Disco characters...

[jaime]

..ok, I have talked before elsewhere about Tilly being very much in the vein of Harry Kim, and I know I have mentioned how Burnham Basically has a very similar character bio to Tom Paris, but...it only just hit me how far that goes. Her significant other is literally a half-Human half-Klingon, with issues around that Klingon side that they process and come to adapt into themselves...

What are other people seeing, what’s the mix of influences you see in Disco characters?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Tilly is a Kim?

 

[Discofan]

The one that has visible implants on her face... she'd be a kind of Seven Of Nine.

 

[jaime]

Tilly is a Kim?

Socially awkward, lowest ranked officer in the leads, overbearing mother, engineering genius, befriends the ex-con specialist, who takes her under her wing. Tilly and Burnham, or, change the gendered pronouns, Harry and Tom.

 

[cultcross]

She got promoted. Kim got nothing on her.

 

[jaime]

The one that has visible implants on her face... she'd be a kind of Seven Of Nine.

It’s a very strong visual echo isn’t it.

 

[Discofan]

It’s a very strong visual echo isn’t it.

Yes, it is.

 

[Tim Thomason]

The Discovery character Sarek is a complete rip-off of Sarek, Spock's father, from TOS. They're both Ambassadors to Earth, both Vulcans, both fathers to a main character, and even both have the same name.

Discovery really needs to add some originality to its cast.

 

[Discofan]

The Discovery character Sarek is a complete rip-off of Sarek, Spock's father, from TOS. They're both Ambassadors to Earth, both Vulcans, both fathers to a main character, and even both have the same name.

Discovery really needs to add some originality to its cast.

Yeah, they're both the same person.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Yeah, they're both the same person.

Correct. I'll give you a chance to re-read what I posted, perhaps in a different tone this time.

 

[gblews]

The Discovery character Sarek is a complete rip-off of Sarek, Spock's father, from TOS. They're both Ambassadors to Earth, both Vulcans, both fathers to a main character, and even both have the same name.

Discovery really needs to add some originality to its cast.

I think some may have missed the position of the sarcasm switch.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Discovery character Sarek is a complete rip-off of Sarek, Spock's father, from TOS. They're both Ambassadors to Earth, both Vulcans, both fathers to a main character, and even both have the same name.

Discovery really needs to add some originality to its cast.

They should have just used Sarek if they were going to do that.

 

[Discofan]

Correct. I'll give you a chance to re-read what I posted, perhaps in a different tone this time.

I thought that made it even more of a rip-off.

 

[Discofan]

Speaking of Vulcans. In Spock's time Vulcan's sexuality was a so closely guarded secret that even McCoy knew nothing about it. in T'Pol's time everybody knows about it and it's even a subject of casual conversation between Trip and Malcolm.
Whatever happened in the meantime?

 

[Refuge]

Tilly is a Kim?

Tilly is more like Neelix.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Speaking of Vulcans. In Spock's time Vulcan's sexuality was a so closely guarded secret that even McCoy knew nothing about it. in T'Pol's time everybody knows about it and it's even a subject of casual conversation between Trip and Malcolm.
Whatever happened in the meantime?

Trip died. Malcolm disappeared. I'm not saying it was Vulcans... but it was Vulcans.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Tilly is more like Neelix.

She's a Chekov.

 

[Refuge]

She's young like as in raw and smart like Chekov but does that morale boosting thing Neelix did. Bordering on comic relief.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She's young like as in raw and smart like Chekov but does that morale boosting thing Neelix did. Bordering on comic relief.

Cheklix. Don't tell Janeway.

 

[Discofan]

Lorca definitely makes more sense as a member of the MU than as a member of the RU.