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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x07 - "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"

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Tesophius said:
It's not the confusion, it's the fact that DEE-ESS-SEE doesn't really roll off the tongue. STD has a better sound to it, other than the more popular use of this acronym.
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Then pronounce it Disk, or use DIS (like ENT and VOY)

Do you use STV and STE for VOY and ENT?
 
And for anyone wondering (like me) why Stella's dad looked familiar:

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More recently he was the original sheriff in Defiance before that Aussie guy took over.

Mark
 
Tuskin38 said:
The 'oh' is the zero in the callsign. DSC-01, Disc-Oh-One

DSC-01 is written on the side of the shuttle as well.

it is common to say 'oh' instead of zero in certain circumstances. Happens all the time in Trek and IRL.

When Tasha reads out the Ent-C's registry in 'Yesterday's Enterprise' she reads it as 'One-Seven-Oh-One', I believe Scotty does the same in 'Relics', and it is commonly used when officers are reading out course numbers at the helm.
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Yes, to all of that. But as we see, they refer to the ship as "DISCO" with those shirts. A "Disco 1" designation for the shuttles seems just as plausible.
 
Tomalak said:
Picard's crew all played ancient Bach and Beethoven at recitals, so why wouldn't they also enjoy the BeeGees?

Trek's always struggled to show future culture, with the exception of Vulcan Love Slave and The Adventures of Flotter. At least now they've moved from the 1870s to the 1970s.
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I hear what you're saying. I do expect that there will be some pop classics around even after a few hundred years. Seeing Picard playing classical music made sense. Even today, that music is centuries old so no reason to expect it to disappear in another few centuries.

But we're talking about young people playing dance music at a party. No way would you go to this tyoe of party today and hear a waltz or The Minuet. Without an explanation it seemed weird.

BTW, I understood rap music being played because just like singers, I do expect rappers to be around centuries from now.
 
Oh man, only skimmed through the first dozen or so pages of this thread, but I think everything that I liked about this episode has been thoroughly pointed out and also equally bashed. It's amazing to see how polarizing the show can be. Good or bad, it definitely develops a strong conversation.

This is easily my favorite episode of the series. This episode was just plain fun. We got a true standalone episode and time travel shenanigans with the madman taking over the ship. It was Star Trek at its best.

Everything made me smile. Every characterization was fun and honest (and Stamets is now officially my favorite character by a wide margain) to me. I loved how they evened out the lighting rather than the usual near-nighttime in previous episodes. I'm a huge sucker for time travel episodes, and the way they repackaged this trope from their own history books was both nostalgic and fresh. Most of all, I like seeing Starfleet officers act like people, who have parties and have fun.

I'm sure this was a hard episode for people to watch, but for me it was an A+ winner because I love having fun when I watch.
 
XCV330 said:
9/10. They keep hitting them out of the ballpark. I thought it was a very TOS ending, with Mudd leaving essentially into supervised custody but still being a huge threat, but he's plot material/spinoff material.

Was nice seeing Stella in TOS type civilian clothes. Burnham's character keeps developing, Stamets and Tilly are awesome.
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By all rights he should have been killed for his actions and knowledge of the Discovery, alas we know he survives to meet Kirk so they had to deal with him in another way.
 
I liked that the ending fit the other episodes that featured Mudd, save for "Choose Your Pain". That one, although I understand the rationale for leaving him there, didn't fit right for a Harry Mudd resolution.

This one had that feel to it, one that lines up nicely with the TOS and TAS episodes.
 
Tesophius said:
Artificial limbs/body parts
Exoskeleton
Regenerative/Biological replacements
Nanobotic treatment that rrverses the nerve damage

These techs are in the early stages now (although it's been decades since initial ibtroductions) but no futurists are forecasting for them to take centuries to mature
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It is true that it doesn't make sense that such injuries couldn't be fixed, but it is consistent with Star Trek canon. Pike's situation really made no sense either, nor that Worf's spinal injury was such a big deal in TNG.
 
GeekUSACarl said:
1.) it is inappropriate
2.) I laugh silently every time
3.) that's exactly why I use It

I can't help it.
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I admit, I use it because it sounds better, but also two other reasons: some people get really worked up around it and STD started out as such a boring dark show that I thought it was funny to poke fun at it. Now I'm enjoying it but I'll still call it STD until the day I expire.
 
Longinus said:
It is true that it doesn't make sense that such injuries couldn't be fixed, but it is consistent with Star Trek canon. Pike's situation really made no sense either, nor that Worf's spinal injury was such a big deal in TNG.
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I wish they had some famous futurist, like Ray Kurzweil, consulting the writers
 
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