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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors

• The episode title references the mirror universe, a dark reflection of the familiar reality of Star Trek where humans, or Terrans as they’re more commonly called there, evolved to be more sensitive to light, resulting in everyone tending more towards malevolence, and barbarism, and queer coded villainy. Other episodes...

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The episode was dedicated to Allan “Red” Marceta, a set dresser who passed away in 2022.

I wonder if the bar is named after him, too.

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They got my many, many letters!

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I call this one "Gene's Vision".

A Star Trek branded tank from "World of Tanks" featuring warp nacelles and the registry NCC-12810.

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Well...

The "Argo" ground vehicle, as seen in Star Trek Nemesis

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It's kind of funny that this big reveal happened while Discovery is sitting in the territory of another famously mysterious species, the Tzenkethi.

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Any time the Tzenkethi aren't on screen, the characters should be saying, "where are the Tzenkethi?"

Note: The Tzenkethi will never be on screen.

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Understandable, but this is better than your average screenrant content.

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I thought that one was...fine. A perfectly acceptable unit of Star Trek.

I probably would have found it more interesting if Moll and L'ak had been the main protagonists of the episode, spending more time with them on the Enterprise in addition to their flashbacks, with Book and Burnham as the antagonists of the story.

On the other hand, I enjoyed Rayner's B plot, so maybe not.

Edit: and pour one out for our man Rhys, famous Constitution class fan who doesn't get to go on the mission to deliver the Enterprise to Federation HQ.

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I mean, was Burnham so incurious about mirror Spock that she never checked the records?

I don't think that's far-fetched - I probably wouldn't be Space Googling the alternate versions of my loved ones.

As for it being the Enterprise...I guess it's to give us a bit of closure regarding Spock's rebellion. Personally, I think it would've been fun to have seen the modified version of the Defiant that was teased in season one.

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Does the problem that Georgiou had due to the drift between the two universes not effect the ship?

Probably not - it sounds like it didn't actually travel through time the way Georgiou did - it just sat derelict in the wormhole for a few hundred years.

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There was also the stuff in this episode about "two faces," one of which they say they have evolved past (or whatever their phrasing was). The Breen of this time could be a little more complicated than the Breen of the DS9 era. I assume we'll learn more about what that's all about later this season.

Canon Connections: DIS 5x04 - Face the Strange

• The arms merchant whom we see Moll and L’ak dealing with appears to be an Annari, who were introduced in the VOY episode, “Nightingale”, which I mention only because I believe it is the first time we’ve seen a member of Delta Quadrant species in DIS, though not the first mention....

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If chronophages are outlawed, only outlaws will have chronophages.

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It's listed on Amazon.com - do they ship internationally?

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He has the Divine Ears, he gets to be captain. He didn't make the rules.

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That episode was certainly a marvel of set decoration.

Had they known this was going to be the final season, I wonder if they would have considered more guest stars. Seeing Hannah Cheesman as Airiam again was neat, but a Lorca and/or an Ash Tyler would have been pretty special.

I wonder if the sequence set in a possible future is the closest we're going to get to a "Calypso" tie-in...

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It's an interesting sequence - it's similar enough to "Calypso" that I have to assume it's intentional, but also different enough that it doesn't quite line up with what we saw in that episode?

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Also, if it’s affecting his DNA, is that a property of his body? He still has his personality in memories from before he spliced tardigrade DNA so it’s not tied to the specific body itself but I thought it would have been hilarious if they went back in time and Stamets is just past Stamets.

I no longer remember why, but I had the impression that the Lorca-era jump was pre-gene splice. But I could be wrong.

Edit: I just remembered - Landry was still alive.

I would have loved to see a quick shot of him waking up in a bar in San Francisco or something while Discovery was under construction just going like “wait what”

The deleted scene we deserve.

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I rewatched "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" last night, and had the same thought.

It probably wouldn't work, because that "secret" was so strongly tied to Burnham's emotional state on the night of that party, but...honestly, that makes me want to see the scene play out even more.

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I didn't think it was excessive, but I suppose I've never abandoned a place for thirty years.

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His description of finding out about Hugh's impending death in season one is pretty rough:

I didn’t know right away [that Hugh would be coming back]. In the first season, I was not a series regular, I was a recurring character. I also had another gig at the time, 13 Reasons Why. Star Trek shot in Toronto and 13 Reasons Why shot in Northern California. I was shooting both at the same time. They called me on my first day of shooting the second season of 13 Reasons Why. I had just gone through makeup, my phone rings, and I see it’s [showrunner] Aaron Harberts. I was like, “Maybe he’s calling to wish me luck on my first day.” He was not. He was calling to tell me that my character on Discovery was going to be killed.

I lost it. I couldn’t even fake it. I tried really hard to keep it together and be professional, but I literally lost it because the character of Hugh had already meant so much to me, and I got to work with my friend Anthony [Rapp]. I had bonded with this cast. I had to shake it off because it was my first day at work on 13 Reasons Why. They had to put my makeup back on because I had ruined it.

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This is more of a !quarks!quarks topic, as it's not actually about Star Trek.

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That's not an easy question to answer - I like it so far, but then again I've liked every season to one degree or another.

This one is structured as more of an Indiana Jones-style adventure. There's a thing that they need to find, other people are also looking for that thing, and we're following them from planet to planet as they try to find it.

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You should probably get that looked at.

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Episode title

"The Chase"

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That's not nearly enough close-up shots of Rayner...

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Tangentially, the season four VOY episode “One” does not share it’s name with the Borg drone named One; that episode was called “Drone” and was part of season five.

Trips me up every. Single. Time.

Jett keeps her collar open, and the closure is bisected in half, but when we see Culber with his collar open, the closure remains a single piece.

Magical Starfleet uniforms keep me up at night.

Tuvok showed Janeway a a hybrid he made using a favinit and an orchid in “Alliances”.

Tuvok and hybrids involving orchids, name a better trio.

Edit: obligatory picture of the Star Trek Online Tzenkethi. Look upon them and tremble.

A picture of the Tzenkethi as seen in Star Trek Online. There is one close-up, one picture of the back of the creature, and one picture of the front, from the top of the head to the knees. The Tzenkethi are purple, four-armed reptilian creatures with a horn in the centre of their forehead. Portions of their body are covered in high-tech armour, while other portions are left exposed.

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Those Tzenkethi are from the North.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks Will End With Its Fifth, Final Season

Well hell.

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-lower-decks-canceled-season-5-paramount-1851407280

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“While five seasons of any series these days seems like a miracle, it’s no exaggeration to say that every second we’ve spent making this show has been a dream come true.”

Indeed, if even an animated series is ending after five seasons, I expect this to be a pretty firm maximum moving forward.

“We remain hopeful that even beyond Season 5, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and the whole Cerritos crew will live on with new adventures,”

That's encouraging.

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Prodigy soldiers on for now, and Starfleet Academy is in pre-production, set to start filming this summer.

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Have I got news for you

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Apparently, the numbers on P+ weren't good - the Hagemans themselves have said so.

To be honest, if Paramount slowly decides that they're better off selling their shows to other streamers... I'm not totally against it, depending on how it's done.

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I know people sometimes complain about a lack of DS9 references, but I do think the new shows show respect for the world created by that series.

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