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

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I have finally watched it.

I just want to say this: I LOVE STAMETS. I FUCKING LOVE HIM.

Anyway that was very very good EXCEPT by the time we get to this century we either won't say fuck or saying fuck will mean nothing so the saying fuck scene was stupid. But Discovery must BOLDLY GO so fuck it is.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Upon further reflection, I'm less enamoured by the list of Starfleet's Most Decorated American Straight White Men Plus The Token Asian Lady than I originally was. It hit it my Trek continuity-porn funny bone in the right spot, but on reflection...

But seriously folks, how did Erica Hernandez not make the cut? Far more competent than Jonathan 'Mah Pop's Engine' Archer and more, erm, 'stable' than Matt Decker.

Woah, woah, woah. April was English.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

WITCH!!!!

WITCH!!!

Lorca clearly say that Klingon boys have more than one penis, which might not actually be just two penises... Insemination ganglia?

(Ridiculous.)

So to be transformed from a three penis alien, into a one penis human being, either two of Voq's penises were cut off, maybe discarded, or his penes were tied together like a fa#got (dictionary specific correct use of the word. Bundle of sticks tied together) into a super penis, which would maybe be an actual "real life" chode.

My first thought at this comment by Lorca was "why did Jadzia never mention this"

My second thought at this comment by Lorca was "Guy's going to post about this"

 

[unimatrix7]

Woah, woah, woah. April was English.

I stand chastened and rebuked!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Also: the prisoner Lorca takes back, whatshisname? I was gonna say he's an android but he is wrecked in between super jujisu Klingon pwning scenes. So I'm thinking he's eugenically enhanced. At any rate, he has a secret, and having secrets has never been a thing on Star Trek. That it is seemingly is now is good stuff.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Also wtf is this MID THREAD POLLS?!

Will the wonders of this new software never cease

edit: I'm so confused. I thought I was in TNZ. I blame hte spores

 

[Tuskin38]

Also: the prisoner Lorca takes back, whatshisname? I was gonna say he's an android but he is wrecked in between super jujisu Klingon pwning scenes. So I'm thinking he's eugenically enhanced. At any rate, he has a secret, and having secrets has never been a thing on Star Trek. That it is seemingly is now is good stuff.

Lt. Ash Tyler.

His actor has been in the opening credits since episode 1, so hes going to be a main character.

 

[Mach5]

I came back here to bitch about the D7 battlecruiser.

IT'S SO SHIT!

Lt. Ash Tyler.

Why the hell does he have to put on a fake American accent too? Isn't Dorca enough?

 

[Guy Gardener]

My first thought at this comment by Lorca was "why did Jadzia never mention this"

My second thought at this comment by Lorca was "Guy's going to post about this"

It must have taken Worf half the time to connect her spots, than I'd thought previously.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Because he has two pens?

 

[Guy Gardener]

At least two.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

That's hot.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Fifteen years later, in TWOK, Kirk claims that "the Klingons don't take prisoners."
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I think Kirk's line in TWOK may have been a bit of humor, not a totally factual statement.

Kor

Actually (and I got this slightly wrong before, I was remembering from a different film and thinking it was said to Chekov), but the actual line is:

"Pray, Mr. Saavik, the Klingons don't take prisoners".

I always took it to mean, pray as in hope. Hope they kill you instead if taking you prisoner because being taken prisoner by Klingons is not a nice thing. As in, he thought in the way Lorca did when killing his crew.

 

[zar]

Anyway that was very very good EXCEPT by the time we get to this century we either won't say fuck or saying fuck will mean nothing so the saying fuck scene was stupid. But Discovery must BOLDLY GO so fuck it is.

They didn't actually say it though. They said [censored] in Federation Standard and ran it through the universal translator for 21st century English viewers.

 

[David James]

In a lot of ways, Burnham felt totally irrelevant to this episode

That's why it was one of my favorites.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

That's a really interesting point!

 

[Mudd]

This is a little too kind, but it captures the essential meh-ness of Discovery thus far:


An old new face returns on a not terrible Star Trek: Discovery

There’s a lack of grace to much of the character work in the show so far; too often individuals simply state how they feel about things, without any of the nuance or hedging that makes for good drama. The performances carry most of it, but it’s still a distraction, and it makes every argument automatically strident, as there’s little setting between “chatting” and “ranting.”
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As for the rest of the captain’s time in captivity, it’s standard “guy in captivity” stuff.
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Really, the biggest problem with “Pain” is how relatively familiar so much of it is. DSC was billed as a new approach for the franchise, but if “new approach” is just “hey, remember Battlestar Galactica?”

 

[David James]

This is a little too kind, but it captures the essential meh-ness of Discovery thus far:


An old new face returns on a not terrible Star Trek: Discovery

So are you gonna be the guy that watches every week and then come here to let everyone know how much they hate it? Are you going to be the Stewey of the Enterprise forum?

 

[McDuff]

Great episode this week. At the beginning when discussing the situation with the admiral, Lorca reminded me of Captain Maxwell in the TNG episode "The Wounded". Just saw the remastered episode a few days ago. Great episode btw. I like that this Discovery episode had a more ensemble feel with many main characters doing their part. A lot of things felt forced (no gray areas, which makes better drama imo) but this is typical in many Hollywood action-adventure work. It was enjoyable and fun. I feel like I'm watching a top of the line (production value and content) action adventure Hollywood product.

 

[BillJ]

So are you gonna be the guy that watches every week and then come here to let everyone know how much they hate it? Are you going to be the Stewey of the Enterprise forum?

You still don't get it, do you? We're actually paying for this show. So people who have paid, aren't going to be silent. Any more than someone panning a movie they paid to see.