I liked the preview for the rest of the season. However, I do like how the second episode ended and how she got what was coming to her. Doesn't matter if she was "right" in the end, her actions weren't befitting of a Starfleet Officer. She should have been confined to quarters way earlier. TOS felt very much like a 60's view on what the future would look like, TNG/DS9 the 90's take, and now Discovery with our current imaging of what the 23rd century would look like.Īnyways, looking forward to watching more of the show.ĭid not feel like Star Trek to me. It's just interesting to see the aesthetics of technology crossing over from the actual era those shows were produced. I think I got over it fairly quicky, and I think I ended up enjoying the changes even if they raise some questions about continuity with other series. And not knowing a whole lot about them at this point, I suppose it's hard for me to say just how much I'll end up enjoying Discovery.Īlso having watched TNG and DS9 fairly recently, it also felt a bit jarring initially to see how much more 'future looking' (for lack of a better term) everything looks in Discovery, despite being a prequel. I just feel the quality of the crew has been a big part of what's enjoy a Trek series to me in the past. Given the fate of the Shenzou, it makes sense why they did it this way. Time that's typically spent introducing and getting to know the new crew (one of my favorites is probably Riker and Data meeting for the first time) is instead largely spent setting up the Klingons, and focusing more on Burnham's character. It does throw a lot of the formula of a typical Star Trek pilot out the window. Skip to the end of Episode 2, the Shenzou is destroyed, T'Kuvma and Georgiou are both dead, and Burnham's fate beyond imprisonment feels up in the air (though we do expect her to make it back on a starship somehow). If you didn't follow the pre-release coverage (or even if you had) and just watched the first episode, I don't think anyone would have faulted you for assuming The Shenzou will be the home base for the show (not unlike the Enterprise or Deep Space 9 in prior series), Georgiou is the captain and presumable main character alongside Burnham (though the opening credits marking Michelle Yeoh as a guest star already spoiled this wouldn't be the case), and T'kuvma is going to be the main antagonist for the season. Overall I enjoyed these episodes a lot, but as others have probably said, this almost felt like more of a prequel to the actual show. Having plausible background details like this without overexplaining them goes a really long way towards making the world feel very realistic. It seems very logical that if you have a computer with a high level of artificial intelligence you would want some pretty robust failsafes to prevent any kind of I, Robot scenario. Judging by online reactions I'm pretty alone in this, but to me it seemed really realistic that a culture like Starfleet would build in software safeguards that would have the power to completely bypass ordinary computer security if there's an ironclad moral reason to do so. Similarly I also enjoyed Michael's ethics argument in the brig. I really like it when sci-fi takes a thoughtful approach to how technology would actually work without piling on unnatural dialog spelling it out for the audience. It looks like radio interference but it's actually the software compensating for differing room layouts, burnished by some algorithmic magic to minimize the amount of "warping" necessary. Then I suppose at the other end it "warped" Michael to a different location to make their eye-lines match up again. When I was watching it I thought the computer had noted Sarek was moving to sit in a chair and so the projector immediately warped him to a location in Michael's room where there was also a chair. I thought the glitchiness was really cool.
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