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

[Irvy]

The Empress spent her entire life coming up through the ranks of a Universe that uses an Agonizer Booth as a daily punishment for ANY Infraction.
Somehow, I can't see what appears to be a similar form of torture in 'Phaser' form, being that big of a hindrance for her.
It had very little to do with "Badass" and much more with being acclimated to that particular form of energy.

I had a chronic pain condition through my 20s and 30s, got it sorted thanks to natural medicine, but it's left me with a pain threshold you only usually see in action movies. I freak out paramedics, nurses, doctors, because you can pretty much sew me up without anesthetic, stick needles in me, whatever you want, I don't flinch, I don't feel pain for something as trivial as that, and because I treated it naturally, my body got better at healing and scratches and bruises just go away. Hot wax tickles

In that environment, with the life she'd have lived, agony booths, a sadistic mother, Georgiou's body would be hardened, tempered and resilient, her pain threshold would be through the roof, and she wouldn't be the least bit bothered by a bloody nose or a bit of phaser burn. She could walk that off.

 

[Irvy]

Re-watching this. I don't remember if anyone in here said about about Discovery going through debris, but that is something that jumped out to me while watching this more awake than I was at 2:00 in the morning a few days ago.

According to Owo, shields do go out until right before they're about to crashland on the surface. The phasers do a good job of breaking Discovery's fall. Otherwise, the ship would've probably gone ka-splat without shields.

Technically, the shields probably shouldn't have been strong enough to protect Discovery when it went through rock before entering the planet's atmosphere, but I'll give it a pass on that.

The landing is part Generations, part "Timeless", all excitement. They choreographed that well.

Yeah, that was a beautiful scene. I've loved that old design that Discovery is based on for years, and I think she's a beautiful ship, it was great to see her crash land in good fashion. We love our ships, but we do love to see them crash into things and occasionally get stuck in a time loop and blow up a bunch of times.

All hands, abandon ship!

The thing is, if everyone and his dog was able to track Discovery arrive through the wormhole, how many times do you think they'll get to use the spore drive before every scallywag in the quadrant is trying to get their hands on her ample nacelles? How much dilithium could you mushroom in and steal with a spore drive?

It just occurred to me that, just like Michael, we've all spent the last year stuck in a room staring out at a world we hardly recognise, watching a screen and hoping for any word that Discovery was finally coming through that bloody wormhole.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Yup. I was there for both. Talking Trek and other stuff, until I noticed it was like 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. I was in college and made sure all my classes were scheduled for Noon or later. I was not a morning person.

At one point, in 1999, me and someone on a chat came up with an awesome story for a TNG Movie. One that would've been a lot better than Insurrection. We were mapping it out scene by scene. We were on a roll. And then I didn't think to save anything from the chat. And now 20+ years later, I can't remember what it was we came up with. I'd probably cringe at whatever it was now, but still...

Turns out it was Nemesis, and your friend John Logan saved the chat transcript.

 

[Lord Garth]

Turns out it was Nemesis, and your friend John Logan saved the chat transcript.

So there you have it. Nemesis was co-written by a 19-year-old.

 

[Tim Thomason]

So there you have it. Nemesis was co-written by a 19-year-old.

It's the only way to make sense of it.

 

[TheMadCloner]

I'm not sure the cinematography is getting enough credit here. This was a old-school TOS-style episode with some of the most beautiful outdoor shots Trek has ever seen.

Between the season finale of Picard and the first two episodes of Discovery this season, we've had some truly breathtaking visuals, and I don't mean CGI.

 

[donners22]

The problem with that is that she isn't actually a brilliant actor.

She's stiff and wooden, and brings that to pretty much all of the parts she plays.

I can certainly accept that she's not a brilliant actor. There have been very few "brilliant" actors on Trek. She's not among the top few, though I wouldn't rank her among the worst either.

"Stiff and wooden" I'd disagree with. She is full of life - one need only look at her truth drug scene from the previous episode. She may get hit with far too much heavy drama, but that's on the writers rather than her.

 

[TimeTravellingWhale]

I'm not sure the cinematography is getting enough credit here. This was a old-school TOS-style episode with some of the most beautiful outdoor shots Trek has ever seen.

Between the season finale of Picard and the first two episodes of Discovery this season, we've had some truly breathtaking visuals, and I don't mean CGI.

Absolutely! The incredible nature in the filming locations was captured very well, and i also liked the Top-Down Bridge shot shortly after the Discovery crashed.

 

[Irvy]

She gets hit with too much heavy drama? Next week on Star Trek Discovery, there's nothing much for Michael to do, so we've got 45 minutes of her catching up on her reading and trimming her nose hairs using a potato peeler with an led light stuck on it so it looks spacey.

 

[TheMadCloner]

Absolutely! The incredible nature in the filming locations was captured very well, and i also liked the Top-Down Bridge shot shortly after the Discovery crashed.

Cinematography is usually not a big part of Trek productions, so when it's good it really stands out. Ironically though, it also tends to get overlooked because people like to talk about the special effects and the story.

 

[Irvy]

B Story: Culber and Stamets visit a beautiful spa retreat on Epsilon V, and they have a lovely time.

I loved the visuals in both these episodes, and that saloon door opening to nothing had Star Trek oozing out of it. I loved that Zara? Zareh? paused to spit as he left at the end. More background aliens most people hadn't noticed, please, that's a lovely way of filling out the universe. I really wanted the Lurian to talk though.

 

[TimeTravellingWhale]

Does someone know what species the lizard-like guy was who impressed the emress with his amazing visible spectrum? I really liked that costume design, but im afraid she ate him in the lift

 

[Nerys Myk]

Does someone know what species the lizard-like guy was who impressed the emress with his amazing visible spectrum? I really liked that costume design, but im afraid she ate him in the lift

Linus the Saurian?

 

[TheMadCloner]

My favourite subtle part of the episode is when Tilly and Saru are first talking with the miners. Tilly asks "why hasn't anyone tried until now?" and the miner responds from the POV of his family, but Tilly is actually asking about why no one from the Federation has tried. Then Saru asks why the Federation hasn't intervened and doesn't get the answer he wants either. Love the little threads of foreboding sewn in there.

 

[Irvy]

SWIM noticed that the trippy visuals in the trailers are very similiar to what you'd see on a DMT experience, and we can see Michael standing in there taking part. I think that, over the course of the season, Michael is going to start experimenting with stronger and stronger drugs. Season 3 cliffhanger, Michael OD's in the back of a shuttlecraft, adrift in space.

 

[SJGardner]

B Story: Culber and Stamets visit a beautiful spa retreat on Epsilon V, and they have a lovely time.

I wonder if we have enough time for the C plot: Tilly has to babysit Grudge the cat while Burnham is giving Book a tour of the ship. Hilarity ensues.

 

[TheMadCloner]

Does someone know what species the lizard-like guy was who impressed the emress with his amazing visible spectrum? I really liked that costume design, but im afraid she ate him in the lift

I'm pretty sure she was flirting with him.

 

[TheMadCloner]

SWIM noticed that the trippy visuals in the trailers are very similiar to what you'd see on a DMT experience, and we can see Michael standing in there taking part. I think that, over the course of the season, Michael is going to start experimenting with stronger and stronger drugs. Season 3 cliffhanger, Michael OD's in the back of a shuttlecraft, adrift in space.

Next time, on Star Trek HBO...

 

[Irvy]

I'm pretty she was flirting with him.

Well, you only have to watch him eat. What he could do with that tongue. Don't worry about Linus, he can handle himself. He was hatched ready.

 

[TimeTravellingWhale]

Linus the Saurian?

Thats him, Thanks!

I'm pretty she was flirting with him.

Well, its georgiou, so maybe both?