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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x03 - "Jinaal"

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Then it all ends with Gray's monologue, clobbering you over the head with the central message if you somehow missed the subtext - there is only one right way to do being a person, and that's to be open and emotionally available.

This may be right in real life, but it's not what I want to see on the screen. I wonder what these writers would do with a character like Worf, Odo, or O'Brien sometimes.

Keep clobbering Discovery! Much like the half-black, half-white aliens we are nowhere near to learning the lessons, sad as it may be.
 
Can the costume designers please make up their minds as to how these uniforms work when they're unzipped? :lol:
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I got distracted near the end, have the simbionts been tricked into believing that they have a much shorter life span than they actually do, so they should commit ritual suicide after 8 centuries? I only ask because I've seen that story before.

Even if the Simbionts are only pretending to die, swimming off into the deep end, so that that the Trill stop riding them around like community bicycles, I've also seen that story before too.

The books have symbiotes getting too big to be implanted, and then the really big old ones live deep in the caves.

Can the costume designers please make up their minds as to how these uniforms work when they're unzipped? :lol:
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high tech invisible seams, so you can do it either way.
 
Why what? It just seems inconsistent; Reno's unzipps to where the collar "flap" comes apart" while Culber's has it remain as one piece, which is how they all look when zipped up. If Reno zipped her's up you'd see a seam on her collar's rank placard-thing.

My guess is the IRL reason is they made hers to always be unzipped whereas Culber's was made to be closed and that's how it's supposed to look when unzipped. My question is simply why not make Reno's function like Culber's/everyone else's? Total minor nitpick but I still found it interesting.
 
Why what? It just seems inconsistent; Reno's unzipps to where the collar "flap" comes apart" while Culber's has it remain as one piece, which is how they all look when zipped up. If Reno zipped her's up you'd see a seam on her collar's rank placard-thing.

My guess is the IRL reason is they made hers to always be unzipped whereas Culber's was made to be closed and that's how it's supposed to look when unzipped. My question is simply why not make Reno's function like Culber's/everyone else's? Total minor nitpick but I still found it interesting.
I figured that different departments have different requirements, as well as the fact that Reno's uniform seemed more easily modified for engineering duties.
 
Why what? It just seems inconsistent; Reno's unzipps to where the collar "flap" comes apart" while Culber's has it remain as one piece, which is how they all look when zipped up. If Reno zipped her's up you'd see a seam on her collar's rank placard-thing.

My guess is the IRL reason is they made hers to always be unzipped whereas Culber's was made to be closed and that's how it's supposed to look when unzipped. My question is simply why not make Reno's function like Culber's/everyone else's? Total minor nitpick but I still found it interesting.

Perhaps medical staff have different clothing requirements than engineering, so the styling is geared more to functionality than uniformity.
In reality the costume designers have no clue how a uniformed service works, thus the cast is clad multi-form rather than uni-form. :D
 
I always got the impression it didn’t work because they used protomatter and/or because it was done on a nebula and not a planet. Theres one in the vault in Picard season 3 which might indicate they have fixed the bugs.
A lot of what we saw in the Vault were things to be weaponized (Kirk corpse was thinly thing I we saw that didn't;t have a weapons application). The Genesis device is a failure, but it's also a single weapon thats capable of destroying a planet. You would think they would keep it (especially if outlawed) for that valuable if nefarious function.

And David is fairly clear that his use promotmatter was what get it to work and that is why is was breaking apart. At that point in time, they didn't have success without it.
 
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I know but this is a different era. It would let some of the other cast to shine. Not every episode needs to be Michael.
Not every episode needs to centered on Kirk. With very few exceptions Kirk was the key figure in almost every single episode of his series.

And yes it's a different era, to assume it follows a more TNG style isn't rational (DS9 from that same period had Sisko out front and center in more mission than Picard was). Heck in many ways this Federation is far less organized and evolved than what TNG's Federation was. It's still a shell of itself.

As for why it's a Micheal show, because that how the show was planned. It's really as simple as that. There is literally nothing to say Trek needs to be well balanced ensemble show. Again TOS wasn't a well balanced ensemble show.
 
A lot of what we saw in the Vault were things to be weaponized (Kirk corpse was thinly thing I we saw that didn't;t have a weapons application). The Genesis device is a failure, but it's also a single weapon thats capable of destroying a planet. You would think they would keep it (especially if outlawed) for that valuable if nefarious function.

We know from Lower Decks that there are properly working Genesis Device's in the 24th century.
 
We know from Lower Decks that there are properly working Genesis Device's in the 24th century.
I actually don't remember if they state in the season if the Genesis Device is actually safe to use (and by someone not a bit of a raving loon).

We do know that Carol asks is it stable, and the response is that it seems to be. Not exactly glowing proof that the technology is safe and works properly.

The fact that Carol even ask if its stable and that the answer isn't yes, concerns me (thats the part I remember).

But I freely admit I rarely rewatch Lower Decks for fine details.

The real question is does the Genesis Device provide a matrix to create the evolutionary pattern to create intelligent life? We know Carol describes it as, "instead of a dead moon, a living breathing planet capable sustaining whatever life we see fit to deposit on it"

That doesn't indicate the device was designed to create complex life forms. She also states how long it took Starfleet Corps of engineers to hollow out the area used (10 months), but the matrix formed in a day, and that lifeforms grew at a substantially accelerated rate. The script describes water, and plant life. I thought the film also showed in a matte shot a flying animal. I can't find it when I keyed up the scene. But that doesn't mean it was created by the matrix it could have been life deposited as she describes in the briefing. In Search for Spock. dp we see any life that isn't something that wasn't likely deposited by the arriving of Spock's torpedo coffin and the material inside it? There are far more scenes in that film, I don't watch to rewatch it. Anyone know?
 
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