Yet another dull entry a lot of action (which always pauses long enough for the character to discuss stuff, of course) but very little substance.
So, Michael somehow sent book a transmission on how the anomaly is actually a mining tool and Booker somehow sent Michael a transmission which somehow can’t be traced, but why should she even try to trace it, since she has a tracker on his ship anyway.
Tarka somehow installed a security measure on book’s ship designed to kill anyone trying to enter and somehow Booker didn’t know about it, also somehow once those measures can’t be stopped once deployed. Well done mr best genius in the galaxy!
Booker somehow forgets he can just turn off the scattering field and have the people on the shuttle beamed, ending up with almost killing them. Oh well, perhaps he was in fear of being transported as well, I guess.
Booker and tarka for some reason have to wait 6 hours for the weapon to be ready but don’t start their search for the controller until those hours are ready. Well, I guess they needed a nap.
Somehow both B&T and discovery find at the same time the controller. But wait a minute, wasn’t the anomaly several light years in size? And they converge on the same tiny controller at the very same moment? Even finding it seems REALLY far fetched, but at the same moment?! And why is it OUTSIDE the anomaly? And, since it was so easy to find, why didn’t the several ships studying the anomaly find it before? Where are those ships now, by the way?
Also, Michael somehow thinks of a way to predict when the anomaly will move again. All those federation scientists studying it for weeks and saying it was unpredictable must feel very stupid now.
They do that “stay between The millennium Falcon and the controller” for a while, somehow predicting where book will jump (how?) and mr genius doesn’t think he can just beam the torpedo behind discovery. Until he does. I guess that with having his nap interrupted earlier he must be tired and not thinking straight.
Not to mention that they for some reason don’t answer hails but Book is so impressed in seeing Michael’s in a shuffle that then he does, listens and accepts being taken in to custody. really? I mean ok standing down for a week, but surrendering? Does he really thinks the federation will let them go with their super weapon and the prototype drive? Tarka must have wondered the same.
Anyway, in the end the anomaly can’t be destroyed (predictably) and the power source is located at 10c’s place, again predictably, the feds decide to speed up the first contact mission. But wait a minute, what are they waiting for to start it anyway?
Only interesting bits:
1) tarka was working on his plot for ten years. He definitely knows much more than he’s telling and it seems he let the anomaly kill millions (billions?) to his advantage.
2) Commander Nhan’s involvement and actions were very well written and sensible. Please more of this and less nonsense.
The space scenes still fail miserably to look interesting to my eyes, with the exception of the new cloak effect (was it the first time we saw discovery coloacking?). This is an issue with the general art direction in discovery I have, so at least it’s consistent. On the good side, there wasn’t much of the usual constantly moving, sickness-inducing, camera work that had come back recently.
7. And I’m being very generous.
So, Michael somehow sent book a transmission on how the anomaly is actually a mining tool and Booker somehow sent Michael a transmission which somehow can’t be traced, but why should she even try to trace it, since she has a tracker on his ship anyway.
Tarka somehow installed a security measure on book’s ship designed to kill anyone trying to enter and somehow Booker didn’t know about it, also somehow once those measures can’t be stopped once deployed. Well done mr best genius in the galaxy!
Booker somehow forgets he can just turn off the scattering field and have the people on the shuttle beamed, ending up with almost killing them. Oh well, perhaps he was in fear of being transported as well, I guess.
Booker and tarka for some reason have to wait 6 hours for the weapon to be ready but don’t start their search for the controller until those hours are ready. Well, I guess they needed a nap.
Somehow both B&T and discovery find at the same time the controller. But wait a minute, wasn’t the anomaly several light years in size? And they converge on the same tiny controller at the very same moment? Even finding it seems REALLY far fetched, but at the same moment?! And why is it OUTSIDE the anomaly? And, since it was so easy to find, why didn’t the several ships studying the anomaly find it before? Where are those ships now, by the way?
Also, Michael somehow thinks of a way to predict when the anomaly will move again. All those federation scientists studying it for weeks and saying it was unpredictable must feel very stupid now.
They do that “stay between The millennium Falcon and the controller” for a while, somehow predicting where book will jump (how?) and mr genius doesn’t think he can just beam the torpedo behind discovery. Until he does. I guess that with having his nap interrupted earlier he must be tired and not thinking straight.
Not to mention that they for some reason don’t answer hails but Book is so impressed in seeing Michael’s in a shuffle that then he does, listens and accepts being taken in to custody. really? I mean ok standing down for a week, but surrendering? Does he really thinks the federation will let them go with their super weapon and the prototype drive? Tarka must have wondered the same.
Anyway, in the end the anomaly can’t be destroyed (predictably) and the power source is located at 10c’s place, again predictably, the feds decide to speed up the first contact mission. But wait a minute, what are they waiting for to start it anyway?
Only interesting bits:
1) tarka was working on his plot for ten years. He definitely knows much more than he’s telling and it seems he let the anomaly kill millions (billions?) to his advantage.
2) Commander Nhan’s involvement and actions were very well written and sensible. Please more of this and less nonsense.
The space scenes still fail miserably to look interesting to my eyes, with the exception of the new cloak effect (was it the first time we saw discovery coloacking?). This is an issue with the general art direction in discovery I have, so at least it’s consistent. On the good side, there wasn’t much of the usual constantly moving, sickness-inducing, camera work that had come back recently.
7. And I’m being very generous.
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