Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x01 - "The Vulcan Hello"

[Zonker]

Bickering first and second officers, recklessly sending the command staff into danger, routine maintenance mission that turns into something dangerous. Feels like proper Star Trek to me.

 

[guyute03]

"Remain Klingon"

 

[Tim Thomason]

And the Klingons later learned how expensive it was to maintain their Black Fleet, and decided just to yell and ignore dead bodies as empty shells. [/fan explanation number one]

 

[guyute03]

Phlox-like cat scan

 

[Balok's Decoy]

Vulcan schools!

 

[Tim Thomason]

There's coffee in that nebula. I mean Klingons. There's Klingons in that nebula.

 

[Mudd]

Phase cannon. Cute.


"Hey I've got an idea - let's make the Klingons we haven't seen in a century think we're going to attack them!

"I mean, we already accidentally killed one!

"What could possibly go wrong?"

Georgiou has Trump's grasp of diplomacy.

 

[Tim Thomason]

"No one has seen a Klingon in a hundred years. Not since Phlox the Destroyer turned them into smooth-headed freaks."

"Captain, I think they may have overcompensated their deformities."

 

[Mudd]

I'm watching long minutes of unidentifiable actors in immobile masks lumber s-l-o-w-l-y about and utter gibberish.

And that's the translated version.

 

[guyute03]

No idea where all this is going yet

 

[Hey Missy]

Soooo my cable went out during 60 Minutes and didn't come back until about 8:08 PM.
I had Star Trek DVR'd but the first 20 minutes or so (while the cable was out) didn't get recorded.

 

[trekfan_1]

not seen Klingon in nearly 100 years is canon error... battle of Donatu 5 anyone?

 

[Tim Thomason]

I don't know about you, but I'd rather my livestock didn't sense the coming of death. Less panic that way.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Oh, you want lens flare? We got your LENS FLARE!

 

[Tim Thomason]

not seen Klingon in nearly 100 years is canon error... battle of Danutu 5 anyone?

"Fleeting run-ins" now, according to the Admiral. I guess Donatu V, whatever happened to Michael's family, and *maybe Axanar* could all be some of those fleeting run-ins.

 

[Amaris]

This is moving so very slowly. I don't mind that it takes effort to get the ball rolling, but in nearly an hour the ball has barely been nudged. I wonder if some folks realize they're really only getting the first half of this premiere because the second half (Battle At The Binary Stars) is only on CBS All Access?

 

[CorporalClegg]

I thought the whole point of a Vulcan neck pinch was that humans weren't physically strong enough to do it?

 

[Mudd]

"Massive photonic activity."

Bright light. The Beacon of Kahless, or whatever.

Has anyone told the Klingons that it will be hundreds of years before most if their brethren see it?

Well, I'm sure that this is one bit that they will explain after the commercial.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

not seen Klingon in nearly 100 years is canon error... battle of Donatu 5 anyone?

I'm having no luck with google. Where's that referenced?

 

[Jadeb]

I'm watching long minutes of unidentifiable actors in immobile masks lumber s-l-o-w-l-y about and utter gibberish.

And that's the translated version.

The long scenes with the Klingons are killing the momentum for me. We get it already. And the flame thing was silly.

Seems like this could have been dispensed with more efficiently, but maybe I'm just anxious to see the Discovery.