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askryan , in Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors

evolved to be more sensitive to light, resulting in everyone tending more towards malevolence, and barbarism, and queer coded villainy.

You know, I spent the whole episode sort of wondering if they were going to try and speculate that all the species of the Mirror Universe are campy jerks because in that universe the Progenitors were campy jerks. But I suppose I'm glad they didn't try and explain it, and it's still just a little pastureland for the actors to go chew scenery.

SteleTrovilo ,

I've had the impression that in the Mirror Universe, it was only the humans/terrans which behaved differently. Everyone else we see seems like their usual selves (accounting for different circumstances of course).

The DS9 episodes throw a wrench in this of course, with Kira being a very different person and the oppressed terrans being sympathetic.

askryan ,

Enterprise’s mirror universe episodes also have that Dr. Mengele version of Phlox. Of course, I’m always happy for an excuse to pretend that Enterprise didn’t happen.

ValueSubtracted OP Mod , in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak"
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My expectations for this one were low based on the preview, but I enjoyed this one more than I thought I might. A very "traditional" Star Trek plot in many ways.

Watching the Culber/Stamets interactions, I wonder if they're going to address the "awakening" that Stamets had following his genetic modification. That's something that's been mentioned a bunch of times (as recently as two episodes ago), but I don't remember them ever digging really deep into it. It seems like there are some parallels there that could be explored.

khaosworks , in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak"
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Today’s annotations will be a little late - it’s been a day (to those few who were looking out for them).

daft61lunacy , in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak"

Ah yes we had to have a Prime Directive bending episode in Disco.

Domiku , in Toronto Stage Used For ‘Discovery’ Renamed “The Star Trek Stage” By Pinewood Studios

Should’ve named it The Holodeck!

ValueSubtracted OP Mod ,
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I think they use that name for the AR wall facility - they stuck a sign on the door and everything.

ValueSubtracted Mod , in Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors
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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.

USSBurritoTruck OP Mod ,
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That was my assumption.

USSBurritoTruck OP Mod , in Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors
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Apologies that this one's going up even later than usual. Time kinda got away from me this past week.

Corgana ,
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I WANT A REFUND

(And don't' tell me they don't use money in the 23rd century)

USSBurritoTruck OP Mod ,
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They do 100% use money in the 23rd century! 24th century is a bit more debatable, but I'm still on the side of they use money.

Corgana ,
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But Kirk told the pretty lady they don't

USSBurritoTruck OP Mod ,
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I like the idea of Kirk pulling out his wallet to try and chip in for beer and pizza in 1986 with a couple strips of latinum, some Klingon darseks left behind on the Bounty, and whatever Federation credits he has, which I assume are a digital currency.

askryan ,

It's okay man, chronophages happen to the best of us

TachyonTele , in Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks

Fortnight fuming right now

Flyberius , in Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks
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I enjoyed casually playing this and world of warships. But I immediately bugged out of warships as soon as the anime themed battleships started appearing. I could pretend I wasn't playing a freemium piece of shit until that moment. Now they have megadeth themed ships too. So dumb.

aniki , in Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks

nothing says starfleet like tank warfare.

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bionicjoey ,

Truly representative of an enlightened and fundamentally peaceful society

SkybreakerEngineer ,

You know, there actually is a book series about AI tanks that ponder things like human nature in a very Star Trek way.

Of course, they also ponder the optimal use of large numbers of missiles too

aniki ,

you can't just tickle my butthole like that and nto tell me what the name of the series is!

CarbonIceDragon ,
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sounds like Bolo

MentallyExhausted ,

The awesome computer game from the 90s?

ShepherdPie ,

It's such a hilariously terrible idea. I've watched through all the series and movies and can't even recall ever seeing a single rover in any one of them. What need is there for a rover when you have shuttlecraft and transporter technology?

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ValueSubtracted Mod , in Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks
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They got my many, many letters!

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ThrowawayInTheYear23 , in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x05 "Mirrors"
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It's another enterprise

Are Breen proto changelings?

800 year old abandoned ship no dust and lights but future Discovery is covered in dust? So time for a 32century upgrade or does it belong in a museum. The world may never know.

Once again your only away team member is your ex. just get back together already .

Stormygeddon ,

Maybe the Discovery got contaminated by a nebula or something.

khaosworks ,
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There was another starship that was also covered with dust…. crewmen dust

skfsh , in Annotations for *Star Trek: Discovery* 5x05: "Mirrors" (SPOILERS):

I’m still trying to figure out why hexagonal.

Well, it doesn't matter. It works.

Stormygeddon ,

Hexagon is bestagon.
'nuff said.

veeesix , in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x05 "Mirrors"
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I’ve got a bit of a spoilery kind of question:

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If L’ak is Breen, how come he bleeds after the fight with Burnham? I thought that they don’t have blood, or did I miss something established earlier?

Stormygeddon ,

I would posit that the Solid "face" Breen biology that L'ak is maintaining bleeds, while the transparent gelatinous one doesn't bleed, making the non-bleeding Breen the social norm.

ValueSubtracted Mod , in Canon Connections: DIS 5x04 - Face the Strange
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If chronophages are outlawed, only outlaws will have chronophages.

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The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a time bug is a good guy with a temporal Cold War.

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