Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x08 - "If Memory Serves"

I can't help but wonder if - as they did with Connolly - the writers use the opportunity to have the Talosians telepathically regurgitate some of the most common misogynist, patronizing garbage the internet has to say about Burnham.

 

Talosians! These b*stards scared the crap out of me as a kid.
I almost want to put my stubbornness aside and sign up for CBSAA before the season concludes. Looking forward to this, eventually.

 

Only the Season finale was a Historical Holo Program.

Not the entire Season.

 

The Talosians are supposed to think we're all primitives. That includes the chest-thumpers.

 

Look, since that wasn't explicitly stated in the episode and can also be read differently, I have 2 options:
A) Recognize the Augment storyline as canon
B) Recognize ENT as a whole or at least the 4th seaon as a holo program that took certain liberties with historical facts for dramatic purposes
Out of those two options, I'll always choose B. It makes Star Trek so much better

 

Can you imagine if the Talosians had instead chosen Spock to mate with Vina?

"This specimen possesses strong mental discipline and physical mastery of its body. Its brain is superior to those it travels with."
"It is prone to periods of rage and incoherence. It is unbalanced."
"We will remove its memory of its human makeup. It will then be at peace."

 

Exactly illustrates the flaw in their plan. Oh well. Let's just trap some more space travellers! Ooh! A Gorn ship! They have loads of offspring at once. Watch out--the little buggers bite!

 

I think the Pervy Talosians were all starting to be on Team Colt, anyway.

 

The Talosians seemed pretty bad at capturing space travelers. Someone like Krall, however, was incredibly good at it for a century.

 

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated

 

Are you sure about that? For all I could tell the entire series was his "Historical" Holo Program. Would explain alot.

 

You forgot the best Twilight Zone ever:

 

Discovery indicates that the Enterprise Mirror episodes were at least canonical. Add into the fact that those episodes then summarized Enterprise as happening (Jonathan Archer "sold out humans to alien species" as his counterpart put it) on the Defiant's computer...

 

That bit always got to me. Why the fresh hell didn't the Talosians simply read Vina's mind (she WAS still alive, after all) in order to figure out how to fix her?

Or they could at least have accessed the Columbia's computer system.

 

The Columbia's computer system was probably destroyed and, unless Vina was a medical doctor, she wouldn't really know all the detailed internals of a human.

 

And then there is the Shatner version, if you dare...