Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x01 - "That Hope Is You, Part 1"

[Kelso]

Alright, who spilled Star Wars all over my Star Trek?

That aside, this episode was fun. I'm hopeful that this will be Discovery's year.

The new setting and premise seem much better suited to Discovery's sensibilities. I'm not entirely sold on this version of Star Trek's future, but I'm along for the ride.

It gives me some optimism that, as far as I know, they've had a consistent production team this year. That can only help the storytelling.

Let's just hope it gets Trekier along the way.

 

[arch101]

No, I get it. It's an interesting idea. It's why Conan Doyle had trouble killing off Holmes. People want these characters, these universes to live on. Laser Beam just is struggling with the concept that this is the "end of Starfleet/Federation".

Maybe it is, maybe it's just a rough patch. Perhaps the season will end with it's reformation or the formation of a bigger and better group.

The EU is basically the western Roman Empire reconstituted. Took 1500 years and lots of bloody wars, and much political and social change, but United Europe eventually pulled together.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My favorite character in this ep was Sahil. I hope we haven't seen the last of him or his kind.

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Side note: Is Sahil a hologram? I could have sworn I saw him flickering in and out. I hope he's not some malfunctioning relic...

 

[UssGlenn]

Loved the transporter chase for personal reasons but I didn’t understand how they were tracked after the final beaming...Didn’t burn just say they couldn’t trace them underwater (why?)?

If I had to hazard a guess, the energy signature from the beam in that is tracked is weak enough that water and earth can block it. At that point, you have to scan for life forms the old fashioned way, which takes longer.

 

[rhllot]

Yeah, those Denobulans and their Multi-Member, Parental Units sure are "spicy"!

(Freelove abounds on Denobula)

what I'm saying is that you could create a state that only contains the territory of the federation at the time of the foundation and not all the others.

 

[KepperC]

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Side note: Is Sahil a hologram? I could have sworn I saw him flickering in and out. I hope he's not some malfunctioning relic...

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He is I think!

 

[eschaton]

My favorite character in this ep was Sahil. I hope we haven't seen the last of him or his kind.

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Side note: Is Sahil a hologram? I could have sworn I saw him flickering in and out. I hope he's not some malfunctioning relic...

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When I first saw the scenes in the trailer, I presumed he was a hologram as well. It would make waiting for 40 years more sensible, along with explaining how he survives on an empty half-ruined station alone. But then the father/grandfather line would make little sense. He would just have waited 120 years himself.

 

[fireproof78]

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When I first saw the scenes in the trailer, I presumed he was a hologram as well. It would make waiting for 40 years more sensible, along with explaining how he survives on an empty half-ruined station alone. But then the father/grandfather line would make little sense. He would just have waited 120 years himself.

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Well, the Doctor had a son in one episode so holograms designed to expire maybe?

 

[Nyotarules]

earth was the capital of the federation if you want to recreate the federation you have to regain control over earth.

Earth voted to leave the Federation in 3016, it was a close vote. The SIP (Sol Independant Party) was very influential their mantra were Time to make an Exit, 350 trillion credits for the Sol health service was painted on a shuttle

 

[Crewman6]

Hey....pssst. I heard in another franchise, the Galactic Empire falls. Does that make the movies before that meaningless?

Having TFA push the big, fat reset button on the galaxy does kind of ruin the OT, though.

 

[Nyotarules]

What time is it coming on in the UK? Its way past midnight and no season 3!

 

[MarsWeeps]

It is pretty decent action sci-fi though those guys had worse aim than stormtroopers. Why do future guns always seem so impractical to aim and shoot?

You try shooting while running and being accurate. Its not like they were firing LMGs and had the benefit of flooding the field with bullets.

They have personal transporters but still can't figure out how to get a weapon to lock onto a target? Ray Charles could've done a better job at hitting something.

 

[Fateor]

Two things that make no sense.

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The first, Burnham thinking Dilithium is the heart of every warp drive. She would have known that wasn't true since Zefram Cochrane ran his Warp Drive via fission.

All Time Travel technology being destroyed and outlawed. Because destroying and outlawing stuff in the preset doesn't stop people traveling to your time from the past or future.

 

[Gepard]

I just watched "That Hope Is You, Part I" a second time. I can safely say this is my favorite of DSC's three season premieres.

"The Vulcan Hello" was good, but Burnham made a really bone-headed choice. It took until "Context Is for Kings" before I was truly hooked. After seeing "Brother", I didn't warm up to the second season right away and didn't initially know what to make of such a drastic tonal shift. The second season grew on me like a creeper-heat.

But neither of those things happened this time. With the third season, it's more about walking the fine-line. Having hope when the galaxy threw you a curveball and rising up to the challenge. DSC mastered a tonal duality with "That Hope Is You" and it put me onboard with it right from the get-go.

It could've been Star Trek: Mad Max, but they didn't go that way.

I would put it about on par with Brother, but I liked Brother a decent amount. The real question here is if they can avoid shitting the bed midway through the season like they did last year. There's no news of revolving showrunners this time (that I'm aware of, unless I missed something), so I'm hopeful.

 

[Lord Garth]

I would put it about on par with Brother, but I liked Brother a decent amount. The real question here is if they can avoid shitting the bed midway through the season like they did last year. There's no news of revolving showrunners this time (that I'm aware of, unless I missed something), so I'm hopeful.

Michelle Paradise was with the season from start to finish. So it's all on her one way or the other.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Shran, upon observing the fighting skills of his descendants: "Weak-Skins."

 

[SJGardner]

The first, Burnham thinking Dilithium is the heart of every warp drive. She would have known that wasn't true since Zefram Cochrane ran his Warp Drive via fission.

He converted the Phoenix from an old nuclear missile, that's true. He has, however, replaced the warhead with a cockpit. There was no fissile material left in it. Stage one used plain rocket fuel like all ICBMs do. And the crew is literally talking about having to fix the primary intercooler system and the intermix chamber, both of which are standard warp core parts mentioned in various episodes. It's not stated, but it's certainly implied to be a matter-antimatter reactor.

 

[thribs]

Well, I haven't watched any movies that take place between 6 and 7 (because there aren't any?), so....

There are games and novels. Which are all canon

 

[thribs]

What time is it coming on in the UK? Its way past midnight and no season 3!

I imagine 8am today

 

[Muji]

DS9 is too much like Grey’s Anatomy.

I’m not sure what people were expecting from a show where the Federation has been gone for 150 years and they’ve travelled nearly 1000 years into the future, episodic arcs with tribbles and Bones being racist? Just because it’s not a love letter to TNG, stacked with fan-servicing references like LDS, it doesn’t mean it’s Star Wars. Saying a thing doesn’t make it true, does it Captain McDreamy... I mean Sisko.