I mean, lets be honest, the Mirror Universe makes absolutely zero sense and is honestly just fanfiction.net tier fanwank. If the Roman Empire never fell, how did the same characters appear? How do the same ships appear? Why are the ships named "Enterprise", "Discovery" etc?
Butterfly effects are a real thing, change one small thing, and the entire thing come crumbling down, yet the Mirror Universe is a radically different earth with a radically different history yet all the same characters exist with the same names at basically the same times and place?
The Mirror Universe only works if you don't think about it at all. Discovery it's worked better than before because honestly, Discovery is a miserable grim show and the Mirror Universe fits that perfectly. I hope they wrap up the MU next episode, but I don't know whats worse at this point, being stuck in a Fascist nightmare or returning to the Klingon War story line.
The Mirror Universe works just fine in one time frame, like TOS-era. With the concept of infinite universes their are literally an infinity of universes where things are very similar (people, ships) but also different (evil). It breaks down when you look to see the same universe over time with major changes (deaths, ship destruction) not having major impacts (like eliminating DS9 characters). To get it to work you have to have the Mirror Universe be that one of the infinity where through all the major changes things did work out to be exactly like in the Prime universe, but evil. It seems counterintuitive, but there has to be one out of the infinity that works and this is that one.
Honestly, SMG is barely the lead any longer.
If you look back at the first four episodes virtually everything was from her POV. The other main characters barely even talked to each other unless it was needed to move along a vital plot point. We only saw a handful of scenes (mostly Klingon related) where Burnham wasn't in the room.
This changed once the series shifted to a more normal Trek A/B structure. Now Burnham really only moves along one of the plotlines in each of the episodes. And Saru, Tilly, and Stamets in their own way are getting to 'save the day" just as much as she is.
I think this is a good change, and probably required when they went from Fuller's initial idea of an anthology to a non-anthology. You can't keep as tight a focus on one character over multiple seasons as you can with just one season.
They absolutely have to be working together. As I noted, somehow Lorca knew not only how to get into the prime universe, but to get a hold of not only Burnham but Stamets. He explicitly drafted him from a civilian role and got him on-board the Discovery....
Lorca didn't need to have known any of that. He could have found out after coming to the Prime universe, but it would have helped out if he know something of the spore drive before coming over, just to shorten the timing if nothing else.
That means nothing. He would say that about any member of the cast.
She's terrible on Discovery. I don't know if it's her fault or if it's the writing/directing, but she's embarrassing herself.
I know everyone has their own opinion, but this is rediculous. Yeah, you mgiht not personally like her performance, but many people do, and so I dont think anyone can say reasonably that she is in any way embarrassing herself.
The palace was about two minutes away at warp one, which is lightspeed. Two lightminutes from Earth would put you at the orbit of Venus, or halfway to Mars. That's a bit far to be firing weapons -- I believe torpedoes are supposed to travel at warp one, and we've never seen a torp go more than about thirty seconds.
However, the shuttle appeared to be remote controlled on its approach to the palace, and when Burnham contacted Saru he had no idea where the palace was despite being in the same system, so apparently the Empire has a way of masking a ship's location on long range sensors without cloaking it to the naked eye. If that's true, the palace would've moved after firing to keep its location secret, and likely again after picking up the shuttle.
Torpedoes travel at whatever warp the ship is when they are fired, plus whatever delta V the lauching mechanism provides - hense before DS9's "jacketed phaser beams" (technobable to cover screwups of firing phasers at warp in a forward direction), torpedoes were the only viable standard weapon for warp speed combat.
This reminds me of one niggling issue I have with Discovery: for all the money they supposedly have for this show, we haven't gotten enough ship shots. As another poster mentioned, there was no image of the Cooper, for no apparent reason; no image of the ship that fired on the Rebel base, etc. etc. Frustrating when they spend so much money on a 3D printed Klingon torchbearer suit seen on screen for 20 seconds. With all the producers on this show, they need one that understands how to get the money on the screen.
will probably end up as captain? lol
