I'm going to be the one to point out that, in terms of effectiveness, the stun setting is actually ideal in this kind of situation. For one thing, there's the strong possibility that the Klingon ship has sensors such that firing on a higher setting will set off a security alarm or something (see "Undiscovered Country"). This occurred to me last night when I noticed an alarm sounded in the background (for a few seconds) ONLY once the Klingons actually fired back, and yet when Burnham uses her phaser on the bridge, there's no alarm, just one really startled Klingon who yells "intruder alert!"
Haven't people been pining for more cumbersome and limited technology on this show?Those beacons.
It's a stealth mission, so let's have them LIGHT UP and GLOW and put Starfleet arrowheads on top of them
Quite. I don't think Lorca is "evil" per se—nor do I wholly think Voq/Tyler or L'Rell are, for that matter—but he's a calculating, manipulating bastard for sure, and he's got an ulterior motive. I don't know exactly what it is, but mark my words, he's got one.
how so? Why would Discovery announce it was establishing an uplink with Discovery?
Oh, she definitely changed the setting herself, deliberately. She murdered T'Kuvma, and she knows it, even if she ostensibly had justification. She couldn't stop herself after he killed Georgiou. It was a true crime of passion. It was her lowest point. She did the exact opposite of what she intended and knew she ought to do. Perhaps even more than the knowledge that she got her friend and captain killed (along with many others)—though it all bleeds together—it is her guilt and self-loathing and torment over this act that causes her to plead guilty and surrender herself to her punishment. She never expected nor thought she deserved a second chance at anything. Lorca gave her one anyway. We can only wonder why...
Those beacons.
It's a stealth mission, so let's have them LIGHT UP and GLOW and put Starfleet arrowheads on top of them
i just wish they'd stuck with the overlapping human/alien voices (a la Star Trek Beyond) instead of going all-human towards the end.
You can do a lot with a fictional language. In fact, I'd wager that your delivery can be a lot more meaningful if the words have no meaning of their own and the only thing you can do to convey meaning is vary tone, inflection and body language.
BEY was by far my favorite of the Kelvin films—and the only one I really enjoyed as a whole instead of just parts—but that was one thing I found annoying as hell in it. Not conceptually, but it just didn't play well for me in practice. Some of the early Klingon scenes in DSC did drag on a bit...but I can handle subtitles, and I can handle aliens speaking English as if there's just a magic lip-syncing UT in my television, but please not that two-sets-of-lines-talking-over-each-other business. Actually, it's ok if it's like TUC and they quickly transition—that was actually pretty neat—but beyond that (no pun intended) it's just distracting. Just IMO, naturally.
You can. I love the use of Elvish in the LotR movies for example. But Klingon, at least as presented in Discovery, is terrible. It's slow, jerky, cumbersome for the actors, and seems to draw any kind of realism from a scene while we watch two actors making gutteral noises at each other while stood stock still and waving their arms theatrically. As soon as you switch to English, they become real characters again.
