S02.E01: Brother

[Ottis]

On 1/19/2019 at 11:14 PM, KimberStormer said:

I should say, to balance my complaining, I thought Reno was really great and hope for more of her.  For a comedian on Star Trek, which is an idea which rarely works for me, she was totally not hammy and absolutely believable to me as a funny but super-compentent engineer.  I doubt (but hope) we'll see any of that crew she saved again, but Tig Notaro totally sold that Reno could and did manage to save them with some crazy improvised engineering.

I did not know who that actress was, but from her stilted acting, I was guessing "musician cameo" before coming to these boards. She wasn't terrible. She *was* different and stood out, IMO.

[John Potts]

Wow, young Spock was a real jerk. And how has he accrued "months" of leave if he's on a 5 year mission?

So if Pike is taking over the Discovery and bringing his senior staff with him, who's left in command of the Enterprise? Yeoman Rand?

Of course, safety procedures immediately fail in a disaster. These must be the same people who designed the warp ejection system, which works fine until there's a warp engine failure.
"We don't abandon each other". Unless they're total jerks, obviously. I guess Officer "I know what I'm doing" should have realised that you don't argue with a series regular (if you want to live).

Loved Tilly's excitement at finding something new. I'm sure it's completely scientifically impossible for Michael to be able to pick up a rock that isn't made up of Baryons (which make up most matter as we know it), but I appreciate the effort of using actual scientific terms rather than Treknobabble.

On 1/18/2019 at 12:34 PM, Kelda Feegle said:

Even getting access to someone else's quarters, let alone reading their diary seemed wildly improbable as well as immoral

The way it was portrayed, it would have made more sense if Spock was missing. You might reasonably override privacy concerns if you thought they might have left a clue to where they (or their body) might be (which we see in ST-TNG's Aquiel).

On 1/27/2019 at 8:41 AM, KimberStormer said:

I want to believe there are more than 5 captains in Starfleet, but it's hard when those are the only ones we ever see. 

I think we've had 5 Captains just on the Discovery (Georgiu, Lorca, Cornwell, Saru and now Pike)! That said, it's a fair point that there are no other Captains in Starfleet.

On 1/18/2019 at 2:24 AM, marinw said:

The actress playing Amanda looks familiar

It is the same actress as last Season (Mia Kirshner). I remember her as "Naked Mandy" from S1 & 2 of 24 - she also a regular on The L Word.

[Idiotboy]

Desperately playing catch-up on CBS All Access.

That was absolutely ... meh. Yes, there was some team-y goodness on the ship (detailed above) and I like continuity porn as much as the next fanboy, so Pike's uniform was a nice shout-out to TOS. But it was *too* TOS in terms of being a one-off, self-contained adventure which could be skipped without missing anything important. No, I'm not forgetting Spock. The 'B' storyline devoured the main storyline to the point where the episode was just SpockSpockSpockSpockSpockSpockSpock. I've never been so tired of a character, now that he's hijacking the franchise. (Judging from the preview, we're going to get bearded Spock from the Evil Twin Universe.) I want to watch my friends Saru, Stamets, Tilly, Dr. Gulber (yes!), etc. And Georgiou cannot return soon enough. That being said, I was charmed by Anson Mount's laid-back Pike, sort of the Warren Beatty of Starfleet. But ...

I'm already forgetting the 'A' storyline—something about a disabled hospital shipzzzzzz—and dreading all the Spockiness to come. Save that for Strange New Worlds, please. Oh, and since AU Georgiou is bisexual, how about a lesbian storyline along the way? Stamets/Gulber shouldn't get to have all the LGBT fun. OK, getting off the path ...

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There are no logical or emotional repercussions to what we saw last season (except for dear Stamets). They just pressed the reset button and now expect us to do it too.

Word. And so much more. I loved S1 of Discovery far more than any other Trek series I've seen (and I'll even admit to liking Voyager). S2:E1 shows danger signs of being another bland, over-lit, everybody-gets-along TOS clone. S1 went dark, twisted, conflicted, emotionally flawed places no Trek had gone before. More of that, please. I bought the DVDs of S1. The prospects of an S2 purchase are looking dim.

[mythoughtis]

It seemed to me that Young Spock was hurt by his mother’s closeness with Michael ( reading to her in bed, etc).  Yet poor Spock wasn’t allowed to express his hurt because of Sarek’s  beliefs.  He had to suppress his humanity while Michael got babied by his Mom.  I think that is why Michael said Spock’s estrangement from his family was her fault.  Sarek wanders all over the Federation - he could certainly get himself on the Enterprise to see his son if he wanted in this show.  He did in TOS and beyond. 

Edited April 16, 2023 by mythoughtis