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Spoilers STD 1x03 Preview [and for the rest of the season]

Just a question from someone (American) who doesn't have the Netflix version. Are the Klingon subtitles in the Latin alphabet? Or in the Klingon script (piQad)? Or both? I'm guessing the former.
They are in the Latin alphabet, yes.

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Ah yes, that's the one. Thanks! Although I think it goes on a little longer than what they showed on After Trek.

What I like is that it looks like they made Burnham a fish out of the water character on Discovery, a kind of audience avatar that encounters what goes on aboard the ship with us. I like it!
 
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  • Great Acting all around in this scene!
  • The character conflict is palpatable. But it's not overdone. In fact, it's the perfect amount a TNG character would have shown toward a common mutineer. People still HAVE feelings in the future, but they still work professionally together. I don't see anyone 'breaking' GRs rules here.
  • The dialogue is great. Assigned seats. Beatles-reference. Well written.
  • Not sure how I feel about the whole "secret compartment on the ship"-thing. Depends in which direction they go. I always thought it was weird that Starfleet let even guests and enemies in their engineering rooms. That made no sense. On the other hand, having a 'dark secret' on the ship... I don't know about either.
  • Lt. Stamets dusts of his shoulders with this glowing stuff that's all over the latest trailer. I guess those are the magic subspace fungi powering the ship?
  • Looking forward to the next episode! Still a great feeling to have new Trek every week! It's been so long ago...
 
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Looks great, this is just what Star Trek needed to not only stay relevant but also maybe get a new audience. Old Star Trek with alien/hidden political subject of the week is dead, and if you still want that, Orville seems to stay the path.
 
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Not sure if anyone saw this yet but Ain't It cool news's Herc claims to have seen 1x03 and mentions some interesting things in one of those episode FAQs that they do:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/78653

Take with a grain as always with internet reporting...

Although he claims the writing only improves a little in ep3, more interesting to me were details like:

New Away mission uniforms that he thought were much better than standard uniform (how could they be worse)
Finding out what DSC's mission is (He doesn't say but apparently their mission is more specific)
Saru hesitating to answer when Burnham asks if DSC is a science vessel.
Intra-ship teleportation without using transporters?
DSC may be more advanced than the yet-to-be-seen Connie class.
Claims security on the ship is lame especially after we find out what the ship is up to ( this is kind of interesting. What are they up besides fighting a war).
Burnham was on her way to do hard labor prison time on a mining colony. Man, Starfleet is tough in this iteration.
 
What is it? North Korea now? In the 23rd century, you would think that stuff would be automated.
I know. It makes about as much sense as installing countless holo-emitters on an asteroid so the entirety of the mark 1 EMH models could be sentenced to hard labor.

I thought she'd just get a comfy cell like Eddington and spend her days surfing the federation database.
 
On regards her being sent to a labour camp it seems reasonable as mutiny is the highest possible crime in an navy in the old days you were hung from the yard arm.
 
On regards her being sent to a labour camp it seems reasonable as mutiny is the highest possible crime in an navy in the old days you were hung from the yard arm.

But this is supposed to be an enlightened society. Do they not believe in rehabilitation?

Seems very odd.
 
Well, they're trying very hard to make anyone other than maybe 2-3 characters likeable at all, not sure what that's all about.
 
Re: life sentence.

It is another one of those things, that while it doesn't technically violate continuity, doesn't really fit with the society that was portrayed in TOS.

Another point for it being a reboot.
 
Very odd. At the very least she should be sent to a military prison but from the looks of those on the shuttle in the preview they basically just shipped her off with civilian criminals?
 
Well, they're trying very hard to make anyone other than maybe 2-3 characters likeable at all, not sure what that's all about.
To be fair we haven't even seen the main characters of the show yet except for Saru.
 
Also, the trailers and clips keep showing this dust they not only lace the reactor with, but give themselves little trips with and sneak off to partake in?

This is one weird ship.
 
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