Ups & Downs From Star Trek: Discovery 5.1 - Red Directive

Star Trek's back. Here's Seán with all the Ups & Downs from Discovery Season 5's premiere episode, 'Red Directive'.

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[gatehouseauthor]

It's only Andorian Champagne if it comes from the Champagne region of Andoria. Otherwise, it's just sparkling Andorian wine.

[Pitsy]

As a 52 year old Star Trek Nerd I love this channel and wish it existed when I was 18 and watching Star Trek first time around 😂😂😂

[fozzyrinker]

Trip transferring from the Colombia to the Enterprise would be a good example of being in a warp bubble.

[DaveCummings]

About the Romulan corpse, we don't know the atmosphere makeup in the ship. It's entirely possible that it allowed for his mummification. Especially if there's not a lot of bacteria in there that would allow for decomposition

[rigues]

Moll is SURELY heavily inspired on Daryll Hannah's character (Pris) on Blade Runner.

[coreymoore]

I can actually explain the condition of the romulan body. When a body dies in dry conditions it doesn't always decay the same way a body wood in moist conditions, especially if they died in the sterile environment of a spacecraft, that body is mummified. Naturally mummified.

[xedalpha]

I unironically love how the illuminated-with- a-single-color soundstage wall from early TNG and TOS doesn't take folk out but the AR wall does 😂

[yannickgilbert]

You missed how cool it was when Michael "upgraded" the hand phaser to a full riffle. That was super cool.

[PatriciaCross]

I am pretty sure that Fred is a reference to The Most Toys. I believe the implication is that Kivas Fajo immediately procured a custom synth in Data's style, and eventually Fred continued Kivas' collecting. If you took the time to examine all his collection, you likely will find some Easter Eggs. I am pretty sure the fact Fred's first choice of weapon didn't fire was reference to the fact Kivas was sure Data could not shoot him.

[remisam]

Picard was also mentioned in season 3 when Burnham watches the footage of Spock from Unification Part 2. 🙂

[Parker-Green]

I’ve been wanting further exploration of the ancient Progenitor race from that Next Gen episode for the longest time, I’m very excited!!!

[amylaneio]

I am intensely invested in the Saru-T'Rina relationship, and if it doesn't survive until the end of the series, I am going to have some very loud things to say to the producers.

[MotherShipMedia]

I think it makes sense that the comms holograms would have "glitches" baked into the programming on purpose. We've seen elsewhere that holograms are essentially as "real" as real people are, visually, to the touch, etc. The intentional glitch is a good way (IMO) to ensure everyone in the room KNOWS who is there in person and who is there by holo for security reasons, at the very least, but I think it's valuable to have some sort of "obvious clue" when dealing with holo-comms of other people to be able to differentiate the local and remote participants and as we've seen, you can't really do that with advanced holograms ... they look, act, and sound real.

[winespringinc.]

I love how they used the "4h earlier" bit not as a cheap way to build tension but as way of checking in with the characters

[mackemdale]

It's the music in the first couple of episodes which sets the tone for me. There's so much lightness and a sense of adventure, such as with the theft of the Enterprise in STIII or all of STIV, that they're all but telling us that this is a light-hearted adventure romp.

[dramonmaster]

I just finished watching it. Not a bad start for the Final Season.

And they weren't kidding about a treasure hunt. Although, was anyone else reminded of Star Wars with the sand bikes?

Plus why did they ram their ships into the ground? Couldn't they have just created a shield bubble onstead?

[mossiegee]

Nice to see the Firefly reference "Shiny' but also Serenity used the same multiple drive trail emitters fake out before jumping to warp

[chrisdyer]

a short comment on burnam on the ship at warp you forgot the NX01 trip teather from columbia to enterprise with warp bubbles in sinc

[barshafoxman]

I liked the Infinity Room, although I was slightly worried that Kovich may be working for Wolfram & Hart :p

[IanSandersonPhotography]

I actually yelled out FINALLY when i saw the callback to the progenitors. I was on the fence about this season until that moment, after that I am ALL IN!