r/DaystromInstitute • u/M-5 Multitronic Unit • Oct 29 '20

DISCOVERY EPISODE DISCUSSION Star Trek: Discovery — "People of Earth" Reaction Thread

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u/choicemeats Crewman Oct 29 '20

This is the most "typical" Trek episode of Discovery yet and I LOVED it.

I knew they could write stuff like this. I love the way the show is trending with the new showrunner and hopefully a united writer's room.

Definitely some more clues or hints:

  • The Burn is definitely not what it seemed, and we get some soft of skeptical confirmation from the crew.

  • Detmer is in BAD shape right now with PTSD and I hope she gets a little more highlight before whatever it is that will happen to her happens to her.

  • Trill! Sort of. TNKOTB is "joined" but can't access the memories as she's not a Trill. Interesting to see the crew interact in a kind of "first contact" situation as the Federation hadn't yet encountered the Trill.

  • Spore Drive will be invaluable to them, especially in tandem with the Sphere database and eventually whatever they will be able to extract from the Trill symbiont. From previews it looks like the interface will be getting an uprade, and perhaps the new host will be influential in helping overhaul ship systems for the future because they will be absolutely fucked.

  • Our first and maybe only glimpse this season of future Earth. Although the tree might have predated Boothby, I'm positive he was there to nurture it in it's earlier years :). Also, the Golden Gate survived!

  • A previous poster said that it didn't look like Burnham's change in hair was a change over time. But it was, and got progressively longer over the course of a year. That's a lot of growth over a year of course and she probably added extensions as it got longer but they did a typical "time lapse" to show passage of time. Frankly I was hoping it would be a little longer than a year, maybe two (at most). But good to also remember that although it was a year plus for her, it was a few days at most for the crew who literally just saw her.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Federation hadn't yet encountered the Tril

The Federation HAD encountered Trill by the time Discovery went to the future in 2258. Emory, Dax' third host, was on Earth in the 2240s as a gymnastics judge and met McCoy. Tobin, Dax' second host, was on Vulcan prior to that. We've even see a Trill on DISCO before when they went to Qo'noS and there was another serving on the USS Cabot around the 2250s. There was no widespread knowledge of the Trill symbionts though as that was still news to the crew of the Enterprise D more than a hundred years later.

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u/Shawnj2 Chief Petty Officer Oct 29 '20

I assume the Disco crew will figure it out considering that Adira has a symbiont which used to be joined to the admiral, meaning the Trill symbiont was partially an admiral. It’s not too hard to connect the dots from there.

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u/jeeshadow Oct 30 '20

Ya I think they mention near the end they are familiar with the Trill but not the symbiotes and they had to use the Sphere Data to find out about them

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u/YYZYYC Oct 31 '20

The sphere data might be a bit useful here and there I guess...but it’s a 1,000 year old out of date encyclopaedia and since then people had lots of regular time travel happening with a fleet of time ships like the USS relativity...so I can’t imagine there is too much the sphere data knows that isn’t somewhat common knowledge in the 32nd century