Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x05 - "Choose Your Pain"

[Sir Stewart Wallace]

Guess Saru didn't rescue the telescope, huh? And why did all those Klingon redshirts get vaporized while the lady with th speaking part just had to roll around in agony for a bit? Was that explained?

I feel like this was pretty obvious. Tyler is Voq. He was protecting the Klingon woman.

 

[Maestro]

He's number 6, but working hard on getting in the top 5.

He did alright in the Coaches Poll, but got no love from the AP.

 

[Nerys Myk]

He did alright in the Coaches Poll, but got no love from the AP.

Not his year. Things are looking bright on Antos IV, though. He's gonna ace it for sure!

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

That was a middling episode for me. 5/10

 

[eschaton]

It wasn't burned into the episode like the last few, but I kept the player going after the credits on CBSAA, and it jumped straight into the preview after the logos.

I'm not going to reload for it. You mind summarizing?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm not going to reload for it. You mind summarizing?

Tilly and Michael wearing DISCO t shirts...oh and something about Sarek.

 

[Amaris]

I feel like this was pretty obvious. Tyler is Voq. He was protecting the Klingon woman.

I'd love to be wrong, but it does feel telegraphed from a mile away. We'll see, though.

A few other things:

* I'm glad they went into a little detail of why it's essentially mushrooms (though special mushroom spores, really) that power the drive. As far as I'm concerned, sciency enough, let's keep rolling.
* My love of Tilly increases.
* I genuinely did not expect Stametz to step in for the tardigrade. Hooray, science ethics!
* I was also happy to see Burnham and Saru mend fences and begin to heal their relationship. It felt right to me.
* I loved Rainn Wilson's Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
* Captain Lorca continues to be a fascinating character for me.
* Are not Culber and Stametz adorable together? ♥
* Tilly for best someday Captain. ♥

 

[Feron]

I'm not going to reload for it. You mind summarizing?

Spoiler

It looks like Sarek is in danger. Burham senses it because of their connection. Lorca authorizes a rescue mission. Starfleet is chewing Lorca out for wanting to rescue Sarek, but we all know that he will go with the rescue mission and stay on Starfleets' bad boy list.

 

[GeekUSACarl]

Guess Saru didn't rescue the telescope, huh? And why did all those Klingon redshirts get vaporized while the lady with the speaking part just had to roll around in agony for a bit? Was that explained?

well we need a sinister and disfigured villain to enact a later revenge. sheesh. didnt you get a copy of "script by numbers"

 

[eschaton]

well we need a sinister and disfigured villain to enact a later revenge. sheesh. didnt you get a copy of "script by numbers"

Do Klingons not have dermal regenerators, or are they just too butch to bother with them?

 

[Gepard]

Ripper is granted an "All-Access" pass to the mycelial network.

HA. HA.

 

[Nerys Myk]

And why did all those Klingon redshirts get vaporized while the lady with the speaking part just had to roll around in agony for a bit? Was that explained? I would think a glancing blow from a beam that disrupts your atoms would still disrupt your atoms, but that sort of logic has never been Trek's strong suit.

Looked to me like the blast hit the wall and L'Rell caught some shrapnel.

 

[eschaton]

Spoiler

It looks like Sarek is in danger. Burham senses it because of their connection. Lorca authorizes a rescue mission. Starfleet is chewing Lorca out for wanting to rescue Sarek, but we all know that he will go with the rescue mission and stay on Starfleets' bad boy list.

Interesting that they're starting an entirely new plot thread rather than pick up on one of the few threads which hasn't been tied up nicely so far. I wonder if we're going back to semi-episodic Trek for awhile?

 

[Sir Stewart Wallace]

Ripper is granted an "All-Access" pass to the mycelial network.

HA. HA.

"The universe...so vast, so complex, so magnific--they want me to pay four extra bucks for no commercials and then there's COMMERCIALS?!"

 

[timtonruben359]

By far the best episode of the series so far!

 

[Amaris]

Looked to me like the blast hit the wall and L'Rell caught some shrapnel.

Yep. The others were direct hits. Lorca missed her and hit the wall, but it looks like it grazed her just a bit on the way past.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I wonder if L'Rell has a sister named L'Oreal?

 

[Sir Stewart Wallace]

I wonder if L'Rell has a sister named L'Oreal?

Maybe she's born with it.

 

[omnirad]

Didn't we see a clip of Mudd saying 'this is when things go boom', or something to that effect. Harry will show up again, like a bad penny! Got to say I liked Wilson's take on Mudd more than Roger C. Carmels. Not so blustery.

 

[Canjo]

Ripper is granted an "All-Access" pass to the mycelial network.

HA. HA.

What if the real plot of Star Trek Discovery is going to be about the crew discovering the thousands of hours worth of streaming content available on CBS All Access?