Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x09 - "Terra Firma, Part 1"

Since Carl was reading tomorrow's newspaper, does that imply that Early Edition is part of the Star Trek universe?

This actually might have been one of my favorite episodes of the season, partly because I liked seeing how Georgiou has softened, and also because it was strangely comforting to be back in the Mirror Universe. As excited as I was to see what the 32nd century had in store, there's something disquieting about being thrust into such a distant and unfamiliar time period. I have been enjoying season three overall, but it's probably made me feel sort of like how the Discovery crew felt about being cut off from everything they knew.

There was also something reassuringly old school Star Trek about Carl, who was obviously reminiscent of Q, not to mention various other characters, god-like and otherwise, that the Enterprise crew would encounter who incongruously seemed like they could have been plucked out of Earth's past, whether it was Trelane or the Iotians or Abraham Lincoln, etc.

 

SMG and Yeoh turned out great performances. I agree with this part from trekmovie review:

Sonequa Martin-Green relishes every moment in her debut as Mirror Michael, making it super clear she is bad to the bone. Michelle Yeoh also impresses here as she appears to be almost pretending to be the Emperor, even though she actually is the Emperor. Michael Prime has changed her.

 

Michelle Yeoh doesn’t get enough credit as an actress...her martial arts skills often take center stage, but she’s really quite good.

 

Tillious Maximus

 

I kind of hope they don’t reveal more information about Carl. The GoF easter eggs are enough. This way those that are greatly bothered by Discovery using GoF (I am looking at you RMB) can pretend it was Q or some other god like being.

 

Empress Killy!

 

I can see Mirror Kirk finding Empress Tilly attractive and trying to ingratiate himself with her to rise in the ranks.

 

Absolutely. I do indeed concur wholeheartedly. Long may she reign!

I mean, I do want Georgiou's experience to be only mental time travel without actually changing history, but if we get Empress Tilly The Magnificent in the end, I might reconsider

 

I like them.
But I have a penchant for over the top uniforms for evil guys.

 

Why are people upset about this? I just don't understand this fandom sometimes. lol

 

That would be a safe bet.

 

In thinking back over the episode, did anyone else find that Wiseman was playing Captain Killy a bit too genially to be a legendary homicidal warrior of the Mirror Universe?

 

All smiles and no snarls makes her the most dangerous of all of them.

 

https://twitter.com/TheRekhaSharma/status/1337799832522555392?s=19

 

My favorite thing in the episode is Burnham not being able to deal with just how crazy the whole Carl thing is. Crazy stuff happens in Trek all the time, yeah, but it's still crazy.

 

It would be hard to deal with the sudden appearance of an alien entity that starts dropping puns left and right.

 

In case anyone cares, I watched Burnett's video on this episode, and I can safely say that his argument is "get off my lawn." He considers the use of the Guardian of Forever (and he makes only lazy efforts to connet them) a violation of the sanctity of the TOS and TAS stories, made only worse by its implementation by a series he does not consider to be Star Trek. Burnett also lies, saying that the Guardian was never used again out of respect for Ellison, when indeed, Roddenberry himself proposed a film story that used the Guardian that would have Kirk go back in time to deal with the assassination of JFK.

 

I've got to wonder what Gene Roddenberry had against JFK. He really wouldn't let go of that story. At all. And, from what I understand, the world goes all to Hell in that story, if JFK had lived.