henke on 6/11/2017 at 06:44
I think Ep. 7 of Discovery, the one where they're stuck in a time-loop, was the best one yet. Rainn Wilson's portrayal of Mudd is very entertaining and time-loops are always fun(Edge of Tomorrow, Groundhog Day, the Redemial Chaos Theory episode of Community).
icemann on 6/11/2017 at 07:36
Time loops have been great in every show that I've seen them used in. Xena had a particulary good one. SG-1 was another.
jkcerda on 6/11/2017 at 16:50
very happy with STD (no Renz did not give me that one), sad the season is about to end.
Kolya on 6/11/2017 at 21:35
Quote Posted by henke
I think Ep. 7 of Discovery, the one where they're stuck in a time-loop, was the best one yet.
I agree. And interestingly it was the first episode that didn't further the over-arching story. Kind of a monster-of-the-week if you will. It seemed to me as if the actors suddenly were let loose and allowed to play. Very entertaining. :)
st.patrick on 7/11/2017 at 18:52
Quote Posted by Kolya
I agree. And interestingly it was the first episode that didn't further the over-arching story. Kind of a monster-of-the-week if you will. It seemed to me as if the actors suddenly were let loose and allowed to play. Very entertaining. :)
Seconded (or rather thirded). The 7th episode balanced tension and humor quite well, the pacing culminated in a nice crescendo, and the dynamic between Burnham, Tyler and Stamets felt quite realistic, even the emotional development wasn't too awkward. The only thing that I didn't really like was that
weird weapon/device that was supposed to terminate the victim in a bout of most excruciating pain imaginable, which I think neither Tyler nor Burnham showed too well. But overall, this felt like the most 'Trekky' episode of the whole season, likely due to holding together pretty well on its own.
As for The Orville, I just wish that MacFarlane would do away with the poor attempts at humor altogether and stop pretending he's trying to make a Star Trek parody. Most of the dick jokes and the would-be funny banter on the bridge are just cringeworthy. Aside from this, it'd make an excellent addition to the later ST series, sort of a Voyager/DS9 crossover. They could even keep the new races (maybe make Isaac look like an artificial life form that is actually superior to humans and not like some weird B-rated sci-fi prop). The writers actually put a decent amount of thought into making the Krill a fully fleshed-out race with their own mythology, world view and ethics, particularly when compared to the two-dimensional Klingons of STDisco.
icemann on 10/11/2017 at 03:20
Sure is a bag of plot holes with Discovery to TOS and the later shows. Their FTL drive for example never featured in TOS or the later shows. Hell if they'd had that in Voyager then the show would have been over after the pilot.
"Janeway: We're lost on the other side of the Delta Quadrant"
"Tuvoc: Not anymore we're not"
*Roll credits*
zombe on 10/11/2017 at 08:31
Probably: By the end of the show the midichlorians (or whatever they are called) will be pissed off or harmed to the point on rendering the transportation method unusable. No problem.
Kolya on 10/11/2017 at 12:32
Or a giant chlorine cloud kills of all the fungus.
icemann on 10/11/2017 at 14:18
Or the Klingon's find some way to kill em off permanently.
st.patrick on 10/11/2017 at 18:31
Unless the new series is aiming to wreck nearly all of FTL/warp travel canon, the spore drive will eventually be abandoned for either of the following reasons:
- using the mycelia for FTL travel depletes the entire macroorganism and it'll die off
- using the spore drive has some irreversible and/or life-threatening consequences on the navigator (Stamets); this is my favorite theory as it has been shown before with the tardigrade, and Stamets is already acting weird
- accidental destruction (unintended) due to conflict with the Klingons
- the Federation destroys or incapacitates the spore drive travel on purpose to prevent Klingons from using it (in combination with the now-popular cloaking technology, the Klingons could penetrate deep into Federation space and threaten its very existence)
- same as above, only it's Burnham who destroys the mycelia on purpose, in defiance of direct orders (again), but as it shows up later, she has prevented the Klingons from using the spore drive to attack Earth en masse, thus redeeming herself and receiving clemency
