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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x03 - "Point of Light"

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I'm tempted to say "4 minutes, 45 seconds", but don't trust my accuracy on that.

I can make out "Azure Nebula'. Using that as a Landmark we might be able to guess that other labels using the Star Charts. That also means it is the Klingon border like you thought.

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It appears to cover about this area. The map in the show seems to be centred on the Hromi Cluster
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I will say that the severed baby head made me realize 100% right then and there that it was a ruse. I know L'Rell's in-univese intention was that it was the actual severed head of her baby, but I don't think a TV show -- and certainly not Star Trek -- would have a story where and actual (actual "in-universe") severed baby's head is shown.

I think L'Rell knows they were not the real heads.
 
L'Rell was in on it, at least to the degree she could tolerate. Cloning-to-purpose is disturbingly useful in such matters. And she staged it so that no one would be able or willing to test the remains for evidence of such deceptions...
 
Last time on Star Trek: Various Red Things...

Entertainment Weekly review excerpt, Darren Franich:

It’s an episode directed with visual fire by Olatunde Osunsanmi, one of the best genre stylists working in television now...

Unfortunately, most of the action onboard Disco this week is blah serialized water-treading... if I had to identify one foundational bothersome Disco idea, it’s the ongoing suggestion that Michael can’t go, like, two weeks without her parents checking in on her.

Kirshner’s Amanda is here to talk Spock. Revelation No. 1: He has (apparently) killed some doctors in his Space Rehab facility. Revelation No. 2: Amanda worries her half-human son’s emotionless upbringing left him a wee bit psychopathic. Revelation No. 3: From a very young age, Spock was visited by that angel butterfly entity, which he called the Red Angel.

Now, I’m all for canon-tweaking. If Disco has decided that the Secret History of Spock is he was a teenage psycho driven mad by a crimson butterfly spacegod — well, fine, then can we just get there already? So far, the grand plot of this season amounts to people talking endlessly about Various Red Things. We also get another tease about What Burnham Did To Make Spock Mad, which pleasepleasepleaseplease don’t be anything romantic.

Then everything goes just crazy... We can maybe say farewell to the Klingons now, yeah?

...The prospect of watching a show about the Federation’s version of Blackwater leaves me feeling like Star Trek will be the last franchise left riding the “dark and gritty” wave. (Tired: Doing your franchise’s Dark Knight. Wired: Doing your franchise’s Ragnarok.) I’m all for a show about the moral ambiguity of spacefaring on the frontier, but that show was Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and I don’t remember seeing any vividly filmed alien intestines on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Like, Emperor Georgiou — based on everything we saw in the Mirror Universe — is a bad person. Not bad like Deadpool, bad like Stalin. But Michelle Yeoh is great! Let’s call this a draw.

https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2019/01/31/star-trek-discovery-point-of-light/

It does appear that some people are still having trouble mentally dealing with a Star Trek where everything presented on the screen isn't all tied up in a neat bow after every hour, especially where that is combined with character driven story telling. And this has lead them to think that Star Trek isn't producing enough comedy material of late? Weird.
 
Yeah, I didn't enjoy this one much and gave it a *very* generous 5.
  • I found the whole Klingon story boring plus I can't stand of Ash
  • But it was amusing how much english the Klingons suddenly started speaking and the hair .. LOL!
  • I wish they stop all the Spock nonsense and leave his character alone.
    Don' t they feel competent already to stop leaning on the Show's great old characters?
    Just (try to) create your own great characters..geez
  • Section 31 was "meh...". I like Yeoh and I wouldn't mind a ST series with her but her MU appalling character + S31 + Tyler dunno..
  • I have strongly stated before how much Tilly frustrates me, BUT she was the best part of the episode. I suspect her "ghost" will return.
  • Anyone keeps a count on what Burnham knows/studied/she is an ace in/excels at?
    Just wondered when she mentioned she is a xenoanthropologist (among *many* other things)
 
It does appear that some people are still having trouble mentally dealing with a Star Trek where everything presented on the screen isn't all tied up in a neat bow after every hour, especially where that is combined with character driven story telling. And this has lead them to think that Star Trek isn't producing enough comedy material of late? Weird.
Nah, this show is pretty much the same old same old, with more money spent on it.
 
I can make out "Azure Nebula'. Using that as a Landmark we might be able to guess that other labels using the Star Charts. That also means it is the Klingon border like you thought.

AKcR0Vl.png


It appears to cover about this area. The map in the show seems to be centred on the Hromi Cluster
yP71hn2.png
Come to think of it, it looks like their screen graphics people are adapting to the Mandel symbology there...
 
Anyone keeps a count on what Burnham knows/studied/she is an ace in/excels at?
Just wondered when she mentioned she is a xenoanthropologist (among *many* other things)

Burnham mentioned this in the very first episode.

You know Burnham isn't the first star trek character to excel in multiple fields or be good at everything right? Let's use Picard for example.

- Was the youngest ever to win the Starfleet decathlon
- Was touted by Richard Galen, to be the greatest archaeologist of his generation, had he not gone into starfleet.
- became a captain in his thirties
- has a tactical maneuver named after him, which is studied at the academy
- considered one of starfleet's best diplomats
- attractive younger women were always into him
- Of all the billions of humans, he was the one to garner the attention of a omnipotent being to challenge.

But yeah burnham = mary sue or whatever :rolleyes:
 
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