You can see out the view screen duringtheir jumps around T'Kuvma's ship and it's just a blue flash, so yeah.
Impressions after 15 episodes in a weekend
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DSC is a prequel. It would be crazy if there were no Star Trek lore on the show. And if they didn't include known Trek lore, the squawking from the fans complaining "if this show is a prequel, why isn't there any stuff we know exists in the Trekverse", would be deafening.
There wasn't a single fully comedic episode in all of season 1, especially the MU episodes. Perhaps we'll get one in season 2, since the show has established dramatic cred. There were some comedic scenes sprinkled throughout the season, but with the exception of "Magic", which I considered (somewhat) "whimsical" rather than fully comedic, there were no all out "funny" episodes.
Trained as a Vulcan, but not Vulcan. Spock had many "emotional responses", and he was only half human. So Burnham's actions weren't too farfetched.
Perhaps it's because you are comparing a season 5 TNG episode with DSC's season 1 episodes. By season 5, TNG was in full classic mode, had hit it's stride, with actors, writers, and crew, all in lock step. DSC appears to me to be moving in the same direction, especially considering it's first season was so much better than TNG's first season.
Yeah, references to Star Trek lore, not making it the main focus of a quarter of the episodes and the biggest twist of the season.
Might I point out that both DS9 and Ent used the MU during their runs, and both dedicated more than one full episode to this bit of Trek lore. Both DS9 and Voy made extensive use of Q, who was definitely part of Trek lore when those two shows aired.
Tilly: TNG had a perky teen sidekick (Wesley) serving on the bridge--and during crisis situations no less.
The spore drive: Yeah, that was absolutely less scientific than, say, an energy barrier around the galaxy that can turn humans into gods.
And Roddenberry was just fine with those. Heck, he put one them in the (second) pilot for STAR TREK.
My big problem with the Spore Drive was that they didn't do anything interesting with it.
I generally agree - to similar to BSG FTL jump drive - but I liked how they used it to photograph the cloaked ship. That was cool.
And that's one of the things she wrestled with afterward. She acted and truly thought of herself as Vulcan (and even Sarek felt that wasn't healthy for her, to be out of touch with her humanity and that's why he put her under Georgiou's command after the he found the Vulcan Academy would only accept either her or Spock; and he wanted that slot for Spock.
Burnham found deep down at her core she was still Human and not Vulcan when/after she it a very emotional fit of passion reaction, killed T'Kuvma
If only Voyager had the specs for the spore drive
That is another thing that doesn't really make a lot of sense. We know the Klingons have spies in the Federation, likely the Romulans as well. Once they opened the Pandora's Box that is the Spore Drive, someone was going to figure out how to complete it and use it.
I'm betting this season will explain that. I'm guessing the red anomalies are related to the Spore Drive use.
It only doesn't make sense if the spore drive is still functional or accessible at the end of Discovery. If it isn't then I fail to see the problem.
Yet.
The Spore Drive is basically a propulsion system. Saying DSC didn't do anything interesting with it is like complaining that they didn't do anything interesting with the impulse engines or warp drive. But I think the very existence of the drive was what was interesting. It could instantly get the ship to anyplace in the galaxy
But ultimately, the drive was a piece of tech, not a sentient being. Yet we still got a storyline on the difficulties of getting the drive up and running, which was used as a vehicle for character development for Burnham, Landry, Stammets, and Culber, not to mention Ripper, the 133 jumps, and the drive's relationship to Lorca's plan. Remember the amount of talk generated here about the number of Spore jumps on Lorca's chair control?
In retrospect, they actually did a helluva lot with the Spore Drive. Now whether or not you found it interesting is entirely up to you.
There really was not much exploring strange new worlds or seeking out new life and new civilizations during season 1, except maybe that episode with the huge tree antennae. Btw, that episode was a good change of pace. It wasn't primarily set on a ship. It was good to see Burnham, Ash and Suru outdoors on a planet and having to deal with unfamiliar aliens.
DSC season 1 seemed more similar to Star Wars than to the Star Trek series that came before it.
DSC season 1 seemed more similar to Star Wars than to the Star Trek series that came before it.
For good or ill, CBS will take us wherever the money is at.
Yeah, strange for a series billing itself "Discovery", I felt the Klingon War arc was too short, if they wanted to make the war feel real, they should have stretched it out several seasons like was done in DS9, the whole Mirror Universe side trip felt shoe-horned, and the idea that the Federation could only defeat the Klingons with the help of mirror Georgiou is a little bit insulting.
DSC seemed more like Star Wars? How so?
I wonder if the spore drive would be less problematic if it was the Quantum Filament Drive.
What is a Quantum filament drive? What I find problematic about the spore drive is if it dematerializes the ship to travel mycelium network, wouldn't it dematerialize itself? If so, how can it then rematerialize itself and the rest of the ship. Star Trek avoided this problem early by making the transporter an external device to the dematerialization process, how does Discovery solve this problem?
