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

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Watched The Cage for the first time in all its entirety yesterday - in prep for Discovery visiting Talos IV:

Quick thoughts:
I quite enjoyed it: overall it’s strangely surreal (almost like watching a Trek dream in the hazy edges of ones sleep...). I’m glad Shatner replaced Hunter, and that the series changed accordingly - but is interesting to watch as a ‘what-might-have-been’ episode.

I liked the away team blue jackets the crew wore (over the mustard uniform).

Sound effects are great (The blue humming flowers are awesome) - and the painted backdrops are reasonably good, considering budgets / made for TV effects during the 1960s.

Will be interesting to see how Discovery handles the Talosians...
 
Surely the Talosians power of illusion is why the planet is banned in the Federation. They could very easily make a ship crew press the wrong buttons start some kind of conflict or such while thinking they were doing something else. That kind of power I'm thinking is why going there warrants a death sentence.

What else would make the Federation enact such a draconian edict?
 
I have a feeling the Death Penalty was a policy that was forced onto the Federation by the Talosians. They had to have felt themselves backed into a corner to do something as drastic as that.

One way or another, I think we're getting into something that won't be too pretty.
 
Surely the Talosians power of illusion is why the planet is banned in the Federation. They could very easily make a ship crew press the wrong buttons start some kind of conflict or such while thinking they were doing something else. That kind of power I'm thinking is why going there warrants a death sentence.

What else would make the Federation enact such a draconian edict?

The Melkotians seem as problematic a bunch and no edict about them at all.
 
Surely the Talosians power of illusion is why the planet is banned in the Federation. They could very easily make a ship crew press the wrong buttons start some kind of conflict or such while thinking they were doing something else. That kind of power I'm thinking is why going there warrants a death sentence.

What else would make the Federation enact such a draconian edict?
Needs of the plot.
 
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