Star Trek Discovery season 2 megathread

[Darth Wedgius]

Welcome to the STD season 2 megathread. 1 post about STD season 2, 9 posts about megathreadiness.

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[Actarus]

Pretty solid episode overall. I like the change of tone. We're back to exploration and discovery. The new captain, Christopher Pike, is interesting and well played by Anson Mount. I loved the new engineer, Jet Reno, played by Tig Notaro. She may be the Bones McCoy of the show (a little grumpy and dry sense of humour, very down to earth). The plot is interesting and I'm eager to know what will happen next.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Wait, how is this a mega thread?

That is the aspiration.

So like if I created a megathread on the same topic and it got more posts than this one, then this one probably wouldn't be considered so mega?

It would be an other Megathread.

You mean "another"?

No, I meant to write what I wrote.

Just sounds off.

That was the plan. But there's method to his particular madness.

Is it necessary to come off so diabolical though?

[Madner Kami]

Wait, how is this a mega thread?

That is the aspiration.

So like if I created a megathread on the same topic and it got more posts than this one, then this one probably wouldn't be considered so mega?

It would be an other Megathread.

You mean "another"?

No, I meant to write what I wrote.

Just sounds off.

That was the plan. But there's method to his particular madness.

Is it necessary to come off so diabolical though?

Absolutey. That was part of the deal.

[Karha of Honor]

Pretty solid episode overall. I like the change of tone. We're back to exploration and discovery. The new captain, Christopher Pike, is interesting and well played by Anson Mount. I loved the new engineer, Jet Reno, played by Tig Notaro. She may be the Bones McCoy of the show (a little grumpy and dry sense of humour, very down to earth). The plot is interesting and I'm eager to know what will happen next.

Do you think he feels like old Pike in any way?

[TheLibrarian]

Do you think he feels like old Pike in any way?

He's more exuberant and charismatic, but we're also seeing him a lot earlier in his career than previous takes on the character. There's not much to say about Pike in "The Menagerie" frame story--he's a damaged shell of man barely able to interact with the outside world. Kelvanverse Pike is much older, possibly never went to Talos IV, and is more of a paternal figure to Kirk.

In "The Cage", we're seeing him some time after the presumed events of Discovery S2, and at the beginning of that episode he admits that he's feeling burned out, and that a close call on a recent mission really shook him up to the point that he's considering resigning from Starfleet. For most of the episode he's stuck in the titular cage with Vina, trying to outwit the Talosians, so we don't get a great sense of his rapport with his crew. But there is that brief period when they first go down to Talos IV where his crew seem to like him, laugh with him, and when he's taken, they're all thoroughly devoted to Pike they spare nothing trying to get him back. He's clearly a captain who's inspired deep loyalty from his crew. So I think the affable Pike we saw in this episode could easily be an earlier version of the Pike from "The Cage", before the burnout got to him.

[Zoinksberg]

In "The Cage", we're seeing him some time after the presumed events of Discovery S2, and at the beginning of that episode he admits that he's feeling burned out, and that a close call on a recent mission really shook him up to the point that he's considering resigning from Starfleet.

Discovery S2 takes place 3 years after the events of The Cage.

Which of course means that The Enterprise has been refit from how it looks in The Cage, to Discoprise, and then will be refit again to the TOS version (which is only slightly altered from The Cage), and then refit again to the Constitution Refit of TMP. As much as I do like the design they went with here, they really need to stop calling this thing Prime.

[Yukaphile]

The continuity is a mess. It's the biggest reason I refuse to try and get invested in STD. Voyager did that, and look at how well that turned out.

[Karha of Honor]

The continuity is a mess.

Because of DISCO?

Care to elaborate?

It cannot be retconned?

[Yukaphile]

If you think this takes place in the Prime Universe, then you're just not paying attention. The look, the atmosphere, the uniforms... it might work if it was a century prior to TOS, but it's not. Hell, even Enterprise was a more faithful prequel, as scary as that is.