Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x01 - "Red Directive"

[Macintosh]

So I've never been a particular fan of Discovery, but I have to say... that was a VERY good season opener. I only hope they can sustain it for the next several episodes, but for now I have to say I'm both surprised and delighted.

Also, the... appetisers... in the "This Season on Discovery" trailer are... very... enterprising.

 

[tenmei]

I didn't seem to get a This Season trailer?

 

[Tuskin38]

Spoiler: season teaser

Looks to me to be the SNW Enterprise as we know it. In this shot you can see the registry, 1701. And the prefix appears to be three letters long and ending in C, so I assume NCC-1701.

(although some productions are known to be tricky these days and change/hide minor things for trailers so who can say for sure what the registry will be in the final episode it appears in)

Spoiler

Also, from 26-30 seconds they're fighting in the SNW Sickbay set, with Terran empire emblems on the walls and computer screens

 

[Tuskin38]

I didn't seem to get a This Season trailer?

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[Blackout]

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Also, from 26-30 seconds they're fighting in the SNW Sickbay set, with Terran empire emblems on the walls and computer screens

I hadn't noticed, good catch! How exciting.

 

[NCC-73515]

I hope they cast Salome Jens again if they show another holo Progenitor!

Spoiler: Continuation of the Ship

We see the Enterprise firing its weapons later in the teaser. It is definitely a ship from the 23rd century, or possibly the 25th century, when considering the Constitution III-class.

Looks like a wider beam though, not like a phaser

What are they after? We see Trekcore screencaps of "The Chase" and are told about a great treasure... based on what? They're extinct. Gone. Dead. There's no hint they have/had some super technology.

Tech to affect long-term evolution across millennia

 

[Agony_Boothb]

I'm glad they didn't keep the Quest Item a secret for more than the first episode.

I find it odd that the Progenitors were kept classified for over 800 years.

I think they became classified once it was realised their tech is still out there. The fact that Dr Vellek hid the information even from his own people, probably says a lot about the destructive capabilities of whatever he found.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Spoiler: season teaser

Looks to me to be the SNW Enterprise as we know it. In this shot you can see the registry, 1701. And the prefix appears to be three letters long and ending in C, so I assume NCC-1701.

(although some productions are known to be tricky these days and change/hide minor things for trailers so who can say for sure what the registry will be in the final episode it appears in)

Spoiler: that ship

Unless it's displaced from the 2250's, they're doubling down on the Enterprise always looking that way in the TOS era

 

[UssGlenn]

What are they after? We see Trekcore screencaps of "The Chase" and are told about a great treasure... based on what? They're extinct. Gone. Dead. There's no hint they have/had some super technology

based on stuff the Romulans discovered after the events of "The Chase"

 

[Nerys Myk]

Compared to SNW, it's really obvious how underdeveloped the rest of the bridge crew is. Was noticeable before but even more so with several years of SNW.

Do you see their names in the opening credits? They aren't there to be "developed". OTOH, look at who's names are in SNW's opening credits. The bridge crews aren't comparable.

 

[Tuskin38]

Looks like a wider beam though, not like a phaser

I think it’s a tractor beam

Edit:

TrekCulture has just posted their ups and downs for the episode

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[Paul755]

Spoiler: that ship

Unless it's displaced from the 2250's, they're doubling down on the Enterprise always looking that way in the TOS era

i don’t think…

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…its really doubling down…for Discovery anyway. They’ve always shown the Connie’s looking like the Discoprise. It’s all the other nu-Treks (save for SNW) that have either shown just the Classic Enterprise or a mix of both.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Fred = absynth!

I'm disappointed Michael asked Tilly to break the encryption to learn what Kovich was keeping from her. For one, it's reverting to her old habits of snubbing authority. And two, she should already have a blank check from Starfleet and the Federation for saving the Alpha Quadrant from the DMA.

 

[Blackout]

Spoiler: that ship

Unless it's displaced from the 2250's, they're doubling down on the Enterprise always looking that way in the TOS era

Spoiler

It very easily could be displaced from the 2250s, no reason to believe otherwise yet. We may even be about to see Mirror Pike.
My impression so far is that they seem content to let people believe John Eaves' intention that this is the 1701 as it appeared during the 2250s and that it could be later refit into the 2260s appearance, and to let the internet squabble about which length is canon while 97% of viewers don't even notice.
We'll have to see what year the ship traveled from once the episode airs!

 

[Charles Phipps]

Do you see their names in the opening credits? They aren't there to be "developed". OTOH, look at who's names are in SNW's opening credits. The bridge crews aren't comparable.

I think I know Detmer is gay and a cyborg but that's about it for the bridge crew.

 

[Tuskin38]

I know Detmer is gay

Where did you get that idea?

Memory-Alpha says she was dating a male crew member in Season 1.

Seán over at Trek Culture thinks this alien in Episode 1, behind Stamets at the party at the start of the episode, may be a Selay. I can kinda see it, looks reptilian, has wide head things

 

[fireproof78]

Fred = absynth!

I'm disappointed Michael asked Tilly to break the encryption to learn what Kovich was keeping from her. For one, it's reverting to her old habits of snubbing authority. And two, she should already have a blank check from Starfleet and the Federation for saving the Alpha Quadrant from the DMA.

No she shouldn't.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think I know Detmer is gay and a cyborg but that's about it for the bridge crew.

Might be bisexual. Not really sure. She's just there to deliver lines about where the ship is going. She's closing credits like the rest.

 

[cooleddie74]

Owo gets more to do than most of the bridge crew and even she doesn't get to do much. But I like it when she does get screentime.

 

[Scout101]

At least she’s one of the couple I can name… ‍