Same here. I also haven’t really met a Star Trek time-travel arc that I really like. One-offs like City on the Edge of Forever and Yesterday’s Enterprise work for me. Basically, when time travel is a narrative tool, rather than the center of the plot, I’m okay with it. But the second season of Discovery is getting dangerously close to Enterprise Temporal Cold War levels of bad for me.
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I don’t think the time travel stuff has been that bad. I’m hoping it’s just for this season, and the next two episodes will put it to bed, ready for season 3s fresh start.
Hopefully you caught the Short Trek episodes before catching up!
I did! I caught those right after I finished up Season 1. Those were out by then.
I really love the Enterprise bridge set, as well as the TOS-inspired Enteprise uniforms (all except for the weird pokey collar). I was rooting for them to blow the Discovery to hell, and was sad when the torpedoes sploshed ineffectually against the shield.
I would have expected the Enterprise to be a pretty simple redress of the Voyager set, but it was darn sexy.
Oh, and I love Pike too. Can we have a spin-off please?
Apart from that, there was about 30 minutes of goodbyes in this episode. It felt like the final episode of a 10 season run. Hope they do something dramatic enough to earn it (and not just catching Pike on fire).
Yup. I’m glad they didn’t try to make it too true to the original set, while still preserving the flair of it and letting you see who the same aesthetics would be handled, today.
Crazy military service that apparently let’s their captains customize uniforms and bridges to a huge degree.
Section 31 just goes shopping at Hot Topic.
Ha! I went into one of those for the first time in a long time, a few months back. Seems like half the store is those Funko Pop dolls. Barnes and Nobles, too. Are they really that popular?
The set is not bad, but it reminds me of driving through the city at night in the rain. I.e. very sexy, but half the time you can’t tell WTH you’re looking at there are so many blinky lights and so much glare.
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But at least there will be no more holographic communications, ever. See how easily they solve that retcon problem?!
I haven’t watched Season 2 so I’m not sure what you mean. I thought the holographic projections were okay in S1. Though I suppose if you want a better sense of continuity with earlier series it might be a good idea to get rid if them.
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A lot of fans complained about how Discovery tech is more advanced than TOS, and for season 2 this was ‘dealt with’ in the dialog by Pike saying he hates it and likes the good ol’ fashioned way and will stick to screens in the Enterprise, thus ‘preserving’ continuity.
Meh. I was fine with the Klingon in S1 too. But it doesn’t matter much either way.
Perpetual Infinity: Man, this show is just so good sometimes, it amazes me that they have the production values of JJ Abram’s reboot movie, but with really emotionally powerful stories. I just want to also mention that whoever scores each of these episodes just does a superb job. There’s a couple of scenes where Michael talks to the red angel where the musical cue is just so perfect. It’s subtle, and never over-the-top, never feels generic and repetitive like TNG started to feel by the middle of its run either.
Three more episodes to go this season. Two ready right now, and one available tomorrow night.
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Well, that was one hell of a fun ride. Naysayers, sign up for the week free trial and binge Season 2. Sooo much awesome fanservice for OG Trek fans. Loved it.
I just wish Season 3 would be about Pike, Number One, Spock, and the Enterprise. :) Anson Mount’s casting was brilliant.
Spoiler on the ending: My only real gripe was that they felt the need to close the story on Disocovery to give in to fan complaints about Discovery and Burnham never having been mentioned in other Treks. Stupid, stupid get-a-life substance-less thing to complain about. I have people I’ve known for decades I’ve never mentioned my sister to. And I’m pretty sure you could do a documentary filmed on a modern aircraft carrier and go an entire season with nobody mentioning the USS Bon Homme Richard. They really could have ignore that.
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I love the lighting design in the latter half of this season. Scenes that look like sunrise on a country farm or something (with the sun coming in through spaceship windows, something space shows don’t take enough advantage of.)
I liked the finale of S2 (more than most of the season), but I’m in the camp of connecting that closely to a such a major TOS character was a poor choice. It’s one thing to stick them in that era, it’s another to have a major character that’s such a significant part of another major character’s life be retconned in there.
Spoke was the focus of several TV episodes and movies. Similarly, Sarak and Amanda have also played key roles. If they never truly explored Spoke’s past (e.g., as is the case with a Sulu, Scott, or even McCoy) I could see having a sibling never come up. But Spoke, more than any other TOS character, including Kirk, had his past and background explored, particularly the human-vulcan dichotomy.
For me, it’s not some sort of dealbreaker, just a bad choice.
Also, did anyone else think the Chancellor’s ship looked odd? Not menacing, at all. Reminds me of some 70s show or movie that I can’t recall right now.
Which ship? The “cleaver” was the same model used by T’kuvma to plow through the Federation flagship in the Battle of the Binary Stars and seems to have been designed mainly for the “gosh that’s huge” factor when it decloaks.
The D7, which the show has been referencing so often and tackily that it feels like a bad product placement deal, is the classic Klingon ship from TOS.
Do we know that there’s a Season 3?
I didn’t realize it was the same ship. I don’t think they showed a full-length view of it in the 1st season. It looks goofy in all it’s glory.
It’s interesting that the Federation refitted from the phaser cannons to the beam-style phaser emitters between season 1 and 2, in preparation for the TOS era.
I really want to like this, but instead his show just keeps pissing me off. The inanities that keep popping up are just so… ugh. I mean you have a frigging anti-matter explosion going off that takes out a huge chunk of the ship, but the captain can just stand looking at it from ten feet away through a transparent panel?
Go fuck yourself Discovery.
