- Sarek's Vulcan ship is pretty neat. There's no full ring (which may or may not contradict the 32nd century Vulcan cruiser peeked at in ENT, or the Vulcan transports from TNG), but there's plenty of precedent for ringed and ringless Vuncan deisgns. If anything though, this really makes me think of the Goa'uld cargo ship from the Stargate TV franchise.
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/vulcans1.htm
- Inside though there's a curious lack of chairs, though we really haven't seen much of the inside of Vulcan ships to comment. I did a quick look at the inside sets of the Tal'kir (ENT "Impulse") and lo and behold, very few seats to be seen...
- I looked up a few instances of exterior Discovery shots to see what the deal is with the glass ceiling on those connecting arms. In this episode, it is literally the only one that is lit out of the four arms. There IS a corresponding shape on each arm that could be an unlit or covered-over corridor, but I'm wondering if it's a retcon of sorts. Also, the connecting arm we do zoom in on does not have a lower piece that is nominally glowing red in other external shots. Here, there is what looks to be a similar glass-ceilinged corridor underneath (and slightly offset, so the glass ceiling would actually be visible), showing that the arms are at least two decks thick. I think the scale is slightly off here (the "rabbits teeth" windows two decks up from there don't look big enough), so I think this is not something they were initially planning to do when they built the model, much like I'm sure the model didn't have the window on the lower deck corresponding to the Tardigrade's first home.
- I'm pretty sure that both Burnham and Tilly are running funny-like to exaggerate their movements, making it look so slightly like they're running faster when they're actually not. For all the corridors they LOOK like they're running through, they really don't have that much real estate to cover before they run out of set.
- Tyler says his mum died in an accident on her way to one of the "moons of Grazer". Jaresh-Inyo, the President of the Federation in the early 2370s, is a Grazerite.
- I recognize that people will be wondering just HOW holodeck this holodeck is. My guess it's more hologram than solid - Tyler does at one point slap a corridor panel to open a door, so would that have been projected, or are we expected to think he's miming an interaction with the image?
- The actual set for the holo-room (sic) and the adjoining armory / prep room hasn't been seen yet. Without looking too closely at it, my guess is that it's a redress of the airlock set briefly seen last week. The holo-room has these large slideaway walls which we haven't seen before either, which have the ship's seal and name proudly emblazoned across two segments of said wall / door. The holo projectors also seem to be not quite integrated into the room, with cables running around the floor. Some have suggested this is an experimental system, this could mean that Discovery wasn't built with it in mind.
- The phaser rifles must have some sort of gyro in them telling them how to orient the display when latched into their racks. Otherwise, the kill counter would have been displayed upside down when Lorca went to read them.
- Tilly was likely being sarcastic when she was asking for (extra green) green juice, but we KNOW that Starfleet computers can be notoriously anal about instructions. OTOH, there IS an Earth menu page on the display hanging above the entrance, with categories for each meal plus a "Misc" group. I'd love to get a closer look at that. In any case, the computer is being facetious back at the crew with that condescending spiel about nutrition. Just because IT doesn't eat...
- The food slot has the same bumpy foam surface as the uniform slot in their quarters, suggesting that both work on the same technology and presumably can create both categories of stuff if need be.
- In Sarek's Happy Place, we see Asian-looking Vulcans for the first time in a long time, no? There were very Asian-looking Vulcan monks in ST3, but I can't recall of any prominent Vulcans of that ethnicity in recent incarnations. Not that it matters or anything - and hey, that silent Vulcan admiral is back this week, speaking all Vulcan and stuff by holocomm!
- The CMO of the ship is still MIA. Culber is seen filling the role again, inasmuch as Stamets is doing ALL the traditional Chief Engineer stuff. I'm guessing it is a deliberate attempt by the creators at showing people not in the traditional positions aboard ship, but this episode seems to overlook that there are still missing CMO and CEO characters, or at least extras filling the bill.
- Either Lorca's family has created a much better fortune cookie, or Lorca likes to keep it dry in his ready room, because leaving a batch of regular cookies out like that would typically result in a batch of spongy, chewy cookies before too long. At least where I grew up.
- The writers realy picked some good names out of the wikis this week. Grazer, the Yridia nebula...
- In the only real bridge scene of the episode, Burnham seems already at home on the bridge, even taking over the equivalent station she had on the Shenzhou. No one was AT the station when she arrived on the bridge, but no one threw her off of it, so she must have gained bridge station clearance since last week... And a prominent one at that.
- There's at least one other cadet aboard. The PA calls for "Cadet Wells" to report to Engineering. Perhaps Stamets has had the latitude to recruit further pre-grads into his flock?
- Discovery is really the only Starship to apparently use her shuttlebay as a regular cargo storage area. Every other ship doesn't seem to have a problem clearing their landing areas of those ubiquitous barrels and cargo doodads. They're often there (depending on the preference of the props master or director of photography that week), but Discovery seems to ALWAYS have them there. Good thing they're CG, so the crew won't have to worry about it that often.
- The the Discovery "Seal" that the shuttles park on has the tip of the delta facing the front of the ship, but as the shuttles depart, the top of their landing zone letter (A, B or C) is oriented to the stern? I guess it doesn't matter THAT much since the seal seems to also be a turntable, but still...
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/vulcans1.htm
- Inside though there's a curious lack of chairs, though we really haven't seen much of the inside of Vulcan ships to comment. I did a quick look at the inside sets of the Tal'kir (ENT "Impulse") and lo and behold, very few seats to be seen...
- I looked up a few instances of exterior Discovery shots to see what the deal is with the glass ceiling on those connecting arms. In this episode, it is literally the only one that is lit out of the four arms. There IS a corresponding shape on each arm that could be an unlit or covered-over corridor, but I'm wondering if it's a retcon of sorts. Also, the connecting arm we do zoom in on does not have a lower piece that is nominally glowing red in other external shots. Here, there is what looks to be a similar glass-ceilinged corridor underneath (and slightly offset, so the glass ceiling would actually be visible), showing that the arms are at least two decks thick. I think the scale is slightly off here (the "rabbits teeth" windows two decks up from there don't look big enough), so I think this is not something they were initially planning to do when they built the model, much like I'm sure the model didn't have the window on the lower deck corresponding to the Tardigrade's first home.
- I'm pretty sure that both Burnham and Tilly are running funny-like to exaggerate their movements, making it look so slightly like they're running faster when they're actually not. For all the corridors they LOOK like they're running through, they really don't have that much real estate to cover before they run out of set.
- Tyler says his mum died in an accident on her way to one of the "moons of Grazer". Jaresh-Inyo, the President of the Federation in the early 2370s, is a Grazerite.
- I recognize that people will be wondering just HOW holodeck this holodeck is. My guess it's more hologram than solid - Tyler does at one point slap a corridor panel to open a door, so would that have been projected, or are we expected to think he's miming an interaction with the image?
- The actual set for the holo-room (sic) and the adjoining armory / prep room hasn't been seen yet. Without looking too closely at it, my guess is that it's a redress of the airlock set briefly seen last week. The holo-room has these large slideaway walls which we haven't seen before either, which have the ship's seal and name proudly emblazoned across two segments of said wall / door. The holo projectors also seem to be not quite integrated into the room, with cables running around the floor. Some have suggested this is an experimental system, this could mean that Discovery wasn't built with it in mind.
- The phaser rifles must have some sort of gyro in them telling them how to orient the display when latched into their racks. Otherwise, the kill counter would have been displayed upside down when Lorca went to read them.
- Tilly was likely being sarcastic when she was asking for (extra green) green juice, but we KNOW that Starfleet computers can be notoriously anal about instructions. OTOH, there IS an Earth menu page on the display hanging above the entrance, with categories for each meal plus a "Misc" group. I'd love to get a closer look at that. In any case, the computer is being facetious back at the crew with that condescending spiel about nutrition. Just because IT doesn't eat...
- The food slot has the same bumpy foam surface as the uniform slot in their quarters, suggesting that both work on the same technology and presumably can create both categories of stuff if need be.
- In Sarek's Happy Place, we see Asian-looking Vulcans for the first time in a long time, no? There were very Asian-looking Vulcan monks in ST3, but I can't recall of any prominent Vulcans of that ethnicity in recent incarnations. Not that it matters or anything - and hey, that silent Vulcan admiral is back this week, speaking all Vulcan and stuff by holocomm!
- The CMO of the ship is still MIA. Culber is seen filling the role again, inasmuch as Stamets is doing ALL the traditional Chief Engineer stuff. I'm guessing it is a deliberate attempt by the creators at showing people not in the traditional positions aboard ship, but this episode seems to overlook that there are still missing CMO and CEO characters, or at least extras filling the bill.
- Either Lorca's family has created a much better fortune cookie, or Lorca likes to keep it dry in his ready room, because leaving a batch of regular cookies out like that would typically result in a batch of spongy, chewy cookies before too long. At least where I grew up.
- The writers realy picked some good names out of the wikis this week. Grazer, the Yridia nebula...
- In the only real bridge scene of the episode, Burnham seems already at home on the bridge, even taking over the equivalent station she had on the Shenzhou. No one was AT the station when she arrived on the bridge, but no one threw her off of it, so she must have gained bridge station clearance since last week... And a prominent one at that.
- There's at least one other cadet aboard. The PA calls for "Cadet Wells" to report to Engineering. Perhaps Stamets has had the latitude to recruit further pre-grads into his flock?
- Discovery is really the only Starship to apparently use her shuttlebay as a regular cargo storage area. Every other ship doesn't seem to have a problem clearing their landing areas of those ubiquitous barrels and cargo doodads. They're often there (depending on the preference of the props master or director of photography that week), but Discovery seems to ALWAYS have them there. Good thing they're CG, so the crew won't have to worry about it that often.
- The the Discovery "Seal" that the shuttles park on has the tip of the delta facing the front of the ship, but as the shuttles depart, the top of their landing zone letter (A, B or C) is oriented to the stern? I guess it doesn't matter THAT much since the seal seems to also be a turntable, but still...
