• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x03 - "Choose to Live"

Rate the episode...


  • Total voters
    131
Latinum was known to Ferengi in the 22nd Century...who were making a point of not IDing themselves to Archer and company as such. It wasn't until the late 2360's that Federation citizens, in or out of Starfleet, were getting a clue as to why latinum mattered to Ferengi.

None of which should stop Michael Burnham from understanding latinum after she arrives in 3189.
I was thinking of this scene from Canamar in Season 2
ARCHER: Sounds like you started your career early.
KURODA: I was young, but I was no criminal.
ARCHER: No?
KURODA: My father and I were working at a transport yard on Keto-Enol. A supervisor accused me of stealing a brace of latinum. I had nothing to do with it, but they couldn't find anyone else to blame. I was sentenced to five years at Duronom.
 
Do you want Paramount to get nasty letters from Disney?
Disney can't do anything unless they call them lightsabers since "energy sword" is too generic to copyright.


Internal security makes for poor drama and creates little to motivate your characters.
Tell that to Leverage.

Fact is, both sides showing competence provides more story telling opportunities then just hand-waving everyone being an idiot. Because yes, that's basically what you're claiming here, that everyone in Starfleet is an idiot.
 
So none of the other Trek shows are well written?
DS9 was very well written, TNG was up and down, TOS was up and down, ENT was up and down, Lower Decks is well written, Prodigy is well written.

There's a reason pretty much everyone thinks Discovery is the worst written Star Trek series ever.
 
There's a reason pretty much everyone thinks Discovery is the worst written Star Trek series ever.
The polls on this site and others say otherwise.

DS9 was very well written, TNG was up and down, TOS was up and down, ENT was up and down, Lower Decks is well written, Prodigy is well written.
I was referring to the lack of security responses you keep pointing out. Most of the other series did the same thing.
 
Like last week, I gave this episode an 8, but it's a strong 8. Almost a 9, but a few fumbels lowered it. I liked the slower and more personal pace with all of the three plots of this, and they were all executed well too. David Ajala really deserves all the praise he gets, he nails it in here.

I also enjoyed the main plot Qowat Milat parallels with Picard. Choose to Live is also a very fitting name for this episode, as it fits many situations. I also loved how they finally had a digital darts at lounge. I almost expected Quark to appear with drinks from behind the counter for a while.
 
Like last week, I gave this episode an 8, but it's a strong 8. Almost a 9, but a few fumbels lowered it. I liked the slower and more personal pace with all of the three plots of this, and they were all executed well too. David Ajala really deserves all the praise he gets, he nails it in here.

I also enjoyed the main plot Qowat Milat parallels with Picard. Choose to Live is also a very fitting name for this episode, as it fits many situations. I also loved how they finally had a digital darts at lounge. I almost expected Quark to appear with drinks from behind the counter for a while.

Very much agreed. ‪‪I love how the episode title works as a title for pretty much every side storyline this episode.
 
So far, this season seems to be the most character driven yet, and I am so here for it.

The gravity anomaly appears to be a plot devise that is in completely service of the characters. All of the main crew are going through some stuff and they are all getting attention. Culber and Stammets might be the exceptions, so far, but both got lion shares of development in season 2 and 3.


Burnham, it appears, will be butting heads with the Fed political structure while attending to her duties as captain and trying to help Book. Sonia Sohn could not have been a better choice for her mother.

I agree with those who said they liked the idea of a complex villain who had a virtuous cause. Very trekkish. Also glad to see the crew dealing with some less than universe destroying issues.


Glad Saru is back. Stammets and Book together was deliciously awkward and ended up, somewhat predictably, bonding.

I thought they might leave Gray as a ghostly companion for Adira, but they’re now being corporeal opens some interesting possibilities.


I think that the emphasis on character is exactly what the show needs. We’ve pretty much seen all the Trek plots, so we can now revel in the characters’ responses.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top