Lorca apprehends the parallel Stamets, who betrayed him and apparently ruined his coup. However those episodes where pretty straight forward plot wise where as this episode of DSC has lots of twists and turns. The ship shots seemed better than in past episodes, and the fight choreography was excellent - action movie level. Introduction. None of it. Systems with 2-Star Raw Crystal. It plays like a Marvel Comic Book movie, content to distract with infodumps, quips, twists and constant violence. That feels lilke very undeserved semblance of character progression. Tags: Main Storyline Missions. As an action-movie hour of Trek, this episode works well in the moment. And that, in a nut shell is what's wrong with STD. You have to stretch quite a bit to make that allegory. SoDiscovery haters are also largely climate change deniers? But the pandering to very basic impulses with the every-episode quota of 2 to 3 minutes of porn that added nothing to the narrative and the episodic bloodfest in scenes where a simple killing had to turn into gore festival just to appease the base appeal for violence was mindless (I used "mindless" this one time, like I could have just as well say "appeals to the lowest common denominator" also used before for this show - and won't do it again - only because some other posters used it for Discovery in the past, I am not a fan of calling shows enjoyed by others denigrating names because it implies people enjoying them fit into that category too). Mindless action. With only 2 episodes left and year long break before season 2 premieres, the scenes with acting Captain Saru interacting with the Discovery crew have me curious. This cookie is set by the Cookie Consent solution. Star Trek Fleet Command has made its way to mobile devices, giving players a chance to spearhead their own base and embark on space voyages. Well, it's indecorous of me to share pillow talk. The mobile game Star Trek Fleet Command is a game where you have to create your crew to pilot ships. It all feels so pointless. That's who I am. Our newly PC optimized game offers an enhanced way to experience Star Trek Fleet Command. Don't hold your breath, though. Lazy writing that reaches only for the most obvious, only the most cliche at all times. Decent action shots, and an idea or two actually show up. What's Past Is Prologue: Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. Michael Pillar completely changed TNG at the beginning of Season 3. The second time you know what's coming, and concentrate on how everything is prepared for and foreshadowed in retrospect. The episode was written by Katharyn Powers, with additional elements added by executive producer . The other half can be purchased from the Augment Faction Store at 6/day if you are OPs 18+. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Players can earn resources, in-game currencies, faction points, and officer fragments, among other things. @Nolan: I fully agree with you. Also, people forget that much of what were seeing in Discovery isnt just the artistic brainchild of the writers, but a corporate product. Sofrom the point of view of the mirror Starfleet and the mirror universe, the emperor was killed, along with her flagship and the entire power structure of the Empire (that we could see). But we know from TOS that the Federation wins/isnt conquered. "If Star Trek TNG was a robber needing money and you it's victim, he would approach you calmly on the street, explain that he needed money for drugs, he didn't like robbing people but he really had to, and he needs $40 that's all, if you just give it to him he'll go on his way. How long will mirror-Georgiou remain on the show, and what will her role be? And before any comparison to Q pops up: Q is a metaphor, above all else, a plot device, not a science gadget. "Star Wars is deeper, philosopically, and politically I think", @Skiflicker: "Someone else did mention that earlier, that the spore may be Lorca, and god I hope not.". I guess this is a question of which one is worse. It occurs to me that the setup for the next installment in some ways mirrors (no pun intended), Star Trek Into Darkness. The dang spore drive does that now. Oh, and I forgot to mention the best cartoony element of them all: Lynos said: "I have a problem with action scenes that start with someone kicking someone's leg or pushing their arm in order to get the advantage. Players can explore star systems, build ships, mine resources, level up, complete missions, join alliances and battle other gamers. Includes: Core Missions - Quantity: 10 missions, unlocked at the fourth Milestone of the Basic Battle Pass. This will give you half the blueprints you need to build the Botany Bay. Whats Past is Prologue is one of the missions you can complete in Star Trek Fleet Command, though many players are experiencing a bug in the game. What's Past is Prologue (7) - Neutral Storyline Travel to a distant star. That Klingons are stand-ins for Trump supporters? She realizes that her real Gabriel Lorca has probably been dead. Official Subreddit for all things Star Trek: Fleet Command, the newest MMORPG by Scopely. Farscape really does at times feel like a trip down Alice's rabbit hole. There are far too many franchise inconsistencies here. Oh no! Lorca abused our idealism. Starting with Star Trek: The Original Series in 1966, most Star Trek projects revolve around a starship (or a space station), with the Captain as the primary protagonist. Tap the build button to start the construction process. Gamers can put their strategic abilities to the test in this thrilling mobile game, Star Trek Fleet Command. But man, am I disappointed to be back with the bloody Klingon war. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The Tyler/Voq plan? After successfully completing the quest, you will get Parsteel, premium recruit tokens, battleship parts, and a relocation token. Too bad the MU Discovery, commanded by a notably bloodthirsty captain, didn't do much damage to the Klingons. I'm happy I decided to continue watching and am excited to see what the crew has to face next! This episode is proof of that; after having spent 10 to 12 episodes setting up the pieces that lead here, we promptly close the book on a number of them, for good and ill. I hope it will be. As a star base commander on the edge of civilized space, recruit iconic characters from The Next Generation, The Original Series, the J.J. Abrams' films, Discovery, and more, including Kirk, Spock, Michael Burnham, Data, and Geordi. What's Past Is Prologue Episode aired Jan 28, 2018 TV-14 44 m IMDb RATING 8.1 /10 4.4K YOUR RATING Rate Action Adventure Drama Lorca plans to move forward with a coup against the Emperor, propelling Burnham to make a quick decision to save not only herself, but the U.S.S. ". I've watched for years; you let alien races spill over the borders, flourish in our backyard, then have the gall to incite rebellion. Until I saw what you said. In the mirror universe, aboard the Terran emperor 's flagship, the ISS Charon, Gabriel Lorca frees his followers from a chamber filled with agony booths, including his loyal partner Commander Ellen Landry. The only MU character brought over was Georgiou. The foundation of PKD's work was the distinctiveness of his characters and ideas, which he then threw into funhouse plots to make readers look at their own reality from a new perspective. Shows where the text - a violent, action oriented, exploitative drug - is the message, and the subtext (a liberal show about xenophobia) only exists to sanctimoniously sanction, and make permissible the consumption of, the base, coarse, actuality of the art. Two episodes left - here we go @KT: "I disagree. Thankfully so far we haven't seen much of that here. The climax of this episode was supposed to be as we realized the fate of all sentient beings was uncertain, that everything might cease to exist. I was stuck here, too, but got past it by switching to another server in the user settings. Mining resources. Discovery attacks the Charon's energy orb setting off the mycelial shockwave, which Discovery combines with its strategy to jump to warp to ride back to the prime universe. It's Lydney for me, a lvl 22 planet. Star Trek Fleet Command launched offering an already massive amount of content and features, yet continues to grow further following succeeding updates. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback.No sensitive data is collected unless you log in to your google account, in that case your choices are linked with your account, for example if you click like on a video. But I bet he's basically done. Up there with some of your more generous reviews Jammer. And he'd give better stories than the two franchises combined. These episodes just don't have much of substance. It's the reveal of him as a liar so they could give us a character with so little depth or nuance just to then kill him off. I'm hopping around to every system I can get too at Warp 20. @Chrome, "this show is more pro-war than previous Treks, and I don't know, perhaps that's part of the package when telling a story about that Klingon War. The main question comes down to whether Burnham will side with MU Lorca or MU Georgiou. It is noteworthy that during mining, your ship becomes vulnerable. Anyone got any theories as to what that green dot of light that submerged itself into Tilly's shoulder might be? It was the ship that Kirk and company used to defeat the swarm. In that episode, when a giant battle was about to play out between the Klingon and the Federation fleets at Organia, the Organians put a complete stop to it. There are many types of evil in the world. Enterprise, U.S.S. As a result, he understandably believes he was destined to come back and take over the Empire. I liked the twist of Georgiou surviving, which was unexpected. All the moral ambiguity established in the first 9 episodes was just a moustache-twirling villain not fully able to hide his eeeeeevil. Phlox was interesting and well acted, Weyoun was also interesting. I disagree that requiring a rewatch to get everything out of a series is a bad thing. At the very least, it keeps Michelle Yeoh on the series for a while longer, which I can't complain about. I was never invested enough in this show intellectually enough to comment on it but Ive been reading peoples comments and thoughts since the first episodes with a lot of interest. Thanks, even though your post is from 2 years ago, it took me ages to work it out. @ Lobster Johnson, what Peter said. "Quick, how do we write Lorca out of the show immediately?" The writers should be commended for not prolonging this needlessly. I hope things pick back up the way they were in the first nine episodes. "But won't viewers be pissed off? It's supposed to choose a close-by system to your current base. If the last couple of episodes of the season are as good as this, I can't wait! I thought all the acting was superb. I liked this episode a bit more than the prior 3 2nd half of Season 1 episodes mainly for the resolutions/conclusions and pacing but not for the final action/fight scene which was far-fetched and over-dramatized, nor for the technobabble. Great characterization, very believable. Try report it to the in-game help/customer service and they may help you. You have your orders. I still hope they manage to sort the look of the Klingons out though. The closest previous episodes I can think of are ones where Klingons are invading DS9. Turns out, he was really "in love" or whatever oh well. The production pulls out a lot of stops to play out the action beats, and they're about as satisfying as such tropes can be. Independent Ships Ship Rarity Grade Type Ship Ability (at Level 1) Realta Common 1-star Explorer +10 increase of shield health Orion Corvette Common 1-star Battleship +10 increase of hull health. Gene Roddenberry could probably have tried to license a sci-fi franchise like Lost in Space to tell his story, but he created Star Trek because he had a unique vision he wanted to convey. Try as you might, it's clearly not you. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. We may thus get a Discovery vs Discovery showdown. Some players have to travel to the level 25 star, Torana, while others have to travel to Lydney, a level 22 planet. In 2370, a seven-year-old named Paul Menegay . The visual aspects of Discovery simply don't fit in, and not just the underlining technology, even the way ships move through space. Missions. Press J to jump to the feed. Burnham's decision making mystifies me - after effectively assisting one raging psychopath in Voq/Tyler she brings another one back in the Emperor. We see Lorca as a Starfleet captain. Apart from physcial (sic) appearance, they have nothing in common.". Fortunately, the games developers can repair them with patches. What do people like about Trek if not for that Asimovian style of sci-fi? The !Lorca was no MU barbarian, at least not in all the episodes leading to this one. Isaacs's acting took a nosedive to match. And the pacing is dead-on. "How does one explain the coming and going of the Ice Ages which occurred long before any kind industrialization? What is the hook thats going to keep me interested? It's not the reveal of Lorca as a season-long liar that bugs me *per se*. Fighting Hostiles. My excitement for the next episode dropped about 50% from where it's been. Previous episode: Vaulting Ambition The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. The leveling system in Star Trek: Fleet Command is rather basic and will not need you to do something else however to progress in the game. And make no mistake, Discovery is no longer Lorca's. Oh, good catch, Jammer, on shooting the ventilator plating being an Ep IV reference. I'm wondering if we're going to find out the MU. Cornwell is shocked at learning the full truth of Lorca's deception. When I watched Amazon's "Philip K. Dick Electric Dreams" anthology show, I expected PKD-style stories. @OmicronThetaDeltaPhi, dont worry, youre not missing much. This cookie is set by the Cookie Consent solution. Emperor Georgiou's forces come head to head with those of Lorca, after which she alone escapes being killed using an emergency transport system. One of the quests in the game is Whats Past is Prologue. Was overall pretty underwhelmed by this. @anthimos112, Id love to have more constructive feedback, but for me the show is so far off course I dont even know where to start. Some of you served with me. @Plain Simple, I was referring to Farscape less because of the characters and more because of the zaniness factor. People always write that DIS isnt trek. "One year, 212 days of torture of agony, my friends my followers. ", "There is obviously an issue of Michael betraying her captain, but this person she saved is NOT the captain. All missions have different rewards if you complete the quest successfully. Worse, looking back on the show as a whole, it just doesn't make sense. As an . On Monday, Scopely and developer DIGIT, in partnership with ViacomCBS, announced Star Trek Fleet Command 's . I need to get to the Brestant system and I don't have a warp 30 drive. I read it as Lorca accidentally ending up in the PU with no plan, and then everything coming together to allow Lorca to present himself as the sole survivor from the Buran, getting command of Discovery with its spore drive, getting Michael, etc. I had issue with this too. This felt like Star Wars meets The Matrix meets Star Trek 2009. While you might be able, on a case by case basis, to point out a similar plot contrivance in TNG for each plot contrivance in DSC, I think there are some significant issues that makes such contrivances more damaging for DSC than they were for TNG. Guns, guns, guns. I dont think anybody really thinks this version of Starfleet would hesistate leaving someone behind, especially someone like the Emperor. Described as a PvP "free-roaming multiplayer Star Trek experience combining role-playing game style progression and real-time battles with enemy ships", the game is published by Scopely, who developed the game with Digit Game Studios and in collaboration with CBS Interactive . Use ScopelyID to sync your accounts, get native application performance, and connect with other players. Go get thats Frank A bps as that's the 1st ship that will get you there. Star Fleet Command is the tactical, ship-to-ship combat simulator set in the world of Star Trek. Since everything before his radically unveiled true self was merely an act, most of his interactions from the first half of the season represent an infuriatingly pointless web of lies. It is thus nearly impossible to know which star you have to travel to, as it is different for every player. Roddenberry was an Army Air Corps pilot and Justman was a radio operator in the Navy. . Jarcher said: "I hope that we get to see PU Lorca, as Jason Isaacs is a great actor and liked him as the captain - flaws and all.". Someone else did mention that earlier, that the spore may be Lorca, and god I hope not. You have to get the botany bay before you can unlock the big yellow blob. Lol Just imagine in like 5 or 6 years I'll get rewarded 5k parsteel Estar is warp 75! I wouldn't be surprise if all the "multi-verses" are supposed to be linked in some way.". It's a shame to lose Isaac, to lose an interestign character, that the things that made his character interesting all boiled down to "Mirror Universe evulz". But I could tolerate this disconnect between technology and setting if they had kept the look of the Klingons as it was in the TNG era so there would at least be that tether to familiar Star Trek. Then the sphere is destroyed, releasing his soul/katra/lifeforce which goes into Tilly. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Guess war-obsessed mirror Lorca was right all along--too bad he's dead now! 2 12 Related Topics Star Trek Fleet Command MMO Gaming 12 comments Best Add a Comment imtougherthanyou 3 yr. ago . There were also some nice, rising level of respect moments between Stamets and Tilly IMO this is the series' first 4-star episode! I've got you all beat, mine is Ester Level 50 warp required. It ends with us back in the Prime Universe but nine months later than we left it, during which time the Klingons apparently won the war. We shouldn't be surprised as he is a movie actor and it was unlikely he'd stick around for seven seasons or so. New Outlaw Missions "but her feelings for MU Gergiou are completely misplaced, and someone presented to us as highly logical for a human should know better than this, which is another example of little characterization we got gone out the window for plot's convenience.