Yet Discovery slides in, drops a couple of bombs and wipes out the remaining Klingons. A science vessel.
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Yet Discovery slides in, drops a couple of bombs and wipes out the remaining Klingons. A science vessel.
I didn't even think of that, the established point that Discovery is a science vessel! If that were the case, Grissom could have wiped out Kruge with a dirty look!Yet Discovery slides in, drops a couple of bombs and wipes out the remaining Klingons. A science vessel.
Hey, I agree. In the same way I agree thatn in the battle in TOS - "Journey to Babel" - why is it the Enterprise can withstand multiple hits; yet with one Phaswer hit, completely diable (and then the crew self destructs) the other ship?Yet Discovery slides in, drops a couple of bombs and wipes out the remaining Klingons. A science vessel.
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TOS - "Elaan of Troyius" - A Klingon D-7 makes 4 passes VS a 1701 running its shields from Impulse power -- little to no damage...yet one photon torpedo spread in return heavily damages and nearly destrys said D-7.
Conclusion: Federation space combat in the 23rd century is wierd.
[Seriously - yes, it's just bad writing with little thought given to what an actual siege situation might be in such a war.]
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She's a super special science vessel that can do all the work that top-of-the-line ships can!
What was it, 300 experiments at one time? Plus spin the saucer and bomb the hell out of the Klingons!
(but not stay to render assistance!)
The miners can wait for 75 hours for reinforcements to show up.
The weird thing to me was that both the Klingon ships and Discovery were engaging in combat in the lower atmosphere What the hell is wrong with the orbital bombardment which was depicted in every single series prior to this point?
They have more money now.
But orbital bombardment is realistic. If a naval ship is bombarding a coastal fortification, it doesn't come in to only a few hundred feet away in order to loom for dramatic purposes. It stays at the maximum distance at which its weapons will be accurate.
This show is all about dramatic purpose. None of it really makes sense in a real world setting. Honestly, little of Star Trek does. The big difference? Up until now I was willing to cut Trek some slack because it had likable characters. I can get the characters they are serving up now on pretty much any drama being produced.
So far the only two space combat scenes have sucked balls in this show though, failing completely dramatically. I mean, I know DS9 is way dated now, with 20 year old CGI, but the battles looked far better than anything we've seen on screen, which frankly has been too busy (in the second episode) or too quick (in the fourth episode) for me to feel much of anything.
A bit like a certain other sc-fi show lots of people seem to like on here...
If you're referring to The Orville, at least they know what they want to do with that series, and are doing it beautifully. It's not the one that has the ton of money and ton of people who were professing to know Star Trek inside and out and gave us flowery words to tell us how perfect DSC would be.
It still ain't there.
No it has a bunch of Star Trek Alums recycling previously done Star Trek plots. (Seriously) The only original episode so far was the pilot for the rest:
Command Performance = TOS - "The Cage"
About a Girl = TNG - "The Outcast"
If the Stars Should Appear = TOS - "And the World is Hollow For I have Touched the Sky"
Pria = TNG - "A Matter of Time"
IDK - but if I want to watch old Star Trek episodes, I'll watch the originals, thanks.
But they did it in a very sciencey way. OK, not really.Yet Discovery slides in, drops a couple of bombs and wipes out the remaining Klingons. A science vessel.
You'd think they could have stuck around to give the colony kiddies free tardigrade rides.
It's amazing that Starfleet finally decides to guard a strategic location with a fleet, after decades of leaving Earth undefended, and people are still complaining that they don't defend things because they didn't pay attention to what the characters said.
Yep because Discovery is the only Star Trek series that has the hero ship do things other ships can't, right?
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