Eh, it was one of the better pilots. Granted, that's not saying much, considering how bad some of them have been, but there wasn't anything that I'd call a "deal-killer" in it. The big issue, I think, is if they can stretch the show comedically, and not just recycle gags from other shows. They decide to nibble on some of Trek's sacred cows, and the show will be awesome.
Only two human beings (that we're made aware of) achieved temporary godhood. Mitchell, and Riker. If some random guy in our time suddenly gained genie powers, and turned the castle spires at Disneyworld into dildos, then got punished by the Cosmic Space Police, and lost the powers, you can damned well bet we'd remember his name forever.
You’re forgetting Decker and Iliana from the first movie, not to mention Gary’s girlfriend. I think, however, that Kirk fudged the logs on Mitchell so that folks don’t really know what happened with him. Wouldn’t want folks hitting the galactic barrier to become gods, after all.
Also Charlie Evans, and the Sisko, and people possessed by the Prophets or Pah Wraiths like Jake Sisko, and Reg Barclay...I'm sure that there are some on-screen examples I'm missing. Not to mention that there presumably are other examples that have happened outside the exploits of the Enterprises/DS9 crew/Voyager.
All the Easter eggs Trekmovie could find... https://trekmovie.com/2020/08/07/vi...ks-easter-eggs-and-details-in-second-contact/
Yeah, she can be a lot, but it put me in mind of pre season 6 Archer. That and as a society, we're really not use to seeing women, and especially not women of color, getting to be the loveable obnoxious asshole a la Sterling Archer or Rick Sanchez. Which I know you're not one of those types of CHUDs, but anything that smashes that "strong black woman" stereotype and allows us to have a wider range of roles is good with me. Plus, what Mariner said about upper ranks ain't wrong. As far as the series itself...it's fun. Not great, but I got a chuckle outta the cyborg and the Orion chick being nerds near the end of the episode. I swear Harry Kim could pick up a clue better than Cyborg Dude
That's actually a really good point, and it's possible I might not have found the character as annoying had she been a man. I think I need to stop procrastinating on my implicit bias training at work. She certainly was right with a lot of what she was saying, and that's part of what makes an Archer/Rick asshole character good: they might be assholes but they're smart assholes.
Mariner was extremely drunk when she couldn't remember what a bat'leth was called, then more or less sober for the rest of the episode.
She was drinking again, albeit presumably relatively weak-sauce synthehol, when she pulled cha'dich out. Still, her trying to lead people in the "Lower decks!" chant and babbling about ST people suggests she had a decent buzz on at least. If what we see on screen across the series is a fair indication, bat'leth is certainly in the top five Klingon words that get used in Trekverse, along with qapla, targ and p'tak, and she just bought one so presumably she heard it recently. By contrast, how often would the notion of "someone who carries weapons and defends someone challenging the Klingon High Council" come up? It's like someone not knowing "cerveza," "burrito" or "tres" but knowing the Spanish word for "bodyguard" or "parlimentarian."
Just saw the pilot. Meh. Not horrible, but not great. Very much a TNG spinoff and it definitely has potential. I didn't like Discovery at first so I'm definitely willing to give this a shot.
so at this point we can presume "afflicted with omnipotence" is likely a training module in Starfleet's WHIMIS program.
If she knows about Deanna Troi and Gary Mitchell, she definitely knows about Picard and Worf and Picard once serving as Worfs cha'dich. Or maybe it's a recurring trope in Klingon anime. She was swinging that bat'leth around like a modern nerd might show off with a ninja sword they bought in Chinatown...
Gotta admit, when the energy being in the ep 2 clip said he could grant wishes by rearranging air molecules into whatever they wanted, I was expecting a "so, you're basically a replicator with an attitude problem?" gag. What we got was funnier so yay LDS. I can't watch it though. No international release yet. PIC and DSC usually aired on Amazon or Netflix within a day or so of CBSAA, but due to COVID bringing forward LDS' schedule, they haven't sorted international distribution yet.
great... now the phrase "Klingon Hentai" is in my brain and I'm trying to talk myself out of googling it.
She explicitly name-dropped Worf, but her knowledge of Worf doesn't even have to go so deep to know that Picard and his brother once served as his bodyguard, let alone the Klingon word for bodyguard And it would seem strange to me to know that depth and not know the word for the type of weapon that Worf used to kill a contender to be the high chancellor in Duras AND the actual high chancellor in Gowron. But this is probably way more thought than a couple throwaway bits deserve.
pretty sure sober, she'd know what it was. the problem was trying to pronounce the word with her brain hobbled by Romulan whiskey
