Star Trek: Discovery
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Look, anyone who knows me even slightly knows Im not one to whine about the canon.
Its how we gotInto the Spider-Verse.
But Im afraid one element or glaring lack thereof of this weeksDiscoverysimply cannot go uncriticized.
Weve got espionage via nanosensor paint!
Weve got secret albino heirs gestated ex-utero!
Yet in all this time, not a single Klingon not one!
mentions the word honor.
Honor is literally all Klingons ever talk about!
LRell could have campaigned on that alone and won the other houses loyalty!
Who can say!)
(If only honor could have played some part in the campaign!)
It needs something from Tilly, and Im sure shell eventually figure out what.
Speaking of Burnhams problems, her foster mom is here with Spocks encrypted medical file, which she stole.
(I gotta say, Amanda Grayson looks amazing for her age.
I assume skincare and plastic surgery have reached incredible levels in the 23rd century.
Is that the ultimate illogical human conceit?
From his voluntary admittance?
After allegedly killing a couple of doctors!
Definitely smells fishy, so Pike goes full-Cool Stepdad again and orders Burnham to crack the file.
Almost like theyre preserving a timeline like the Federation is a pre-uber-warp society which cant be contacted directly.
Hey, Id be into it.
I couldnt help thinking ofThe 100s Octavia and herbrutally effective unification strategyfrom last year.
(You are Klingon Empire, or you are the enemy of Klingon Empire choose!)
Oh my God, somebody, like, cut this ponytail off Shazad Latif in his sleep.
Its like a handle.
He looks like Hare Krishna Pebbles Flintstone.
The DP wont stop backlighting it.
The future-tech in this episode nay, thisseason has been fantastic.
Hologram-enabled tablets for children!
Genetically identical forged body parts!
And LRells baby having been successfully brought to term ex-utero is a spectaculardunk onStar Wars, intentional or not.