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

[Therin of Andor]

-Why the andorian in this episode sits down for a secret-confessing (of a jarringly obvious secret) with Tilly, a character that he almost never ever talked with before on screen? Detmer, Booker or even Saru would have made more sense.

* It recalls several other episodes in previous seasons where a character has found themselves eating alone in the Mess Hall and someone on the crew approaches in friendship.

* Tilly as peacemaker is part of her job as Acting Number One.

* It's also an in-joke/Easter egg. The two actors are married in real life.

A lovely scene I actually predicted two episodes ago.

 

[jackoverfull]

* It recalls several other episodes in previous seasons where a character has found themselves eating alone in the Mess Hall and someone on the crew approaches in friendship

usually someone they had some connection

It's also an in-joke/Easter egg. The two actors are married in real life.

i didn’t know that

 

[Therin of Andor]

usually someone they had some connection

Tilly has already been there. People used to avoid her due to her "condition", and her snoring. She knows what it feels like to be at a table, alone, in a crowded room. She's paying it forward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/...-but-an-enterprise-theyll-boldly-take-on.html

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

pretty much some of y'all right now :P

Until I read your comment at the bottom I thought this picture was about the Discovery writers

 

[jackoverfull]

Until I read your comment at the bottom I thought this picture was about the Discovery writers

me too

 

[Kraig]

I rated it a 9. We know the location of the music that started about the same time as the burn. We know that the Emperor is not just having PTSD, but actual physical problems associated with time travel and being in the wrong universe. The Emerald Chain reminds me of the Kazon gangsters on Star Trek: Voyager.

 

[jackoverfull]

The Emerald Chain reminds me of the Kazon gangsters on Star Trek: Voyager.

uninspired and best forgotten?

 

[Discofan]

uninspired and best forgotten?

They kept the Kazons for two full seasons! (we even see them later in a couple of episodes.)

 

[jackoverfull]

They kept the Kazons for two full seasons! (we even see them later in a couple of episodes.)

is this supposed to be positive?

 

[Discofan]

is this supposed to be positive?

I mean that the Kazons weren't just a passing thought.

 

[jackoverfull]

I mean that the Kazons weren't just a passing thought.

unfortunately!

 

[fireproof78]

I mean that the Kazons weren't just a passing thought.

True enough. They could have been much more.

 

[Discofan]

True enough. They could have been much more.

You really liked the Kazons? They look like they have a bonsai on their head!

 

[fireproof78]

You really liked the Kazons? They look like they have a bonsai on their head!

I liked the potential that was there. They were not well executed at all but they were so built up with the promos and stuff that I can't help but think of what might have been. Culla was meaning enough.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Meh... Kazons to me were Klingon-lite. Same bumpy heads, same tribal grunting, but without the HONORRRRRR!!!! If they're background window dressing to indicate positive growth for the Federation, I'm okay with it. If they have speaking roles and some kind of B- or C-plot, I'm not. I couldn't give two rat turds in a rain barrel over what happened to any Delta Quadrant species after Voyager rambled through.

 

[fireproof78]

Meh... Kazons to me were Klingon-lite. Same bumpy heads, same tribal grunting, but without the HONORRRRRR!!!! If they're background window dressing to indicate positive growth for the Federation, I'm okay with it. If they have speaking roles and some kind of B- or C-plot, I'm not. I couldn't give two rat turds in a rain barrel over what happened to any Delta Quadrant species after Voyager rambled through.

That was, unfortunately, what they became. But, the magazines I was reading leading up to Voyager's premiere left a different impression so I have a soft sport, despite poor execution. Revisiting them would be OK by me if they are expanded upon rather than just inventing more new aliens.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I think I remember what you're referring to. Sadly, the Kazon was one of the many casualties of the mixed messages that the early Voyager writing teams experienced.

 

[jackoverfull]

You really liked the Kazons? They look like they have a bonsai on their head!

i didn’t mind the makeup, it’s the characterization that I think was very badly done.

 

[Discofan]

Have we seen delta quadrant aliens yet? I mean it would make sense f we found some of them in the Alpha Quadrant after all this time. How about a Talaxian?

 

[jackoverfull]

I think there were minor delta quadrant species in one f the early episodes