Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
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Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
Fifth and Final Season, folks.
Plenty of TNG references and fanservice here, a little to Picard by way of consequence. This time they are hunting down technology a Romulan found from the Progenitors from TNG's The Chase.
It's got a nice treasure hunt vibe going on.
Tilly's back in the cast, Saru seems to be leaving again. Though hopefully he's staying on the show.
Once again, they don't really get how chains of command with another Captain of much greater seniority than Michael becoming her first officer.
It does still tend a bit too much the characters emoting and shilling each other but it's been reasonably good fun so far.
Plenty of TNG references and fanservice here, a little to Picard by way of consequence. This time they are hunting down technology a Romulan found from the Progenitors from TNG's The Chase.
It's got a nice treasure hunt vibe going on.
Tilly's back in the cast, Saru seems to be leaving again. Though hopefully he's staying on the show.
Once again, they don't really get how chains of command with another Captain of much greater seniority than Michael becoming her first officer.
It does still tend a bit too much the characters emoting and shilling each other but it's been reasonably good fun so far.
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Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
A captain who had recently faced a disciplinary hearing and chosen to take early retirement instead of facing whatever punishment they decided on. Until Michael wanted him to be her first officer. I'm guessing he got demoted.Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2024-04-06 03:46pm
Once again, they don't really get how chains of command with another Captain of much greater seniority than Michael becoming her first officer.
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I still have no idea what a self-sealing stem bolt is or what it does. (And no, actually seeing one for the first time din't help).
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It unsurprisingly doesn't but when did we see one before?
'Next time I let Superman take charge, just hit me. Real hard.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
'Hey, we both have a Martian's phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt.'
'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
'Hey, we both have a Martian's phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt.'
'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
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Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
They appeared a few times on DS9. That's where the images on memory alpha are from.
Also at least one appearance on Lower Decks.
Also at least one appearance on Lower Decks.
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Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
Beyond the slightly silly moment of the ships being belly down - for once I wish they'd used the deflectors, or hovered closer to the city and just bubbled it.
In the spirit of the site, you could get some calcs on kinetic energy and momentum for that landslide.
Very happy to see an orbital phaser strike.
In the spirit of the site, you could get some calcs on kinetic energy and momentum for that landslide.
Very happy to see an orbital phaser strike.
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One interesting note is that programmable matter can't be made into wires. If they want wires, they have to use replicators.
Which just adds confusion to me trying to understand the difference between replicating something vs using programmable matter.
Which just adds confusion to me trying to understand the difference between replicating something vs using programmable matter.
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One assumes it can't precisely make that type of wire, it may be that the conductivity is too low, or too high, or that it channels power through some other means other than electrons - perhaps it transmits weak nuclear force or something - to operate its systems.
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Oh, hey! You turned out to be right on this front. They're explict referring to him as First Officer and Commander rather than Number One, which is an improvement over previous writing to my thinking.bilateralrope wrote: ↑2024-04-06 07:35pmA captain who had recently faced a disciplinary hearing and chosen to take early retirement instead of facing whatever punishment they decided on. Until Michael wanted him to be her first officer. I'm guessing he got demoted.Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2024-04-06 03:46pm
Once again, they don't really get how chains of command with another Captain of much greater seniority than Michael becoming her first officer.
It's not emphasised much but there are some new names and face among the bridge bunnies. I noticed on, maybe the relief pilot was Bajoran, implying the crew has plenty of 32nd century born members now.
hmm. Trill symbiote life span very rarely stretches to 800 years. That means Dax who was already several hosts deep is extremely likely dead. Also that Tal has no memories of the time frame.
...Trill has some nasty wildlife. Though the plot is pretty standard test of character thing but serviceable enough and takes advantage of Ds9 continuity.
Rayner gets a meet the crew plot, and Saru has an argument with T'Rina. Tbf I found them cuter courting than now as a couple but we are getting more info on the set up on Ni'Var which
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Even if Moll and L'ak can track Discovery now, they don't have a spore drive. So it's going to be interesting seeing how they overcome that disadvantage.
That description of what progenitor tech can do makes me wonder just how Cronenberg things will get after someone uses it.
That description of what progenitor tech can do makes me wonder just how Cronenberg things will get after someone uses it.
I wonder if the cloaking wildlife caused any complications with the treaty that forbid Federation cloaking devicesCrazedwraith wrote: ↑2024-04-11 05:09pm
...Trill has some nasty wildlife. Though the plot is pretty standard test of character thing but serviceable enough and takes advantage of Ds9 continuity.
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On the other hand the clues were planted by people with 23rd century warp drive. DASH drive might be instant but it might take Moll and L'ak only hours to cross what took months in C23rd.
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Probably. But they still need to know where they are going when Discovery has the only copy of the next clue and enough firepower that they don't want a ship to ship battle.NecronLord wrote: ↑2024-04-15 02:33pm On the other hand the clues were planted by people with 23rd century warp drive. DASH drive might be instant but it might take Moll and L'ak only hours to cross what took months in C23rd.
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So this weeks plot reveals the krenium were involved in the temporal cold war or at least someone got a hold of their tech. Their even seems to be a oblique reference to Calpyso, those the scenario doesn't line up with that episode exactly.
I think this is a good standalone episode and it's worked well into the arc as well which is nice. It could be a lot more polished and meaningful with the character arcs but servicable nevertheless. Despite travelling through lot of time periods the only old character brought back is Airiam the cyborg.
Still it kind of suffers from the fact the a prodigy did a very similar episode, in half the time. Better to my mind.
I think this is a good standalone episode and it's worked well into the arc as well which is nice. It could be a lot more polished and meaningful with the character arcs but servicable nevertheless. Despite travelling through lot of time periods the only old character brought back is Airiam the cyborg.
Still it kind of suffers from the fact the a prodigy did a very similar episode, in half the time. Better to my mind.
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So as it turns out:
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We get Moll and L'Ak's back story which is fine and most of the episode is set on a derelict Connie class using SNW sets to save money. All pretty decent but by the book really.
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Setting it on a Connie makes sense since they already have the sets. But did they have to use the Enterprise ?
Moll and L'Ak's backstory sound like they would easily qualify as political refugees and the Federation's control over the main source of dilithium for the galaxy probably makes Federation space the safest place to hide from the Breen. Especially if they only need to hide from one faction. Much better than some rumored paradise planet in the gamma quadrant.
Certainly better than fleeing in some modified torpedo because they don't have a ship. Though I can't say that it's an out of character move for them.
Moll and L'Ak's backstory sound like they would easily qualify as political refugees and the Federation's control over the main source of dilithium for the galaxy probably makes Federation space the safest place to hide from the Breen. Especially if they only need to hide from one faction. Much better than some rumored paradise planet in the gamma quadrant.
Certainly better than fleeing in some modified torpedo because they don't have a ship. Though I can't say that it's an out of character move for them.