Some folks on the BBS have seen this episode. So there's no harm in starting a spoiler topic for them to discuss it.
I'll endeavor to put specific plot spoilers and reveals behind spoiler tags, for now, and just make general spoiler comments out in the open.
I'm not going to be the guy who creates the series spoiler topics for this series. But I've seen this one (and none further), so here goes:
Episode 2 is a better, more focused script than the first show, IMO. It's Uhura-centric, but the writer, Henry Alonso Myers, does a remarkably balanced job of giving a number of the cast memorable moments. Ortegas, my current fave, gets to briefly show off a little of her infectious, casual joie de vivre.
The episode introduces Hemmer, a guy with definite charm. Sam Kirk (not a new spoiler, he shows up in the "pilot") recurs here, though he's out of the action fairly early (no, he don't die. That would be Canon Violation. Is forbidden!)
The story is shockingly sciencey and science-fictiony, for Star Trek. The ideas and solutions are not new ones, but that was never Trek's hallmark except as compared to other TV shows - TOS mined old skiffy pulp magazines for its premises (first contact confrontations in deep space, alternate universe, parallel social development, computer warfare between planets, etc.) and it still does.
But for gods' sake, we're two episodes in already and I don't think the catch-all abracadabra term "anomaly" has passed a character's lips. I hope noticing it doesn't jinx it.
Nearly as amazing, and more important to the show's tone, as Trek committing science fiction is that character dialogue is always very much to-the-point and exhibits a nice brevity even when communicating personal concerns and emotions.
Uhura sort of drifted into Starfleet after her life was turned upside down by the deaths of both of her parents. This is a point of friction between her and Spock, who shows thinly-veiled disapproval as well as direct objection to her self-described lack of commitment to the good ol' Star Service.
The Captain's acceptance of his fate was not one-and-done in the first episode, and the way he and people around him are handling it is another pleasant surprise in the writing so far. It turns out that when he says he "experienced it" and felt every second, that includes having come back from the vision with very specific foreknowledge of who the people are that he sacrificed his life for - he knows their names.
But Of Course He Does - this is the leader who had his Discovery bridge crew do a fast roll-call on his first day, remembered every one and addressed them each by name from that moment forward. "Detmer...fly good."
I'll endeavor to put specific plot spoilers and reveals behind spoiler tags, for now, and just make general spoiler comments out in the open.
I'm not going to be the guy who creates the series spoiler topics for this series. But I've seen this one (and none further), so here goes:
Episode 2 is a better, more focused script than the first show, IMO. It's Uhura-centric, but the writer, Henry Alonso Myers, does a remarkably balanced job of giving a number of the cast memorable moments. Ortegas, my current fave, gets to briefly show off a little of her infectious, casual joie de vivre.
The episode introduces Hemmer, a guy with definite charm. Sam Kirk (not a new spoiler, he shows up in the "pilot") recurs here, though he's out of the action fairly early (no, he don't die. That would be Canon Violation. Is forbidden!)
The story is shockingly sciencey and science-fictiony, for Star Trek. The ideas and solutions are not new ones, but that was never Trek's hallmark except as compared to other TV shows - TOS mined old skiffy pulp magazines for its premises (first contact confrontations in deep space, alternate universe, parallel social development, computer warfare between planets, etc.) and it still does.
But for gods' sake, we're two episodes in already and I don't think the catch-all abracadabra term "anomaly" has passed a character's lips. I hope noticing it doesn't jinx it.
Nearly as amazing, and more important to the show's tone, as Trek committing science fiction is that character dialogue is always very much to-the-point and exhibits a nice brevity even when communicating personal concerns and emotions.
Uhura sort of drifted into Starfleet after her life was turned upside down by the deaths of both of her parents. This is a point of friction between her and Spock, who shows thinly-veiled disapproval as well as direct objection to her self-described lack of commitment to the good ol' Star Service.
The Captain's acceptance of his fate was not one-and-done in the first episode, and the way he and people around him are handling it is another pleasant surprise in the writing so far. It turns out that when he says he "experienced it" and felt every second, that includes having come back from the vision with very specific foreknowledge of who the people are that he sacrificed his life for - he knows their names.
But Of Course He Does - this is the leader who had his Discovery bridge crew do a fast roll-call on his first day, remembered every one and addressed them each by name from that moment forward. "Detmer...fly good."
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