Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x05 - "The Examples"
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are you sure that isn't the T'pau?
The T'Pau is the Vulcan ringship.
Yeah, and that's in the middle of the shot.
Arrakis. Dune. Desert sound stage.
Yeah, I'm glad they have the AR wall, but the seams are definitely showing a bit.
Yes, sorry, that confuses me two. Are both Janeway and T’Pau of the same class, or is the Janeway the Courage (left) or Kirk/Constitution (right) - class?
Edit: Memory Alpha says the Janeway is either Courage or Kirk.
Link: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Janeway
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Good.
Yes, it does. And I would love to see the show explore this more. AFAIK, we've never seen living Iconians on canon Trek, have we?
And it's been over 800 years since we last heard a Starfleet officer mention the Iconians so a lot could have been learned about them in the centuries since the TNG/DS9/VOY Era. Who knows how many additional gateways and other revelations could have been discovered before The Burn and how a long-extinct species became one with a few survivors.
I thought it was interesting that the Risa scientist said that he did not know who the DMA creators are but that he already ruled out the suspects that the Starfleet admiral mentioned (Iconians etc). I feel like he knows more than he is prepared to say.
He doesn't feel like the sharing or cooperating type, unless it suits him. Early in the episode, Stamets complained to Culber how he felt shut out by the scientist and how his calls weren't being returned.
Not quite as good as last week for me, but still a 9.
I really want my own holographic Family Tree.
I'm loving this whole structure of three concurrent storylines in an episode, whilst developing characters and furthering plots.
Burnham deciding to help the prison was a cool Star Trek moment. The Examples is a great name for them as well.
I really want my own holographic Family Tree.
I'm loving this whole structure of three concurrent storylines in an episode, whilst developing characters and furthering plots.
Burnham deciding to help the prison was a cool Star Trek moment. The Examples is a great name for them as well.
Time and distance are concepts that are completely foreign to the writers of Star Trek Discovery.
The Dark Matter Anomaly is five light-years across.
You can see the entire anomaly and the federation ships in one shot!
How did Starfleet get a dozen of ships, without a spore drive, to the asteroid colony within 30 minutes?
Why did it take Discovery 30 minutes to get there?
Shouldn't Discovery have arrived first?
The Dark Matter Anomaly is five light-years across.
You can see the entire anomaly and the federation ships in one shot!
How did Starfleet get a dozen of ships, without a spore drive, to the asteroid colony within 30 minutes?
Why did it take Discovery 30 minutes to get there?
Shouldn't Discovery have arrived first?
I actually absolutely hated that Burnham at the end of the episode dressed down the former station commander. Absolute low point of the episode.
Telling him he had no power to make requests, since the individuals had claimed asylum, would have been great. But reminding him he had absolutely no power in the situation since his people are now stateless felt like...gloating. Like punching down. It was absolutely awful, and arguably a bit OOC for Michael (who always speaks her mind, but doesn't attempt to dominate).
Telling him he had no power to make requests, since the individuals had claimed asylum, would have been great. But reminding him he had absolutely no power in the situation since his people are now stateless felt like...gloating. Like punching down. It was absolutely awful, and arguably a bit OOC for Michael (who always speaks her mind, but doesn't attempt to dominate).
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I very much like the way it harkens back to TOS & TNG scenery.Yes, it felt old school, but in a bad way.
Real old school, AKA Paramount stage 16 old school:
You can clearly see where the virtual ARwall set ends:
Really keeps it All in the Family.
Time and distance are concepts that are completely foreign to the writers of Star Trek Discovery.
The Dark Matter Anomaly is five light-years across.
You can see the entire anomaly and the federation ships in one shot!
Eh, it's just a question of perspective.
What's more troubling though is the DMA should be invisible when it jumps from place to place. The way light speed works, presuming the light is coming from the point source at the center of the anomaly, it should take five years of being in one place to actually become visible to people outside of the envelope of destruction.
Of course, the very first episode of Discovery screwed up light speed as well, with Sarek talking about a "new star in the sky" as soon as the Torchbearer did his job - so everyone on the show seems to believe the speed of light is instantaneous.
I assumed it was the USS Janeway because it was the first ship we saw as the name was announced in the episode.
Trek's been getting that wrong for decades. When Dr. Soran's trilithium probe hits the Veridian star in GEN it begins to go dark immediately rather than minutes later.
Though I wasn't the biggest fan of this episode, I did love this structure. They've been using A/B/C stories to great effect this season. Plus, it favorably reminds me of so many early DS9's.
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