Enjoyed pretty much everything in this episode except the magic super steroids. The sequence went on for so long.. I assumed that I had forgotten something from last series because there’s no way they would have had this to hand the whole time and never thought to use it during any one of the many life and death emergencies?
That aside. Loved the rest of the episode and looking forward to where things go from here (plus really really happy to have weekly Trek again!)
there’s no way they would have had this to hand the whole time and never thought to use it during any one of the many life and death emergencies?
Ah, yes, the star trek classic!
I do agree, though. It was too long and too effective. A quick burst to make their way past the medical guards and into a turbolift would have been more believable and better paced.
Fun episode, but bits and pieces always felt a little off. Pelia was fantastic - love seeing competent non-main-characters in any sort of fiction.
Chapel/Spock... ugh. Not so much.
Whats with the wierd "Crossfield" class?
I'm going with the thought that others have posted, since it's probably quite unlikely that the Klingons just stole an entire ship, that this ship must've been hacked together out of salvage from the War.
I bet we're going to see that Pelia was involved in things during the ENT era, and possibly also that she might connect to Scotty too.
So we're not going to talk about the drugs that supposedly give you the strength to beat teams of Klingons and have no side effects?
Season 2 is released? I just finished watching season 1 yesterday!
Good timing!
Nice episode, I was expecting a cliffhanger at the end showing what Pike was up to.
I am curious about the Lanthanites, I’ve had visitor before, like Guinan in 1890s, but a whole species living among side humans, maybe they don’t have a big population, I bet they could be the origin of many human myths. I wonder what was their reason.
Maybe It will help with Una’s trial, since both pretended to be humans.
Also, in TOS there was about an Immortal Human, maybe he was a Lanthanite and just didn’t know.
I am unsure how Lanthanites can have a distinct accent if they spent centuries successfully blending in, but I agree that it's interesting.
I'm doing my first watch of TOS and the instrument that Spock picks up is the same as in TOS 1x02. That was a cool little reference.
I think this episode was fine. Glad to have it back, and hoping we don't have too many more breaks between shows again. :D
Not bad, but felt very Discovery in tone and aesthetic. I'm hoping future episodes match season 1's vibe.
Have we ever heard of Lanthanites? Apparently they
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live such a long time they get bored and they are hiding on Earth in the 22nd century.
I wonder if they know about the El-Aurians or Q.
God damn I enjoyed the shit out of that!
At first glance I was unsure about the new engineer but by the end of her first scene I loved her. I wish she was featured a bit more but I'm sure we will see more soon.
Spock is the man!
Carol Kane seems like she's being set up as the central mystery or resolution of this season. Too many little nods that she is more than she seems, even when what she seems is already pretty fantastical.
Have we heard of the Lanthanites before? The concept of an entire race of "nearly immortal" aliens living on earth undetected until the 22nd century (starting when??) was a pretty serious infodump. I wonder if that's just worldbuilding or if it'll prove important later on.
If they had super-soldier drugs the whole time why didn't they use them against the gorn or any other combat that occurred in season 1?
Way back in 'Encounter at Farpoint' Q when dressed as a soldier of one of the armies of World War III was shown using a retractable stimulant dispenser. Not sure if the green stuff was intended as a nod towards that.
To be honest when I was watching the scene I thought I had missed something from last season. Threw me off balance for the rest of the episode.
Presumably they have nasty side effects and the only reason they resorted to them here was because the only other option was oblivion.
I'd like to see them going through some bad consequences of using that stuff.
What was the magic hypo serum they used? Was it the lost Captain America serum? Or has that been referenced / used before somewhere else in universe that I don’t recall?
What a way to start the season! I love that they're leaning hard into the TOS vibe.
There's a lot to pick apart if you really wanted to, but frankly it's hard for me to get hung up on minutae when the characters and universe are so spot on. Some good starship porn in there too. What an adventure! Gene would be more than happy with this one I think.
If my memory is correct, this episode contained more than half of the scenes from the trailers, most of which were theorized to be from different episodes.
That leaves two possibilities:
this episode is the most interesting episode, which would be unfortunate but not unheardof for Paramount
the best is yet to come, and we have no idea what's coming.
I choose to believe the second, for now, and I'm excited.
So, I used to work in TV marketing at the network level and I can tell you typically trailers are made up of the first three episodes or less. No real secret why though - usually the show is still working on the other episodes.
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