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Star Trek Discovery

They’re selling off props from the reboots, so a fourth one seems less likely? Surely if you were making another it’d be cheaper to hang on to that stuff than make it all again?

 
hahaha OK Discovery, you asshole, you got me. You did a Terran Empire episode and did it well, you fuckers, and even threw in an Enterprise callback as a plot point. I liked this episode.
 
I thought it was a lot more entertaining than usual too. The mirror universe is overdone, yeah, but at least they went the Enterprise way and had fun with it ("Captain Killy") rather than the DS9 way of making it too stupid (yes, I'm saying Enterprise did something better than DS9!) Good elevator fight too.

Jason Isaacs does a better Scottish accent than Simon Pegg.
 
I was expecting him to just do his own. Doing a Scotty reference was a nice touch.

The doctor being killed was a shock. I wonder if he’ll get replaced by his mirror counterpart, not that it really matters if he’s not with Stamets. Stamets got plenty of development, but the doctor (who I’m still calling “the doctor” after half a season) was second fiddle to his boyfriend.

I called Tilly being captain a while back when Stamets blurted it out after a jump. I’m glad it happened.

The Klingon woman always looks really goofy in close ups. Like she’s cross eyed.

Nice to see the Shenzhou again. It’s a way nicer looking ship than the Discovery.

On that note, for legal reasons(?) the Defiant isn’t a standard Constitution class. The graphic showed some modifications.
 
OMG Captain Killy!!!

I'm really sad about the doctor, tho.

I agree about DS9's awful campy alt universe episodes, they were terrible. This one was so much better.
 
Oh yes. And of course Michael would have to kill them too... but not before trying to turn them to the light side of the force.

What was the TOS reference? I think there are quite a few in each episode but I presume it’s not one of the obvious ones.

I agree the Defiant would need some mods, especially as it actually seems to still be in service, but it’s a shame if the changes are really due to legal reasons. What a stupid situation where a Star Trek series is banned from showing the Enterprise (essentially what it boils down to).
 
Fuddlemiff said:
What was the TOS reference? I think there are quite a few in each episode but I presume it’s not one of the obvious ones.
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No, it's non-obvious. Hell, I may even be totally wrong, but...

Stametz spends a few minutes babbling about a "palace". A little while later he's screaming at somebody "Don't go into the palace!"

Okay, what else in Star Trek is going on at roughly this point in the timeline? The events of The Cage. Well, what had just happened to the Enterprise just a little while before the opening of that? Pike and a bunch of his crew got ambushed while exploring this:

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Now it's kind of a long shot that he's remotely seeing the ambush. But he also called Tilly "Captain" when he was similarly out-of-it, and then lo and behold, they ended up somewhere where (mirror) Tilly was the Captain. So it's a Cage reference.
 
Or a mirror of the mirror universe, what with the weird, wangled-up Defiant. Which, you're probably thinking, well, they'd had the thing for about a hundred years, they would'a done stuff to it. And you'd be right. But what that doesn't explain is why the Enterprise from the original mirror universe episode in TOS wasn't likewise all wangled.

House of mirrors! :scared:
 
Mirror mirror was before the tholian web, so the timeline of the original mirror universe had not been altered by the temporal incursion yet.
 
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