Last season they were shown as being extensions/avatars of Zora.
Hard to tell, if that is still the case.
Zora didn‘t directly react to the loss of one this episode.
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Hard to tell, if that is still the case.
Zora didn‘t directly react to the loss of one this episode.
If they are conscious and aware then Discovery should really send probes more often rather than treat sentient life as cannon fodder
I'm giving this a 9. I've been pretty critical of Disco this season but they did a good one this week. This was in some ways like a classic mid-seasons TNG episode.
Was good to see more of crew that have been missing. Owo is ripped! Why is Linux under a heat lamp? Is he molting? Is it revolting?
The yellow-shirt's death scene was shocking.
Everyone delivered a good performance, with the exception of Grudge. I don't want to believe that Grudge is renegotiating her contract to get her own series, which is a rumor I just made up.
Was good to see more of crew that have been missing. Owo is ripped! Why is Linux under a heat lamp? Is he molting? Is it revolting?
The yellow-shirt's death scene was shocking.
Everyone delivered a good performance, with the exception of Grudge. I don't want to believe that Grudge is renegotiating her contract to get her own series, which is a rumor I just made up.
Agreed. IIRC, Zora stored her program distributed across the DOT network during the Control incident to keep from getting captured. This means the network has the capacity to store an AI consciousness. Further, there may be remnants of that programming in the DOTs, further increasing the probability of some residual sentience there. Because of all these things, I found the “screaming” to be particularly troublesome. Curious if Zora “felt” the DOT die.
I liked some things about this episode. The way the bridge crew finally got something to do. Gray getting something to do. The way it is a good stand alone episode. But it did not connect with me overall.
The way the crew are so cavalier about the ship's computer becoming emotional, both before that fact predictably almost kills them all, AND afterwards, was just a bit too much for me. I mean, what could go wrong?
Yikes. It was so dumb for the crew not to see it coming it made the episode difficult to watch for me. I almost could not get throught it.
I gave it a 5 and could have gone lower.
The way the crew are so cavalier about the ship's computer becoming emotional, both before that fact predictably almost kills them all, AND afterwards, was just a bit too much for me. I mean, what could go wrong?
Yikes. It was so dumb for the crew not to see it coming it made the episode difficult to watch for me. I almost could not get throught it.
I gave it a 5 and could have gone lower.
What is it with shipboard computers singing about storms and whatnot, when doom is nigh?
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Exactly. I assumed the DOTs being intelligent at the end of season three was because they were hosting Zora and they're normally advanced but non-sentient devices, but the screaming and Burnham telling them to turn off the viewscreen showing the DOT disintegrate rather implies the DOTs have something else going on – and in that case they really should be deploying probes first.
If they're sentient, could a DOT become captain or decide to do something other than DOT duties? Or are they like Star Wars droids, quasi-sentient but effectively a slave class with no rights? Not very Star Trek in that case.
I guess i know where the Adira/Grey arc is heading 
I'm convinced Zora either has already fallen in love with Grey during this episode or eventually will.
If she gets a synth body, it could mean trouble for Adira and Grey's relationship...
I'm convinced Zora either has already fallen in love with Grey during this episode or eventually will.
If she gets a synth body, it could mean trouble for Adira and Grey's relationship...
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Oh God. If that happens, they’ll go from Lifetime Channel sappiness to full-on Jerry Springer land. I really hope they don’t go there.
Rated this one a 3. And yes, I LOVE this series and it’s characters but this episode didn’t do it for me. while I loved how Data grew and became emotional over time, I’m not too crazy about Zora doing it. Hello, did we forget about the M5 Multitronic Unit? What if Zora has a bad emo moment and decides to turn off life support? Nah, I don’t think this aspect was necessary at all.
What saved the episode was learning that the DMA makers are extragalactic and the conversation between Book and Saru at the end.
I’m sure I’ll rate next week an 8 or higher like the previous episodes this season.
What saved the episode was learning that the DMA makers are extragalactic and the conversation between Book and Saru at the end.
I’m sure I’ll rate next week an 8 or higher like the previous episodes this season.
Story convenience.
I guess i know where the Adira/Grey arc is heading
I'm convinced Zora either has already fallen in love with Grey during this episode or eventually will.
If she gets a synth body, it could mean trouble for Adira and Grey's relationship...
Gray, can you please run a level 2 diagnostic on … my heart, because it belongs to you now.
I think you can only be in the pattern buffer for a short period of time. Except Scottie who did it for 70 years.
That was 23rd century tech. Guess 32nd century pattern buffers can keep people alive for much longer.
Think advancing the technology may have become a priority for starfleet after "Relics".
Perhaps the fact that they were all already onboard and it didn't involve actually removing them from a planet's surface.
They weren't being 'transported', just stored for a specific time period and then rematerialized.
One could surmise that there's a bit more of a process involved in the former rather than the latter.
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I think the question of who's in the main title sequences speaks to the question of creative obligation. It was asserted earlier in the conversation that DIS should have done more to develop the bridge crew before introducing a new principle character like Book; my point in differentiating between Book's status as a principle character and the bridge crew's status as recurring supporting characters is that the show is not fundamentally about them the way it is about the principle characters (including Book), and that therefore DIS as a narrative has no creative obligation to develop those characters the way it does its principle characters.
It won't. Discovery isn't on Amazon anymore in the UK.
"Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it's *stupid*, but I'm gonna do it! Okay?"
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