Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x08 - "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

I am really enjoying the planet side stuff. I'm almost dissapointed when the action goes to DSC.

 

Tacoma's girlfriend is playin you lady. dont fall for it.

 

Saru is still my favourite character

The Federation is calling the Klingon cloak an ‘Invisibility Screen’

Which I believe is what Spock called the romulan cloak in TOS

 

Spock called them "theoretical" eight years later in "Balance of Terror".

 

Doug's makeup does its fair share to limit his acting but jesus he acts through it well. what a great actor.

 

A perfect cloaking screen was theoretical IIRC.

The one in this show isn’t perfect

 

He says nothing about "perfect"...

 

Pretty clear who Kol's prisoner who won't talk is.

 

OH MY GOD WE GET TO SEE MARY WISEMAN TOPLESS.

 

Alright

 

Yeah it does.

I'm trying to watch Disco, and it keeps showing Star Trek. Dunno what's happening.

 

No issues with CBSAA for me tonight.

 

Crazy ending setting up an interesting episode next week and then a LONG 2 month break.

 

Hmm. The character moments were more interesting than the plot this week.
Klingon storyline went nowhere, as usual.
The planet plot was a nice twist on a landing party story.
The rest is just more setup. The "Next Time" trailer has my attention though!

 

How?! There certainly was development

 

Not a lot.

Spoiler: Just...

Dead admiral (seemed likely), revenge (which we knew was coming; Kor already fucked up everything for T'Kuvma's people) and L'Rell now most likely getting the shit beat out of her by Kor's men. Not much to go on there.

 

Gave it a 7. Solid albeit somewhat predictable away team to planet with alien story.
Enjoyable though, and I really hope we get a lot more strange new worlds.

Discovery 1x08 Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
What I noticed -

- again, no teaser just a recap of previous events
- starship Gagarin (sp?), what class? looks weirdly familiar
- two other ships destroyed - Hoover & another
- so good to be back on a strange new world, it's very blue
- Kelpians can run 80 kph
- strange wispy blue energy beings
- L'Rell scarred face and neck
- the away team stuff reminds heavily of TOS/TNG away teams
- Cornwall still alive & Stamets is not well
- L'Rell wants to defect, get onto Discovery
- reminded of the Enterprise episode where they camp out, weird planet
- "The Pahvans"
- I don't trust L'rell. Or Ash Tyler.
- love the giant Pahvan crystal transmitter
- Saru has serious issues
- L'Rell is now an interrogator for House Kor, gets face painted
- more TOS sounds on the bridge
- Pahvans called the Klingons to Pahvo which also feels very TOS to me, an alien race
manipulating humans & Klingons

 

I had the same thought. The Pahvans don't seem to be quite as far along the road to enlightenment as the Organians but similar!

Possible Special Effect Failure in the presentation of that. Super speed is apparently really hard to depict among humanoid characters when it's not Flash-esque ludicrous speed.

 

what did the next time on promo show?