Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x02 - "Far From Home"

[Jadeb]

Technobabble, mainly from the Berman era, always tended to pull me out of episodes because all the faux science explanations just served to remind me how much what's being said didn't actually matter. By just referring to it as "parasitic ice", it tells me exactly what it is and the episode moves forward without needing to have an android and a blind man wasting airtime explaining in full detail of "parasitic ice".

Part of me admired that they established the threat as cleanly and quickly as they did. But part of me thought it would have been a more effective threat had we learned more about it. Until the line about it getting in your throat, it just seemed like fast-forming ice. Even then, I wondered what made it parasitic, considering it apparently attacks both organic and inorganic material.

I did like that line. Probably best they didn't dwell on it.

 

[Yistaan]

I assume they're dropping that plot thread about Saru's post-Vahar'ai aggression? Saru showed more anger towards Pike during the Ba'ul incident than to this Zareh villain.

Also have they forgotten they established that Kelpiens are like 10 times faster and stronger than humans? You couldn't have guessed that watching this episode really.

 

[Kelso]

Well, that was a solid Star Trek.

I enjoyed the Western theme.

I'm pleased that they're already pairing up characters who had nice chemistry last year- Reno/Stamets, Saru/Tilly, Georgiou/Nhan... and that Stamets/Culber were pleasant to be around again.

Everyone should have been more concerned that Detmer is being weird, but I'm pleased that she's getting a little storyline so I'll just chalk that up to everyone being too distracted by their circumstances to realize how seriously she's struggling.

Hell, I even enjoyed Georgiou this week.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

Part of me admired that they established the threat as cleanly and quickly as they did. But part of me thought it would have been a more effective threat had we learned more about it. Until the line about it getting in your throat, it just seemed like fast-forming ice. Even then, I wondered what made it parasitic, considering it apparently attacks both organic and inorganic material.

I did like that line. Probably best they didn't dwell on it.

It would only be worth to dwell on if it were to play a larger role in the story, like the anomalies in the Delphic Expanse in ENTERPRISE. As it is, it's likely just a ticking clock plot mechanism that we may not see more of in the rest of the season.

 

[Kzinti]

another enjoyable episode and georgiou is still a delight to watch also saru is amazing as a captain

 

[Yistaan]

I would like to think that 32nd century medical tech at least is so advanced that Detmer can ditch her implant and be normal again. Maybe Book can just use his powers on her and her implant falls off and she's fully healed.

 

[Kzinti]

Detmer can ditch her implant and be normal again.

that's a bit ableist no?

 

[Yistaan]

that's a bit ableist no?

I mean I'm disabled myself, hearing impaired since birth... An injury a decade ago worsened that so my ears are ringing loudly all the time (including now) and will for life. I'd be the first to say I'd jump at the chance to do without hearing aids and also be normal and hear silence again.

As a disabled person, I don't think it helps our cause for others presuming to speak on our behalf and to be labeling people "ableist" without more evidence. And as a disabled person myself I would have been totally fine if someone not disabled expressed a wish for Detmer to be cured again.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

I would like to think that 32nd century medical tech at least is so advanced that Detmer can ditch her implant and be normal again. Maybe Book can just use his powers on her and her implant falls off and she's fully healed.

We can't assume just because it's the future that everything is automatically more advanced. I'm curious to see not only how much things have advanced but what also hasn't, and perhaps even regressed.

 

[Tracer Bullet]

Amazing episode, easily top 10 for Discovery, precisely because it was so ordinary. The show has desperately needed character development/interaction, and Paradise is giving it to us in spades. The characters drive the plot, rather than the characters inhabiting the plot, as so often happened in seasons 1 and 2.

And that A/B plot structure? And telling a complete story while maintaining character serialization? *chef's kiss*

 

[SG-17]

I actually liked this one a lot, I give it a 9.

 

[Isaac Lawrence]

Everyone should have been more concerned that Detmer is being weird, but I'm pleased that she's getting a little storyline so I'll just chalk that up to everyone being too distracted by their circumstances to realize how seriously she's struggling.

If they go where they could with this, then that would seriously hurt.

Detmer has been there from the opening minutes of the first episode, and while there hasn't been any real development of her character, having her not make it... it's like, would they really do that?

 

[Yistaan]

It's incredibly jarring tonally that Book and Michael went on a killing spree of goons doing their job last week, and no qualms or big deal was made of it when there should have been at least some reflection. And now a big deal is made about how it's moral to let a murderous, sadistic and unrepentant criminal go free. It's just very strange.

 

[Muji]

It's incredibly jarring tonally that Book and Michael went on a killing spree of goons doing their job last week, and no qualms or big deal was made of it when there should have been at least some reflection. And now a big deal is made about how it's moral to let a murderous, sadistic and unrepentant criminal go free. It's just very strange.

Different circumstances. I've no issue with that at all.

 

[fireproof78]

Different circumstances. I've no issue with that at all.

I think that there is a time for reflection, but characters are not always going to engage in it. Nor is it their job to be reflective. If the show makes the audience think I think that's of more value than the characters having a soliloquy over what they have done.

 

[cooleddie74]

I really liked this one. All the characters interested me and I wasn't bored and/or annoyed for a significant part of the episode. For a DSC episode that's rare. A solid 8 and I'd recommend it to any Trek fan even with some of it's shortcomings which are to be expected for the series.

 

[cooleddie74]

Also: I'm really liking Bryce. I hope this is the season he gets a lot to do. Even as a transtator repairman he was interesting.

 

[Kzinti]

It's incredibly jarring tonally that Book and Michael went on a killing spree of goons doing their job last week, and no qualms or big deal was made of it when there should have been at least some reflection. And now a big deal is made about how it's moral to let a murderous, sadistic and unrepentant criminal go free. It's just very strange.

there's a difference between killing an already downed enemy and killing people who's actively shooting at you

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It's incredibly jarring tonally that Book and Michael went on a killing spree of goons doing their job last week, and no qualms or big deal was made of it when there should have been at least some reflection. And now a big deal is made about how it's moral to let a murderous, sadistic and unrepentant criminal go free. It's just very strange.

It was "Self Defense", their lives were in danger.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, this was fleeing for your lives in self-defense. I saw no problems with any of what they did.