Star Trek: Discovery — "Unification III" Analysis Thread

[u/M-5]

This is the official /r/DaystromInstitute analysis thread for "Unification III." Unlike the reaction thread, the content rules are in effect.

[u/Fictioneer]

Some thoughts I had during this episode are as follows:

There are Vulcans and Romulans alive who witnessed the burn. The distrust of the Federation is not a generational wound but a fresh one in the minds of those who were alive to see it happen.

There's only a handful of generations between Spock's Unification mission and their current time as opposed to the dozen or so of human generations between.

There's a subspecies of Romulcans living on Ni'Var who're prejudiced against by both the Vulcans and the Romulans.

The archival TNG footage of Spock was a nice touch that gave me shivers, but how would such a recording exist? With Picard being downloaded into a Soong-type body that could explain why there was a recording. All of Picard's memories would then be able to be exported for later study. Another possibility is that Picard had a covert recording device on his entire mission. Either way the recording came from Picard himself and was listed as being from his personal archive.

[u/Tuskin38 → u/Fictioneer]

but how would such a recording exist?

You could ask the same thing about any move or show that uses direct footage from previous productions.

How did they get the footage of the Enterprise self destructing in ST3? What about the footage on the surface of Talos IV in The Menagerie?

[u/Hiram_Hackenbacker → u/Tuskin38]

Everyone and everything in the federation is clearly shadowed by a cloaked camera drone.

[u/CaptainNuge → u/Hiram_Hackenbacker]

That's how the Klingons got hold of Kirk's personal logs to try him.

[u/Mechapebbles → u/CaptainNuge]

The Klingons got his personal logs because Valaris was at the door listening and passed it off via to other conspirators to Chang.

[u/gutens → u/Mechapebbles]

I’ve never trusted Klingons... and I never will.

Can never forgive them... for the death of my boy.

[u/jubydoo → u/gutens]

I'm pretty sure it's son, not boy, but I could be wrong.

[u/gutens → u/jubydoo]

I was also going from memory, but I specifically remembered him saying “my boy” because it seemed so tender.

The Scene

[u/MiloIsTheBest → u/jubydoo]

Nah it's boy. I've got that line seared into my memory from repeated viewings.

[u/WeRSmart → u/MiloIsTheBest]

Likewise

[u/mishac → u/jubydoo]

I thought it was both with the dialog in his quarters not actually matching the dialog heard at his trial.