Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x04 - "Face the Strange"

[cooleddie74]

Touché.

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

Nitpick: The S1 segment in the episode's climax has to be set before the episode The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Cries of the Lamb, given Landry is mentioned to be alive and Butcher's Knife is the episode where she was killed. However, during that segment in this episode, Michael is addressed as "Specialist Burnham." Lorca didn't grant her "Specialist" status until the end of Lethe, two episodes after Butcher's Knife.

I noticed the Landry reference, then Michael also talks about Owo landing a punch on her months back in training, and I think Rayner talks about her having been on board a few weeks. It left me wondering how much time elapsed between the first scene in Context, and Landry biting the dust.

 

[James Cole]

Ok, this was the first DISCOVERY episode I actually enjoyed watching since "If Memory Serves". Yes, it doubles down on the Michael Burnham is always right and the saccharine interpersonal relationships tropes, but at least it demonstrates some metanarrative awareness. And it's written by the only person (Sean Cochran) to have been on the show all five seasons.

 

[trekshark]

liked the Krenim reference, and the character interactions (Burnham convincing the past crew to help, Rayner realizing he scaling back the hardass behavior might help)

But Groundhog Day is an overplayed tripe

 

[Macintosh]

But Groundhog Day is an overplayed tripe

That's my favourite Freudian slip for a while...

 

[The Wormhole]

But Groundhog Day is an overplayed tripe

This wasn't Groundhog Day.

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

"Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad" was Groundhog Day. This was the opposite.

 

[trekshark]

true I guess, they weren't reliving the exact same thing over and over again, but it was similar enough since burnham was reliving times she had already gone through

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Wow. That was quite a ride.