In a freeze frame on a screen Michael is working at, you can see some Stuxnet code. I get it! If the Star Trek franchise was the Internet, Discovery would be its Stuxnet. A fault confessed is half redressed :-D
I didn't like the idea of Transwarp spores and I even less liked the "Half Life 2 rhinoceros". Why? Just Why? Star Trek is science fiction and not... My Little Pony magic stuff.
I watch it, I confess. I will continue watching it, I confess. But it's like an accident where you can't look away. Or an Asylum movie, just with a whole lot more budget.
It's got to be said I smell a little Equinox in here. But the difference is... their story was a sad-one. A lose-lose-situation. Lost in the Delta Quadrant without Antimatter, Dilithium, food or a drive capable of more than Warp 6-ish. They committed crimes because they didn't see any other way. That's the sad thing. Later, they lost themselves completely. That was even more sad. But they knew they were wrong.
Michael doesn't consider being wrong at any given time. And so doesn't Captain 31. He seems to be the kind of guy who does things just because he can, not because he doesn't have any other way left.
I also smell a little bit of "Renegades ft. Axanar". The outcast of starfleet saves the federation from the war with the Klingons...
Yeah, I can see what you're doing here. Does the end justify the means or doesn't it...
And in a few episodes, it'll be shown Michael is more starfleety than Section 31.
In between, there'll be a little bit of "they do good" and a little bit of "they do bad". And a lot of weeping, crying, compunction, and asking daddy for instructions. Maybe Captain 31 even does something altruistic at some point. But an episode later, he'll be "back on track".
By the way, why is it mentioned every ten minutes Michael was a great officer? Why do they keep mentioning that in every f... situation? She is not a great officer. I haven't seen ANYTHING that would justify this. She's good at the phaser... yeah, but so is every other redshirt... In earlier days, nobody had to mention that Chakotay, Crusher, Scotty, LaForge, Reed, Torres or whoever was a great officer. We could see it!
I even dare to predict Michael will mutiny again in the season finale. It's just a shot in the dark, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was right.
This episode hasn't revealed anything that I hadn't guessed by the teaser. Michael gets on the Discovery because she's "sooo special", they've got some special equipment onboard and we see a few known faces there.
The revelations in this episode were as thrilling as the question who the murder was in an episode of Columbo.
Review by schornstephanBlockedParentSpoilers2017-10-03T00:42:21Z
In a freeze frame on a screen Michael is working at, you can see some Stuxnet code. I get it! If the Star Trek franchise was the Internet, Discovery would be its Stuxnet. A fault confessed is half redressed :-D
I didn't like the idea of Transwarp spores and I even less liked the "Half Life 2 rhinoceros". Why? Just Why? Star Trek is science fiction and not... My Little Pony magic stuff.
I watch it, I confess. I will continue watching it, I confess. But it's like an accident where you can't look away. Or an Asylum movie, just with a whole lot more budget.
It's got to be said I smell a little Equinox in here. But the difference is... their story was a sad-one. A lose-lose-situation. Lost in the Delta Quadrant without Antimatter, Dilithium, food or a drive capable of more than Warp 6-ish. They committed crimes because they didn't see any other way. That's the sad thing. Later, they lost themselves completely. That was even more sad. But they knew they were wrong.
Michael doesn't consider being wrong at any given time. And so doesn't Captain 31. He seems to be the kind of guy who does things just because he can, not because he doesn't have any other way left.
I also smell a little bit of "Renegades ft. Axanar". The outcast of starfleet saves the federation from the war with the Klingons...
Yeah, I can see what you're doing here. Does the end justify the means or doesn't it...
And in a few episodes, it'll be shown Michael is more starfleety than Section 31.
In between, there'll be a little bit of "they do good" and a little bit of "they do bad". And a lot of weeping, crying, compunction, and asking daddy for instructions. Maybe Captain 31 even does something altruistic at some point. But an episode later, he'll be "back on track".
By the way, why is it mentioned every ten minutes Michael was a great officer? Why do they keep mentioning that in every f... situation?
She is not a great officer. I haven't seen ANYTHING that would justify this. She's good at the phaser... yeah, but so is every other redshirt...
In earlier days, nobody had to mention that Chakotay, Crusher, Scotty, LaForge, Reed, Torres or whoever was a great officer. We could see it!
I even dare to predict Michael will mutiny again in the season finale. It's just a shot in the dark, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was right.
This episode hasn't revealed anything that I hadn't guessed by the teaser. Michael gets on the Discovery because she's "sooo special", they've got some special equipment onboard and we see a few known faces there.
The revelations in this episode were as thrilling as the question who the murder was in an episode of Columbo.