Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" - eviltoast
Logline

On the way to the next clue, the U.S.S. Discovery is sabotaged by a mysterious weapon, leaving Captain Burnham, Rayner, and Stamets as the only crew members who can possibly save the ship in time.

Written by: Sean Cochran

Directed by: Lee Rose

  • End0fLine@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    I was hoping that we would get a Calypso reference when that music started playing. Oh well. I still felt the episode was a super fun ride.

    • Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPM
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      8 months ago

      It’s an interesting sequence - it’s similar enough to “Calypso” that I have to assume it’s intentional, but also different enough that it doesn’t quite line up with what we saw in that episode?

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, I really thought they would do a few future jumps and have Calypso be one. It seemed that the takeaway is that regardless of how it happens, if Zora is on her own, she’s at least consistent with how she spends her free time.

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        8 months ago

        In that episode more time had passed, and Zora never mentions the crew by name, so the crew she was waiting for to return might have been replacements who never arrived.

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          8 months ago

          True, but also it’s the Discovery, not the Discovery A we have now.

          Calypso has to be assumed to be canon to a prevented timeline (maybe one where Control won at the end of season 2 etc.)