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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x06 - "Lethe"

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I’m not going to grade this episode yet. It was really hard to watch with the buffering issues. The plot that I saw was pretty good but the whole reason why Burnham went into Sarek’s mind and what Sarek did was lost on me.

I did like the stuff with Lorca though and still find him the most interesting character on the show. I just wish this episode was easier to watch than it was.

CBS All Access gets a 1 tonight.
 
For everything DSC gets wrong they absolutely nail other aspects more closely than we could have expected. The hand phasers. Tricorders. Communicators. The food synthesizers.

The show makes me angry and then five minutes later I want to hug the s**t out of it. That's not healthy.

They also brought back the little computer tape thingies.

I loved hearing the name drop of the Enterprise. That excited me so much more than Spock being mentioned.

She's out there, folks. Now we just have to hope that when they show her she won't be retconned as a giant garbage scow with eight thruster nozzles hanging off her backside.

Well they already used the worst design for the Enterprise for Discovery so I'm not too worried. Of course now I must curse Discovery for making that thing grow on me.
 
9/10
The minute Lorca started rationalizing putting the admiral on a diplomatic mission it had a King David/Uriah feel to it. Goodbye Admiral, may you feed many hungry Klingons. Lorca's actions are despicable, but all the more so the people who allowed a broken man like this to be in command. I suspect they wanted someone who would be more than willing to blow up a ship like Disco rather than let it fall into enemy hands.

I like Frain's take on Sarek. I guess he got his regrets about Burnham out of the way by the time Picard handled his emotional issues.
Tilly is awesome, as always.
Ash is Voq.
Burnham is more interesting, finally.
Scotty apparently turned the "helpful food synthesizer comments" the hell off early on 1701.
Saru is a constant threat assessor. It's his MO. He's going to be giving a lot of situations on the ship a good chunk of his mind, especially Lorca.
 
Apparently his war record is pretty impressive.

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9/10
The minute Lorca started rationalizing putting the admiral on a diplomatic mission it had a King David/Uriah feel to it. Goodbye Admiral, may you feed many hungry Klingons. Lorca's actions are despicable, but all the more so the people who allowed a broken man like this to be in command. I suspect they wanted someone who would be more than willing to blow up a ship like Disco rather than let it fall into enemy hands.

I like Frain's take on Sarek. I guess he got his regrets about Burnham out of the way by the time Picard handled his emotional issues.
Tilly is awesome, as always.
Ash is Voq.
Burnham is more interesting, finally.
Scotty apparently turned the "helpful food synthesizer comments" the hell off early on 1701.
Saru is a constant threat assessor. It's his MO. He's going to be giving a lot of situations on the ship a good chunk of his mind, especially Lorca.
Saru's probably the canary in the coal mine. Possibly.
 
I just want to say that I'm thankful for the episode threads like this. I subscribed to CBS All Access' commercial-free tier for a year last month even though I had my serious reservations about the show. Sadly, the third and fifth episodes confirmed those reservations so I'm done with watching the show. However, I continue my interest in the story line and hope for its success, so threads like these are good for me to catch up without watching. :)
 
Whoa... this is probably the first episode that I have liked straight through without having a moment where I had to stop and say to myself, "I hope they figure out what they're doing on this show."

Great episode. I loved the utilization of ENT era Vulcan conflicts and the enrichment of Spock's admission story to Vulcan Academy and perception on his homeworld through the prism of Michael and Sarek was fascinating.

Stamets is the mirror version. Calling it. I love that a grumpy hard ass in our universe would be a chill hippie in the mirror universe.

The theory that Lorca becomes Garth of Izar finally made some sense to me tonight, And the heavy make up day he tweeted back in production days then took down could be this incident...

"Prior to stardate 5718, Captain Garth of Izar suffered an accident in which he was maimed and dying. He was transported to this planet by an unnamed Federation starship."

I have a feeling that unnamed ship is Discovery.

This would also make so much sense as to why Axanar got chased down by CBS. With the "obscure character" cited in the lawsuit and the rumblings that they "had plans involving elements from the fan film".

Great episode. Cool set ups for the rest of the season. DIS has hit a groove and I love it.
 
When Ash Tyler said to Lorca maybe I'm the one that needs eye treatment, Lorca looked at him funny for a second.

Does Ash Tyler know independently about Lorca's eye stuff? Or is it that the only way he could have known is through L'Rell? I don't recall the previous episode in enough detail...
It was mentioned in the last episode, once when they were in the cell and again when they were escaping in the Raider.
 
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