Almost certainly so.
They had to save money on sets somewhere, but it was a damned confusing place to economize.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x02 - "Battle at the Binary Stars"
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Almost certainly so.
They had to save money on sets somewhere, but it was a damned confusing place to economize.
Yeah, I never will understand some of the corners cut. For examples, they could have sent a red shirt to the object with Burnham for safety; they could have had a longer (the episode was short enough to handle more screentime) and better lit courtroom scene with an advocate on her side.
Maybe when they are working on the show, in the moment and with the full understanding of the backstory, etc. the producers think everything is clear and don't include these extra bits, but to fresh viewers they just aren't 100% clear.
That was my only way to explain it too....
My way around this one is that inanimate objects need to be either on a pad, directly viewed, or scanned with a tricorder in order to beam up. But yeah, I thought it was a little contrived too.
They've been able to discern a ship is littered with bodies when they want to. Or beam any number of totally random objects before. TOS had been beaming containers back and forth to test the transporter when it wasn't even working properly.
Exactly. Scanners were able to pick up Klingon life signs there, and scanners should have been able to pick up the form Burnham was going to right before she was transported to the Shenzhou.
So, Jason Isaacs ("Captain Lorca") was right.Know what, folk? Negative or positive, yin or yang, there is one simple truth:
WE ARE ALL WATCHING
Mission accomplished.
Well, the Feds did have a Subspace Relay there. Given it's the edge of their territory they might also have some subspace sensor buoys that would relay info on ships or objects or phenomena approaching/near said border.
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Yeah, I found that that silly too. And conspicuous.
Voq's main squeeze, and out to kill Micheal Burnham!
The Klingons were cool, the cheesiness was the exact right level and the 3rd in command alien guy is both funny and deep.
In fairness as late as TNG, you needed a comm badge to lock onto even a living person (see Rascals) so this is consistent with some uses of the transporter previously. I say some, as the transporter has the same plot related variability in function as the shields, sensors and warp drive.
I'm sure Georgiou had a communicator on her. Seems like the electronics would've given them something to lock onto?
Unlike most people, I found episode 2 worse than episode 1.
Episode 1 had a little sense of wonder and some nice friendly banter and interaction.
Episode 2 was all about speechifying. All communication just moved the plot along; statements and speeches. The action was okay but I don't watch Trek for the action.
Episode 1 had a little sense of wonder and some nice friendly banter and interaction.
Episode 2 was all about speechifying. All communication just moved the plot along; statements and speeches. The action was okay but I don't watch Trek for the action.
True. I don't recall whether TOS ever established what their transporter locked onto.
Signs of Plot Importance, I'd wager.
I'm not sure, either. There were instances of them beaming up completely inanimate objects ("Dagger of the Mind" with beaming up the Tantalus cargo) and nothing to signify those items as far as life signs or a communicator, unless there were pre-arranged coordinates.
The transporters in Trek work and do not work as the plot dictates (as we saw in the beginning of the pilot).
One thing I do not understand is what the science guy is doing on the bridge of a starship. He looks like the alien who has been conquered countless times in the TNG episode where they transport Picard to a "laboratory". His first instinct and recommendation to the Captain (and he is acting XO at this time) is to withdraw immediately (turn tail), to which the Captain tells him that it's not an option since they are in Federation Territory with a hostile vessel, quite correctly. Yeah, I should start learning the names.
One thing I do not understand is what the science guy is doing on the bridge of a starship. He looks like the alien who has been conquered countless times in the TNG episode where they transport Picard to a "laboratory". His first instinct and recommendation to the Captain (and he is acting XO at this time) is to withdraw immediately (turn tail), to which the Captain tells him that it's not an option since they are in Federation Territory with a hostile vessel, quite correctly. Yeah, I should start learning the names.
A better question is why they sent Burnham at all instead of a Probe or someone from a race more resistant to Radiation?
I would have gone with a remote sensor probe, since it didn't matter if there was a crewmember in a space suit or not, due to the communications being jammed the closer she got.
Send a probe that sends telemetry, get readings and try to retrieve it.
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Transporters only lock onto plot armor, they say life signs and comm badges but they are obviously lying.
There's another transporter question I had too actually - Burnham's ejection from the brig shield, I thought "oh the transporters must be bust". But then not 5 minutes later they use them for their war crime.
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