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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x06 - "Lethe"

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Indeed. This one has to be the very first episode where I thought "I might want to rewatch that at some time" - namely, if we learn more about the whole Sarek-Amanda-Spock-Burnham relationships. Either after having new DIS episodes adressing that, or if I catch a re-watch of another series (say, TOS "Journey to Babel", or the TNG-episode with Sarek), then this episode might be relevant to check to see what happened before (or after) in a new light.

All the other episodes were rather "meh". Were I was glad I watched them to see the story unfold, but didn't find any one memorable or interesting enough to check out later again. To be fair, that wasn't the case for many other Trek series in their first 5 episodes as well (although, we had stronger pilots before).

Not very many. I've rewatched all the pilots recently except Emissary. The only one(s) that even come close to DSC are the earliest TOS episodes - and that's only if you're willing to engage with them entirely on the standards of their time rather than today, and (in the case of The Man Trap, the actual first episode aired) if you don't mind a pilot that basically tells you almost nothing about the characters or the world involved and tends to portray many of them wildly out of character in relation to later episodes.

My memories of Emissary have always been good, and it was the only one I'd watched multiple times before now, so I still trust enough in that to say that we have indeed had 1 better pilot episode (two-parter) than what DSC has accomplished. But that's basically it.
 
I'll probably rewatch "Vulcan Hello" and "Binary Stars" at some point because they were awesome. If I re-watch them a second time, it will be one time more than I rewatched "Broken Bow" or "Caretaker."

And I'll probably go through "Butcher's Knife" at least three more times as the plot develops because I have a feeling its going to turn out to be relatively important story wise.
 
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I liked how the Cancri Elders looked - first new aliens we have seen who weren't Federation members.
 
Cornwell finally wakes up (after some mattress dancing with a terribly awkward lead in) to how Lorca has gone rogue, how he's played the psych evaluations, how he's gone off the proverbial reservation, and vows to relieve him of command of his beloved shroomship. She had to let him get into her pants to sort that out?

Burnham gets into Matrix-esque khatra mind-meld fisticuffs with a gravely wounded Sarek, only to find he threw her under the bus to assure Spock's success. Methinks Sarek ain't gettin' a Father's Day card from her this year.

Lorca uses Sarek's incapacitation to throw Cornwell under the Uruk Hai, um, I mean Klingon bus in order to save his command. To his credit, he did get to screw her twice in one episode.

Lots of bus-throwing-under going on in this week's Schmuck Trek: Disco T-Shirt Dance Party.

Oh, 'shroom-Mirror Stamets has now surpassed Tilly as the most chirpily annoying character. And I hope they pay Doug Jones well for having to suit up for less than six lines.

I do have to admit the Cancri elders masquerading as giant PEZ dispensers were kind of cool, until they got stabbed in the back and couldn't fight thanks to their funky burrito suits. Then they were just lame. Were they supposed to be the revered brain-trust on this planet? If so, they royally screwed the pooch.
 
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Cornwell finally wakes up (after some mattress dancing with a terribly awkward lead in) to how Lorca has gone rogue, how he's played the psych evaluations, how he's gone off the proverbial reservation, and vows to relieve him of command of his beloved shroomship. She had to let him get into her pants to sort that out?

Burnham gets into Matrix-esque khatra mind-meld fisticuffs with a gravely wounded Sarek, only to find he threw her under the bus to assure Spock's success. Methinks Sarek ain't gettin' a Father's Day card from her this year.

Lorca uses Sarek's incapacitation to throw Cornwell under the Uruk Hai, um, I mean Klingon bus in order to save his command. To his credit, he did get to screw her twice in one episode.

Lots of bus-throwing-under going on in this week's Schmuck Trek: Disco T-Shirt Dance Party.

Oh, 'shroom-Mirror Stamets has now surpassed Tilly as the most chirpily annoying character. And I hope they pay Doug Jones well for having to suit up for less than six lines.

I do have to admit the Cancri elders masquerading as giant PEZ dispensers were kind of cool, until they got stabbed in the back and couldn't fight thanks to their funky burrito suits. Then they were just lame. Were they supposed to be the revered brain-trust on this planet? If so, they royally screwed the pooch.

What?
 
Lethe nitpicks
The Holodeck
What was new in 2364 was the use of replicated matter in the holodeck, allowing for realistic tactile feedback. (The Hood was an older Excelsior class, as such it's holosimulator is more akin to what we see here in the Discovery. Will growing up was more interested in Anbu-jyutsu than going to any holoarcades that Valdez, Alaska may have to offer.) Also new was the distinction between the simulation environment and the image on the side wall being invisible.


Vulcan skies
Spock's comment “Lieutenant, Vulcan has no moon,” doesn't rule out Vulcan having a companion planet with it's own moon (as depicted in the theatrical release of The Motion Picture and Yesteryear, although the latter doesn't show the companion planet's moon.)
(These astronomical bodies have also been referred to in various novels, probably due to the above depictions.)
 
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"I think he hates it."
I didn't hate it. I thought there was a lot of predictable, lazy writing going on. The "twists" were telegraphed like an old-school roundhouse punch. As usual, anyone's level of enjoyment is determined by the degree to which their glasses are rose tinted.

So no, I didn't hate it. I'm glad Michael finally accepted that Sarek sucks as a father figure, which we already knew. I'm glad Tilly is determined to jog her way to the captaincy. I'm glad Lorca found a way for the Klingons to do his dirty work for him, so go Team Captain Nutso PhaserInThePants. The high point was Stamets saying "groovy". Mirror Hippie confirmed. Now he needs to call people who disagree with him Herberts.
 
Doesn't rule out Vulcan being a moon itself. Though there is probably another hundred examples to counter it being a moon.

The known facts (any contradictions are left as an exercise to the obsessed among us):

1) Vulcan has no moon.
2) Vulcan skies are usually empty of heavenly bodies (but often covered in colorful dust or whatever). Views from space confirm the solitude.
3) A very large round body is seen on the sky in ST:TMP, "Yesteryear" and "Lethe" (in the latter two despite the skies being rather intensely colored by dust or whatever).
4) A smaller body accompanies it in ST:TMP and "Lethe".
5) The large round body hangs over Shi'Kahr at the same spot be it day or subsequent night in "Yesteryear".
6) Vulcan has months.

A bonus fact:

7) Romulans chose to settle on a star system where a big heavenly body they (?) call Remus meets their new homeworld at close range every now and then as both orbit the local star in roughly circular orbits. Romulans left Vulcan because they wanted to cling on to the old ways. Is this how good old Vulcan looked, too?

Timo Saloniemi
 
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