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Overall, these last two episodes were pretty good, I liked the twists and turns with the main story, I like this version of Time Travel, and it was good to get some explanations on things with the Red Angel's involvement in the story, and I really liked the reunion between Michael Burnham and her mother, just good stuff overall.

I thought that it was a proper use of time travel with consideration of paradox. I didn't do the math too much, but it's pretty nifty use of a time loop that events are involved in.

BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:19 pm I thought that it was a proper use of time travel with consideration of paradox. I didn't do the math too much, but it's pretty nifty use of a time loop that events are involved in.

Indeed, I do like that we find out events of this season have been tied into the main story via Doctor Burnham's Time Travel like with New Eden and the Sphere, and that this and as we find out at the end of the season that the signals and other Red Angel sightings are in-fact all a Predestination Paradox.

I also like the special effects for the Time-Suit and how it travels, especially in the season finally.

Link8909 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:11 pmI also like the special effects for the Time-Suit and how it travels, especially in the season finally.

Oh certainly, I concur. As for a climactic landscape it was very majestic in astronomical scenery.

Like the swing around the Enterprise in drydock in The Slow Motion Picture; there is always just a bit more STD to endure before it ends. However eventually all things die: people, animals, trees, even whole continents will perish under the weight of inevitability. And so too, eventually, will STD meet the fate that all things will one day reach.

And I will be waiting with the champagne and smiles. Tally ho.

clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:00 pm Like the swing around the Enterprise in drydock in The Slow Motion Picture; there is always just a bit more STD to endure before it ends. However eventually all things die: people, animals, trees, even whole continents will perish under the weight of inevitability. And so too, eventually, will STD meet the fate that all things will one day reach.

And I will be waiting with the champagne and smiles. Tally ho.

The New Scientist declared DISCO the beginning of the Star Trek Renaissance: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732982-200-we-are-living-in-the-middle-of-a-fantastic-star-trek-renaissance/

But I loved DISCO from the beginning. I'm pretty terrified the reboot its enduring will destroy what I love about it.

I hated season 2, slightly less than I did the Dick-Cheney's-wank-stain that is season 1, and thought this episode was pretty standard for STD. Overproduced, Very Important things being done by characters I by this point don't care about, lots of wonky camera angles, and Michael Burnham being the most important and special person in the universe--because that worked SO well for Stevie Moffat...

So... what was the point of the whole stabbing Leland in the eye if this episode his eye is very much healed and he gets injected in the neck with nanoprob- err, I mean nanorobots? Does Kurtzman have some eye torture fetish or something?

Also, despite the show trying to raise the stakes again by trying to have the main characters save the (future) galaxy, everything just feels so small, so bland. "Oh look, we need to save the... yawn galaxy... again. Just us, a small team, against all odds. OK, not alone, the cavalry is coming to our rescue at the last minute". I think it's a consequence of having just way too many save the planet/galaxy/world plots that just cheapen any emotional weight. And to make matters worse, they literally recycle the evil AI destroys the galaxy theme in Picard, where they also solve it in the most bland and cheap way, so I really don't feel like caring at this point. It's all so overused, that there is no emotional weight to anything anymore.

1) I expect all the evil AI things will clump together and end up creating a metaplot for this era of Trek.

2) I expect if Lorca returns, it'll be the regular universe Lorca, and the whole crew of Discovery will take turns kicking the crap out of him, thinking he's evil Lorca.