Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

yeah... totally Airiam all over.
Is junior Ivanova staying on board?

It made no sense to have Nhan (Mmmm...naan...) be the chief of security when she could be so easily disabled by simply ripping off her little breathing tube things like when Ariam did it in S2.

Yes, they should also stop hiring humans to that job given that a sharp jab to the windpipe can disable or even kill us.

anyone else concerned that the AI doc was named Leland?

After the absolute shit show of last week's episode -- an episode so bad it threatened to derail the entire season -- we're finally back on track.

This episode was a godsend. Compared to last week's episode, it's the greatest episode in Trek history.

Fanwank stuff aside (fuck Voyager), it's set up a whole bunch of mysteries to unpack.

I know this isn't what the Admiral seems disposed to do (or separately, Burnham) it seems to me that the obvious thing you would want to do with Discovery is send them off on a series of "touching base" visits to each of the 300+ federation worlds that had been cut off. Just for a status report if nothing else.

Did anyone mention David Fucking Cronenberg as Georgiou's interrogator yet?

me... last page

Wow, that was...an episode.

If you like being bored, that was the show for you.

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It'll be such a dick move if nuStarfleet doesn't give Detmer a new eye.

I bet he's Section 31.

Section 31-J.

I have to admit I was a little excited to see the Voyager J.

I wonder why Tilly was though. Is that a continuity error? 11 generations of evolution... Wasn't Voyager like 100 years after Disco?

I think she just means it's 11 generation to get to the 'J'. Voyager doesn't need to mean anything to her.

You're dead to me.

OK... but it's kind of a hard sell for me to accept that she was excited about the letter "J."

EDIT - Just watched that part again... that's exactly what it was. She was commenting that there were 10 previous versions. Not excited at all.

There was literally no reason to have that scene other than to jerk off the few Voyager fans.

The U.S.S. Nog at least was a "tip of the hat" to a Trek character and beloved actor.

It's also been dubbed the "Eisenberg Class" by the creators.

While I'm still not fully onboard with this show still, it's been better than it has been. I just hope it doesn't go off the rails toward the end of the season, as it's done before.

Are they trying to rip off NuBSG with this piece of music that everybody knows? Let me guess, this piece of music somehow unites everyone and saves the day.

NuBSG ripped off "the magic song that unites everybody", from Robotech/Macross.

Interesting implication that it suggests that the Enterprise wasn't the first Starfleet vessel to get a letter designated successor, since they understood it meant there had been a bunch with that name rather than it simply being an extension of the registry.

And while it was a fun cheesy moment I'd be surprised if there weren't more Voyagers before the one Janeway captained, it's a great name after all, although I suspect it fell out of favour for a while after the events of TMP.

I'd argue the "11 generations of evolution" though just because of the letters - the Defiant-A was just another ship of the same class after the first one got blown up. The Enterprise-A didn't seem any more advanced that the original refit either (Mr. Scott's Guide To The Enterprise claims of her having transwarp notwithstanding)...

It's like the Doctor - for any boring old normal Time Lord/Lady, 12 regenerations would last well over 10,000 years. The Doc is on (well, this all went out the window recently) body 14-15 (War Doc, Handy) and only 2100 or so.

I just want to point out that there have been Space Shuttles and Probes IRL named Voyager and Enterprise.. Not to mention the NX-01 in Trek. My guess would be that it's the prefix "USS" which triggers the lettered suffix. Just spitballing.

There have been other vessels named Voyager (as @AlphaMan pointed out) but there would not have been any Starfleet vessels named Voyager prior to the one that Captain Janeway captained.

Voyager's registry was NCC-74656.

No bloody A, B, C, or D.

The theories I've seen are Section 31 (because creepy), Federation president (because suit and gold badge), or another Mirror Universe refugee (because glasses and his MU knowledge).

My predictions for this season: Burnham cries some more, the crew cries, Burnham disobeys orders/doesn’t follow protocol, the crew hugs each other and continue to be overly emotional, a giant space battle at the end, Culber continuing to be under utilized and basically just there to tell Burnham that she’s the only one that can do X, more lightening storms in space, more giant clouds in space, more misunderstanding of the vastness and emptiness of space and more conflation of the Federation and Starfleet.

Oh I forgot one; more ripping off movies, TV shows and video games.

See, this actually bothered me as well, and now I feel all dirty seeing it on your list of otherwise shallow complaints.