Yeah, Tarka's going home, all felonies forgiven.
It’s been quite a journey and it was very interesting for us in the [writers’] room to create a species somewhat unlike any we’d seen and to build mystery around the species. And I can say that in the episodes to come, yes, we will learn more, and the mystery will only deepen… It’s unlike anything we’ve done on the show before. And it’s unlike a species we’ve seen before. And it felt important to us to really dig deep with that and explore that in a way that felt right for our show and right for Trek, specifically in the world of Trek.
Sedín remained the driving force behind the Borg Collective, assimilating new species and new technology into her gestalt and relentlessly seeking the Omega molecule, the ultimate source of energ
Nicely put! That sums up why this season is resonating so much with me.The season as a whole is about seemingly impossible divides and the will to maintain them. It's about whether grief is relative or grief is grief.
::applause::To get there they'll have to pass through Reaver territory.
My prediction:
Arthur Dent / Michael Burnham, a hapless human, is devastated following the destruction of the Earth by the Vogons / Species 10-C (a race of unpleasant and bureaucratic aliens) to make way for an intergalactic bypass. Burnham's adventures intersect with several other characters: Ford Prefect / Cleveland Booker (an alien and researcher for the eponymous guidebook / alien guide nicknamed Book who rescues Burnham from Earth's destruction), Zaphod Beeblebrox / Laira Rillak (the Galactic / Federation President who has stolen / boarded the Heart of Gold / USS Discovery — a spacecraft equipped with Infinite Improbability Drive / Displacement-Activated Spore Hub Drive), the depressed robot / AI Marvin the Paranoid Android / Zora, and Trillian / Tilly who is a woman Arthur / Burnham once met at a party / went to a party with in Islington / on Discovery and who — thanks to Beeblebrox's / President Rillak's invitation to teach at Starfleet Academy — is the only other human survivor / one of many human survivors of Earth's destruction.
In their travels, Arthur / Burnham comes to learn that the Earth was actually a giant supercomputer, created by another supercomputer, Deep Thought / The Other Evil Tentacle AI from Picard which is totally going to turn out to be Control with time travel capability. Deep Thought / Control had been built by its creators to give the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", which, after eons of calculations, was given simply as "42 / 47". Deep Thought / Control was then instructed to design the Earth supercomputer to determine what the Question actually is. The Earth was subsequently destroyed by the Vogons moments before its calculations were completed, and Burnham becomes the target of the descendants of the Deep Thought / Control creators, believing his / her mind must hold the Question, because Burnham is the center of the universe. With his / her friends' / Books help, Arthur / Burnham escapes and they decide to have lunch at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, before embarking on further adventures.
Book's glow face ability might be similar to ESP, so if anyone is silvereyeified it's gonna be him
I think Book gets the Gary Mitchell deluxe package, recreates Kwejian and either appoints himself as the planet's eternal beneficent guardian or duffs himself when he realises that much power with ultimately consume him. Maybe he goes all "Bad Wolf" and eradicates the 10-C for funsies.Book's glow face ability might be similar to ESP, so if anyone is silvereyeified it's gonna be him
I think Book gets the Gary Mitchell deluxe package, recreates Kwejian and either appoints himself as the planet's eternal beneficent guardian or duffs himself when he realises that much power with ultimately consume him. Maybe he goes all "Bad Wolf" and eradicates the 10-C for funsies.
Either way, bye-bye Book. Discovery gets its "big character" kiss off for the season. Burnham gets Grudge and the chance to deliver a tearful half-hour eulogy.
An interesting extrapolation of what all-consuming grief can do to a person.
Thanks. It's one of the perils of being a writer: chasing down those darkest alleys becomes a habit.An interesting extrapolation of what all-consuming grief can do to a person.
You have a principal actor under contract to play the ship's chief physician, but watching someone treat hangnails and dislocated shoulders in deep space isn't as sexy as it used to be. Since Discovery's writer's room would rather disintegrate, incinerate, or outright chuck some bloke out a hull breach, there's not much for the ship's medical staff to do. So the job of shrink gets added to Doctor Culber's plate.In fact, Culber was appointed Disco counellor. I mean, WHY?
You have a principal actor under contract to play the ship's chief physician, but watching someone treat hangnails and dislocated shoulders in deep space isn't as sexy as it used to be. Since Discovery's writer's room would rather disintegrate, incinerate, or outright chuck some bloke out a hull breach, there's not much for the ship's medical staff to do. So the job of shrink gets added to Doctor Culber's plate.
That's one of the pitfalls of starships travelling hither and yon in the blink of an eye. Space is supposed to be big. Really big. [cue Douglas Adams]
Instantaneous travel has a deleterious effect on the supporting cast. There's no room for their characters to breathe. We learned loads about Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty, and even Spock during those periods of downtime. Now it has to be manufactured out of the blue or, worse, have an entire episode dedicated to ne're-before hinted at abilities of, say, the ship's navigator.
ST: DISCO is a master class in how to assemble an intriguing ensemble of characters, marginalise the majority of them, and focus on the headliners. Yes, we've gotten a scant few episodes that deal with the peripheral characters, but they are largely superficial and don't genuinely add to their backstories in a meaningful way.
And allowing a degree of downtime for the secondary characters to express themselves wouldn't change that? Riiiiiight.I don't think instantaneous travel is the problem here.
The problem lies in Disco writers inputting lots of side stuff most of the time and using only the select few from the main cast as opposed to progressing the secondary characters with the main story arc itself.
When?We learned loads about Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty, and even Spock during those periods of downtime
mccoy occasionally doubled as ship’s counsellor, so it’s not really unheard of.In fact, Culber was appointed Disco counellor. I mean, WHY?
He's a medical doctor. Its one thing to have assisted the crew in a self-appointed counselling capacity when they didn't have one onboard, but its something else when the crew arrived at HQ and the ship underwent a 3 week refit to get upgraded with 32nd century technology.
mccoy occasionally doubled as ship’s counsellor, so it’s not really unheard of.
And allowing a degree of downtime for the secondary characters to express themselves wouldn't change that? Riiiiiight.
It's called story pacing, and DISCO doesn't get it.
LOL. OK, you go with that. Not my problem if you can't pay attention.When?
Other than Spock, the TOS cast were a group of gimmicked extras with zero development. Uhura is only getting a backstory this year in Strange New Worlds.
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