Does anyone know if Disco has been translated into Spain-ish, and if so how they dealt with the computer being called Zora… which is so close to Zorra… 🫣

I know she said something about feeling her parts dying, but it's never covered if she feels pain. I mean she went through plasma so I don't think so but it did make me wonder.

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I was randomly watching Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and saw a familiar face. Cmdr Stamets. (Not an actual picture I took)

The scene where he gives Adria a firm but gentle push made me think someone had taken bits of Pike and Jellico to make one character.

Did anyone else get that vibe or is it just me?

So I haven't seen Episode 7 yet, but I predict that Discovery will bring L'ak's uncle back thereby ending the Erigah. No murder, no Erigah.

Sound logical?

Going back to the start of the season, Moll and L'ak escape by deploying a bunch of drones to warp off in multiple directions. Saru says it will take days to figure them all out, but this all happened in visual range pretty much right in front of two Starfleet ships. Booker even watches a recording of this which means they should the sensor data to track what each signature is, we even see them warp away at different times so it seems you could easily track the correct signature based on just looking at what direction the ship faces when it warps away.

The shot of the dreadnaught leaving and the ship to the far left of the screen looked really cool. It even had the blue and red lights we see in 24/25th century shop design.

Could that have been the Enterprise? (Not the ISS enterprise I mean, but rather the 32nd century they Enterprise they mentioned during S4).

https://www.nielsen.com/data-center/top-ten/

The data is for the week of April 8-14. Discovery launched Season 5 on April 4.

At first I thought, oh how cool that there's a drink named after Seven of Nine in the future. But then I realized Jett said she had those jobs before joining Starfleet. So before the Klingon War? Before Annika Hansen was even born?

Anyone have anymore insight on this?

Maybe this was covered and I just missed it, but how did Moll and L'ak find out about the Progenitors in the first place?

L’ak is gangster. He’s got some cold lines.

Ok last one for tonight. Heading to the Badlands. Maquis territory. DS9. Where is a super safe place to stow the progenitor tech other than in the wormhole with Ben Sisko a man outside of time?

So we have to figure there is going to be a BIG final confrontation at the end of the series. What I’m hoping for is a retro fitted ISS Enterprise with detached nacelles coming in with Detmer(so) at the helm. Would also like to see Voyager with its Pathway Drive pulling up as well.

I mean DAYUM. I’m scared.

On the one hand, you have this really straightforward example of how ascribing the unknown to the supernatural literally kills people and tears families apart, and Michael just straightforwardly correcting that. On the other hand, you have this celebration of magical thinking going on aboard the ship. Is this contradiction the point?

And you have an acknowledged and deliberate prime directive violation, which is very unusual actually. We are used to not doing things because of the prime directive, but then sometimes pretending it doesn’t exist for narrative reasons. In this case, the decision to beak it is the narrative.

And the clue is, ostensibly, also supposed to be about how dangerous it is to break the prime directive. Is it a test to prove that you are willing to take responsibility for the fate of the universe with this Progenitor technology, rather than continuing a policy of noninterference? Or is it just a test of faith?

We also saw religion tackled directly, and with a message that departs from Picard’s famous superstition and fear speech. It was a strong position to take 😮

This episode made me me think harder about why I have sometimes found the way people openly process their feelings together on this show a bit difficult to watch. Maybe it was actually confronting to see people doing this better than me, and just working things out without hangups. We complain about it being unrealistic, but we should be aspiring to it. That’s the point of Star Trek - to give us something to aspire to. And why not do that emotionally, rather than just technologically? That’s a pretty Roddenberry angle.

Peak Star Trek, in my opinion 🤷‍♂️

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I really do.

https://imgur.com/a/m5erZZE

So my weird OCD thing means I have to watch all episodes of S05 from start to finish (don’t ask). It’s so friggin’ painful!

Anyway, I realised watching DS9 in parallel makes it possible to get through Season 5! Not sure why but it does.

Hope this helps anyone else struggling.

I maybe late to this already, I resisted the urge to judge, resisted the urge to post, I even reinstalled Reddit to do it, but the signs are clear, they're gonna bring religion into it.

The conversation at the end of whsitlespeak episode between Brooke and Dr Culbe had me taking deeeeeep breaths.

My partner doesn't understand it. So? He is my partner. It's an odd quirk really. Humans tend to give less importance when it is just for myself. Burnham had the same thing. Even though loneliness is the oldest and only friend she had.

Anyone gif this?

On paramount it says all episodes are streaming, did the season get canceled?

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