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S2E14 - Pew Pew Pew

posted 5 years ago by Rorikon (16854)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ7jQn1H5Qo

Finally the conclusion. I'm hoping we move away from the Burnham timeline now and more about Enterprise's journey leading of Pike's to his eventual duality demise. No more "omg omg it's me, Tilly!", no more whole episodes dedicated to gay love affairs (seen that a lot now in Orville, Discovery and many other shows that I am currently watching), and hopefully no more lower ranks coming up with all the solutions and the Captain having to just go with it. That said, it felt like I was watching a Star Trek movie.

Things I noticed:
-All the nurses and doctors on the discovery are black? DATS RACIST!?
-They've sure changed if not normalized space battles where its to be many smaller ships fighting and the battleships dealing damage to other battleships. In older Star Trek, you mostly only see medium to large ships fighting each other en masse.
-Enterprise and Discovery barely did any firing and I am surprised their shields could take so much beating. You literally see constant consecutive hits from phasers and blaster barrage. Safe to say they have shitty point defense systems.
-Spock complaining about not being able to beam back to Discovery in fear having to drop the Discovery shields in doing so which would compromise their survival yet their shields were down anyway until Tilly restored them back up to 40%.
-Such a large explosion from a jammed but still armed torpedo into the Enterprise's saucer hull yet Pike was not phased by it (except the bright light) as it exploded, killing the Admiral and taking out half the saucer section. I thought they said it WOULD take out half the ship if the force fields were not engaged and that one of them was stuck which the Admiral manually closed herself while sacrificing her life. It still took out half the ship.
-Number 1 being obnoxious during her hearing (who acts like that in the military?)
-The person interrogating the crew seems to have a mischievous hidden agenda. The camera focuses on his lips and seems to be a grin or smirk. I think he's taken over by control...
-That original look for Spock was a nice surprise ending and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing his normal shaved look. About time.

Where does Picard play into all of this or is that a totally separate thing?

[–] ATG6 (3000) 5 years ago

I just have to laugh whenever they show giant spaceships with incredible speed and armaments parking like 500 meters apart to fight, instead of several million kilometers while maneuvering quickly.

And how does the bridge start showing damage and people dying on various decks when shields are still at 40 percent or so?

And since when are photon torpedoes the size of a battleship? They've always been just larger than a human (see Search for Spock, Wrath of Khan, etc.)

[–] Danzence (30) 5 years ago

"and hopefully no more lower ranks coming up with all the solutions and the Captain having to just go with it."

That's how it normally goes actually. The captain isn't the brains all the time, just the decision maker.