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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x04 - "Forget Me Not"

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Second, the fact that we did not meet or hear from Dax. Timespan aside (and the novels established that symbiont lives can be *extremely* long) I'm glad for this. Had Dax been present instead of Tal, its previous hosts appearing would not have allowed us to focus on what the final scene was for. The hype would have been all about seeing Jadzia and Ezri again, and pulled too much attention from the goal of this being Adira and Gray's moment to reconnect. Likewise, a Dax as another cameo character wouldn't have really served the story at this point.

This is a really good point. If they had used Dax, I would've been happy with CGI versions of the hosts we knew as of DS9.
Basically non-interactive like most of what we saw. Similar to this 12 Doctors scene:

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The whole idea of Star Trek is that humanity can become better. As Spock would say about Mirror humans "They are the very flower of humanity." Hopefully even those humans can become better.
The thing that doesn't make georgiou space hitler for me is that she is the product of a culture that is inherently brutal. I don't think she can be blamed for what it made her become.

But we've seen Georgiou make choices for the greater good in staying with discovery. She could very easily have stayed in the 23rd century and tried to rebuild her power base. Also we've seen georgiou accept Saru's authority which is huge given she used to view his people as nothing more than cattle. Georgiou is subtly changing and growing and i think she deserves a shot at redemption.
 
So we sometimes stretch to find connections where they do not exist, but I do wonder if two specific design elements for the ep were intentional...

The dude in red, his costume suggests maybe a passing resemblance to the one worn by Terry Farrell in Equilibrium. (Bare arms with a round cut at the top.)

The building seen on Trill reminded me just a little of the Dax home on Sappora VII in Prodigal Daughter.

Unrelated thought: I guess the shuttlebay door is broken and is just permanently open now? They didn't even close it for movie night. A little power loss to the force field and they're all spaced.

The Sphere Data is benevolent. Unlike the Enterprise-D holodecks and Quark's holosuite. ;)
When did Quark's holosuites ever do anything malevolent? Scurrilous!
 
So we sometimes stretch to find connections where they do not exist, but I do wonder if two specific design elements for the ep were intentional...

The dude in red, his costume suggests maybe a passing resemblance to the one worn by Terry Farrell in Equilibrium. (Bare arms with a round cut at the top.)

The building seen on Trill reminded me just a little of the Dax home on Sappora VII in Prodigal Daughter.

Unrelated thought: I guess the shuttlebay door is broken and is just permanently open now? They didn't even close it for movie night. A little power loss to the force field and they're all spaced.

When did Quark's holosuites ever do anything malevolent? Scurrilous!

It was kinda used to turn the DS9 crew into James Bond villains, especially Sisko.
 
That wasn't quite a holosuite failure as something external overwhelming it: the emergency transport of the crew from the exploding runabout.
It was kinda used to turn the DS9 crew into James Bond villains, especially Sisko.

If there was ever a malfunction at Quark's, it was when Sisko was struck with energy and started prophesying the invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.
 
That wasn't quite a holosuite failure as something external overwhelming it: the emergency transport of the crew from the exploding runabout.


If there was ever a malfunction at Quark's, it was when Sisko was struck with energy and started prophesying the invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.

That's why I said "kinda". It was a bit of a stretch, but it was really the only time the holosuite was prominently used in the series. Whenever Bashir and O'brian went to the holosuite we never actually saw the program. I wish at the end of What you Leave Behind they would have at least shown some of it.
 
Unrelated thought: I guess the shuttlebay door is broken and is just permanently open now? They didn't even close it for movie night. A little power loss to the force field and they're all spaced.


It's the least complicated thing they could have fixed on the ship but I guess it's not on the important list, and yes one power surge and they could have all been spaced.
 
I agree. I was disappointed when the show moved the pieces hard to one side to make sure Burnham went with ie they were trying to make up for the almost Burnham-less ep 2. ;)
They could have written it any way they wanted, but it’s hard for me to see Culber pulling a phase pistol and blasting people. It would have been out of character for him, and as adamant as the Trill were about taking Tal, or.at least, not helping Adria, I don’t see how the mission would have worked out with just Hugh and no Burnham.

The Trill thought Tal was just “existing” inside Adira which was an abomination to them, because the two had not actually joined. I don’t see how they could have realistically been talked out of taking Tal, or at least refusing to help Adira connect with Tal, without some amount of aggressive persuasion.

Out of universe answer for Burnham over Culber was probably that they thought the episode needed an action scene and didn’t feel the need to write Hugh out of character.
 
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The CMO did not get a dinner invite.
noticed that, and also the medical log in the beginning. I suspect that some of the writers have now forgotten he is not CMO.

Riker carried Odan, for what, a few days at most? (I'd have to rewatch the episode
correct, a few days, with huge strain on the organism and the symbiont totally suppressing the host, hardly a successful joining.
 
Just a thought: how long do Trill hosts live?! I think Tal had six hosts and that clearly covers some 900 years, as one of them was in late 2380s uniform (the one familiar with that era’s technology, I guess)!

Also, he was like number 4 and they seemed to appear from the oldest to the most recent, given that Senna and Gray were the last two...this means that either the symbiont passed a lot of time in the caves for some reason or each host can live several hundreds of years! I guess that Senna was indeed an admiral from before the burn, after all...

I think the only indication we got in earlier trek was that Curzon was alive in Kirk’s era and considered old a century later.
 
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