Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x08 - "The Sanctuary"

[Amasov]

In the Moments of Discovery video released with today's episode, Michelle Paradise talks about how the character of Osyraa is namedropped several times earlier in the season and the intention was to "give, hopefully, a growing sense of dread about who is this individual and who is running this salvage planet and with whom people are speaking with this little measure of fear."

Maybe it's just me, but, I never once got that sense. Yes, I wondered who this individual was because her name was dropped about six or seven times in the same episode and she was clearly made out to be important. But, I didn't ever get the sense of this oncoming threat.

 

[thribs]

Vance: How sad that a former member of Starfleet like Osyraa could have fallen so far.

Saru: Osyraa is a former member of Starfleet?

Vance: Yes, D'vana Osyraa Tendi. Centuries ago, she was one of our finest officers, but then murdered the legendary Admiral Picard and stripped the technology in his android body for her own use to make herself immortal.

I feel a great disturbance in Trek fandom. As if millions of Lower Decks fans suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Tendi would never do that. She’s too sweet.

 

[Yistaan]

Tendi would never do that. She’s too sweet.

I quit Lower Decks, but I got far enough to see her dark side when she got angry that not everyone might like her.

 

[valkyrie013]

Not bad. Nice showing the federation sticking to its principles.
and I agree.. the "Emerald Chain" is a crap bad guy.. up there with the Ferengi in the first few seasons of Tng.. so.. a Joke..

and agree.. the drip drip of the overall arc plot is getting old.. Rather the B5 type of way, solve the plot in 2-3 episodes, come up with another mystery.. not drag out.

and I agree.. Enterprise had the best andoiran, Tellerite, Orion, etc. makeup, these "plastic green army soldier" orions are a joke.

 

[thribs]

I quit Lower Decks, but I got far enough to see her dark side when she got angry that not everyone might like her.

Oh. So you may have missed the funny line where she yells that the majority of Orions haven’t been pirates for nearly 5 years.
I recommend you watch the final episode. That was a good one.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

the "Emerald Chain" is a crap bad guy

Ide a lot more scared of them if they didnt sound like some sort of weird Irish dancing group

 

[NCC-73515]

The Enterprise Orion males were overly muscled to give them that same physical appeal to female viewers that female Orions have to male viewers.

With Discovery's prosthetic head thing, they all look like walking plastic action figures, are basically the textbook definition of "uncanny valley" and I'd be surprised if Discovery Orions, even using pheromones, can elicit any reaction other than fleeing in terror.

Perhaps they have to wear plastic to suppress pheromone excretion

In the Moments of Discovery video released with today's episode, Michelle Paradise talks about how the character of Osyraa is namedropped several times earlier in the season and the intention was to "give, hopefully, a growing sense of dread about who is this individual and who is running this salvage planet and with whom people are speaking with this little measure of fear."

Maybe it's just me, but, I never once got that sense. Yes, I wondered who this individual was because her name was dropped about six or seven times in the same episode and she was clearly made out to be important. But, I didn't ever get the sense of this oncoming threat.

Many movie villains like Nero, Shinzon, Soran, Krall, were boring, but Osyraa is a new low

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Perhaps they have to wear plastic to suppress pheromone excretion


Many movie villains like Nero, Shinzon, Soran, Krall, were boring, but Osyraa is a new low

Should have gotten Jeffrey Combs to play her.

And Soren was amazing

 

[Akiraprise]

10/10!!! No crying this week!

Seriously though 7/10.

Emerald Chain seems kinda meh as a villain. Almost mwah haha. We did get another tidbit that the Federation isn't all that it seems again. Not terrible not great.

 

[Yistaan]

Perhaps they have to wear plastic to suppress pheromone excretion

Why would Osyraa want to do that? After a steamy night with Book's brother Kyheem, Kyheem wouldn't have had all the hangups he ended up having and would have beamed over Book's head on a platter, and even his own son if Osyraa had asked.

 

[fireproof78]

Thats disgusting.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Not terrible not great.

So you would rate it 3.64

Why would Osyraa want to do that? After a steamy night with Book's brother Kyheem, Kyheem wouldn't have had all the hangups he ended up having

Or just have a steamy night with Book too

 

[Amasov]

Many movie villains like Nero, Shinzon, Soran, Krall, were boring, but Osyraa is a new low

It's not a low; I just don't find her or the emerald chain that interesting and I think it's because they just weren't properly introduced. When we first meet, for example, the Borg and the Dominion, we are almost immediately given a demonstration of their power and why they are going to be a dangerous adversary. Just about everything about the Emerld Chain and her are spoken and in the times we do come face to face with them, we've subverted them. So far, there's not been a reason to fear them, IMO.

 

[NCC-73515]

Should have gotten Jeffrey Combs to play her.

And Soren was amazing

Soren was, Soran was not.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Soren was, Soran was not.

Ya I meant Soran. Soren was the woman from TNG right ?
Soran was Great villian and played by a legend of an actor

 

[thribs]

The Tim Roth lookalike from episode 2 was a interesting villain. They should bring him back. Have him kill Osiris and take over

 

[Yistaan]

a demonstration of their power and why they are going to be a dangerous adversary.

We just got a super powerful villain who showed they could destroy all life last season in Control. We may very well get another super powerful villain that single handedly caused the Burn later this season. I'm not sure Discovery needs more of that by making Osyraa some goddess who blows up planets with a thought or something.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

some goddess who blows up planets with a thought or something.

We already had that in Ardra

 

[Yistaan]

With the revelation that Burn has something to do with a Federation distress signal, I'm even more curious about the Borg now. Did they say, "They just destroyed their entire civilization and now are all basically pre-warp civilizations. The collective is not going to waste time assimilating them now and will note that it was an error this civilization was ever considered worthy of assimilating".

Plus, if the Burn had a point of origin and traveled at faster than light speed, I'm wondering how far it affected. It really affected the whole galaxy really?

 

[Scout101]

Felt like a filler episode, kinda just meh.