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This is exactly the same as the Enterprise being the only ship in the quadrant every episode or film.
Anyone else think Sarek tried to stand in for a Tardigrade? The injury seems similar to where the big ass needles go in, the Vulcan ship does have a spinny ring.
It's probably not that, but it could be.
It's not the same, it's much better than that. Enterprise being the only capable ship had to happen by chance each time. Whereas Discovery itself is unique. The explanation is literally the premise of the show.
...Of course the concept of "Lorca may reveal S-drive secrets, send the S-drive ship after him!" smells to high heaven.
Why not send a conventional ship or fifty? It's not as if the Klingon ship would be too fast to capture by conventional means. And the Discovery is no better equipped to rescue Lorca than a regular warship would be, quite the opposite - but this is not required, as killing Lorca will perfectly suffice, too.
The real forte of the Discovery is the quick escape. But again, escape is not a requirement.
Shouldn't it be better to send three conventional ships, have them blast the jail ship to bits, and then hope that perhaps one of the three ships makes it out, than to offer the S-drive to the Klingons on a spinning platter?
Timo Saloniemi
Why not send a conventional ship or fifty? It's not as if the Klingon ship would be too fast to capture by conventional means. And the Discovery is no better equipped to rescue Lorca than a regular warship would be, quite the opposite - but this is not required, as killing Lorca will perfectly suffice, too.
The real forte of the Discovery is the quick escape. But again, escape is not a requirement.
Shouldn't it be better to send three conventional ships, have them blast the jail ship to bits, and then hope that perhaps one of the three ships makes it out, than to offer the S-drive to the Klingons on a spinning platter?
Timo Saloniemi
Wasn't the Admiral's worry about the need to get it done as quickly possible the reason for giving the Discovery the mission?
Sure it is, since "meh" is actually used by people, and its use is attested since at least the 1990s by both Mirriam-Webster and OED.
Language is something alive and dynamic, not static, and it follows actual usage. So if a new word is invented, or if a word is borrowed from another language, and becomes commonly used, then it becomes part of the language by definition. Conversely, if words or certain structures and syntax are changed or dropped from common use altogether, then those old forms are no longer part of the contemporary language.
Otherwise we should all still be speaking like Beowulf. "Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena in geār-dagum þēod-cyninga þrym gefrūnon, hū þā æðelingas ellen fremedon."
Kor
Yup. It causes a lot of worthless arguments.
Which, when you think about it, made no sense, considering Lorca didn't understand enough of the theory to possibly make it work. Now if they captured Stamets as well, the Federation might be in trouble.
It's the oooold star trek writer's crutch. Like, in the first two seasons of TNG, how many episode's hijinks began with a scientific or exploration mission? About 3.
How many episodes began with a "distress call"? About 30.
Even if Discovery is leaning on the same crutch, they're trying to jazz it up. In one episode it's a destroyed relay, in another, a destroyed ship, in another, a colony in distress(okay, that's the least jazzed up), and in another, It's their own captain who's in distress. And in another it's ambassador nice vulcan, with a psychic distress call. Now that's how you do a distress call!
I don't think they know how his "ghost ship" ghosts, they just figure he's can tell them enough.
But Lorca was too tough for these cowardly Klingons!
L'Rell "How many lights, Lorca!"
Lorca, "I don't know, I can't see, and I don't care. Go to the devil..."
Yeah, sure. It is just that this is a bit special case because there is the moral implications for the drive and they have to debate each time who gets to be tortured this time to solve the urgent emergency.It's the oooold star trek writer's crutch. Like, in the first two seasons of TNG, how many episode's hijinks began with a scientific or exploration mission? About 3.
How many episodes began with a "distress call"? About 30.
Even if Discovery is leaning on the same crutch, they're trying to jazz it up. In one episode it's a destroyed relay, in another, a destroyed ship, in another, a colony in distress(okay, that's the least jazzed up), and in another, It's their own captain who's in distress. And in another it's ambassador nice vulcan, with a psychic distress call. Now that's how you do a distress call!
I remember somebody (Fuller? Kurtman?) said that he hates the Klingon Ship's neck. Maybe Fuller, at the beginning of this year. But I can be wrong. Because it's been so long.
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I think it may have been Fuller as he was the one pushing for a complete overhaul of the klingon makeup. I think the idea of re-imagining everything about the Klingons gave him a boner.
what a jerkface.
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