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

[rhllot]

Yes, but that was in Kelvinverse so it doesn't apply.

we do not know, maybe they have these elements in the main timeline, we do not know much about section 31 yet

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yes, but that was in Kelvinverse so it doesn't apply.

That's what they want you to believe

 

[Longinus]

we do not know, maybe they have these elements in the main timeline, we do not know much about section 31 yet

Less we know about it, the better.

 

[donners22]

Except you don't get to make that decision. Trek is Trek. If you don't like it, well, there's nothing you can really do about it.

I know. "Them" was referring to those who claim it isn't Trek. Personally, I think it's great.

Anyway, is it supposed to be on Netflix? I can see only the first After Trek there.

Yep, it started automatically for me after the latest episode.

 

[rhllot]

Less we know about it, the better.

I think we will know many things in the future and see many things like that base on the asteroid

 

[Guy Gardener]

There's a point where Luthor Sloan admits that Section 31 exists, but he'd just made the name up for bashir...

Bill Saddler just did a few episodes of Day 5.

A Gruesome final episode.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I'm more perplexed by why they blew up a perfectly salvageable ship. I mean it is the Klingons' job to blow up Starfleet ships.

Stamets indicated that the hull integrity had been compromised. Explaining to Starfleet how that happened would be troublesome, to say the least. Then there's the curiously mangled bodies of the crew. Knowing Starfleet, they'd have all sorts of annoying questions, there would be investigations, a big mess. Easier to destroy the ship near Klingon space and call it a war casualty.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

Lorca received a message about the Glenn from Starfleet Command. So, there were people in Starfleet Command who knew about the The Project.

Stamets said he spotted damage on the Glenn which was reflective of a basidiosac rupture. I looked at the model for this damage - I did not see it. It would have helped if the CGI artists had damaged the model, otherwise it looks like they destroyed a fully intact ship.

 

[JWPlatt]

Yep, the ship is still hideous

Agreed. I thought it was going to be a resurrected garbage scow mated with an obsolete junk yard Klingon ship. No, it's a brand new pride of the Federation.



The interiors are nice though, and the show is good so far, except canon of course. Oh well. "Fuck canon," as they say.

 

[nutshell]

Love the ship's exterior. Couple glory shots were very impressive. I love the ship much more than expected.

 

[Vger23]

Love the ship's exterior. Couple glory shots were very impressive. I love the ship much more than expected.

I agree. Best hero ship design since the Enterprise E in 1996. Light years ahead of most of the other modern series ships.

1. Refit Enterprise
2. Original Enterprise
3. Enterprise E
4. Discovery
5. Enterprise D
6. Defiant
7. Enterprise NX01
8. Voyager

 

[JWPlatt]

...Couple glory shots were very impressive...

I'd like to see it sucked down a giant glory hole. The crew escapes and are are given a respectable ship that isn't a mutant from the apocalypse.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

While the prologue episodes left me flat and very much in doubt that Discovery would be worth watching, this episode turned it around for me. I get Lorca. I understand his mindset, his willingness not only to go into the grey areas, but exploit everything he finds there in the name of the greater good as he sees it. Getting his hands dirty isn't a problem for him. Neither is getting them bloody. He's certain he is right and his methods justified, and that makes him as dangerous as the Klingons, if not more so. This is a fascinating turn that intrigues me to no end.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Love the ship's exterior. Couple glory shots were very impressive. I love the ship much more than expected.

It was great to finally see tractor beam handoffs work in a logical fashion for a change.

 

[Ometiklan]

Can the Discovery extend it's warp bubble to tow the Glenn home?...

I think that it simply was that the shroom experiment damaged the ship sufficiently that they couldn't trust trying to return it to service - think of the antimatter containment suddenly failing. And I think the proximity to Klingon territory only made them that much more sure of the decision not to even try to tow it.

 

[Mr Awe]

Well, now we know they're reaching back into all things Trek. It's an okay level of referencing right now. I just hope it doesn't get to be ALL referential.

The cool thing is that you don't have to catch those references and it still works!

 

[rhllot]

Yeah it's pretty silly to complain about fans being divided when you fundamentally change the franchise into a war drama. Of course many (or most) fans who liked the previous shows won't be too happy about that. But I think a lot of us are willing to give this a chance. But even as a war drama it has some serious issues. Waaaay too much emphasis is being placed on Michael. She's a good character, but we don't need to be reminded of her skill with quantum physics, programming, biotechnology, and martial arts every 5 minutes. She got sentenced to life in prison and is now going on away missions and personally saving everyone's life one episode later. The constant validation and ego stroking just makes no sense if they're trying to convince us that she's fallen from grace.

dominion war is my favorite star trek story

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah it's pretty silly to complain about fans being divided when you fundamentally change the franchise into a war drama.

It's one season of one show, not the entire franchise. DS9 did several seasons of "war drama".

Waaaay too much emphasis is being placed on Michael. She's a good character, but we don't need to be reminded of her skill with quantum physics, programming, biotechnology, and martial arts every 5 minutes. She got sentenced to life in prison and is now going on away missions and personally saving everyone's life one episode later. The constant validation and ego stroking just makes no sense if they're trying to convince us that she's fallen from grace.

She's the lead character and it's a new show so it's nice to know her background and skills.
Sometime has passed between episode 2 and 3. So in universe she didn't go from court martial to the Discovery immediately.
She's still out of grace for many of the characters. Right now she's on a path to redemption. She's not there yet. Not sure where the "ego stroking" was.

 

[Jaimito]

I want a gorn skeleton. Dear Santa..

they should merchandise that.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I want a gorn skeleton. Dear Santa..

Maybe this year's Hammacher-Schlemmer catalogue will feature a Lorca Collection.