On their podcasts, forums, and blogs, they obsessively parse every word, every detail, making cross-references to the other series and movies of the Trek universe. The casual viewer might not make anything particular of this techno-aesthetic scene.īut as everyone knows, Trekkies are anything but casual. And before we can blink, the Discovery “spore jumps” back to its starting point. So, against the advice of his chief scientist, and even though the system may not be ready, the captain gives the order: go! Next, in a stunning display of visual effects, rings surrounding the ship’s saucer begin to rotate as the ship “spore jumps” just in time to drop a few torpedoes on the Klingon Birds-of-Prey. But it turns out that the ship is equipped with a brand-new mode of transportation, a spore-based energy system that could, in theory, complete the trip in a few seconds.
Crying babies are so compelling! The Discovery, the closest ship in the fleet, is 90-odd light years away. As dirty and distressed as the faces in a Dorothea Lange photo. The victims, dilithium miners, flicker on screen, as miserable as anything we’d read about in Émile Zola’s descriptions of coal mining in Germinal.
A colony of humans is under attack from the Klingons. FOUR EPISODES into the new Star Trek series, Discovery, the crew receives a distress call from Corvan II, a resource-rich planet.
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