.
Courtesy of Trekcore btw not me being ITK nerdy.
Where? You never asked for a script, only how the episode could be improved.
If you wanted a script you could have saved us both some time by just asking, saving me the time writing the above and this.
No(just in case you were going to ask).
v.wise. Itās not like heād back down if you handed in a superior script. Heād have made you film it.
So taking out five to ten minutes and replacing it with nowt, then?
There are people that get paid very well to do that job. Moan at them for their lazy attitude to content and yourself for accepting it.
Complaining without offering a solution is just whining.