Star Trek Discovery

[Drunk Monk]

as soon as I get P+, these threads are going to light up like photon torpedoes.

Fire Photon Torpedoes!

S3e1 - I always try to minimize spoilers and as none of you are following the new Treks, it's all spoilers, but you've probably gleaned from the trailers that S3 of Disco leapt into the future. Well, ST is already the future but now Disco is in the future of the future - 930 years past the time of the Enterprise. The Federation has fallen due to 'the burn' when all dilithium melted down causing every warp-enabled ship to explode. That was about a century prior to when S3 takes place. And now Disco looks like the bastard child of the Star Wars Cantina and Bladerunner. At least it does in the trading post.

S3 finds its feet quickly, driven by Burnham. It's got some novel design elements like a holographic budgie alarm clock, some amazing panoramic landscapes and a mildly amusing hallucination scene. There's some action, a few decent fight scenes, and some catching up with new technology.

And then, it comes back around to the heart of ST - that glorious vision of hope that is the Federation - and suddenly, I got the feels. Didn't see that coming. I got the warm fuzzies, like a chest full of tribbles.

S3e1 is a two-parter but I'll save part 2 for later.

I am all in.