Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x02 - "New Eden"

[DaveyNY]

Tech manuals would prove more useful.

Especially ones written around 1975.

<snicker>

 

[cultcross]

I don't see how the Prime Directive could possibly apply to any human colony.

The prime directive is about not blundering in with good intentions and ending up fucking things up in unpredicted ways - that could apply to humans as much as to anyone.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Is it really a colony? They didn't go there willingly.

 

[cultcross]

Is it really a colony? They didn't go there willingly.

Paging Australia to the thread

 

[CorporalCaptain]

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[CorporalClegg]

In 2019, Botany Bay would be a more appropriate moniker for a vegan commune just south of Seattle.

 

[Longinus]

As I recall, one of the reasons they balked was that they were afraid that, unless done just right, it could come off as making fun of STAR TREK fans . . ..

Yeah, I can see that.

It makes it even better idea!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Is it really a colony? They didn't go there willingly.

I think the Terralysiumites are more like castaways than prisoners.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

And I believe that "GALAXY QUEST" had already beat them to the punch on that.

The 30th anniversary episodes of DS9 and VOY were in 1996 and Galaxy Quest didn't come out until 1999.

 

[DaveyNY]

I think the Terralysiumites are more like castaways than prisoners.

Technically, so were many of the folks who were sent to Australia.
Not all of them were prisoners.

 

[DaveyNY]

The 30th anniversary episodes of DS9 and VOY were in 1996 and Galaxy Quest didn't come out until 1999.

Ah, my bad.
Too close for this old mans memory to keep straight.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

That was a pitched as an idea for DS9's TOS 30th Anniversary episode, the Iotians would have been imitating the Enterprise crew similar to how they were imitating gangsters in TOS.

The Fizzbin Championship is the most-watched thing on Iotian TV every year.

 

[Noname Given]

Technically, so were many of the folks who were sent to Australia.
Not all of them were prisoners.

True - some were Guards

 

[Gonzo]

The prime directive is about not blundering in with good intentions and ending up fucking things up in unpredicted ways - that could apply to humans as much as to anyone.

I have always seen it more as a "Stop! Think it through" kind of warning or more of a guideline.

If it is the Preservers at work in this season it would make sense as they love to show the folly of the Prime Directive.

 

[Kane_Steel]

While the YT reviews for "Brother" seemed to be largely Mixed to Negative... the reviews on YT for "New Eden" seem to be mainly positive. Even by the hardcore 'Orville is better than STD' crowd. It's being praised as a positive course correction.

I'm very curious to see how the next episode will be received, as some of the divisive and questionable elements of S1 return.

 

[Brainsucker]

I have only one sentence about this episode. Too much Tehno bubble.

And to add more sentence, specially Tilly when she's in the hangar.

 

[Amaris]

I have only one sentence about this episode. Too much Tehno bubble. And to add more sentence, specially Tilly when she's in the hangar.

That's three sentence fragments.

Normally, I wouldn't say anything, but my eye twitched.

That said, how was there too much techno babble?

 

[Vger23]

That's three sentence fragments.

Normally, I wouldn't say anything, but my eye twitched.

That said, how was there too much techno babble?

If someone thought THIS episode had too much technobabble, they'd better set fire to their Voyager and Next Gen DVD's right now.

 

[Amaris]

If someone thought THIS episode had too much technobabble, they'd better set fire to their Voyager and Next Gen DVD's right now.

Agreed. Technobabble only becomes an issue when it gets in the way of the story trying to unfold. This episode flowed smoothly.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Excessive technobabble only bothers me when it's used to deuso the exo machineo.