Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x01 - "That Hope Is You, Part 1"

[Tuskin38]

The shaky fight scenes are just annoying to me, but I really like that Book is an animal conservationist! And that entire last part with the lonely guy finding hope and finally raising the flag was very emotional and saved the whole episode for me. More such scenes, more animal rescue, and less stupid action, please


Here's something interesting from the season preview:

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Is that a Hiawatha type in a flashback showing "the burn"?

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If it is the burn, then there they go reusing old designs instead of making new ones. Though that design to the immediate right of the Hiawatha design does appear to be new

 

[NCC-73515]

That's what they sadly like to do for brief scenes, we know that from CoM

 

[Quinton]

That. Was. Fucking. Awesome.

 

[NCC-73515]

Someone open the poll

 

[Lord Garth]

I give it an 8. Nice start to the new season.

The 32nd Century feels sufficiently like a different time. I like what I've seen so far and want to see more of this new time. Somehow they made it feel like the future of the future.

Burnham and Book have great chemistry.

And shooting in Greenland was a masterstroke. It made the landscape feel really different from what we've seen before.

Now I'm going to bed!

 

[thribs]

I find it hard to believe they are still using warp at that time. Even slipstream would be ancient tech. The Relativity had Tardis tech allowing it to go to any place and time instantly, and that was 300 years earlier.

what was the name of that war that banned time travel? Sounded like the T’Pol Wars to me.

 

[Jadeb]

Weird mix of violence and unfunny comedy. Some really stiff dialogue, too, and way more theatrical displays of emotion than I needed. But I liked the guy playing Book (and his cat), and the futuristic design work was nice. I liked looking at what was on the screen more than I enjoyed the story being told.

You’d think that dude at the end could have done something more productive with 40 years than sit there hoping someone would show up. And when someone does, his main concern is getting a commission and hanging a flag?

Overall, a pretty tepid opener. But at least there’s no threat to life, the universe and everything ... so far.

 

[thribs]

The futuristic stuff looked fine but rather samey. If they used the TOS style to start with then it would have looked more futuristic in comparison.
I did notice a small blunder as Michael shouldn’t know what a Gorn is. They haven’g got that far yet in her time

 

[cooleddie74]

A mix of different emotions but on balance I liked it. The humor didn't bother me too much as it was nice for a change to see Michael actually laughing and happy even if it were under the influence of a mind-altering drug to elicit truthful responses. I'm really happy to see that the auto-tuned Andorian voices of Seasons 1 and 2 are now gone and replaced by the actors' normal speaking voices - the way they should have been from the start. It would have been cool to get a closer look at the Cardassian makeup but I suppose we'll see more of them as the season progresses.

A soft but generally positive 7 out of 10.

Some real drawbacks and slow spots but overall a big improvement on the mess that was "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II."

 

[Lakenheath 72]

Next to the relay station, there is a new class of starship. The hull is wrecked; however, it is Starfleet as indicated by "NCC". Timestamp: 46:34.

 

[thribs]

Next to the relay station, there is a new class of starship. The hull is wrecked; however, it is Starfleet as indicated by "NCC".

Looked like a Commonwealth vessel to me. That made me laugh

 

[cooleddie74]

As for Michael knowing what a Gorn was we have to remember that as early as Season 4 of ENT(2154) Archer had heard of the Gorn Hegemony and Mirror Lorca had a TOS-style Gorn skeleton in his laboratory aboard Discovery. Full, official first contact didn't come until TOS but it's clear people in the Federation as well as outside it had heard about or even made contact with at least some Gorn by the late 2250s.

 

[trek.]

Ok I was never a disco fan but the last half of that ep was pretty good.

 

[Donald G]

I find it hard to believe they are still using warp at that time. Even slipstream would be ancient tech. The Relativity had Tardis tech allowing it to go to any place and time instantly, and that was 300 years earlier.

what was the name of that war that banned time travel? Sounded like the T’Pol Wars to me.

I find it hard to believe they are still using warp at that time. Even slipstream would be ancient tech. The Relativity had Tardis tech allowing it to go to any place and time instantly, and that was 300 years earlier.

what was the name of that war that banned time travel? Sounded like the T’Pol Wars to me.

It sounded like Temporal Wars to me.

 

[Xerxus]

So it's almost all dilithium exploding, and Book mentioned subspace being potentially destroyed by wormholes?
Zephram Cochrane's First Contact flight did not use dilithium so warp travel should still be possible.
And they specifically created a character in last season that can recrystallize dilithium... with the tech being widespread in TNG times. So we're definitely not getting the full picture here.

E: I guess it's very possible that recrystalization was no longer possible due to whatever the Burn was.

 

[cooleddie74]

I wonder if time travel technology being outlawed was the result of the Temporal Cold War and the renegotiating of the Temporal Accords after ENT?

 

[thribs]

It sounded like Temporal Wars to me.

So not a Time War?
So the Temporal Cold War lead to a actual war.

 

[cooleddie74]

Bring on Daniels with an explanation.

Time travel technology still existed until the 31st century, which just happens to be at almost the exact same time The Burn happened. The outlawing of technology as well as The Burn could have happened - from Daniels' perspective - not long after his last encounter with Archer.

 

[Lawrence B]

Enjoyed it, the second half more-so than the first couple of acts.

Also, Boimler and Burnham both end up being swallowed and spit out by a creature in their respective season premieres.

 

[NCC-73515]

The futuristic stuff looked fine but rather samey. If they used the TOS style to start with then it would have looked more futuristic in comparison.
I did notice a small blunder as Michael shouldn’t know what a Gorn is. They haven’g got that far yet in her time

She doesn't have to know, her reaction could've been about the rest of that sentence