Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x07 - "Light and Shadows"

[Alan Roi]

You’re correct, there is no drama there. That’s the problem. Too bad her threat carries no weight with the viewer.

As did Carol Marcus' call to Kirk complaining that Starfleet was taking Genesis, since we didn't know what Genesis was at that point. But Kirk seemed to think it was important, and that was enough. And eventually it was revealed. Leland is clearly bothered by the implications of Georgiou's threat, so obviously he thinks its important. And that is enough for now.

 

[Tim Thomason]

That map is all over the place. (isn't it like 30 years old or something?)
Praxis is way the hell up at the top and not even in Klingon territory.

Yeah, Praxis is at the very "North" of Federation territory, far away from the Klingons and Romulans and closer, I guess, to the Tholians.

But this map was made in 1986. It predates Star Trek VI by five years. So "Praxis" is just a Federation planet independently named by FASA, and not the Klingon moon.

 

[Jadeb]

Why are you so hung up on some random detail that didn't even mean much? She said something. It may pay off. It may not. So what? That's just trying to interpret intentions into something that hasn't even happened yet.

If you look back at my posts, you’ll see I’m talking about not just this one scene but how they’re handling Section 31 more generally. The flaw in the writing isn’t contained to this one scene.

Beyond that, I think the show has struggled to balance its tone from the beginning, alternating between pretensions to serious, adult drama and silly, broad cartoonishness. This season is better, but its use of Section 31, so far, has felt very much a holdover from season one.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

We will have to agree to disagree on everything regarding DISCO, I believe.

 

[shapeshifter]

So the numbers Spock was repeating have been in the opening credits since episode 1

https://twitter.com/trekcore/status/1101599265288261633?s=21

Speaking of numeral foreshadowing, there is a quick shot of a screen with a countdown to the radiation danger deadline that goes 3:21:19...18...17...
Converted to a date, 3/21/19 is a Thursday in three weeks... I am bracing for a major impact on that date...

Good episode. Shame about the turbolift shafts.

"We hope you are enjoying the ride", is how I see those sequences.

Anyone else notice TNG style alert tones? They occur twice that caught my attention. At the first emergency on the bridge and once on the shuttlecraft.

NOT the classic red alert tone. The 'trilling' one heard in the background of this scene starting at :30.

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My only complaint with this one is it was too damn short!

 

[Tuskin38]

During one of the shuttle scenes, you can hear the engine warm up/whirring sound from TOS.

 

[137th Gebirg]

The shuttle also had some TNG comms alert sound effects too. Really loving those hard analog switches. Very TOS, despite the jarringly anachronistic sound effects.

 

[JD]

This one wasn't quite as good as the last couple episodes, but I still enjoyed it.
The introduction of Spock was pretty interesting, and gave us some nice drama between Burnham, Amanda, and Sarek.

The stuff with Pike and Tyler in the shuttle was good too. I'm curious to see what they do with Tyler as we head into the next season. His presence right now is set up as a temporary thing, but Shazad Latif is a regular so I'm assuming they'll find some way to get him to stick around permanently.
The reveal that Leland was responsible for Burnham's parents deaths was unexpected. I'm very curious to learn more about that.
QUOTE="137th Gebirg, post: 12832442, member: 166"]The shuttle also had some TNG comms alert sound effects too. Really loving those hard analog switches. Very TOS, despite the jarringly anachronistic sound effects.[/QUOTE]
I was surprised by all the old fashioned buttons and switches on the shuttle. Hasn't pretty much everything up to this point been TNG style touch screens?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It's odd, I've watched Trek in some manner since I was about eight years old (which was some 40 years ago...) and I have zero nostalgia for this stuff. Spock, Talos IV, etc. just turn me off if anything. Especially after already hitting that well in the new movies. Oh well, necessary evil I guess. Though this episode did make me nostalgic for The Matrix...

Pike's delivery of "I know the feeling" and Ash's reaction were spot-on. Probably my favorite moment of the episode. And it's fun to see Michelle Yeoh throw down. She and Ming Na must share the same youth serum that lets them kick ass in tight leather and spandex in their 50s.

 

[Tuskin38]

Saw this on reddit, the shuttle controls have the previous shows abbreviations on them

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarTrekDiscovery/comments/aw8whf/did_anyone_notice_the_shuttle_controls/

 

[Succubint]

I was surprised by all the old fashioned buttons and switches on the shuttle. Hasn't pretty much everything up to this point been TNG style touch screens?

I seem to recall some switches and buttons on a panel on the bridge in episode 6? When Pike told the security guy to get the torpedoes ready to fire.

 

[Tuskin38]

There have been buttons on the Discovery bridge since Season 1. And I don't think the shuttle panel has changed either.

 

[cooleddie74]

I seem to recall some switches and buttons on a panel on the bridge in episode 6? When Pike told the security guy to get the torpedoes ready to fire.

The helm and navigation consoles also have buttons and switches and other physical controls on them, it's just that the touchscreen panels take up almost all the available control space on both.

 

[Dales]

Did Ethan Peck's voice remind anyone of Benedict Cumberbatch?

 

[137th Gebirg]

Yes, it did to me very much.

 

[Hythlodeus]

Did Ethan Peck's voice remind anyone of Benedict Cumberbatch?

tbf, everything reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatch

 

[CommanderRaytas]

tbf, everything reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatch

...like the setting sun and the song of dolphins?

 

[Hythlodeus]

...like the setting sun and the song of dolphins?

don't get me started...

 

[CommanderRaytas]

don't get me started...

Sorry. Didn't mean to traumatise.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

All the shuttle control talk reminds me I got a new car radio that has a touch screen and a really tiny knob and it sucks convenience wise to my old "clunky" giant knobs for volume and tuning. There's definitely a place where both can be nice for different things.