Star Trek Discovery S4 E1 & E2 (spoilers)
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lightofdayeSo thanks to PlutoTV (thanks for putting me onto it pauraque) I managed to watch the first two episodes of Season 4 of Discovery. Well almost all of them. It's a live internet tv show and my internet had a hiccup over the last scene of the second episode. Spoilers ahead.
Sorry this is a bit stream of consciousness.
It's fairly average of what Discovery is like. Lots of speech lots of people discussing what Michael is like, her command style, her issues etc. A big dramatic threat that they are going to combat apparently single handedly.
This time it's a roving gravitational disturbance. That destroys first a federation station and then Book's home planet. The second episode he flies into it to get data to try and stop it.
I really hate what they are doing to Saru. I didn't want to loose him from main cast but him being 'Number One' (and as with last season that's not a rank or formal position. It's a nickname for executive officer. ) again just makes no sense. His conversation with Tilly is a nice hallmark of their friendship but it just avoided the elephant in the room that they've both just taken demotions. It was a misstep to make Tilly XO in the first place but trying to ignore and quietly revert it is also a misstep to me.
Saru is a Captain serving as first officer to a Captain with less seniority than him. Starfleet's never been huge on military protocol but that's really a big no-no.
The positions and cast speciation is really confusing me now. Was Stamets their big science guy last season? I can't remember. He started off as just their spore drive guy but now he, Adira, Tilly, Saru and Burnham are all current or ex-science geniuses for the show to spew technobabble. Is Tilly their science officer now? There's just no organisation at all on USS Discovery.
Also and this is the tiniest complaint did the 32nd century uniforms always have so much of the division colour? Those all red uniforms on Burnham and Saru don't look good to me.
But it's fine. I do like Detmer and Owo's bravado and that the bridge bunnies at least come up with the odd idea from hobbies occasionally. and Stamets and Booker interacting was good and new combination to use. It's just not thrilling me.
pauraque) I managed to watch the first two episodes of Season 4 of Discovery. Well almost all of them. It's a live internet tv show and my internet had a hiccup over the last scene of the second episode. Spoilers ahead.Sorry this is a bit stream of consciousness.
It's fairly average of what Discovery is like. Lots of speech lots of people discussing what Michael is like, her command style, her issues etc. A big dramatic threat that they are going to combat apparently single handedly.
This time it's a roving gravitational disturbance. That destroys first a federation station and then Book's home planet. The second episode he flies into it to get data to try and stop it.
I really hate what they are doing to Saru. I didn't want to loose him from main cast but him being 'Number One' (and as with last season that's not a rank or formal position. It's a nickname for executive officer. ) again just makes no sense. His conversation with Tilly is a nice hallmark of their friendship but it just avoided the elephant in the room that they've both just taken demotions. It was a misstep to make Tilly XO in the first place but trying to ignore and quietly revert it is also a misstep to me.
Saru is a Captain serving as first officer to a Captain with less seniority than him. Starfleet's never been huge on military protocol but that's really a big no-no.
The positions and cast speciation is really confusing me now. Was Stamets their big science guy last season? I can't remember. He started off as just their spore drive guy but now he, Adira, Tilly, Saru and Burnham are all current or ex-science geniuses for the show to spew technobabble. Is Tilly their science officer now? There's just no organisation at all on USS Discovery.
Also and this is the tiniest complaint did the 32nd century uniforms always have so much of the division colour? Those all red uniforms on Burnham and Saru don't look good to me.
But it's fine. I do like Detmer and Owo's bravado and that the bridge bunnies at least come up with the odd idea from hobbies occasionally. and Stamets and Booker interacting was good and new combination to use. It's just not thrilling me.
