Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x03 - "Context is for Kings"

[cooleddie74]

A little weirdness with Tully's "Is that a book?!" reaction, but you can take your choice of whether that's because she's excited about everything, or printed books, like holographic communications (and fortune cookies, apparently, not to mention 3D movies in real life), cycle in and out of popularity in the Trek universe, and they're out of fashion in the 2250s.

It could be she just hasn't been exposed to too many books, or didn't bother to leaf through any of the old printed books in the archives of the Academy when she was in San Francisco. Captain Pike has printed books on the shelves of his quarters aboard the Enterprise and "The Cage" takes place just two and a half years or so before tonight's episode of DSC. I think she's just led a sheltered life due to her anxiety disorder and other personality traits and just didn't spend a lot of time around printed books and other materials.

 

[The Shrike]

Was that monster a giant Tardigrade? Anyway this one was fantastic.

"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."

 

[Amasov]

The DS9 pilot literally put humans where humans have ever been before.

So far all Discovery has done is put humans in a war (a place most humans have been before) and in a magic fairy dust box than the audience knows is never going to work.

You don't speak for the entire audience.

 

[Gepard]

Eh, it was fine. Not great, but fine.

It occurred to me about midway through the episode that if I had applied to TNG as a child the standards and expectations I now hold as an adult, I would never ever have enjoyed a single episode of Star Trek.

That being the case I signed up for the free trial of All Access, with the intention of getting the free month via cancellation attempt.

Stray observations:

Tilly looked like a live-action Merida from Pixar's Brave in that last scene. Heh.

That was one of the Preserver's obelisks visible on Andor during Michael's tour of the galaxy.

Security Officer Tory Foster (didn't catch her name) is an asshole.

Michael's prison jumpsuit looked like a better Starfleet uniform than the actual Starfleet uniforms.

Any time DSC brings us some new bit of tech like the holographic video phones I love it. Any time they do a hoary old Trek cliche like Jeffries tubes I roll my eyes. More new, less old please.

The dialog was better this week, but barely above serviceable. At least none of the performances made me wince.

I liked the bridge set better in its Shenzhou configuration than its Discovery configuration. Wish they'd swapped the designs.

I'll keep watching but I really hope the show gets better because I want to love it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

A little weirdness with Tully's "Is that a book?!" reaction, but you can take your choice of whether that's because she's excited about everything, or printed books, like holographic communications (and fortune cookies, apparently, not to mention 3D movies in real life), cycle in and out of popularity in the Trek universe, and they're out of fashion in the 2250s.

I dunno. Kinda fits in with Court Martial

COGLEY: What's the matter? Don't you like books?
KIRK: Oh, I like them fine, but a computer takes less space.
COGLEY: A computer, huh? I got one of these in my office. Contains all the precedents. The synthesis of all the great legal decisions written throughout time. I never use it.
KIRK: Why not?
COGLEY: I've got my own system. Books, young man, books. Thousands of them. If time wasn't so important, I'd show you something. My library. Thousands of books.
KIRK: And what would be the point?
COGLEY: This is where the law is. Not in that homogenised, pasteurised, synthesiser. Do you want to know the law, the ancient concepts in their own language, Learn the intent of the men who wrote them, from Moses to the tribunal of Alpha 3? Books.
KIRK: You have to be either an obsessive crackpot who's escaped from his keeper or Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law.

 

[JoeCabby]

Awesome episode. More than Ive been expecting from this series. This was the kind of episode i was expecting from the initial pilots.

 

[ichab]

Big improvement over the previous episodes. Now this is more like it.

 

[Albinator]

Am I the only one who liked Tilly? Sort of reminded me of Barclay. And I like that she's not a sexy, slim, "eye candy" actress there to attract teen boys. I like that the cast feels, generally, like real people i'd encounter out in the world.

 

[CorporalClegg]

You don't speak for the entire audience.

Okay. Can you provide some evidence that what I said isn't true.

Remember - The producers have made a big deal out of the fact that the show is the prime universe, and they're not going to violate any canon.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm a Tilly fan.

 

[Vger23]

I like the interior of the Discovery a lot. It's clear in the dialogue that the Discovery is a newer class than the Constitution-class starships.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Am I the only one who liked Tilly? Sort of reminded me of Barclay. And I like that she's not a sexy, slim, "eye candy" actress there to attract teen boys. I like that the cast feels, generally, like real people i'd encounter out in the world.

I would like her more if there wasn't a dozen more of her out there in TV land.

 

[Tuskin38]

Am I the only one who liked Tilly? Sort of reminded me of Barclay. And I like that she's not a sexy, slim, "eye candy" actress there to attract teen boys. I like that the cast feels, generally, like real people i'd encounter out in the world.

Someone else in the thread said they liked her.

 

[Tuskin38]

I like the interior of the Discovery a lot. It's clear in the dialogue that the Discovery is a newer class than the Constitution-class starships.

The prisoners seemed to think she was brand new, too clean.

Sounds like maybe the Crossfield(?) class was built for this research.

 

[DigificWriter]

Tilly is going to need to grow on me a bit more before I can say for sure that I like her, but I do like the way Mary Wiseman and SMG play off of each other, and I have this feeling that she and Burnham are going to end up becoming "besties".

 

[Tuskin38]

Tilly is going to need to grow on me a bit more before I can say for sure that I like her, but I do like the way Mary Wiseman and SMG play off of each other, and I have this feeling that she and Burnham are going to end up becoming "besties".

She might become a mentor.

 

[cooleddie74]

And the Constitution-class starships are about 10-12 years old and have been in space for roughly a decade at this point, possibly seeing action in the incident at Axanar (which we now know didn't involve the Klingons so the theories of who and which species and worlds were involved will now have to be revamped) before the Discovery and her sister ship even had their keels laid in drydock.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Tilly is going to need to grow on me a bit more before I can say for sure that I like her, but I do like the way Mary Wiseman and SMG play off of each other, and I have this feeling that she and Burnham are going to end up becoming "besties".

Which will be news to Burnham.

 

[Prax]

Just finished.
-Huge improvement in cinematography
-Isaacs is good as I expected. Probably the best in acting
-Overall story is good. Very reminiscent of such episodes as: In a mirror Darkly, Impulse, and maybe Tholian Web, Genesis, et al.
-dialogue still very bonk bonk over the head almost all of the time. What's a good word for the opposite of subtle? Oh, and I hate sand.
-dialogue also kind of...makes me eyes roll and/or cringe. Especially Madame security sergeant.
-acting...ehhh. Isaacs is good. The really tall alien is pretty good.
-Beating up fellow convicts-holy cliché fight scene, Batman!

I better leave it there. My 1 week free trial ends tomorrow, and I'm torn. Like many other heavily serialized shows, they zip by in a blink, and then it's over. It's been 1 week, and we are already 20% done with the season!

Disclaimer: All of the above was IMO

 

[Albinator]

I would like her more if there wasn't a dozen more of her out there in TV land.

I guess I don't watch enough TV.