Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x02 - "Far From Home"

Owo got some in the Terralysium episode in S2, that was great. By the end of the show, we'll have gone through each of them XD

Agreed - the only interesting part, actually

Spock first said it's probably from the future because of its advanced tech. Then it was from the past and made by 31.

She got it after the binary stars battle, IIRC.

And his name is Gene.... they should've had Reno say: There's another rotten berry over there...

Totally agree on Georgiou, but Reno is a nice person at least.

 

How did Discovery survive slamming through a chunk of planet and a crash landing? I seem to remember that being fatal for Voyager. Anyone?

 

Voyager came down harder, plus they had complete system’s failure

 

This might be cheating, but going by Memory Alpha, they were already approaching a structural failure while still in the slipstream and they had to risk a crash landing to avoid being disintegrated in the first place. They were also at full impulse, I'm not sure how fast Discovery's drives were going though.

 

Strange how people watch the same thing and come away with totally opposing feelings, isn’t it. I mean, that’s possibly the worst I’ve felt about an episode of DSC. I normally love the episodes, but I wouldn’t recommend watching that one to anyone.

 

I read it as the piece of planet (or dirt-covered ice or whatever it was) wasn't very dense. More inline with a chunk of dirt (or parasitic ice, if you will) that you can crumble in your hand as opposed to solid rock.

And add Saru's "Ready the graviton beam. Activate deflector shields inverse to cushion our landing, on my mark."

And in doing so they softened the ground enough to crash-land without destroying the ship; which I believe was Detmer's idea.

EDIT: Yeah, something like that.

 

Most people say "abrasive asshole" like it's a bad thing. I take it that's not your intent here.

 

Voyager's inertial Dampners were down Discovery's weren't.

Same reason the crew of the Enterprise D survived.

 

I liked Reno! Not everybody is touchy feely and free with there words.

Cant really grade it since its more of a continuing movie. Good chapter.

 

That would be correct.

There are certain times (I'm not going to say when) where I wish I could get away with that (I'm not going to say where). Being nice is sometimes a curse.

 

Solid episode. Feel good about my 8.

Only minor gripes. Georgiou a bit too cavalier with the guy with the gun. Saru could have been badass earlier. Letting Stamets in the tube was silly.

But I dug the western vibe. Something obviously up with Detmer. Hope it is not a prelude to her getting Ariamed. Like the future tech.

 

I wish this show wouldn't challenge my suspension of disbelief so... violently.

Yeah, a ship from early TOS era that's not designed to go through atmospheres is able to bust through solid blocks of rock, tear through an atmosphere and crash land on a planet with only a few scratches that take a few hours to fix. At least mention how incredible that is -- throw in some nonsense mumbo-jumbo about how it was able to do that because of some unlikely thing or another.

But no - no one even asks if the ship is able to fly. It's just taken as a given that it'll be able to.

Tilly still behaves like a painfully shy, verbally incomprehensible first year academy student. It was cute at the beginning of the first season, but at this point, given everything she's been through, she should not come across like someone who constantly needs to be tucked in bed with a pacifier.

Similarly, Stamets still behaves like a petulant child in his own ways and has seen little character growth. There was no reason for him to try to make that repair on his own - at least none that was presented to the audience. A reasonable person in his condition would've at least attempted to recruit an able body to assist. Show us that that wasn't possible.

Detmer has suffered some head injury and is stumbling around oddly, suggesting that something particularly unusual is going on with her, but nothing comes of it. She just stumbles oddly throughout the episode with no further enlightenment on her situation.

In the previous episode, Michael practically begs a stranger for help within hours (minutes?) of landing on the planet. I can't imagine any Starfleet officer on any other Star Trek show falling apart so immediately. Not that it wouldn't be understandable in certain conditions, but give the audience a reason to believe it. This is supposed to be an exceptional human being with exceptional training and experience. We're used to seeing Starfleet officers go through days of literal torture without showing that kind of frailty, but here Michael immediately asks to be taken in by someone she knows nothing about.

The only character with reasonable development and who's acting as one might expect a Starfleet officer to behave is Saru, so at least we have one character that doesn't constantly challenge my assumptions about what a Starfleet officer is.

At the end of the episode, everyone acts like it's mind-bogglingly shocking that Michael has been waiting for Discovery for a year. But it's been established, and all these people know, that the time of their arrivals could be wildly different. Are they shocked that it was ONLY one year? Because they're acting like she just said "I arrived 20 years ago".

I really want to like this show, but the writing makes it such a challenge.

 

There's something about the third season of a Star Trek show... and that thought permeated my viewing tonight. Really feels like both the characters and the show have found their place to me.

This is the Trek I've never known. A future when all the good will and optimism of these ideals lands in a sh*tstorm of a galaxy where life has gone backyards. I LOVE it. 9.

 

Yes it was. It was a power source in TOS.

 

It’s nice that they didn’t change the Coridanite makeup much from Enterprise.

 

I liked the episode a lot, really well written.

Interesting that Burnham has been here a year, and her hairstyle has become a normal 21st century hairstyle. I'm curious what she's done in that time. The whole thing with the parasitic ice was cool, and the villain was really engaging. Then the standoff with Georgiu. Well done.

 

She served in section 31 which was part of starfleet at that point in time. So she did serve in starfleet, which is why she has a rank.

 

What is papasitic ice anyway?

I read people's replies about the ship crashing. My point is it hit. Hard. Whenever we've seen a starship crash like that, it was trashed and no longer space worthy. I think this ship was built by Skynet. lol

 

So something that confused me...

Why did they need Dilithium to power their ships? Did everyone forget how fusion works in the past 900 years?

 

They don't, they need it for warp drive. Without it, starships are basically stranded where they are. Did I miss something?