Funnily enough, that was Zacks’ opening paragraph last week.

Six seasons and a movie!

Erm, sorry, reflex.

Pretty cunning use of “braintrust” there.

Apologies if I appeared to be puting words in your mouth.
The point was that what we see in ST:VI can be explained by a considerably less extensive and barbaric conflict than we’re seeing in Disco, so in my view there’s not much added context. Although that will depend on how this show resolves the situation.

I really can’t get a hold on the military part of this at all. Maybe I’m spoiled by Babylon 5, which did several war story arcs without getting bogged into excessive detail but also without failing to convey the stakes and how the whole thing unfolded, but still....there’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t make sense. How…

Not everyone. Only Saru, Burnham, and Trasporter Tech Nameless saw the Emperor get on board. The rest of the crew have no reason to doubt the Admiral’s story (well, except their recent experiences with MU Lorca, as @insect overlord commented above).

Oh God, no.

It’s almost insulting when you consider that in the MU Terra has conquered pretty much the whole Galaxy, which must have required a hell of a lot of planning. And here we have the Terran No1 and No2 (or 3, if MU Burnham was No2), who have survived any number of assassination attempts and plots, running on an “it’ll be…

Erm, actually, no, it doesn’t. There’s not much difference between Trek’s Cold War and the one we had in the 20th century -deregatory remarks, dehumanisation of the other side, mistrust to the point of paranoia, etc.- and we sure as heck didn’t get into an all-out war with the USSR back in the fifties to prompt it.

I think there’s a box set out there with just about every B5 product (inclusing Crusade, which might be a deal-breaker).

Actually Babylon 5 is streaming at Go90 (I think, it’s a US-only service so it’s hard to keep up).

Burnham doesn’t think. Despite all the song-and-dance the show is making about her Vulcan upbringing and all her rhetoric about Starfleet values, she acts on her own selfish instincts driven purely by emotion.

I think not. That thing at the ISS Charon’s core wasn’t a mycellial construct, it was a reactor sucking energy out of the network and rerouting it to the ship, as far as I could tell from the episode. So he basically fell into a ball of fire.
Guess time will tell which one of us is right!

Ah, thanks! That clears it up. I didn’t catch which part of the designation they were repainting last episode.

Erm, did my eyes play tricks on me or does the Mirror Universe Shenzou still carry her NCC designation? Last episode they had the Discovery change hers to ISS to “fit in”....what the hey?

Didn’t catch that. Thanks for spotting it!

You mean like 2009's Trek getting two sequels proves it was a well-written movie?
Although I’ll agree that we’re not likely to see any further changes in the creative team- studios are not looking for quality product, they’re looking for bucks, and if Discovery delivers those, they’ll be fine with it shovelling poor…

In all fairness, what they’re going with now (“Well, it looks like they cut him into little pieces and then put him back together again.....guess that’s Klingon torture for ya, no need to look further into that”) doesn’t make Culber seem too bright anyway.

Guess that will also depend on the payoff, or at least the endgame Voq and L’Rell are going for- it has to be something monumental to justify going to such extremes, and the series has given us precious few hints as to what it is.

Apparently they saw it but thought it was because of the torture.
Of course, then you have to accept that someone who walked in with evidence of that kind of physical damage the doctor describes will just be given a firm handshake and one of the most critical duties on board an experimental superweapon.