I really hope we can avoid STT degrading into the politics of actors personal lives and decisions years after the show, we're playing the game to celebrate the characters and fictional tv show for entertainment. I could not care less personally about the actors personal lives and would prefer such discussions be broken out to separate discussion topics, or perhaps in the non-STT board so we can stay focused.
Tpol is a good gauntlet character, finally replaced my mirror phlox as a go-to med-sec gauntleteer so she was a good mega legendary for me, as well as being the only tpol variant with MED. Seven was also a decent variant for a crew who has some pretty weak crew for shuttle stats, with some potential voyage utility for some people. Picard has a new maximum stat in the game so I have a hard time understanding how anyone could be disappointed by a main cast crew with lots of events with a game-max base score. That does not happen too often.
Of course if you're not a fan of the particular characters that's understandable, but these legends seem to have above average utility so far for a mega. I would not say any of them are worth tanking an event yet. We'll just have to see Icheb's stats/utility, since he's not main cast (and may not have many future variants due to this conversation).
edit: forgot to mention, I love the slow-thaw that this mega's event type sequence allowed, and having one full faction and one hybrid allows you to choose how much you'd like to invest in shuttle speed boosts and rentals over chrons for the hybrid for more flexibility in your available resources. I guess those who don't like it must want 2 full factions in a mega? No thanks I like flexibility to choose what kind of resources to invest.
Gotta be honest, I'm not really feeling the front half of this mega. And I ain't got a single thing to say about Manu Intiraymi and his remarks that won't get me suspended and/or banned from the forum.
Ditto. I think it has to do with the lack of focus on this one. I'm not even really sure what the theme is. Compared to the last Mega, that was TOS-themed and featured some outstanding on-point crew (I think every member of the TOS bridge crew was represented by a new card), and this one just sorta falls flat for me.
For me i think part of it is the inconsistencies of the atrophysicist trait numerous variants of Seven that don't have the trait - I could understand Drone 7 not having it but the others??? Similarly Picard and Dax have inconsistencies. Or what about this glaring obvious one Dr David Marcus achieved a doctorate in the subject and his research was used on the genesis project yet no astrophysicist trait.
There are people we associate as being astrophysicist but the system says no and it's starting to bug me a little.
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Gotta be honest, I'm not really feeling the front half of this mega. And I ain't got a single thing to say about Manu Intiraymi and his remarks that won't get me suspended and/or banned from the forum.
I agree. This mega is kinda meh. I’m holding on to the Picard from the first event but am not overly excited about keeping him. May as well though right? He’s a free legendary and so far is the only card from the new show
Oh, I'm keeping Picard and Number One and I'm happy to have 'em. Also happy I got a chance to pick up Safecracker Nog. That's pretty much it so far, though.
I liked T'Pol. If I can pick up a couple copies from recaps, I might finish her up. Good voyage stats and I won a gauntlet with her the other day. Snagged my fourth Armus, thanks to her. One thing I'll admit though...
As much as I liked starting the mega event with a skirmish, the expedition and skirmish the preceding two weeks had me in a state of burn-out. I'm looking forward to this hybrid to break things up.
My biggest issue is that bonus crew barely matter for this mega.
Skirmish event doesn't matter past a single crew.
Hybrid matters a little in the first half, but will be dominated by galaxy half which only really need the featured crew and maybe one or two other.
Full galaxy is the same issue.
The final week of full faction is the only event where all the bonus crew will be used. But you're competing for a flashback or replay crew not a mega crew.
So unless I really like/need the 5* from after the mega, there was no need to pull most of my crew out of the vault.
The other thing about Astrophysicists is that SCI/ENG is really heavily featured, so even if there are a ton of SCI and SCI/ENG shuttle seats in the Faction parts, only so many bonus crew are going to be of use. I ended up tossing a couple Burnhams back into the freezer because they aren’t in my top five and probably wouldn’t be used outside of the kickstarts.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
So I suspect this week will be relatively light - with those stats, Icheb is nothing to write home about. #62 Voyager and barely ekes into the Top 10 for SCI base. Unless you really need a SCI/ENG/SEC Voyager...seems like an easy pass.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
I wasn’t going there. Merely pointing out a fact. When she gets all weepy and overly emotional on the show I roll my eyes. If this is First Officer material with huge command numbers and even some security in the future then we prolly won’t survive into that future. The Klingons will have us for lunch and the Romulans will have us for desert.
Well after a quick research of Burnham Gif's on the web I've come to the general conclusion that her facial expression is pretty consistent throughout the whole series'.
[was on Sabbatical/Hiatus] Currently a trialist at Galaxy SquadronSTAY SAFE and KBO
So I suspect this week will be relatively light - with those stats, Icheb is nothing to write home about. #62 Voyager and barely ekes into the Top 10 for SCI base. Unless you really need a SCI/ENG/SEC Voyager...seems like an easy pass.
Hope that makes for an easier top 1,500 for me. Prime Lorca's prediction for top 1,500 this week is 587k VP.
Disclaimer: my advice this week has been crap. Use this number at your own peril.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
I wasn’t going there. Merely pointing out a fact. When she gets all weepy and overly emotional on the show I roll my eyes. If this is First Officer material with huge command numbers and even some security in the future then we prolly won’t survive into that future. The Klingons will have us for lunch and the Romulans will have us for desert.
Michael Burnham was a human raised on Vulcan. Raised to suppress all emotion. As the series has gone on she has slowly been expressing more and more emotion as she discovers herself. That was one of the key tenets of Discovery. Not only would the crew discover the universe they would discover themselves. Sonequa Martin-Green does a masterful progression of emotion over the first two seasons. I think only once has the emotion been over the top, in the season 2 finale, and I believe that to be the directing. Wanting Burnham to convey the emotion of the entire crew to the gravity of the finale.
Showing Burnham to be overwhelmed by emotion and unsure what the solution to the problem is and having Spock fully assert his rational side finally and help Burnham with the problem.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
I'ma be honest. I expected Odo to be the Ranked 3*. Surprised at Doc Reyga. Not at all surprised by the 2*. Hasn't she been the 2* for a LOT of Events Threshold Rewards?
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Interesting that we're not actually getting Mirror Burnham; instead it's "Mirror" Burnham (Prime Burnham in disguise), yet still gets the Mirror Universe trait.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
My biggest lol was when she had to suggest self destructing the ship which was a thought that had NEVER occured to Captain Pike, he's like oh man what a great idea
I try not to harp on Discovery too much because people like it and I like when people like things and are happy but I personally find Burnham ridiculous... to each their own
Interesting that we're not actually getting Mirror Burnham; instead it's "Mirror" Burnham (Prime Burnham in disguise), yet still gets the Mirror Universe trait.
And everyone who dresses up like a Klingon {except the one person who definitely should have it most} gets the "Klingon" Trait.......
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
They're working on that.
Why else would they end up in a future where the Federation has all but fallen apart?
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
My biggest lol was when she had to suggest self destructing the ship which was a thought that had NEVER occured to Captain Pike, he's like oh man what a great idea
I try not to harp on Discovery too much because people like it and I like when people like things and are happy but I personally find Burnham ridiculous... to each their own
It is kind of a stretch that it was so hard to think of the self-destruct. As Mudd pointed out, the Starfleet ships are so easy to blow up, it is almost a design feature.......
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
My biggest lol was when she had to suggest self destructing the ship which was a thought that had NEVER occured to Captain Pike, he's like oh man what a great idea
I try not to harp on Discovery too much because people like it and I like when people like things and are happy but I personally find Burnham ridiculous... to each their own
It is kind of a stretch that it was so hard to think of the self-destruct. As Mudd pointed out, the Starfleet ships are so easy to blow up, it is almost a design feature.......
It became a design feature in later models. That's why Picard engaged the self destruct at least once per season.
So I suspect this week will be relatively light - with those stats, Icheb is nothing to write home about. #62 Voyager and barely ekes into the Top 10 for SCI base. Unless you really need a SCI/ENG/SEC Voyager...seems like an easy pass.
Hope that makes for an easier top 1,500 for me. Prime Lorca's prediction for top 1,500 this week is 587k VP.
Disclaimer: my advice this week has been crap. Use this number at your own peril.
So I suspect this week will be relatively light - with those stats, Icheb is nothing to write home about. #62 Voyager and barely ekes into the Top 10 for SCI base. Unless you really need a SCI/ENG/SEC Voyager...seems like an easy pass.
Hope that makes for an easier top 1,500 for me. Prime Lorca's prediction for top 1,500 this week is 587k VP.
Disclaimer: my advice this week has been crap. Use this number at your own peril.
Did you just quote yourself in the third person?
Sure did. So if anyone else were to say "where did you get this garbage advice?" then there is no doubt where it came from.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
I wasn’t going there. Merely pointing out a fact. When she gets all weepy and overly emotional on the show I roll my eyes. If this is First Officer material with huge command numbers and even some security in the future then we prolly won’t survive into that future. The Klingons will have us for lunch and the Romulans will have us for desert.
Michael Burnham was a human raised on Vulcan. Raised to suppress all emotion. As the series has gone on she has slowly been expressing more and more emotion as she discovers herself. That was one of the key tenets of Discovery. Not only would the crew discover the universe they would discover themselves. Sonequa Martin-Green does a masterful progression of emotion over the first two seasons. I think only once has the emotion been over the top, in the season 2 finale, and I believe that to be the directing. Wanting Burnham to convey the emotion of the entire crew to the gravity of the finale.
Showing Burnham to be overwhelmed by emotion and unsure what the solution to the problem is and having Spock fully assert his rational side finally and help Burnham with the problem.
If that’s really the journey they want Burnham going on, no wonder so many people dislike the character.
“Play a character who, by virtue of the fact she grew up on Vulcan, is unemotional and logical. However, she’s not committed to that logic and stoicism per se, so the more she’s off Vulcan and around other humans, her human side will gradually come out here and there, and we want that whole thing to be a journey from unemotional and logical to swayed by emotion, with several missteps and stumbles along the way.”
There is almost no way to not make that character look either schizophrenic or a caricature, unless you have an actress at the absolute top of her profession. And SMG is no Meryl Streep.
You want someone who can actually do that (short of backing up a Brinks truck for a Meryl Streep?) Get someone who has been highly acclaimed as a superior stage actor (like a Patrick Stewart). You don’t get someone who’s acted (adequately) in some indie films and some one-off guest star parts on tv shows.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
My biggest lol was when she had to suggest self destructing the ship which was a thought that had NEVER occured to Captain Pike, he's like oh man what a great idea
I try not to harp on Discovery too much because people like it and I like when people like things and are happy but I personally find Burnham ridiculous... to each their own
I mean I do enjoy discovery for what it is, but that doesn't mean I have to be blind to some of the writers' failures. It would greatly benefit from being less of the Michael Burnham show and they could probably use the insight of real scientists on some of their plots. Individual episodes were fine for the most part and the characters were well written (overall) but how no one ever thought of the speed of light about their silly seven signals plot and why no one in the Federation read Asimov escapes me. Season 1 was a lot better.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
Never wrong? We saw her be wrong in the very first episode when she attacked her captain. She does know martial arts but she was raised by Sarek and studied martial arts for years. She trained against Vulcans who are much stronger than humans so she has learned to fight against a stronger opponent like Klingons. Even still she has not won in hand to hand against many Klingons, mainly just holding them off for a few minutes for the plan to succeed. We have seen Kirk fight and knock out many Klingons in hand to hand. Sisko as well. Spock knocks out opponents in a second and has martial arts skills too. Spock fights Khan hand to hand and wins in the JJ movie. In the second episode of Discovery Burnham fails as well.
Her mission to capture T’kuvma fails when Georgiou is killed and Burnham in anger kills T’kuvma.
Multiple times throughout the series Burnham has been tricked.
By a mirror universe captain, by her boyfriend and by Control tricking her onto the section 31 ship. She would have died had Spock not been along and stopped Control.
Burnham has been far from perfect throughout the series and far less perfect and accomplished than any of the main characters in the other trek series. You are correct that Burnham is an excellent tactician. Sisko, a Captain, was put in charge of the whole Federation war planning against the Dominion and people did not complain. Burnham gets criticized for being smart but no one had a problem with Picard being an expert in literature, architecture, science, and morality. Burnham does often come up with the solution as most main characters do but there have been multiple times that others did instead. I just do not believe that objectively compared to the likes of Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Archer that Burnham can be criticized. One could argue that people criticize Burnham because she is a commander and not captain. But Captain Janeway was frequently criticized by fans as well. More than any other trek main character until Burnham came along. It is hard to see the repeated attacks on Burnham as anything but sexism. If Michael Burnham was a man instead of a woman would people complain? And not just occasionally complain but incessantly complain every time her character is mentioned? I think not.
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With that being said I am sick today so I am posting the event notes now.
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That slow thaw is a very good point!
Please get well soon!!!!!!
We will {hopefully} behave while you are under the weather.
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For me i think part of it is the inconsistencies of the atrophysicist trait numerous variants of Seven that don't have the trait - I could understand Drone 7 not having it but the others??? Similarly Picard and Dax have inconsistencies. Or what about this glaring obvious one Dr David Marcus achieved a doctorate in the subject and his research was used on the genesis project yet no astrophysicist trait.
There are people we associate as being astrophysicist but the system says no and it's starting to bug me a little.
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The other thing about Astrophysicists is that SCI/ENG is really heavily featured, so even if there are a ton of SCI and SCI/ENG shuttle seats in the Faction parts, only so many bonus crew are going to be of use. I ended up tossing a couple Burnhams back into the freezer because they aren’t in my top five and probably wouldn’t be used outside of the kickstarts.
Because on the show she’s always crying like a sensitive delicate little flower
Please please please don't take this into that whole "Mary Sue" territory! I just mean I think that's her default "act like you're making a really tough choice" face.
It's tough to not go into Mary Sue territory when you're talking about Burnham because love or hate her she's the literal definition of a Mary Sue
Any Simpsons fans out there might remember when Homer was trying to improve people's liking of Poochie he said "When Poochie's not around, everyone should be saying 'WHERE'S POOCHIE!?'"
DSC heard Homer loud and proud and made that a true thing with Burnham
I wasn’t going there. Merely pointing out a fact. When she gets all weepy and overly emotional on the show I roll my eyes. If this is First Officer material with huge command numbers and even some security in the future then we prolly won’t survive into that future. The Klingons will have us for lunch and the Romulans will have us for desert.
Hope that makes for an easier top 1,500 for me. Prime Lorca's prediction for top 1,500 this week is 587k VP.
Disclaimer: my advice this week has been crap. Use this number at your own peril.
Michael Burnham was a human raised on Vulcan. Raised to suppress all emotion. As the series has gone on she has slowly been expressing more and more emotion as she discovers herself. That was one of the key tenets of Discovery. Not only would the crew discover the universe they would discover themselves. Sonequa Martin-Green does a masterful progression of emotion over the first two seasons. I think only once has the emotion been over the top, in the season 2 finale, and I believe that to be the directing. Wanting Burnham to convey the emotion of the entire crew to the gravity of the finale.
I have said it before and will say it again, “Mary Sue” is a sexist term in which male main characters can solve problems with no criticism but female main characters can not. Kirk solved almost every problem, got the alien women to fall in love with him, and use logic to destroy robots and computers. Picard was always right putting many superiors in their place. Sisko was a demigod. Archer founded the Federation single-handedly. Where is the criticism for Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Archer? Why have they never been called Mary Sue or a male equivalent which is never used?
Marie Sue isn't the correct word here, but she's a bit too much of a superhero here. She's almost never wrong, she's a martial arts experts, tactician, never lost a fight, xenoantropologist, quantum physicist, test pilot and more. When there's a problem she always has the solution. All she's missing is banging the alien of the week to become Kevin Sorbo's character Andromeda lol.
My biggest lol was when she had to suggest self destructing the ship which was a thought that had NEVER occured to Captain Pike, he's like oh man what a great idea
I try not to harp on Discovery too much because people like it and I like when people like things and are happy but I personally find Burnham ridiculous... to each their own
And everyone who dresses up like a Klingon {except the one person who definitely should have it most} gets the "Klingon" Trait.......
They're working on that.
It is kind of a stretch that it was so hard to think of the self-destruct. As Mudd pointed out, the Starfleet ships are so easy to blow up, it is almost a design feature.......
It became a design feature in later models. That's why Picard engaged the self destruct at least once per season.
Did you just quote yourself in the third person?
Sure did. So if anyone else were to say "where did you get this garbage advice?" then there is no doubt where it came from.
If that’s really the journey they want Burnham going on, no wonder so many people dislike the character.
“Play a character who, by virtue of the fact she grew up on Vulcan, is unemotional and logical. However, she’s not committed to that logic and stoicism per se, so the more she’s off Vulcan and around other humans, her human side will gradually come out here and there, and we want that whole thing to be a journey from unemotional and logical to swayed by emotion, with several missteps and stumbles along the way.”
There is almost no way to not make that character look either schizophrenic or a caricature, unless you have an actress at the absolute top of her profession. And SMG is no Meryl Streep.
You want someone who can actually do that (short of backing up a Brinks truck for a Meryl Streep?) Get someone who has been highly acclaimed as a superior stage actor (like a Patrick Stewart). You don’t get someone who’s acted (adequately) in some indie films and some one-off guest star parts on tv shows.
I mean I do enjoy discovery for what it is, but that doesn't mean I have to be blind to some of the writers' failures. It would greatly benefit from being less of the Michael Burnham show and they could probably use the insight of real scientists on some of their plots. Individual episodes were fine for the most part and the characters were well written (overall) but how no one ever thought of the speed of light about their silly seven signals plot and why no one in the Federation read Asimov escapes me. Season 1 was a lot better.
Never wrong? We saw her be wrong in the very first episode when she attacked her captain. She does know martial arts but she was raised by Sarek and studied martial arts for years. She trained against Vulcans who are much stronger than humans so she has learned to fight against a stronger opponent like Klingons. Even still she has not won in hand to hand against many Klingons, mainly just holding them off for a few minutes for the plan to succeed. We have seen Kirk fight and knock out many Klingons in hand to hand. Sisko as well. Spock knocks out opponents in a second and has martial arts skills too. Spock fights Khan hand to hand and wins in the JJ movie. In the second episode of Discovery Burnham fails as well.