Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x06 - "Lethe"

[Ovation]

I loved hearing the name drop of the Enterprise. That excited me so much more than Spock being mentioned.

She's out there, folks. Now we just have to hope that when they show her she won't be retconned as a giant garbage scow with eight thruster nozzles hanging off her backside.

I’ve seen it. Only six nozzles, so all is well.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Perhaps. The question is of course why? We know he fucked up royally in the past, and that he doesn't have the best relationship with Starfleet command. Why is he, of all captains, not only given the most advanced ship in the fleet, but allowed to assemble a "dream team" of his choosing?

Apparently his war record is pretty impressive.

 

[cooleddie74]

And Chris Pike already has the Enterprise. Some captains are happy on their current ship and just don't want to be the skipper of the potentially disastrous experimental vessel.

 

[DEWLine]

Once he got cleared after the Buran blew up.

 

[Fateor]

So how exactly did Burnham pass the psych eval to become first officer?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I loved hearing the name drop of the Enterprise. That excited me so much more than Spock being mentioned.

Miss that. Must have been during a glitch!
[KIRK]All Acceeeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!/[KIRK]

 

[cooleddie74]

My stream was glitching when she was mentioned but I did hear her name. Loud and clear.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So how exactly did Burnham pass the psych eval to become first officer?

Vulcan cool.

 

[eschaton]

So how exactly did Burnham pass the psych eval to become first officer?

Apparently they are ludicrously easy to cheat in the 23rd century - much moreso than in the 21st.

 

[Ithekro]

Pike's trying to stay out of this show.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Perhaps. The question is of course why? We know he fucked up royally in the past, and that he doesn't have the best relationship with Starfleet command. Why is he, of all captains, not only given the most advanced ship in the fleet, but allowed to assemble a "dream team" of his choosing?

I'm going to go on a limb and say that the Admiral who he just burned had been pulling strings for him the entire way until she realized he was a raging nutcase.

Apparently they are ludicrously easy to cheat in the 23rd century - much moreso than in the 21st.

I don't think Burnham had any major issues barring Klingons and her father dying. She just has rotten luck.

 

[cooleddie74]

Vulcan cool. And Sarek bribing Captain Georgiou with telescope cleaning equipment.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Pike's trying to stay out of this show.

Random Dream Casting: They get Hayley Atwell to play the Enterprise's First Officer aka Number One.

Mind you, I'm still hoping they somehow make it so Mama Troi was a Starfleet officer and it's really just Betazoid aging which made her the social butterfly she became.

 

[David cgc]

Miss that. Must have been during a glitch!
[KIRK]All Acceeeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!/[KIRK]

It was at the very beginning, when Burnham was explaining to Tilly how running faster was key to making captain. Getting a good PT time earns her an extra commendation which helps her get to the front of the list for a plum assignment to a Constitution-class ship like the Enterprise, and then from there on you just glide up through the ranks.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Random Dream Casting: They get Hayley Atwell to play the Enterprise's First Officer aka Number One.

Mind you, I'm still hoping they somehow make it so Mama Troi was a Starfleet officer and it's really just Betazoid aging which made her the social butterfly she became.

Speaking of cool.

 

[Canjo]

Ash Tyler seems very human and nice with his crewmates. Very different personality from Voq! Did he have some kind of psychological imprinting to change his behavior?

 

[cooleddie74]

And you get to wear cool, breathable pullover shirts with rank braids.

 

[eschaton]

Seriously though guys, was I the only one who saw major weaknesses in the (guest) acting, the characterization, and the dialogue this week? I just don't see how someone could rate this episode a 9/10 when comparing it to the previous body of Trek works. That means it's almost perfect, when it clearly was not.

 

[Charles Phipps]

It was at the very beginning, when Burnham was explaining to Tilly how running faster was key to making captain. Getting a good PT time earns her an extra commendation which helps her get to the front of the list for a plum assignment to a Constitution-class ship like the Enterprise, and then from there on you just glide up through the ranks.

Me: *watches*

Wife: What did they say?

Me: Hmm?

Wife: You were watching them jog, weren't you?

Me: Sorry, Seven of Nine effect.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Seriously though guys, was I the only one who saw major weaknesses in the (guest) acting, the characterization, and the dialogue this week? I just don't see how someone could rate this episode a 9/10 when comparing it to the previous body of Trek works. That means it's almost perfect, when it clearly was not.

I think most of us are using the SF Debris scale where it's being graded to itself.

I'm giving it an 8 for good character moments, good development, and a nice use of Michael Burnham's Vulcan past which has been completely poitnless up until now.