Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x06 - "Whistlespeak"

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Yep. It's the same Denobulan alphabet seen in ENT more than 1,000 years earlier.

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Has it been that long since Enterprise was cancelled? Time really flies. ;)
 
19 years to the day after "Turnabout Intruder(TOS)" the studio was well into production on Star Trek V. :wtf:
 
So, the whole traumatized individual who was buried under logic and struggled with emotional regulation because pure logic is not healthy for humans and having to build back towards trust and confidence in herself, while managing her own trauma is not compelling?

Because I swear I watch different shows than almost everyone here nowadays. :vulcan:
When has any of that been integral to the story?
 
People are complaining about how Tilly was able to finish the race. Fine. I would posit that she is a HUMAN taking part of an ALIEN race. How do we know how each metabolizes water, etc? I think to attack her on grounds that she is overweight doesn't hold any substance. I think we would really have to nerd dive into and determine what the alien vs human physiology is before making any affirmative statements about it.

BTW, I thought the episode was filler at best and am not impressed. I'm interested in the Breen.
 
People are complaining about how Tilly was able to finish the race. Fine. I would posit that she is a HUMAN taking part of an ALIEN race. How do we know how each metabolizes water, etc? I think to attack her on grounds that she is overweight doesn't hold any substance. I think we would really have to nerd dive into and determine what the alien vs human physiology is before making any affirmative statements about it.

BTW, I thought the episode was filler at best and am not impressed. I'm interested in the Breen.

 
My biggest compliant is that the xenoanthropologist couldn't get from the context clues several things about the culture and still asked ignorant questions. Also, Tilly couldn't do the same about the race and its ending. It was fairly obvious that they sacrificed themselves.
 
Isn't this a rather perniciously negative trope: the civilized person who is able to beat natives at their own games?
Maybe but how many viewers care is another question. James Cameron's Avatar movies made billions of dollars based solely on this trope.
 
Isn't this a rather perniciously negative trope: the civilized person who is able to beat natives at their own games?

Tilly may be from a higher gravity world...

(Maybe the in universe excuse for the shift in her appearance has to do with her new job being set some place with a much lower gravity?)

...So she's three times stronger and faster the natives, or maybe her lungs haven't been shredded since birth by her birth planet turning to bullshit?
 
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