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[tree_and_leaf]

I have now caught up on ST:DISCO, as I feel that - thanks to that rather ill-judged jogging wear - I now ought to call it.*

I have feels! But not many thoughts!


Mostly, I am SO GLAD that they haven't killed off Admiral Cromwell, because if they'd killed another female character, I would have been most displeased. Also, I would have missed her. She has terrible professional boundaries (not just the sex), but she is still more likeable than virtually every Starfleet admiral we have ever seen (though I always had a soft spot for Nechayev).

Also, what is it with Starfleet and Scotch? (Did anyone get a proper look at the bottle?)

My husband described Lorca as "What happens if you mashed up Jim Kirk and Col Jessup", and now I can't unseen it, though I hope we will not get Lorca bellowing "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!" at someone (Saru?) as a climax to the season.

I continue to find myself unexpectedly liking Stamets, though I hope he's not going to get increasingly stoner on us. ("Groovy"? Really?) Tilly is a joy.

Sarek continues to be a lousy father, and I'm confused about the timeline. I had thought that the fact Spock never mentioned an adopted sister could be Watsonianally(?) explained by him having left home in a huff before all this kicked off, but he's definitely younger than Michael, which, on reflection, I think makes sense. Of course, Spock is (a) pathologically uncommunicative about his family and (b) is possibly a combination of embarrassed and resentful about the whole thing, so perhaps it doesn't need an explanation, but still.

Having seen the trailer for "The Death of Stalin" earlier in the day, I found myself mentally trying to imagine Lorca as a Yorkshireman. It was surprisingly easy. For someone who often plays the same sort of character (with obvious exceptions), Jason Isaacs is a remarkably versatile actor, and he's very good at accents.



*Well, it's better than STD.

ETA: Why can't I find any ST: DISCO icons? Am I going to have to make my own? I've never been particularly good at that....

Comments

[aella_irene]

You have just resulted in me starting my first episode of Original Trek.

[lizbee]

Oh my gosh, I hope you like it! I'm not a big TOS fan, but "Journey" is one of my favourites.

(My actual favourite is "The Enterprise Incident", an episode so perfect that I, who rarely rewatch things, have seen it twice this year.)

[tree_and_leaf]

I also really like "Balance of Terror", which also features Mark Lenard, but as a Romulan.

[aella_irene]

I am blinking at the tech levels.

(Especially now I have seen something pointing out that Tilly and Kirk are contemporaries.)

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm not so bothered by the mushroom drive, because there's got to be some reason coming up why it's not going to work long term (I think Lizbee's suggestion else where that we're going to get a Very Special Episode about Stammets' mushroom addiction is all too depressingly plausible), but yes, there are problems. Though I think I have read somewhere that Roddenberry wanted holographic communications devices, but they couldn't work out how to do it.