Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x05 - "The Examples"

[Mr Awe]

They seemed to linger on the expert's (forget his name) tattoo on the back of his neck near the end with book. Is there any known relevance to it? I paused the episode to examine it, but I didn't recognize it.

Maybe it relates to some group we'll learn more about as the season progresses?

 

[Mr Awe]

Why does the DMA jumping around mean it has to be artificial ?
Surely that's a terribly quick assumption to be making in a universe full of weird stuff.

What cracked me up was when one character (I forget which one) said stuff just doesn't disappear! Um, transporters. Spore drive? Wormholes?

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Not bad but not great either. I gave it a 7.

Sounds more like a 6.34 than a 7

 

[jackoverfull]

Actually Kovich should have, Lower Decks style, rattled off a list of every person who ever came back from death in Trek (Spock, Picard, Shaxs

Don’t forget that McCoy AND Scotty both died and were resurrected. And chekov too, in a way. And Kirk too, but this is kinda stretching it.

Wow, I thought that was planned from the beginning. That's actually really impressive it was a mid-season shift because it fits perfectly all the way back to the first episode

sort of... I don’t think it makes sends for him to just be in our universe doing other stuff just to observe Michael or whatever.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

What cracked me up was when one character (I forget which one) said stuff just doesn't disappear! Um, transporters. Spore drive? Wormholes?

It made no sense to use that as part of the plot when they could have just said sensors picked up a machine inside and saved the obviously stupid mistake

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

They seemed to linger on the expert's (forget his name) tattoo near the end. Is there any known relevance to it? I paused the episode to examine it, but I didn't recognize it.

Maybe it relates to some group we'll learn more about as the season progresses?

The tattoo on his forehead? It shows he’s from Risa. If you mean the mark on the back of his neck, ‪‪I believe it’s a scar from a removed Emerald Chain neck-implant.

 

[Mr Awe]

The tattoo on his forehead? It shows he’s from Risa. If you mean the mark on the back of his neck, ‪‪I believe it’s a scar from a removed Emerald Chain neck-implant.

I've edited my comment to be clearer, but I meant on the back of his neck. We saw it near the end when he was with Book.

Ah, thanks for the clarification about the Emerald Chain scar!

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I kept expecting Kovich to say that Captain Burnham's adoptive brother Spock once died and was resurrected using classifed Federation technology and that would have been cool but it never happened.

Ooh! Deleted scene: "Your brother died saving the Enterprise from classified terraforming technology that had fallen into the hands of an Augment terrorist his crew once hosted. His sacrifice saved the ship from its effects. Which included the creation of a planet from the matter inside the Mutara Nebula. His body was interred on that planet's surface where it underwent regeneration to full life. Upon your father's request, the resurrected Spock was rescued by his former Captain and crew from that world before it underwent protomatter collapse, whereupon they took him to Vulcan to successfully reintegrate his katra. Which had been secretly implanted into the mind of the Enterprise's chief medical officer."


I can't wait for the conversation where he informs her of Spock's fate and that of Vulcan from that universe.

 

[nic3636]

Which actually didn't end up all that different from what happened, considering the time jump from Seasons 2 to 3.

yeah, so if they are executing on the original vision we should get a second time jump at the end of the season ?

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I'm going to be totally underwhelmed if the DMA is simply Emerald Chain Ransomware.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'm guessing Jaffa Science Guy created the anomaly... or he will in the future and it goes back in time... or something...

Also, USS Janeway??

 

[IMC Headquarters]

"There's coffee in that anomaly."

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

yeah, so if they are executing on the original vision we should get a second time jump at the end of the season ?

The creators have said that the show is staying in this era, though they aren’t beholden to that by any means.

Another time jump wouldn’t be executing the series’ original vision. Fuller’s original pitch, as reported, was simply an anthology format, not following the cast as it time travelled from era to era.

 

[nic3636]

The creators have said that the show is staying in this era, though they aren’t beholden to that by any means.

Another time jump wouldn’t be executing the series’ original vision. Fuller’s original pitch, as reported, was simply an anthology format, not following the cast as it time travelled from era to era.

Right, that makes sense. Perhaps a modified version of the original vision then? After all, it would be very selfish of Burnham to keep herself in a single timeline when so many other timelines need saving

 

[fireproof78]

I'm going to be totally underwhelmed if the DMA is simply Emerald Chain Ransomware.

It's actually just trying to reach Starfleet about their extended warranty.

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

Right, that makes sense. Perhaps a modified version of the original vision then? After all, it would be very selfish of Burnham to keep herself in a single timeline when so many other timelines need saving

Curse those Temporal Accords!

 

[JD]

I wasn't too surprised that the DMA is artificial, they seem to like having a bad guy for our characters to fight, so I figured either someone was behind it, or we'd get a secondary arc with Big Bad, like the Burn and the Emerald Chain last season.
Really like the stuff with prisoners.

 

[nic3636]

It's actually just trying to reach Starfleet about their extended warranty.

“Kwejian and the Emerald chain didn’t renew their warranty, don’t let that happen to you”

 

[ToddCam]

I find Cronenberg to be a pretty wooden actor. Why is he so popular here?

 

[cooleddie74]

I don't watch him for his acting skills. I watch him because he's an enigma and eerie. And says very interesting things with a lot of unrevealed subtext.