So, this week we find out, although it's not yet battle time.
- The decision to evacuate and scuttle has been made, the Enterprise has been summoned, and she's there, wherever "there" is (no sign of Boreth or Klingons - presumably Pike met his XO halfway). But S31 isn't. What's keeping them?
- Emperor Georgiou is there, too, having arrived by a pumpkin pulled by hormonal space rats, apparently. But the rest of S31 isn't. What's keeping them?
- The two ships hard dock with forcefield-walled gangways emerging from Hammerspace. Why not with regular gangways? Or with the tops of the saucers touching, as they do before the rendezvous maneuver is conducted, for some reason. Echoes of Hyams' 2010 there - create a maximally flimsy means of docking to evoke danger...?
- The four gangways emerge from spots on the Discovery that have no hatches, and meet with the Enterprise where there are no hatches. Until there are, that is. The Enterprise hatches are at satisfactory locations, though - two close to their TMP spots, two more aft where Kirk had ion pod launchers and whatnot.
- We then see four thoroughly satisfactory Enterprise sets: a corridor redress with red overlays and TOS grillework, a round turbolift with TOS handles and indicator lights, and the bridge without the red alert lights and with a thousand details that will no doubt see future use. And Admiral Cornwell is there. But S31 isn't. Where are they?
- And then a round briefing room but against an outer wall with nice round portholes, with the Chairs and the tri-display and all. Paintings and diagrams of the DSC version of the ship on the briefing room walls, not of any other versions. Alas.
- Grabbing the time crystal gives Burnham certainty that the attempt to scuttle the ship will be thwarted by the Sphere Data, and we see this happen - Pike even tries with a pair of photorps and still fails. So apparently the Enterprise is no match to the shields of this science vessel after all. Not much of a battlewagon, then. I wonder where her strengths lay?
- The heroes decide to build another Angel suit and open a wormhole to the future with it, accepting that Burnham junior was destined to be the Angel after all (and no doubt the force behind all the Signals, too). With this, lo, a fifth signal appears and takes the heroes (some with a spore jump, the others by warp) to Xahea, where Tilly introduces everybody to Queen Po and her engineering genius that helps them put together a supernova-free charger for the crystal. Reno is aboard, too. But S31 isn't. Have they stopped for snacks?
- The charging process incidentally deprives them of the spore drive, setting the stage for a conventional battle. Good thing Number One jumped the gun and armed all the shuttles and workbees and even activated some spanking new tactical craft (looking like hoverbikes). We also see some of the Discovery landing pods flying around. No need for shields - there isn't a hole wide enough in that swarm of defenses for a S31 phaser beam to fly through! But S31 isn't there yet. Apparently Xahea lay in the other direction, and Pike's ship is faster than theirs, because she's there at Xahea now, too.
- And so are Sarek and Amanda! So apparently their little skiff is faster than everything S31 can muster, too. Or perhaps Leland is fighting back, Locutus style, and secretly pulling on the handbrake?
- Good thing they are all there to say goodbye to Burnham, who's doomed to stay in the future after playing pilot (in the nautical sense) to the ship because the poor time crystal can't take Po's supercharger for more than one hop.
- No need for the goodbyes, though, as all the DSC heroes plus Spock decide to sail to the future with Burnham! No telling how many hundreds of belowdecks personnel they ordered to volunteer at gunpoint to keep the ship in flying condition...
And then S31 finally deigns to arrive. Some 31'ish ships on a display, forming a 2D ring around the two hero ships to block all escape routes... At least four designs there, all with triangular hulls and two with four and two with two nacelles (direct primary hull pylons vs. a short secondary hull are the two choices there, for each number of nacelles). Fade to black.
Loving the new Enterprise so far. Wondering whether Po and Reno will tag along our heroes in the nth century, as suggested. At least Georgiou will, although Tyler and presumably Cornwell will not. As per plan, that is. But no doubt they will all keep on arriving and disappearing at random moments anyway...
But... Wo bleibt die Luftwaffe? That is, where the hell is Starfleet? Comms jamming is a poor excuse when every random visitor is aware of the heroes' plight anyway... If Starfleet chose to provide the Enterprise with an Admiral for this simple mission of taking aboard evacuees from a ship about to be scuttled, why didn't they also provide her with, oh, fifty fellow starships?
Timo Saloniemi
- The decision to evacuate and scuttle has been made, the Enterprise has been summoned, and she's there, wherever "there" is (no sign of Boreth or Klingons - presumably Pike met his XO halfway). But S31 isn't. What's keeping them?
- Emperor Georgiou is there, too, having arrived by a pumpkin pulled by hormonal space rats, apparently. But the rest of S31 isn't. What's keeping them?
- The two ships hard dock with forcefield-walled gangways emerging from Hammerspace. Why not with regular gangways? Or with the tops of the saucers touching, as they do before the rendezvous maneuver is conducted, for some reason. Echoes of Hyams' 2010 there - create a maximally flimsy means of docking to evoke danger...?
- The four gangways emerge from spots on the Discovery that have no hatches, and meet with the Enterprise where there are no hatches. Until there are, that is. The Enterprise hatches are at satisfactory locations, though - two close to their TMP spots, two more aft where Kirk had ion pod launchers and whatnot.
- We then see four thoroughly satisfactory Enterprise sets: a corridor redress with red overlays and TOS grillework, a round turbolift with TOS handles and indicator lights, and the bridge without the red alert lights and with a thousand details that will no doubt see future use. And Admiral Cornwell is there. But S31 isn't. Where are they?
- And then a round briefing room but against an outer wall with nice round portholes, with the Chairs and the tri-display and all. Paintings and diagrams of the DSC version of the ship on the briefing room walls, not of any other versions. Alas.
- Grabbing the time crystal gives Burnham certainty that the attempt to scuttle the ship will be thwarted by the Sphere Data, and we see this happen - Pike even tries with a pair of photorps and still fails. So apparently the Enterprise is no match to the shields of this science vessel after all. Not much of a battlewagon, then. I wonder where her strengths lay?
- The heroes decide to build another Angel suit and open a wormhole to the future with it, accepting that Burnham junior was destined to be the Angel after all (and no doubt the force behind all the Signals, too). With this, lo, a fifth signal appears and takes the heroes (some with a spore jump, the others by warp) to Xahea, where Tilly introduces everybody to Queen Po and her engineering genius that helps them put together a supernova-free charger for the crystal. Reno is aboard, too. But S31 isn't. Have they stopped for snacks?
- The charging process incidentally deprives them of the spore drive, setting the stage for a conventional battle. Good thing Number One jumped the gun and armed all the shuttles and workbees and even activated some spanking new tactical craft (looking like hoverbikes). We also see some of the Discovery landing pods flying around. No need for shields - there isn't a hole wide enough in that swarm of defenses for a S31 phaser beam to fly through! But S31 isn't there yet. Apparently Xahea lay in the other direction, and Pike's ship is faster than theirs, because she's there at Xahea now, too.
- And so are Sarek and Amanda! So apparently their little skiff is faster than everything S31 can muster, too. Or perhaps Leland is fighting back, Locutus style, and secretly pulling on the handbrake?
- Good thing they are all there to say goodbye to Burnham, who's doomed to stay in the future after playing pilot (in the nautical sense) to the ship because the poor time crystal can't take Po's supercharger for more than one hop.
- No need for the goodbyes, though, as all the DSC heroes plus Spock decide to sail to the future with Burnham! No telling how many hundreds of belowdecks personnel they ordered to volunteer at gunpoint to keep the ship in flying condition...
And then S31 finally deigns to arrive. Some 31'ish ships on a display, forming a 2D ring around the two hero ships to block all escape routes... At least four designs there, all with triangular hulls and two with four and two with two nacelles (direct primary hull pylons vs. a short secondary hull are the two choices there, for each number of nacelles). Fade to black.
Loving the new Enterprise so far. Wondering whether Po and Reno will tag along our heroes in the nth century, as suggested. At least Georgiou will, although Tyler and presumably Cornwell will not. As per plan, that is. But no doubt they will all keep on arriving and disappearing at random moments anyway...
But... Wo bleibt die Luftwaffe? That is, where the hell is Starfleet? Comms jamming is a poor excuse when every random visitor is aware of the heroes' plight anyway... If Starfleet chose to provide the Enterprise with an Admiral for this simple mission of taking aboard evacuees from a ship about to be scuttled, why didn't they also provide her with, oh, fifty fellow starships?
Timo Saloniemi
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Do these old school chairs appear on the starship Discovery?
