"Captain Burnham and her crew must go where few have gone before: beyond the Galactic Barrier. Meanwhile, Book learns the truth of what drives Ruon Tarka." - TrekMovie.com
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x10 - "The Galactic Barrier"
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"Captain Burnham and her crew must go where few have gone before: beyond the Galactic Barrier. Meanwhile, Book learns the truth of what drives Ruon Tarka." - TrekMovie.com
You know the last time someone tried to pierce the Galactic Barrier, at least nine people died, and two people ended up getting super freaky cosmic powers. One of them even thought he was a god.
To paraphase Jack O'Neill from Stargate SG-1. "This is SO not going to go well."
To paraphase Jack O'Neill from Stargate SG-1. "This is SO not going to go well."
It's about a half an hour until the episode is streaming here in Pacific Standard Time, so I'm gonna go ahead and open the poll for voting now.
I live in California and it's already up for me.
Well then I am outta here to go watch the show.
Thanks.
I'm going to be harsh, and I'm sorry if I ruffle any feathers here, but I'm giving this episode my lowest grade of the season, which will be a 3
This show is stalling and I'm frustrated by that. All this character work could have been done earlier and now we are 3 episodes left before the end of the season. I appreciated getting Tarka's backstory, but we've kind of heard it already when we first met the guy. This was a 50 minute soap opera drama about feelings and the theme of making connections but I'm like "Let's get on with it already". They've spent the last several episodes developing this alien race and we still haven't met them yet.
Also, when they said that no Starship has ever left the Galaxy, The Enterprise did it in Star Trek 5. I think the only thing I liked about this episode was they finally made the Galactic Barrier threatening as promised in Star Trek 5. However, since we're at the end of the season and Picard starts in a week and I've actually started to get excited for the premiere of Picard, having this episode continue the stalling this season is doing is not good for priorities for next week's viewing.
This season is like watching a CW show and getting frustrated that ever since the Christmas Break there is a feeling of the show treading water until the last possible moment. The Flash was like this when we first met Nora and now Discovery is getting to be like this as well. Let's get on with it and start defeating this thing.
This show is stalling and I'm frustrated by that. All this character work could have been done earlier and now we are 3 episodes left before the end of the season. I appreciated getting Tarka's backstory, but we've kind of heard it already when we first met the guy. This was a 50 minute soap opera drama about feelings and the theme of making connections but I'm like "Let's get on with it already". They've spent the last several episodes developing this alien race and we still haven't met them yet.
Also, when they said that no Starship has ever left the Galaxy, The Enterprise did it in Star Trek 5. I think the only thing I liked about this episode was they finally made the Galactic Barrier threatening as promised in Star Trek 5. However, since we're at the end of the season and Picard starts in a week and I've actually started to get excited for the premiere of Picard, having this episode continue the stalling this season is doing is not good for priorities for next week's viewing.
This season is like watching a CW show and getting frustrated that ever since the Christmas Break there is a feeling of the show treading water until the last possible moment. The Flash was like this when we first met Nora and now Discovery is getting to be like this as well. Let's get on with it and start defeating this thing.
TFF went to the other barrier, to the center of the galaxy, the exact opposite direction
The Enterprise didn't leave the galaxy in Star Trek 5 (they were going to the center of the galaxy in that awful film not out of the galaxy), but it did leave the galaxy when it was commandeered back in TOS heading towards the Andromeda Galaxy. Though in fairness our understanding of where the galaxy begins has dramatically altered since TOS aired. And there is no way that any Enterprise (1701 original to E) could ever get to what scientist consider the edge of our galaxy with the technological they had. So. It really depends on how far out they. are talking about literally....
And Picard's Enterprise briefly visited another galaxy in Where No One Has Gone Before back in its 1st season.
And technically you can absolutely say that Voyager was outside the galaxy (has none had yet formed when Q sent it back to the moment of the Big Bang. But there is no way that they would considered that a valid reference point even if they still had data files over it.
Now if fairness to the show, realistically over centuries data would get lost and that's even during normal times, after massive events data should be even more fragmented.
And Picard's Enterprise briefly visited another galaxy in Where No One Has Gone Before back in its 1st season.
And technically you can absolutely say that Voyager was outside the galaxy (has none had yet formed when Q sent it back to the moment of the Big Bang. But there is no way that they would considered that a valid reference point even if they still had data files over it.
Now if fairness to the show, realistically over centuries data would get lost and that's even during normal times, after massive events data should be even more fragmented.
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TFF went to the other barrier, to the center of the galaxy, the exact opposite direction
There's more than one Galactic barrier. Now I'm confused and maybe a little dumb that I don't know this.
And thank you for the correction.
@mswood
Thanks for the explanation.
Even the Valiant from the 21st century survived the barrier, how can the refit Disco be so vulnerable to it?
The great barrier surrounds the center, the galactic barrier surrounds the galaxy.
Saru bared his soul to T'Rina in that first scene and she basically left him on read.
Brutal.
Loved this one though. A nice return to form after being a little cooler on the last 3-4 episodes. Actually, it might have been my favourite of the season so far. Don't really mind that we haven't met 10-C yet, 'cause the Tarka storyline was both long overdue and entirely welcome.
Brutal.
Loved this one though. A nice return to form after being a little cooler on the last 3-4 episodes. Actually, it might have been my favourite of the season so far. Don't really mind that we haven't met 10-C yet, 'cause the Tarka storyline was both long overdue and entirely welcome.
And if they actually reached that point in Final Frontier that would be Trek's single largest error on how fast those starships can travel (that's using what people believed about the structure of the galaxy at the time episodes or films aired).
Hell don't worry about Trek has a shit load of references in it, hell I probably forgot 5 of them......It's one of the reason even with having people who proof the scripts that I can understand how mistakes make it through.
I didn't mind the slower pace, and I enjoyed this episode much more then last week. Really the biggest issue I had was that I didn't enjoy the visual representation of the warrior or its passage.
Now the episode does make it clear that others have travelled outside the barrier and it seemed to me that they implied that the barrier has variable levels of energy (or whatever treknobabble thing they used) to indicate that this part of the barrier was far stronger then they expected it to be.
The only pacing issue I worry about is that so far Discovery has felt massively rushed to end out a season to the detriment of the overall quality of a seasons arc. So I am worried that this might happen as well.
Now the episode does make it clear that others have travelled outside the barrier and it seemed to me that they implied that the barrier has variable levels of energy (or whatever treknobabble thing they used) to indicate that this part of the barrier was far stronger then they expected it to be.
The only pacing issue I worry about is that so far Discovery has felt massively rushed to end out a season to the detriment of the overall quality of a seasons arc. So I am worried that this might happen as well.
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