Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x03 - "Context is for Kings"

The actor playing the Captain of the Discovery, is a good actor, for certain roles, non of his skills are really to be a nice guy. Always kinda tough guy roles. For me, he is absolutely the wrong choice, for a Star Fleet Captain I would like to watch long-term. As a guest role, sure, why not. Even play some sorta crazy guy, he could do that great, but a role that make you wanna like him (which I think is the essential idea behind Star Trek acting), that the Captains are likable persons. He is not.

 

I like him. I like everything about him. A devious Slytherin captain who thinks rules are for the sheep (who aren’t in Section 31, probably) with a Tribble, a Gorn skeleton, a monster alien cat and a bowl full of fortune cookies. I think he is genuinely fascinated by the exploration potential of the spore engine and uses it to reach Burnham, even if that isn’t anywhere near his whole story.

 

They sent the other prisoners on their way on another shuttle, so no.

 

So what?

 

One thing I'm dubious of is the idea that black-arrowheads = section 31.

I think I really like the series, but S31 I've always found utterly stupid, as well as insulting. We don't need leather-tuniced baddies twirling their mustaches because they're the "adults" while everyone else in the franchise are pie-in-the-sky dreamers. Fuck the gestapo, and, people, we already have Starfleet Intelligence. Just because they're not secretly committing genocide because of their INCOMPETENCE to keep the peace otherwise does not mean they're not thorough and effective.

S31 are an underground society of thugs who only survived by keeping their cabal SECRET. That means no flashy insignias broadcasting their existence to countless random crew and visiting felons.

 

I think with a little more thought people could simply say "this series doesn't include many of the elements I've enjoyed in previous Star Trek productions," if that's what they feel.

Well yeah, these kind of conspiracies are dull first because they've long since become lazy cliches in popular storytelling, and second because they're insidiously dishonest. They flatter the audience's cynicism while ignoring truths about our time that matter a great deal more. Folks, look at the real world for just a couple of moments: the very worst things that governments do in pursuit of their agendas they do right out in the fucking open now.

 

black insignia, secret experiments, restricted areas and cross the line for the sake of federation! it is evident that the discovery is a ship of the section 31 !!

Captain Lorca is awesome !!!

 

Star Trek - Discovery, if it keeps the darker tone that is building up right now, will share the same fate like Stargate Universe. The idea wasn't bad, but the whole dark theme was too dark, and not what people were used / wanted to see with that franchise. Star Trek simply isn't meant to go dark.

What Battlestar did, with the re-imagined series, made it even cooler and also somewhat dark, which was not what the original was made like, but it least it was cool. There was an insane amount of complexity. Star Trek can never reach that, and shouldn't even try.

 

If Star Fleet loses a ship with all hands to a mistake, during a first contact, the new ##ckers who did the shooting, will have to spend the next two centuries apologizing, unless they are massive a-holes.

Lorca accepted it was an ambush, so it was probably the general consumption too... Although? Why does anyone think Burnham's mutiny started the war? Every thing she did to start the war, which was more than enough, was while she was a good officer.

 

At the start of the episode, did they mention that the shuttle was on it's way to Tellar?

 

I don't think so. Star Trek is a much bigger brand. People will follow it.

 

in fact Sloan said that section 31 protected the federation in many ocations, it would not be wrong to see one of those times also I want to know more of them, they are part of the fleet since before the federation existed

 

DS9 is my favorite Trek series, I'm currently doing my third round of rewatching the series. Discovery is not DS9.

 

I agree!

 

Here is the preview for next week

 

Preview episode 4

 

Shit. I'm in The Matrix.

 

Also a distinct possibility.

They did indeed, though the number of writers and "story by" credits on this one (and the first two episodes) makes me wonder if we were actually supposed to open with Burnham on that shuttle, being rescued by Discovery, and meeting Captain Lorca before flashing back to the Shenzhou and seeing the battle. Possibly told in parts as a story to Tilly. Essentially, that parts of the first three episodes were the original first and second episode written by Bryan Fuller, and then rewritten and rearranged by the writing staff into a prologue and "second pilot" instead of having numerous flashbacks.