Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x06 - "Whistlespeak"

[SantaEddie74]

Fire in space is cool. So is sound. I'm cool with both scientific implausibilities because popular fiction's always been cool with them.

The Death Star simply busting into a cloud of trillions of tiny pieces wouldn't be nearly as cool as what we actually got.

 

[SJGardner]

Another one people never seem to work themselves up over is the ship going dark whenever it enters an "empty" area of space "with no stars". In deep space, the ship should always be only lit by its own spotlights and engines, there should be no ambient light whatsoever.

 

[Quantum21]

Another one people never seem to work themselves up over is the ship going dark whenever it enters an "empty" area of space "with no stars". In deep space, the ship should always be only lit by its own spotlights and engines, there should be no ambient light whatsoever.

I think we'd all rather see the ship than not...

 

[Guy Gardener]

It took a thousand years and trillions of space dollars for the Romulans to invent the first Cloak, because no one consulted Mick Jagger.

 

[Tuskin38]

, the fires would not be burning strong

They weren't. Rewatch the scenes, as the oxygen in the room gets lower, the fires get weaker. When they let the oxygen back in they get big again.

 

[Kzinti]

i'm usually not a fan of PD episode but this was a fine one i give it a 8/10

 

[cal888]

Ok, another DISCOVERY episode that I enjoyed watching. It "felt" like a Star Trek episode. I'm surprised they didn't present the Prime Directive in a different way. Like the Omega Directive, could Red Directives (which they still haven't explained) have a partial PD exemption? Also, if a Federation Denobulan official violated the PD in the 24th century by playing god, could this be handled under cultural contamination grounds?