Star trek: Discovery
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luckykaaSo, Star Trek Discovery...
I'm sort of enjoying it. It doesn't feel very Star Trek though. And it's more intigue about where it's going than fascination.
I wish I had the time and patience to do a screencap comic along the lines of OnBenchNow, but I don't.
"Orange is the new Redshirt"
Michael (who is a woman but Bryan Fuller likes giving his female characters male names) committed mutiny so is being taken to Space prison, along with three other prisoners, who don't get names so probably aren't important. The shuttle gets threatened by technobabble, so the unnamed pilot goes out to deal with it. And then her tether snaps, leaving the prisoners doomed to drift in space. Which seems rather melodramatic, since presumably Star Fleet knows when a shuttle containing dangerous prisoners goes off the grid.
Anyway, they're rescued by a ship that is clearly brand new; because Michael finds a sales brochures on the floor. They're immediately taken to the mess hall, and the other convicts attack Michael so that she can fight them all off and prove she's a bad-ass.
She then gets sent to the bridge. Her old crewmate, Saru is first officer, and he directs her into the Captain's ready room. He's played by Jason Isaacs, who played Captain Hook in the live action Peter Pan (as well as Lucious Malfoy). Captain Captain Hook explains that his eyes take some time to adjust to changing light, so we're going to have mood lighting only on the ship.
She then gets sent to her quarters and her room mate wanders in. Cadet Tilley, who talks a lot in a nervous fashion. She's nervous, and kind of adorkable. Apparently it's standard practice to assign convicts to share rooms with cadets. Maybe they expect either Tilley to talk Michael to death, or Michael to murder Tilley to shut her up thus reducing their problems by one. Tilley of course doesn't realise this at first because apparently Star Fleet's only mutineer does not have a recognisable face.
Saru gets assigned to a science lab and told to go to a workstations and do some science. She picks one next to Tilley, who decides that both working and living next to a convicted criminal is probably a little much and tells her the consoles are assigned.
Lt. Stamets, lead science guy gives her some actual work to do, and told that Tilley lied about assigned workstations. Michael finds a mistake and there's some technobabble talk about how it's hard to tell if physics or biology, but there's clearly a mistake in a line of code, which proves the writers have never worked in software development.
So Michael breaks into the lab, because security is based on breath analysis and she can use Tilley's drool to fool the scanner. Her Vulcan logic doesn't suggest this is a bit easy, but she doesn't get caught...
Captain Captain Hook gets a message telling him that the Discovery's sister ship USS Glenn was destroyed on the border of Klingon space. since Tilley and Michael haven't killed each other yet, they get sent to see what was going on, along with Science Guy. Tilley apologises for treating Michael like some sort of dengerous criminal on the way.
Michael presses Science Guy on what the science is, and he explains that it's both Physics and biology, which makes me think the job of science consultant wasn't a priority in this incarnation of Trek. Apparently they're organisms that exist in the technobabble.
They get to the Glenn (really would have thought there would be a little more consistency with naming conventions), where they find everyone's been twisted by the technobabble. Then they find some Klingons who have been ripped to shreds. Then they meet another Klingon, who promptly gets ripped to shreds, as does a generic security guy. The monster responsible then chases the rest of the cres. It would feel a lot more authentic if this wasn't too similar to a scene in John Scalzi's Redshirts.
Michael offers to distract the creature while everyone escapes. She does this by irritating it by shooting it and running away, quoting Lewis Carrol as she does so.
The crew get away. Captain Captain Hook offers Michael a job. Michael refuses because she thinks he wants someone to help him create biological weapons. Captain Captain Hook takes her to the lab (reveals he knows she broke in) explains that they're actually creating some sort of biological super speedy drive. A drive that will be abandoned and forgotten about because we know it doesn't exist in future series. If it did, Voyager would have taken about 20 minutes to get home.
He offers Michael the chance to end the war she helped start. Except she really didn't. She didn't succeed in her mutiny, and the Klingons were spoiling for a fight.
Michael has a chat with Tilley in their quarters. Tilley is surprised to see a book. Michael name drops her foster mum (Amanda - Spock's mum; although Spock never mentioned a foster sister. Or a brother for that matter). Still, this is a nice callback to the animated series (Michael's foster mum is Spock's mother; Amanda), who apparently had a fondness for Alice in Wonderland.
We then switch to Captain Captain Hook, and see that he has a little zoo somewhere in the ship. This zoo includes the creature that attacked them.
I do think this show has some promise. Although a few elements of this felt a little forced in order to set up the basic structure. I don't like focussing on a single character that much, especially because the character feels a little too perfect. She is possible the best scientist ever, extremely perceptive, a skilled martial artist, and always right. On the plus side, at least she doesn't have the adoration of everyone on board. Saru and Lt. Stamets seems to tolerate her. The Captain sees her as an asset. Tilley is being nice to here but she's nice to everyone because she's desperate to be liked.
It does seem that Captain Lorca is going to stick to the job of being captain. The away team was made up of non-bridge crew, which was a break with tradition, but does make sense that the bridge crew would run the ship and away teams would be sent on away missions.
I'm sort of enjoying it. It doesn't feel very Star Trek though. And it's more intigue about where it's going than fascination.
I wish I had the time and patience to do a screencap comic along the lines of OnBenchNow, but I don't.
"Orange is the new Redshirt"
Michael (who is a woman but Bryan Fuller likes giving his female characters male names) committed mutiny so is being taken to Space prison, along with three other prisoners, who don't get names so probably aren't important. The shuttle gets threatened by technobabble, so the unnamed pilot goes out to deal with it. And then her tether snaps, leaving the prisoners doomed to drift in space. Which seems rather melodramatic, since presumably Star Fleet knows when a shuttle containing dangerous prisoners goes off the grid.
Anyway, they're rescued by a ship that is clearly brand new; because Michael finds a sales brochures on the floor. They're immediately taken to the mess hall, and the other convicts attack Michael so that she can fight them all off and prove she's a bad-ass.
She then gets sent to the bridge. Her old crewmate, Saru is first officer, and he directs her into the Captain's ready room. He's played by Jason Isaacs, who played Captain Hook in the live action Peter Pan (as well as Lucious Malfoy). Captain Captain Hook explains that his eyes take some time to adjust to changing light, so we're going to have mood lighting only on the ship.
She then gets sent to her quarters and her room mate wanders in. Cadet Tilley, who talks a lot in a nervous fashion. She's nervous, and kind of adorkable. Apparently it's standard practice to assign convicts to share rooms with cadets. Maybe they expect either Tilley to talk Michael to death, or Michael to murder Tilley to shut her up thus reducing their problems by one. Tilley of course doesn't realise this at first because apparently Star Fleet's only mutineer does not have a recognisable face.
Saru gets assigned to a science lab and told to go to a workstations and do some science. She picks one next to Tilley, who decides that both working and living next to a convicted criminal is probably a little much and tells her the consoles are assigned.
Lt. Stamets, lead science guy gives her some actual work to do, and told that Tilley lied about assigned workstations. Michael finds a mistake and there's some technobabble talk about how it's hard to tell if physics or biology, but there's clearly a mistake in a line of code, which proves the writers have never worked in software development.
So Michael breaks into the lab, because security is based on breath analysis and she can use Tilley's drool to fool the scanner. Her Vulcan logic doesn't suggest this is a bit easy, but she doesn't get caught...
Captain Captain Hook gets a message telling him that the Discovery's sister ship USS Glenn was destroyed on the border of Klingon space. since Tilley and Michael haven't killed each other yet, they get sent to see what was going on, along with Science Guy. Tilley apologises for treating Michael like some sort of dengerous criminal on the way.
Michael presses Science Guy on what the science is, and he explains that it's both Physics and biology, which makes me think the job of science consultant wasn't a priority in this incarnation of Trek. Apparently they're organisms that exist in the technobabble.
They get to the Glenn (really would have thought there would be a little more consistency with naming conventions), where they find everyone's been twisted by the technobabble. Then they find some Klingons who have been ripped to shreds. Then they meet another Klingon, who promptly gets ripped to shreds, as does a generic security guy. The monster responsible then chases the rest of the cres. It would feel a lot more authentic if this wasn't too similar to a scene in John Scalzi's Redshirts.
Michael offers to distract the creature while everyone escapes. She does this by irritating it by shooting it and running away, quoting Lewis Carrol as she does so.
The crew get away. Captain Captain Hook offers Michael a job. Michael refuses because she thinks he wants someone to help him create biological weapons. Captain Captain Hook takes her to the lab (reveals he knows she broke in) explains that they're actually creating some sort of biological super speedy drive. A drive that will be abandoned and forgotten about because we know it doesn't exist in future series. If it did, Voyager would have taken about 20 minutes to get home.
He offers Michael the chance to end the war she helped start. Except she really didn't. She didn't succeed in her mutiny, and the Klingons were spoiling for a fight.
Michael has a chat with Tilley in their quarters. Tilley is surprised to see a book. Michael name drops her foster mum (Amanda - Spock's mum; although Spock never mentioned a foster sister. Or a brother for that matter). Still, this is a nice callback to the animated series (Michael's foster mum is Spock's mother; Amanda), who apparently had a fondness for Alice in Wonderland.
We then switch to Captain Captain Hook, and see that he has a little zoo somewhere in the ship. This zoo includes the creature that attacked them.
I do think this show has some promise. Although a few elements of this felt a little forced in order to set up the basic structure. I don't like focussing on a single character that much, especially because the character feels a little too perfect. She is possible the best scientist ever, extremely perceptive, a skilled martial artist, and always right. On the plus side, at least she doesn't have the adoration of everyone on board. Saru and Lt. Stamets seems to tolerate her. The Captain sees her as an asset. Tilley is being nice to here but she's nice to everyone because she's desperate to be liked.
It does seem that Captain Lorca is going to stick to the job of being captain. The away team was made up of non-bridge crew, which was a break with tradition, but does make sense that the bridge crew would run the ship and away teams would be sent on away missions.
