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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡

Mar 21, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

As I rewatch #StarTrekDiscovery’s second season, here are my mini-reviews! I love a lot of this season!

(Warning: I struggle with the coherence of the Red Angel plot. The nature of it seems to shift mid-way through the season—likely due to showrunner changes.) #StarTrek

“Brother” is gorgeously shot. Production design is intricate and artful. The background of Michael’s beginnings with the Sarek family is intriguing, especially the strange Spock dragon.

Pike quickly commands the screen with ease and integrity and Reno is a quippy addition!

“New Eden” is perfect #StarTrek which adds to the little-seen WWIII story, celebrates our innate desire to seek our knowledge in Jacob, a fascinating discussion of religion and science, clear growth from Burnham and fun ship action with a touching Saru/Tilly scene that is gold!

For more of my thoughts on “New Eden,” check out my look at it in my series Moments to Discover! #StarTrek

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“Point of Light” echoes within the great tradition of political Klingon stories like “Sins of the Father,” but with many more rapid turns and life-changing decisions too quickly arrived at, IMO. Love the Ash/Michael scene. I love Tilly’s arc, especially with Michael’s support.

For more of my thoughts on “Point of Light,” check out my look at it in my series Moment to Discover! #StarTrek

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“An Obol for Charon” masterfully tells one coherent story about our desire to leave a legacy, have our story be heard through Discovery’s encounter with the Sphere and Saru’s personal journey as the only Kelpian in Starfleet. Saru/Michael and Tilly/Stamets are compelling!

For more of my thoughts on “An Obol for Charon” check out my look at it in my series Moment to Discover! #StarTrek

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“Saints of Imperfection” brings back Culber and takes the crew into the Mycelial Network where the Je’Sep and Culber see one another as monsters when neither are. Classic #StarTrek—bridging the gap between planes of existence—between people—with empathy and conversation.

For more of my thoughts on “Saints of Imperfection” check out my look at it in my series Moment to Discover! #StarTrek

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May 6, 2023

#MicroTreks

“From Tau Alpha C?” Sisko asks sitting on the couch in his office.

Beverly nods, setting her raktajino down. “Told Picard that my son was special.”

“I see,” Sisko says.

“And then a few years later—he—took him,” Beverly says.

“Took him?” Sisko asks.
1/9

Beverly nods, motioning to the stars outside the window. “Out—there—some—time.”

“And there’s no way to track this—Traveller?” Sisko asks.

“Not that I’m aware of,” Beverly says. “But that’s not the point: Wesley went—willingly. In search—of—” She pauses, unsure.
2/9

“In search,” Beverly concludes.

Sisko sets his raktajino down. “Ya know, I’ve never told anyone this, but, I think—I have to—tell you.”

Beverly’s brow raises.

“Not long ago, my son and I were hit by an energy discharge from the Defiant’s warp core,” Sisko says.
3/9

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May 5, 2023

#MicroWars

A little girl climbs the limbs of a tree that hang over a cliff. A kite struggles in the breeze against the branches.

“Mica, get down!” a boy shouts.

She climbs. The limb arcs downward.

Snap! The boy races to the edge.

“Hello, up there!” Ben shouts.
1/4

Both the girl and the limb hang free in the air. The man stands beside the thin river below. His hand waves the girl and branch onto the land.

“Are you a Jedi?” the boy shouts, intrigued.

“I’m just a—helpful neighbor,” Ben says.
2/4

“Now, I think you ought to get your sister home,” Ben says, collecting water in a deep jar. “Don’t you?”

“Tha—thank you!” the boy says, grinning widely.
3/4

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Apr 29, 2023

#MicroTreks

“You—got to stay,” Shaw says.

“Yeah—I did,” Reno says. “And it was fucking grueling to engineer my friends like some—cannibalized, engine parts.”

“But—again—you got to do something to save them,” Shaw says.
1/8

“You didn’t have to see hopelessness in their eyes as you crouched into the escape pod,” Shaw says.

“You tough enough for some straight talk, Captain Dirge?” Reno asks.

Shaw shrugs.

Reno leans forward. “Your friends died—frozen debris forever floating at Wolf 359.”
2/8

“A bit—cold,” Shaw says.

“Literally, my man,” Reno says. “You couldn’t save their asses. But who the hell do you think you are? You took that seat when one of them could’ve. You gonna wallow in the hopelessness of that horrific moment forever?”
3/8

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Apr 29, 2023

#MicroTreks

Bashir and Miles are led down a dark corridor by two security officers.

“Fleet formation?” Bashir asks.

“It’s this new protocol that allows any starship hooked into the system to operate as one,” Miles says.

“Sounds—dangerous,” Bashir says.
1/5

“You’re bloody right it’s dangerous,” Miles says. “It’s supposed to protect the fleet from being compromised by outside influence.”

“Like what happened with that Living Construct years ago,” Bashir says.

“Quiet,” a security officer growls.
2/5

Security pushes Miles and Bashir into a room.

“Take it easy!” Miles yells, catching himself against a wall.

The two security officers turn into Bashir and Miles.

“You’re no longer anything but a source of information for us,” the Bashir Changeling says.
3/5

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Apr 13, 2023

#MicroTreks

Kirk, McCoy, Spock, a civilian human-Vulcan hybrid, and a civilian man enter the transporter room.

“We’re all set here, Captain,” Scotty says from behind the transporter room console.

“Thank you, Scotty,” Kirk says hesitantly.
1/14

“If you’ll step up on the pad, please,” Kirk says.

The woman cautiously nods and steps up on the pad.

Spock stands on Kirk’s right. McCoy stands on his left, holding a hypospray.

Kirk, with his palm open, says, “Bones.”

McCoy grips the hypospray.
2/14

“Now think about this, Jim,” McCoy says. “Are you really gonna trade one life for another? This—procedure—will end the life of this living, breathing being that you see standing before you.”

“Doctor,” Spock begins.
3/14

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@ShelfNerds

Apr 13, 2023

#MicroTreks

Sisko steps out of his office. “Jakira.”

Jakira looks up from a console. Worf stands. O’Brien sets his hypospanner down and stands up from an open conduit. Odo folds his arms across his chest.

“Doctor Bashir is waiting for us,” Sisko says.
1/14

“Benjamin,” Jakira says. “You’re not going to do this.”

Sisko steps forward. “You know—I am.”

“You forget that I’ve known you for so long—I know you better than you know yourself,” Jakira claims.

“Jadzia knew me. Kurzon, too,” Sisko says. “Not—you.”
2/14

“Benjamin,” Jakira says. “I—can’t just—die. I’m as much Nerys as Jadzia and Dax.”

“And the Major—survives,” Odo says.

Jakira crouches with her fists clenched. “There’s got to be another way. Clone me and split the clone apart—or—the Chief can—trick the transporter to—”
3/14

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