Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x06 - "Lethe"

[SpocksOddSocks]

Red leaves and green blood...

Green blood? All I saw was that Sarek had been hit by tiny green paintballs .

Seriously, that was one of the low points of the series visuals so for me so far. Vulcan blood has been done much better.

 

[Mudd]

I did wonder how much corridor they'd built for this show. God knows I watched that scene four times before giving up on the app.

 

[cultcross]

I thought it was standard (well so I gleaned from the SG-1 commentaries anyway) to build in a loop so you can do 'walk and talks' (or jog and talks) without having to stop and reset.

 

[Mach5]

I did wonder how much corridor they'd built for this show.

I've seen a behind the scenes video for The Expanse that shows how physical sets are seamlessly combined with CGI. The actual corridor set is probably not much longer than the shuttle set.

 

[Mechanoid1]

As much as I love star trek, just am not feeling this new mirrored or reimagined story/timeline. I am looking more forward to the end of this sad experiment called Discovery or is it called the CBS all access star trek experiment.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I ended up giving it an 8.
A question for canon folks out there: aren't Vulcans supposed to be much stronger than humans? how do you explain Burnham holding her own in hand-to-hand combat with a Vulcan male?

It's a dream.

Mind you, I think the reason her mutiny was an epic fail was due to the fact she wasn't strong enough to do the neck pinch.

 

[Mach5]

I am looking more forward to the end of this sad experiment called Discovery

Weird that you should choose to post something like this on the very day that CBS has announced the series' renewal.

 

[David Brown]

I feel like the introductions are out of the way. We have our main characters, we have our ship, and we've set up the state of the galaxy. This felt like the first episode to play with those new toys in the sandbox. This wasn't great, or earth shattering, but it was certainly passable. Still not feeling James Frain as Sarek though. I'm still not loving it, but I'm interested enough to keep tuning in to see where it's going.

Really bad freezing, repeating, freezing issues from CBS All Access when I tried to watch early in the evening. It worked fine when I tried again later that night.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Weird that you should choose to post something like this on the very day that CBS has announced the series' renewal.

Haters gonna hate. Nothing they hate more also than predicted train wrecks getting accepted and renewed.

 

[cultcross]

If you predict Discovery's cancellation every year, eventually, you'll be right.

 

[TheArsenal]

I really like Ash Tyler, and still don't see any actual in-series evidence that says he's Voq in disguise. Lorca making him the Discovery's new Chief Security Officer runs a bit contrary to that theory anyway, as does the developing friendship between him and Burnham.

I find the Voq theories to be stretch so far as well, but that may be a personal prejudice in that I would find it to be (IMO) a spectacularly silly twist. But anything is possible in magic based sci-fi.

That said, there are increasing hints that Ash Tyler may not be what he seems:

[Lorca's response to Tyler claiming Seattle as home] " ... 24 kilometers outside of Seattle, which makes you not exactly from Seattle ..." [pan to Tyler's nervous reaction shot]

"... I've seen you fly, shoot ... you fight like a Klingon ..."

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

It's a dream.

Mind you, I think the reason her mutiny was an epic fail was due to the fact she wasn't strong enough to do the neck pinch.

Personally, I think it would have been an epic fail no matter how long Georgiou was out for. I don't think the bridge crew looked like they would have followed her order, it would have seemed to suspicious that Georgiou wasn't giving it herself.

(Not that it preclude Burnham from being less adept at the pinch than a Vulcan as you say).

 

[JoeP]

One little thing that made me very happy. Vulcan.

The architecture style was taken straight from Star Trek 2009.

I work down the street from that location. It was pretty crazy seeing it on Trek.
https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/visit/visit

 

[johnjm22]

Orville is Berman/Braga trek with dick jokes. Discovery is RDM/ISB Trek with better fight choreography.

STD is not anywhere near as well written as RDM/ISB Trek. Not even close.

 

[Charles Phipps]

If you predict Discovery's cancellation every year, eventually, you'll be right.

Destiny exists but the only fate which exists is all men must die.

 

[Mach5]

It was pretty crazy seeing it on Trek.

But it's literally called the "Khan Museum"!

 

[Charles Phipps]

It's not anywhere near as well written as RDM/ISB Trek. Not even close.

I remind folks whenever they say this that Deep Space Nine was complete crap until the Cardassian concentration camp imposter episode. And that was still a one-off with the show not going anywhere until Odo found out about the Dominion.

And you can argue but you'd be wrong because gambling aliens.

We're 5 episodes in and the show has shown substantial improvement. Basically, the only Trek which was good from the beginning was TOS.

 

[Mach5]

We're 5 episodes in and the show has shown substantial improvement. Basically, the only Trek which was good from the beginning was TOS.

I disagree, the first season of Enterprise was fine.

That said, the first two and a half seasons of DS9 were garbage.

 

[Amaris]

If you predict Discovery's cancellation every year, eventually, you'll be right.

Like when that awful TNG show was canceled after a short seven seasons. Finally everyone realized just how dreadful it was and put it out of its misery!

 

[Charles Phipps]

I disagree, the first season of Enterprise was fine.

That said, the first two and a half seasons of DS9 were garbage.

I remind you Dear Doctor was also in the first season of Enterprise.



But I generally think this show is finding its own footing. It just tried to start us as Game of Thrones and has taken a few episodes to get us into Star Trek.