Spoilers General Disco Chat Thread

[XCV330]

I was amazed at how hard people took that character's death after only a few minutes of screen time. That's proof right there that the show knows how to make side characters and main characters that people care about and can relate to in one way or another.

Connolly will always be with us

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Connolly will always be with us

Yeah let's move on. No need for another 19 pages of threads about it. So, how about that Disco?

 

[XCV330]

Yeah let's move on. No need for another 19 pages of threads about it. So, how about that Disco?

If you're asking me how Connolly, in his Glory, has caused me to see Discovery in a way that changed my life, I can only say that a dead begonia near my television came to life as his visage was first seen. Connolly's brief saintly life in Star Trek was one of humiliations and suffering which he bore willingly. He mansplained so that we did not have to. He took an asteroid to the head so that all us us could learn to take our own asteroids to the head in the form of learning more about the life of Connolly who Lives Within Us. You see.. we could claim that Connolly is our moral compass to help us watch Star Trek Discovery, but that is such a simple metaphor. Where was I?

 

[XCV330]

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

It's feeling a little personal now. But good news:

Spoiler

You can start a petition to get a prequel-of-the-prequel Connolly spin-off series up & running.

 

[SJGardner]

No matter what we do, we always get back to Connolly somehow. The gospel of the Church of Saint Connolly of the Debris Field will never be silenced.

 

[Lord Garth]

Is the Church of Saint Connolly sanctioned by Pope Roddenberry?

And if so: does it follow the Old 1966 Testament or the New 1987 Testament?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Is the Church of Saint Connolly sanctioned by Pope Roddenberry?

And if so: does it follow the Old 1966 Testament or the New 1987 Testament?

The Old TeStamemt of course.

 

[Lord Garth]

The Old Gene TeStament
The New Gene Testament

 

[DaveyNY]

 

[SJGardner]

There's the Early New Gene Testament too, but I hear its adherents are not a particularly big branch of the church.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Connolly re-awakened my already awakened homosexual yearnings. There was something about his square jaw and dudebro arrogance that turned me on. Don't ask me why.

 

[Succubint]

He really did remind me of Arnold Rimmer. Maybe his MU counterpart is a selfless hero, swell guy type.

 

[SJGardner]

He really did remind me of Arnold Rimmer. Maybe his MU counterpart is a selfless hero, swell guy type.

Well, that kind of behavior would presumably get him killed instantly in the Mirror Universe, so I support this wholeheartedly for its poetic symmetry. I mean, if Mirror Brunt could be a selfless, gentle guy...

 

[XCV330]

Connolly re-awakened my already awakened homosexual yearnings. There was something about his square jaw and dudebro arrogance that turned me on. Don't ask me why.

I should mention that my dead begonia was more spiritually dead than physically dead when the saint brrough it back. Also it was artificial, but still a damned good miracle as these things go.

 

[Nyotarules]

Completely agree. I work with people at my job who constantly struggle with emotional expression, how to say how they feel, and worried about how others perceive them. I personally appreciate the fact that there are characters who go through a high amount of emotional distress and yet their crewmates still support them, and they are allowed to do their duties.

If I now think of an optimistic future I want to imagine one where people can express how they feel and be accepted.

ITA considering how TNG alpha crew treated Reginald Barclay, they were no better than Spock's Vulcan school bullies.
I like to think it was retired, centenarian Admiral Tilly who suggested Jellico captain the ship of luvvies.

 

[seigezunt]

A local channel was showing all the previous series on a daily basis, so my DVR was recording them. I think Watched around 5 episodes each night, one of each series.

No judgement, I wish I could watch five episodes of anything a night

 

[seigezunt]

The Old Gene TeStament
The New Gene Testament

The Apocryphal Scriptures of Gene

 

[Lord Garth]

Devil's Scriptures from the 9th Circle of Hell

 

[SJGardner]

And the latest version, the upDated Scriptures Compendium.