Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

As a lover of black women everywhere... just stop.

That's hilarious!


... You know where I can get one though?

I don't watch much TV these days but Star Trek Discovery is very quickly becoming my favorite hour of TV every week. It took just the right amount of our knowledge of Trill culture and told us a new story and taught us new things while staying fresh. I hope the rest of the season continues like this.

Okay, we can rest easy, Control isn't in the computer...it's Zora.

I was right!!!!!
I'm the smartest man in the world, and I can glow, and fly, and I'll never die!!!!!!

Thought the latest ep was reasonably good, but over at TBBS, people seem to be thinking it's like best-of-all-of-Trek good.. Am I missing something?

My post is not okay, but post # 5728 is? Since nobody moderates this place, I don’t think I will stop.

What part of a human woman changing her hairstyle more than once over the course of a year is so fucking inconceivable to you? Do you think The Burn took out every hairdresser in the galaxy? Did you shit blood when Sisko grew a goatee and started shaving his head? Or when Riker grew a beard between seasons? Or that one episode where Geordi had a beard too?


You can keep going on about this for as long as you like, but don't think for a second you're not undermining what little credibility you have.

I dropped the issue pages ago, you’re the one that keeps bringing it up.

So... The Burn reduced the number of humanoid Trill capable of carrying a symbiont? That seems weird. We learned during the whole Joran Dax thing that the symbiosis commission had been lying about the percentage of the population that was suitable to host, that it was actually much higher than they were admitting.

I wonder if the 32nd century trill know their ancestors were lying about the criteria for compatibility? Surely they must have reviewed it since then.

Oh yeah, and it's kinda lame that the "groundbreaking transgender cast member" turned out to be a ghost only the non-binary cast member can see or hear. It's like I'm watching a progressive Dexter reboot.

Sss...yeah, I'm not crazy about it, but Trek always has tricks up its sleeves, so I'll see where it goes.

We know Trill-ghosts can re-body, as in that DS9 episode where Kurzon tried to stay in Odo.

I wasn't sold on this one until the end when the old hosts appeared but I ended up liking it.

I just finished it and flipped over to H&I which is, coincidentally, showing TNG's "The Host" right now.

Connecting with the past hosts is a fascinating concept. I thought Ezri had to go through some funky ritual to interact with past hosts the way Adira(?) is now doing with her old boyfriend, but I can chalk that up to oddities arising from her being human. The idea that the "sphere data" has somehow asserted a personality within the ship's computer is at least interesting. The rest of that episode I could have skipped.

It got me in all the feels, weepy at times. I'm not sure about "best" or whatever but I can't not love something that moved me so much (and not just or even primarily the relationship between Adira and Grey).

The Ian Alexander interview to go with it.

That might be a stretch too far, but I can see how someone might say so.


I really liked how this one really taught us something new about the Trill. Their culture and attitudes. There were several "inside baseball" moments for hardcore Trekkers like us and still fresh enough to draw in new fans. I think if I wanted to show a non-Trek fan why I like Discovery, this would be one of the eps I choose to show them. Heck... all of Season 3 so far.

I wasn't asking for me or even for black women.

You look stupid speculating on something which you obviously know little or nothing about.... but carry on if you feel the need.

As the author of post #5728, let me explain the difference between your posts and that one.

In your posts, in a transparently pathetic and desperate attempt to raise criticisms about Discovery, you raised the notion that Burnham's hair was longer than you would have expected it to grow naturally in a year. Of all the things that might challenge belief in a universe that has technology that is portrayed in various unrealistic and contradictory ways, with all the lapses of logic and character that this and other Trek shows have in the service of a plot, you focus on that. Something that, as various posters now have explained, is readily understandable from real world experience (she is wearing a wig/extensions) or Star Trek universe details (it is possible to accelerate natural hair growth, given ST's level of technology mostly indistinguishable from magic and as explicitly shown in Voyager with Seven of Nine).

Rather than doing what a normal person might and saying, "Oh, good point" or reflecting on why --even if you had originally been in the ballpark of right it would have mattered, you doubled down.

I then mocked you. There is nothing wrong with light mockery of another poster or their post, especially if their posts deserve it.

Which is it? Did you drop the issue pages ago, or do you not think you will stop?

putting a few extra seconds of thought into it, and the hair evolution throughout the series, not jsut that montage, has been representative of her growth.

Go back to season one or specifically childhood on Vulcan flashbacks and she's always straightening it or has the bob and bangs... always assimilating. There's a subtext going on here that I'm not even sure was intentional by the writers so much as hair and wardrobe.

This was a so-so episode reminiscent of the most generic of TNG episodes. The Trill segment was boring and completely unnecessary, although I did like that they are dealing with the crew having post traumatic stress issues. At least now we know why the ship's computer changed to a British accent. Still, they need to start getting into the meat of the story and forget about these stand-alone episodes.

I had the exact thought when watching the first two seasons.

SMG is gorgeous no matter what, but I really did like her initial hair style as well as the one seen in the Vulcan flashbacks. Something about how the latter framed her face.

Hm. Great plot, amazing visuals, but the stupid, stupid dialogue is back, for the first time this season. Everyone just blurts out life-changing truths immediately, and there was no reason to send Michael down there, nor any reason for the two of them to connect so quickly. Doc literally said that they had all gone through the same trauma, not just Michael! This needed more time, more art, and more opportunities for the cast to show their acting.

Anyone ever notice how a lot of the idiots on Youtube (and even this very BBS) who hate modern Trek don't seem to understand what Trek is about at its core?

It's almost like people who call themselves Christians but then do the exact opposite of Christ's teachings.

Yeah, the only reason for Michael to go is needing her to not be available to attend the dinner party. Otherwise it becomes all about her.

It also makes more sense for the first officer to lead any away mission that's diplomatically sensitive or which might require negotiation. I wish that'd been the stated reason.

Out of curiousity, did you watch the Short Treks between the second and third seasons? If not, I highly recommend them.

Looks like they are definitely remembering Calypso, interested to see where that goes.

Well, it's the Dayton argument, they're not in it for the philosophy, they're in it for the "Pew! Pew!".
Dayton just said their quiet part out loud.

there's an interesting subtext here. They basically took a TOS era crew, and ran them through a TNG plot seamlessly.

That's not always easy.