Discovery (1x01 & 1x02)
Sep. 24th, 2017 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseThe Boy and I had four of our closest friends over to watch the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery this evening, and I would say that it (both our party and the premiere) was a success.
Note: This post was written more than an hour after an initial viewing during which there was some degree of distraction, and after a very long week. I may get some things wrong, and I am definitely going to get some facts out of order. So... be careful.
- We all agreed that "The Vulcan Hello" sounds like a sex move, as well as a holosuite program that Quark had on file.
- I'm pretty sure they redesigned the Klingon written language, which... is weird, since they kept both the iconography and the spoken language? Also, there was an awful lot of Klingon scenes in this. I at once appreciated that they were in Klingon with subtitles and was annoyed by this because when I wandered off to the kitchen during their speeches I couldn't understand what was going on.
- Title sequence is nice! I don't love it, I don't hate it, I'm going to need to hear the opening theme a few more times before I make any decisions about it. I groaned and said "I called it" when I saw Michelle Yeoh listed as a Special Guest Star, because oh boy have I been dreading that ever since several months ago when I realized "wait, how can we have two captains... ohshiiiiiiit."
- Opening scene with Burnham and Georgiou was great! I love Captain Georgiou and Burnham both so much. Really liked the aliens on that desert planet, too, for all the short amount of time that we saw them. They looked awesome.
- Quippy snark between officers! Georgiou telling someone to mark down agreement between her senior staff as a special day! Burnham and Saru pushing each other away from the console! ♥
- Burnham in the Vulcan Learning Pits or whatever... eh. I never especially liked that design in the new movies. (Hey, how about that assertion that this isn't in the movieverse, producers? How about that. *sigh*)
- Burnham is such an adrenaline junkie when she heads off in her suit to check out the mystery object.
- Questioning your captain on the bridge, not really a good career move. Vulcan-nerve-pinching her (or, as Friend R said "Spock-locking," which I heard as "Spock-blocking," which lead to a discussion of how that's a different thing that can only happen ever 7 years) made us all gasp. Holyshit do not nerve-pinch your captain, Burnham! And then gasp again when Georgiou came out with her phaser locked on Burnham!
- Flashback!Burnham when she was all Vulcan-y and ticked off that she was getting shunted to Starfleet rather than the Vulcan Science Whatever was just as much of a prissy pain in the butt as T'Pol. I was not thrilled. Hope this is the last we see of that part of her life.
- Holyshit when the bulkhead blows and the guy (Connors? Connor?) talking to Burnham just VANISHES. More gasping!
- The Klingon ship just cutting through the Europa with their keel - DAYUM. The captain (admiral?) of the Europa intentionally setting off his warp core to try to destroy the Klingon ship: MORE DAYUM!!
- The Andorians get a name-check, among the other members of the Federation! AND THAT'S ALL, but I have hope for more later? Please?!
- Burnham out-logicking the computer into letting her out of lock-up. ♥
- Only Bryan Fuller would have Georgiou send a bomb up with a dead body. That's brilliant, and so very him. So very what I loved about BSG. So very awesome.
- Transporting over PHASERS OUT.
- GEORGIOU. GEORGIOU. I am with Burnham, on the floor, sobbing.
- Burnham's court martial with the guys all in shadow: Um, who are these dudes, Section 31?
- And that's it. She's guilty. And we're done there. DAYUM.
Preview for the rest of the season: Friend R, quipping the immediately-upcoming stuff with Burnham as a prisoner: "Orange is the New Trek?" In general: Looks pretty damned fantastic!
Note: This post was written more than an hour after an initial viewing during which there was some degree of distraction, and after a very long week. I may get some things wrong, and I am definitely going to get some facts out of order. So... be careful.
- We all agreed that "The Vulcan Hello" sounds like a sex move, as well as a holosuite program that Quark had on file.
- I'm pretty sure they redesigned the Klingon written language, which... is weird, since they kept both the iconography and the spoken language? Also, there was an awful lot of Klingon scenes in this. I at once appreciated that they were in Klingon with subtitles and was annoyed by this because when I wandered off to the kitchen during their speeches I couldn't understand what was going on.
- Title sequence is nice! I don't love it, I don't hate it, I'm going to need to hear the opening theme a few more times before I make any decisions about it. I groaned and said "I called it" when I saw Michelle Yeoh listed as a Special Guest Star, because oh boy have I been dreading that ever since several months ago when I realized "wait, how can we have two captains... ohshiiiiiiit."
- Opening scene with Burnham and Georgiou was great! I love Captain Georgiou and Burnham both so much. Really liked the aliens on that desert planet, too, for all the short amount of time that we saw them. They looked awesome.
- Quippy snark between officers! Georgiou telling someone to mark down agreement between her senior staff as a special day! Burnham and Saru pushing each other away from the console! ♥
- Burnham in the Vulcan Learning Pits or whatever... eh. I never especially liked that design in the new movies. (Hey, how about that assertion that this isn't in the movieverse, producers? How about that. *sigh*)
- Burnham is such an adrenaline junkie when she heads off in her suit to check out the mystery object.
- Questioning your captain on the bridge, not really a good career move. Vulcan-nerve-pinching her (or, as Friend R said "Spock-locking," which I heard as "Spock-blocking," which lead to a discussion of how that's a different thing that can only happen ever 7 years) made us all gasp. Holyshit do not nerve-pinch your captain, Burnham! And then gasp again when Georgiou came out with her phaser locked on Burnham!
- Flashback!Burnham when she was all Vulcan-y and ticked off that she was getting shunted to Starfleet rather than the Vulcan Science Whatever was just as much of a prissy pain in the butt as T'Pol. I was not thrilled. Hope this is the last we see of that part of her life.
- Holyshit when the bulkhead blows and the guy (Connors? Connor?) talking to Burnham just VANISHES. More gasping!
- The Klingon ship just cutting through the Europa with their keel - DAYUM. The captain (admiral?) of the Europa intentionally setting off his warp core to try to destroy the Klingon ship: MORE DAYUM!!
- The Andorians get a name-check, among the other members of the Federation! AND THAT'S ALL, but I have hope for more later? Please?!
- Burnham out-logicking the computer into letting her out of lock-up. ♥
- Only Bryan Fuller would have Georgiou send a bomb up with a dead body. That's brilliant, and so very him. So very what I loved about BSG. So very awesome.
- Transporting over PHASERS OUT.
- GEORGIOU. GEORGIOU. I am with Burnham, on the floor, sobbing.
- Burnham's court martial with the guys all in shadow: Um, who are these dudes, Section 31?
- And that's it. She's guilty. And we're done there. DAYUM.
Preview for the rest of the season: Friend R, quipping the immediately-upcoming stuff with Burnham as a prisoner: "Orange is the New Trek?" In general: Looks pretty damned fantastic!
