It moved several plots forward
- Georgiou's illness
- The cause of the Burn
- Tilly as XO
- Book's background.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x08 - "The Sanctuary"
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My memory's playing some kind of trick on me. I could've sworn I saw some posts in this thread where someone said this episode was filler. But I'm not seeing them now. Or I'm not looking far enough back.
Or a mix-and-match of posts all blurred together in my head. Which is also a possibility.
Or a mix-and-match of posts all blurred together in my head. Which is also a possibility.
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yeah. Everybody’s is. Big news.
There we are.
No, I don't have Mister Awe on ignore. I was just scanning everywhere except in front of me.
Their supply of dilithium is running out, so they're running out. Same thing really. And not a surprise!
I didn't learn anything new about Georgiou. She was her regular self, although amped up slightly during the exams. Book, yes, we learned more about. Now, that should've occurred during an episode that got to the source of the Burn or something more than this filler episode. They teased multiple things (the Burn, Georgiou's condition) but didn't reveal anything. They tried hiding that with some pretty decent action.
Yeah, everyone is running out, but people who don't conserve will fill the pinch a lot quicker and more severely than ones using it judiciously like the Federation or are hoarding like Earth. Burning through their supply makes them more dangerous and desperate.
The federation isn’t doing well with dilithium either: many ships are docked all the time because they don’t have dilithium for everybody.
I guess the huge stash Discovery had in episode 3 got forgotten...
I guess the huge stash Discovery had in episode 3 got forgotten...
Or it’s the reserve pile, one that can be safely taken out of harm’s way in an instant via spore drive.
How huge was that stash?
I imagined they deliberately left out a line where Ryn says "But I know where there's a large supply of dilithium."
I meant in the sense that now we have proof that most of the time she's talking out of her ass. So not everything she said before can be taken literally. I suspected that, now it's nice to actually see it. Both in the exchange between her and Culber when she was talking about her dreams and when Burnham called her on her bullshit. Before this episode, we didn't have proof of that, but it's what I thought.
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The Emerald Chain are OK as episodic antagonists akin to the Kazon or Hirogen, but not good enough as a main villiain or phenomenon that's implied to be behind the Burn, when we see Book's comparatively diddy ship rip a hole in that Emerald Chain dreadnought (it further highlights they're just jumped up thugs, bullies, and racketeers, like the small band of crooks with those slow acting disruptors trying shake down a bar in Ep. 2).
This is the slowest failure and cancellation I've ever seen. Man, the critics must be right but REALLY prolonged about it.
I don't think it'll change the tune of Midnight's Edge, Doom Cock or Major Grin. They'll still be calling Disco "The worst Trek series ever/Not my Star Trek" for Kingdom's come despite the fact the show is indeed getting better and it is shown in the ratings
At least JP/Egostatic Funtime is now a fan of Disco after being a hater during S1 & part of S2. But it might be because someone from the network is now paying him as a YouTube booster (he always ends his Youtube vlog by singing "Give us all your money! Give us all your money!!)
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good question: in episode three a big point was that it was more than enough to attract pirates of every sort and that they had to conceal it in book’s ship to be safe, after that the matter was totally dropped.
For sure the chain didn’t seem to be particularly interested this time, even if a single, old, ship “lost” with no support should be easy prey...I imagine they were wise enough to conceal the stash with new technology, but sure the matter hasn’t been mentioned so far.
He was the least Fandom Menace-y of the Fandom Menace. I couldn't bring myself to hate him like I do the others.At least JP/Egostatic Funtime is now a fan of Disco after being a hater during S1. But it might be because someone from the network is now paying him as a YouTube booster
I just kept expecting Osyraa to cackle “I’ll get you my pretty!”
The overall situation isn't what's important here. They want to keep up the charade that THEIR supply isn't dwindling, even though the overall supply is low. You lose your ability to intimidate if people know you're not gonna be able to follow up on your threats because YOUR mobility is at stake.
TL;DR: It's appearances that's important here.
I think it was mostly meaningless filler, like episode 2
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