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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x01 - "Brother"

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To each their own. If I wanted no to watch people sitting in a room and politely spouting (made-up) tech jargon in the guise of "dramatic problem solving" I'd simply go to work. Nothing entertaining about it.

It's funny, because I love these high paced special effects scenes but I also love a good conference room scene. Anytime Picard would just look at his team and firmly ask, "Suggestions?", man I LOVED that stuff. And like, I love Star Trek technobabble because I understand the technobabble for the most part, at least in the context of Star Trek and how they use it. I get that the solution was always 'if we simply do this then this will happen and then everything will be fine!' its not the technobabbly stuff they were doing that was great, it was the teamwork that was great.

Fry: Like a balloon! and...something bad happens!
 
Do you think it's implied that the systems failure is part of the overarching mystery? They DO make a rather obvious point of discussing how resilient Constitution-class ships are.

Fanwank / cheap plot device? Or something deeper to be explored later?

Yeah, I think it will be relevant. Though I don’t get why only one starship is investigating. You’d think they’d at least send a second ship to monitor from afar.

It would be just unbelievably stupid to have the Enterprise, of all ships, roll fin out for no reason. I’ll give the writers more credit than that.
 
I don't know. Considering the amount of shit they have to deal with on a regular basis - they stay remarkably sane!

Like, I can easily see professional SEALS blow a fuse after two weeks of crazy weird shit happening to them on the Voyager...
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The production staff are imposing their real life racial cultural blindness to a fictional world
Burnham was adopted by a family after losing her parents. She eventually became close with her adopted mother and wanted to emulate her style by getting a similar hairdo.

Clearly she was a racist piece of shit cultural appropriating devil-child. This is why she bonded so well with Space Hitler.
 
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- Tilly. Sorry, but you irritate the bejesus out of me (although my partner loves her, so YMMV). I found a few scenes with her reminding me of fucking Gilmore Girls with the unrealistic speed of light dialogue.

It feels like they ripped her stock character out of that show and placed her in space. That's my biggest issue with Tilly, I've seen this character before on other shows in the vein of Gilmore Girls, as you said. Not the best fit for a Trek series, and I don't buy her as being this super genius.

I'll even go as far to say that Sonequa's Burnham is more convincing as a brilliant scientist, despite the show telling us that she is the 'smartest person' evaaar.

I hope you understood that was sarcasm, or that your post was also sarcasm

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Loved that line. Definitely not something Hunter's Pike would say, but it was a very Shatner-esque line!


That's interesting about your take on Detmer. My opinion of her improved dramatically this episode, because we got to see her really emote, and she has a personality, and it's one I like. I want to see more from her and Owosekun. That part about "you do have us, right ladies?" and them scrambling for an answer was great. I want more of that.

We did? That's really stretching it. I've seen random redshirts of the day on other Trek shows get more to work with. I think the background bridge crew will remain the way they are. Not actual developed characters.

I'm good with that though. They all seem like limited actors, who are glorified extras.

It looks like the Spore Drive is spinning up again eventually...so I for one CAN NOT WAIT to see the argumentative banter between Reno and Stamets.

They are keeping the stupid Reno character? Lol. Oh dear.

I didn't like it all.

People (even those who don't like it) keep saying Pike was good. I'm not sure why. There wasn't much there.

I really enjoyed Pike, but I get your perspective. Anson was a breath of fresh air, but he didn't really bring anything new that we haven't seen on Star Trek before. Just brought us back to the familiar of what makes an awesome Captain. This show needed it.

Burnham was far less of an annoyance when her focus is shared with Pike. It was a good balance.
 
Yeah, I think it will be relevant. Though I don’t get why only one starship is investigating. You’d think they’d at least send a second ship to monitor from afar.

It would be just unbelievably stupid to have the Enterprise, of all ships, roll fin out for no reason. I’ll give the writers more credit than that.

Interesting point though...maybe both ships WILL co-investigate through the course of the season!
 
Were the white actors expected to change the texture of their hair? I do not think so.
I guess I'm just seeing hair texture as being on par with other hair qualities, such as color or length. I suppose texture is more of an ethnic/race thing, but I was seeing it as just like any other hair characteristic -- although admittedly some hair characteristics (color and texture) are affected by ethnicity.

An Irish person whose hair is likely to be red, or at least more fair, might be asked to wear a wig or dye it to look more Vulcan.
 
Burnham was adopted by a family after losing her parents. She eventually became close with her adopted mother and wanted to emulate her style by getting a similar hairdo.

Clearly she was a racist piece of shit cultural appropriating devil-child. This is why she bonded so well with Space Hitler.
yeah you've nailed it!:rolleyes:
 
Interesting point though...maybe both ships WILL co-investigate through the course of the season!

Yeah, that would be cool. I hope we get more Enterprise action. But I expect they will be careful to make sure she’s not too much of a co-star.

Maybe they’ll treat us to a team-up with Number One in the command chair, like Sulu coming to the rescue in VI.
 
I guess I'm just seeing hair texture as being on par with other hair qualities, such as color or length. I suppose texture is more of an ethnic/race thing, but I was seeing it as just like any other hair characteristic -- although admittedly some hair characteristics (color and texture) are affected by ethnicity.

An Irish person whose hair is likely to be red, or at least more fair, might be asked to wear a wig or dye it to look more Vulcan.
Perhaps, but its never been stated as canon that all Vulcans are brunettes with dark hair and brown eyes. ENT had Vulcans with different hair colour and eye colour. A red head actor as a Vulcan would probably wear a red wig, a blond actor a blonde wig. There are supposed to be 6 billion Vulcans, I doubt they all look like Spock.
I still put the monolithic look of reboot Vulcans down to lazy production design.
 
I'm assuming we will see a Klingon ship and Section 31 also investigating the anomalies as well as the Enterprise.
 
Are you kidding me? Someone who is enthusiastic, curious, friendly, technically competent, but a little bit awkward and you think people in general would freak out? She would be put on a leadership track in most large companies.
And she's identified the awkwardness (which manifests itself as her talking too much) as a problem that she is actively trying to fix.

It seemed to me that when Stamets told her to use fewer words, it wasn't the first time he gave her that advice, and she certainly seemed to understand that she should try harder to heed that advice.
 
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