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Spacebump posted:This video is awesome. that is a good-rear end dogge. wish the 1st episode was more than just the burnham show, but it's half a 2-parter. so whatever. it'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out next week.
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I'm guessing Episode 2 will be The Discovery Show (Not Featuring Michael Burnham) but they'll contact her at the end and surprise! She's got the long braids we've seen in promotional shots and she's been in the future for MONTHS!
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Oct 17, 2020 10:24
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Ah that would make sense. And the mild-mannered salaryman will also have become a true brute by then; after all, he's just met his first Starfleet officer in decades, and her first adventure in the this period saw her killing several security guards including founding members of her own Federation in order to help someone she knew to be a criminal. He's going to go all-in on that poo poo, he'll basically be a Klingon.
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Crusader posted:if section 31 is a casualty of *gestures broadly*, I don’t think anyone will care - maybe one day someone will tell an interesting story about having to make the Hard Choices in space but I doubt it was gonna be that show It's Iain Bank's Culture series of books.
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Oct 17, 2020 11:31
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Why is Star Trek just Death Stranding now.
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Duckula posted:Why is Star Trek just Death Stranding now. Because it wants to be anything but Star Trek.
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Oct 17, 2020 13:21
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That cat is going to be the only good thing about this season.
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Oct 17, 2020 13:39
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I turned it off after they jumped off the cliff. I can’t imagine anything I care less about than this plot and more dumb hellscape future dystopia TV. I’ll finish it later but man, the fact that this was my initial reaction doesn’t bode well for my participation in this show. I was definitely “hell i’ll watch it because more Start Wreck” but now I’m not so sure.
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Oct 17, 2020 14:32
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm guessing Episode 2 will be The Discovery Show (Not Featuring Michael Burnham) but they'll contact her at the end and surprise! She's got the long braids we've seen in promotional shots and she's been in the future for MONTHS! Suggestion two: Whenever Michael Burnham is not on screen, all the other characters should be asking “Where’s Michael Burnham??”
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Oct 17, 2020 14:40
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Martytoof posted:I turned it off after they jumped off the cliff. I can’t imagine anything I care less about than this plot and more dumb hellscape future dystopia TV. Honestly the future she's found herself in seems way more interesting than the one she's been living in for the last two seasons.
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Oct 17, 2020 14:55
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I grew tired of the "big creature gobbles on someone then spits them out covered in goo" joke a decade ago, and Lower Decks and Discovery deliver me two examples within a couple months?
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Chalks posted:Honestly the future she's found herself in seems way more interesting than the one she's been living in for the last two seasons. I agree. I'm way more interested in what a post Federation, and possibly every over major faction, galaxy looks like than boring prequal stuff. I thought it was a perfectly okay episode of Star Trek and if they can recreate the tone of Burnham commissioning that guy at the end a few more times I think I'll enjoy this season.
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Oct 17, 2020 15:17
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Brawnfire posted:I grew tired of the "big creature gobbles on someone then spits them out covered in goo" joke a decade ago, and Lower Decks and Discovery deliver me two examples within a couple months? at least the joke is tonally appropriate for one of them
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Seemlar posted:Unspoiling this isn't it isn't one, but why do you think Section 31 wouldn't be in the 32nd century? It's such a strangely common view. My thinking was that it would be extremely weird if someone from 1000 years ago showed up and inserted themselves/took over a shadow government. She doesn't know the time, modern tech, modern factions, so unless everyone at 32nd century Section 31 are tactical morons they don't really need her. Imagine William the Conqueror shows up today, MI5 isn't going to jump at giving him a job. However, this is Star Trek so maybe none of that matters.
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Oct 17, 2020 17:12
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I dunno, if Cicero popped up today I'd give him a shot at a shadow government position.
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feedmyleg posted:I dunno, if Cicero popped up today I'd give him a shot at a shadow government position. He'd have everyone who doesn't pronounce his name in the original Latin way of "Kikero" executed.
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Oct 17, 2020 17:34
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As he should. I didn't take 2 years of Latin to not get something out of it 
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Oct 17, 2020 17:54
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Oh yeah late to that LDS party so get ready for an ice cold take! The dog episode was good, the last two episodes were great. Everything else was average to disappointing. Boom
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Oct 17, 2020 18:02
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Cicero wasn’t that great at contemporary politics and that wasn’t nearly as complicated as modern ones
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Jihad Joe posted:Oh yeah late to that LDS party so get ready for an ice cold take! The dog was probably the best recurring gag in the entire season, though I also quite liked the Exocomp.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:47
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The dog turning into a cube and rolling away is my sense of humor distilled into a single gag and I ain’t mad about it
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pik_d posted:My thinking was that it would be extremely weird if someone from 1000 years ago showed up and inserted themselves/took over a shadow government. She doesn't know the time, modern tech, modern factions, so unless everyone at 32nd century Section 31 are tactical morons they don't really need her. not that I really want to use it as an example, but section 31 did that in the kelvinverse with Khan
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Oct 17, 2020 18:57
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Zutaten posted:Book sarcastically calls him a "true believer" and he's essentially cargo culting the Federation because his family has done it for generations. Other "Federation" ships do exist in his little sector he oversees, two of them apparently, but we can assume they're also crewed by what are essentially cultists, pleasant though Sahil is, bearing the torch for a dead entity. The long range communications have been dead for long enough that what he sees is all he knows. Coming face to face with a real life Starfleet officer from elsewhere must have been like meeting a god, or a legendary hero. Why didn't he get one of them to unfurl the flag or give him a field commission quote:I grew tired of the "big creature gobbles on someone then spits them out covered in goo" joke a decade ago, and Lower Decks and Discovery deliver me two examples within a couple months? The Golden Gael fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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The Golden Gael posted:Why didn't he get one of them to unfurl the flag or give him a field commission The ships are probably crewed by ad hoc Starfleet personnel, too. Burnham will swear them all in.
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Phylodox posted:The ships are probably crewed by ad hoc Starfleet personnel, too. Burnham will swear them all in. It’s Red Squad all over again!
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Oct 17, 2020 19:48
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WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE WAY BOOK SAYS STUFF tri-CORDER temp-ural is time a lightly battered vegetable now?
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pik_d posted:My thinking was that it would be extremely weird if someone from 1000 years ago showed up and inserted themselves/took over a shadow government. She doesn't know the time, modern tech, modern factions, so unless everyone at 32nd century Section 31 are tactical morons they don't really need her. Yeah it's weird but Starfleet has a history of dudes from 100 years ago showing up and continuing to have jobs (Scotty and Captain Frasier and his crew both have this in multiple novels, Tuvok left Starfleet for 60ish years iirc, that Timeship captain who was trapped on Earth for 30 years) Given Lower Decks presenting the adventures as viral holonovels people know, they would be familiar enough with the concept it would become a trope. That's not even getting into anything that happened post-Temporal Cold War, something spoke of as understood fact in this episode. I bet there was a whole pack of random officers from the past 800 years running around on ships after it was over, all of which probably died but would have their own holonovel stories that this guy probably checked out as sitting at a desk all day doing nothing is pretty boring. But I might be giving this more thought that the writers echoplex posted:WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE WAY BOOK SAYS STUFF
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echoplex posted:WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE WAY BOOK SAYS STUFF English people am I right?! This guy knows
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The Golden Gael posted:Why didn't he get one of them to unfurl the flag or give him a field commission I just finished watching the episode and literally came in here to ask that  I swear I've seen Book's actor somewhere on TV before but nothing in his wikipedia article seems familiar. I guess it's possible I'm remembering him from his Doctor Who episode, but he also reminds me a lot of a younger Idris Alba so maybe that's it. I'm sad that the Orion dude got wasted by the worm. I thought him and his Andorian buddy were great. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Martytoof posted:I guess it's possible I'm remembering him from his Doctor Who episode Oh, that’s where I remember him from. 
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I'm enjoying the Short Treks. The Trouble with Edward is funny and I don't care what others think.
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I cannot fathom who in the federation would give a poo poo who raises the flag. Why would it only be able to be raised by a commissioned officer? The Federation isn't a military! Kirk would have said hes being a moron and just raise it himself!
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Oct 17, 2020 21:11
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Ramadu posted:I cannot fathom who in the federation would give a poo poo who raises the flag. Why would it only be able to be raised by a commissioned officer? The Federation isn't a military! Kirk would have said hes being a moron and just raise it himself! a federation-aboo, or fedaboo for short. we're talking major cargoculting of starfleet regs over a couple of generations. things drift over generations.
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The Federation isn't a millitary, but Starfleet certainly is. Thus the millitary command structure, armed fleets of warships, deployment in times war and so on.
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Just watched the new episode, drugged-up Michael was great. Gives me some hope that the writers are finally realising that both the character and actor are much more fun to watch when the script actually lets her show emotion beyond "stoically sorrowful". I just hope they can keep that up.
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