Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x11 - "Perpetual Infinity"

[Lord Garth]

Blair's mom from The Facts of Life was into some WEIRD stuff.

Well, you know what they say: You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have...

 

[CommanderRaytas]

TOS, the Ent was a normal ship. They stopped a potential invasion of our galaxy (By Any Other Name). and who knows, we might have won that, had the invasion happened. I can't think of other Huge, earth or fed or galaxy saving things they did. Maybe the Doomsday Machine would have gone tnrough the most densely populated zone? Can't remember. i was comparing DSC to its fellow series. I n the m ovies the stakes got raised for EPICness, bruh for sure. There's a good thread on epicness creep somewhere on bbs.

The trouble with this dsc arc is there's no real drama/suspense since we know sentient life survives and control is thwarted. It's like in TOS, the ship would be in danger. Except you knew it'd be fine. Because next episode. I am definitely liking the Spock Burnham arc since I can't have issue of the week fun.

Archer and co saved Earth, humanity, and the universe. He's also basically responsible for the Federation existing. That's pretty huge. Just saying.

 

[Lord Garth]

Archer and co saved Earth, humanity, and the universe. He's also basically responsible for the Federation existing. That's pretty huge. Just saying.

Key point here being: the Star Trek series don't focus on Average Joes in Space. They're not the Space Truckers in Alien. They're not that random Excelsior Class ship the Enterprise rendezvous with in that TNG episode either.

 

[SJGardner]

Key point here being: the Star Trek series don't focus on Average Joes in Space. They're not the Space Truckers in Alien. They're not that random Excelsior Class ship the Enterprise rendezvous with in that TNG episode either.

This sounds like a job for Captain Everyman and the USS Nondescript! I wonder what he's up to these days.

In the next Trek series, we should follow the adventures of Captain John Everyman, captain of the Excelsior-class USS Nondescript that always either ferries dignitaries of the week or gets dispatched to reinforce the Neutral Zone, the Cardassian DMZ, Deep Space Nine, etc. Every episode would conclude with the ship arriving at the scene, only to find that the Enterprise-D or DS9 has already resolved the episode's conflict all by themselves.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

Rewatching, or, rather, reading the transcript, for Q Who, it is like experiencing a different race, as the Borg in that episode are vastly different than what they changed into. Another thing I notice is that a minor character, like Gomez, had two scenes which fleshed her out as a character. She was more of a character than many of the bridge crew we have seen on Discovery, who are ciphers.

It was considred in that older TNG episode, as evidence of the advanced technology of the Borg, that they had developed the technology of linking artificial intelligence to a humanoid brain.

 

[Mr Awe]

...but that doesn't really accomplish much, because it still begs the question: why did the writers have Mama Burnham say she'd steered the Sphere toward Discovery in the first place, if that fact would invite the questions (and require these assumptions) from the audience, when it would have been far easier just to skip that bit of dialogue completely, and let everyone continue to assume that the encounter with the Sphere was unrelated to the main RA plot?

The Sphere is obviously related to the main plot. Control needs its data. After watching Project Daedalus, I actually wondered here if the RA had something to do with Discovery running across the Sphere. It did. It seems like a logical connection in my mind and has, in fact, become the central point. Keep the data out of Control's hands and sentient life survives.

And, the audience doesn't have to assume. Dr. Burnham stated that she tried many things to keep the data out of Control's hands but nothing work. So, we know.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Ash having a Top Secret Section 31 discussion over comms with Controleiland in a public corridor while officers are walking/rolling past kills me.

 

[XCV330]

Well, you know what they say: You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have...

I'll have that annoying song in my head all day. From hells hot I stab at thee! For hate's sake I ..spit.. my last.... breath..

 

[cooleddie74]

You know what they say: Diff'rent strokes.

 

[Lord Garth]

Thank you for being a friend.

 

[cooleddie74]

Standing tall on the wings of my dream.

 

[Ovation]

Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air.

 

[cooleddie74]

Nanananananananananana Trek thread.

 

[Ovation]

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can never tell, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all

 

[SolarisOne]

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can never tell, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all

I've heard that theme a million times over the past few weeks. A family member decided they wanted to watch a Mary Tyler Moore marathon.

 

[XCV330]

come and listen to a story bout a man named Pike
a Mojave boy who nearly lost his life
he had a good ship and a Number One too
but up from the ground came Talosian Dooooods

Aliens that is
Throbbing Brains

well the first thing you know, old Pikes in a chair
his former XO said "Chris, move away from there"
Spock said "Talos is the place you oughtta be!"
So Pike beeped twice and he watched a mutineeeee

Burnham-like
runs in the family

The Beverly Vulcans!
(queue Scruggs solo)

 

[DaveyNY]

Ya'll, light up my life...
Ya'll give me hope...
To carry on...


The Southern, Vulcan Anthem.

 

[Vger23]

This went south fast.

 

[DaveyNY]

This went south fast.

You ain't just whistling Dixie there.

 

[Noname Given]

The only people in Trek who have a stable, long-term relationship are the O'Briens, and they happen to be the only pair of characters in one series to migrate to another and actually have more to do afterwards if you don't count Worf.

Stable? Keiko hated moving around with Obien and eventually went to live on Bajor. She was also incredibly dismissive of ANYTHING from Obien's side of the family and culture. I you consider a wife constantly wanting to move away, and who is only fine if you completely adapt her her family ways and culture, "stable'; IDK what to say.

And as far as the TNG era is concerned, if life on Earth was so Utopian, how in the hell would Starfleet get recruits as most normal/well adjusted people with their needs met and any avenue of "bettering themselves" open to them probably wouldn't pick a job where you're in an extremely dangerous/hostile to life environment (space); often put in harms way, and required to spend years away from extended family (and don't get me started on how a parent would decide to take their kids or civilian wife on such an assignment.

My point? If you signed up for Starfleet, you MUST be screwed up, or have issues you're trying to get FAR AWAY FROM in the first place; thus only 'screwed up 24th century people with psychological problems' would make up the bulk of Starfleet personnel in the first place.