Star Trek Discovery season 2 megathread

[Yukaphile]

Mystic Klingon? Dafuq? I know Trek's always skirted with spirituality, but... please tell me they at least made an effort to make this seem like science and less like... Star Wars?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Mystic Klingon? Dafuq? I know Trek's always skirted with spirituality, but... please tell me they at least made an effort to make this seem like science and less like... Star Wars?

Now that I think about it, I didn't mind it that much because Klingons are overly deep into their culture and stuff................ but I'm pretty sure most anybody here despises it including you.

[Yukaphile]

Seems like more changes to the canon, tbh, if they made it outright magic. Reminds me of all those times SF Debris tore Trek a new one for resorting to magic. Hell, the Magic Meeting Room!

[Makeshift Python]

It’s more or less comparable to DS9’s orb visions, only now it’s in a Klingon monastery.

[MissKittyFantastico]

I liked the time monks. For all the faffing about they did in pre-release publicity for season one about how they were making the too-familiar Klingons 'alien' again by beefing up their makeup and presenting them as ooh-scary, this was alien. Pretty cool. And fun to consider that every time Worf or someone's started waxing lyrical about Klingon mythology, maybe they're not just pulling stuff out of their ancestors' arses, crazy stuff really has gone down on Qo'nos back in the day.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Yeah pretty much. I bought it.

[Yukaphile]

SIGH... so giving the Klingons sympathetic magic? Totally frickin' figures... at least Worf's visions could be excused in that it was taking place among high heat, and exposure to that would cause you to hallucinate. Even Data commented on that. Think the writers might prefer working on Star Wars rather than Star Trek, tbh.

[Makeshift Python]

Has “magic” in Trek bothered you this much before DISCO came along?

[Yukaphile]

Because it was never tied to the Klingons. Their religious beliefs are just that - beliefs, and were never given any kind of weight prior to modern day Trek.

[MissKittyFantastico]

They made a point of showing that all the time crystals in the Boreth monastery were growing out of a fractured Bajoran Orb, so it's not like there's anything actually magical going on.