- What deck is the shuttlebay and the engineering test lab on? There is arguably a break point between exiting the shuttle and starting to wander the corridors, but once they start running into the twisted remains of the Glenn's crew, everything seems to happen on the same level.
Putting too much distance or turbolifting between shuttle exit and the point where the convicts start asking questions about silver uniforms and black badges isn't a good idea. I'd be happy with Engineering being almost back-to-back with the Shuttlebay, as implied by the Jeffries Tube Grand Prix, and presumably also level with the Shuttlebay floor. That puts Engineering between the warp engines, in the thickest part of the secondary hull, and thus arguably also in a relative location consistent with TOS and with the
Shenzhou MSD.
For that matter, are Burnham and Tilly's quarters on the same deck as their test lab?
I haven't spotted signage or camera runs necessitating that yet. But I could certainly see Lorca arranging his specialists so that they don't have to spend much time in the "ordinary" parts of the ship...
- How long could the Klingons have been on the Glenn? Hours at most. Long enough for whatever ship that brought them there to have heard the screams of fellow Klingons being eaten and apparently abandoned the place, apparently.
Or then the Klingons remained in the vicinity, cloaked, seeing no advantage in blasting the approaching shuttle to pieces (and of course being too late in intercepting it on the way out, what with that crazy pilot who always hits Maximum Warp before fully closing the hatch).
Good questions about the geometry of the mushroomroom. It seems to me that when Burnham clears the breathalyzer door on 1031, she's immediately confronted by the sight of the funky fungi, there being no space or editing slot for a foyer with multiple entryways or whatnot. But perhaps a blooming accident leaves the mushroomroom empty (and harmless)
and opens up an easy way into the complex, the way a 500lb aerial bomb does?
Or then the
Glenn is of the sinister type when the
Discovery is dexterously configured, and only the furnishing of the central room remains unmirrored?
- This is probably the first chronological time that anyone says "shit" or "piss [someone] off", fight? Unless Zephram Cochrane says something in "First Contact", we have to subsequently waif for "Generations" and "Final Frontier" for this slang..?
Heh, I wouldn't count out Earth time travel adventures from ENT or perhaps VOY before actually watching those. Haven't actually seen even "11:59", though.
- Where exactly does Burnham get access to the Jeffries tubes from here? There's no specific entry we see her use. She sort of looks off to the side and upwards, but whatever access she uses has to be big enough for the kitty to use as well, unless the latter has rat-like abilities to squeeze through anything it can get its head into..?
One would think the set would have been built with this episode very specifically in mind (I mean, what other episode would it have been built for?)... But yeah, it does seem that the spacehog fits into the tubes themselves, and thus could also utilize the (wo)manhole Burnham spots.
- So are we going to assume that the next round of phaser upgrades would include a "disintegrate" setting? 'Cuz that would have been REALLY useful here, unless they wanted to avoid vaporizing part of the Glenn's warp core while they were that close to it. At least Burnham uses the "kill" setting Landry ordered earlier. And NO ONE has said "phase pistol", thank goodness.
...Because they had the sense to use the rifle here. And it was somewhat superior to a Type 2 in burning through a starship bulkhead.
I trust "vaporize" is just "kill" propagating through an unresisting target medium, and things like T'Kumva's armored neck resist the propagation more than Kirk's average humanoid target, while kitty here is so dense that any hit just digs a tiny pit on the surface before dying out.
- "Commander Airiam" is the latest in augmented-tech humanoids we encounter. She's science-division but seems to be sitting at an engineering console (?), as the graphic she's monitoring looks to be an internal schematic of whatever's under the floor of the engineering test lab. The supporting struts of whatever she's looking at are close, but don't quite match those seen on the actual set though, so who knows...
Good spotting. I wonder how many of the cool graphics on the bridge are actually up-to-date on the ultimate set or GCI model changes.
- The "Geneva Protocols of 1928 and 2155" is an oblique reference to stuff that happened at, or immediately as a result of the proto-Federation alliance talks from ENT "Demons" et. al. The actual big room scenes were not specifically set at any city on Earth, so they MAY have been in Geneva, but the "Starfleet HQ" livery everywhere suggests it was in San Francisco. But I digress.
Ah, good point - the establishing shots for the building with the UESPA carpet show classic Starfleet architecture but a generic landscape that may just as well be a re-wildernessized Lake Geneva as a funky angle on the San Francisco Bay.
- The way both Burnham and Saru speak of being a "first officer" implies they treat it as a rank, and not a position.
Intriguing, aka how so? Surely getting the position would be considered a "promotion", especially if the two shared rank.
- Lorca uses a site-to-site transport to get down to the test bay. Wasn't this a bigger deal when they did it in TOS? Or maybe Lorca is THAT forward thinking and really doesn't want to be seen with his new bestie?
"Cloud Minders" would have us believe it always has to be site-to-pad-to-site, but they could just have edited out the bit where the two briefly materialize on pads. "Day of the Dove" suggests one "rarely" beams inside a starship, although the reason quoted, need for precision, is bunk - you can't beam Kirk two centimeters too low onto the surface of Alpha Beta II½, either.
Then again, we still don't know if that was transporting, as we haven't seen the
Discovery transporter effect. Perhaps that was sporehopping, and Burnham just mistook it for an ordinary transport (or just maintained her Vulcan cool in face of the impossible)?
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