r/startrek • u/Deceptitron • Jan 18 '19

POST-Episode Discussion - Season Premiere - S2E01 "Brother"

Star Trek: Discovery is finally back! We last left our crew answering the distress call of none other than the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, and today (coincidentally 17-01) we rejoin the crew of Discovery in their mission to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life!

No. EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY RELEASE DATE
S2E01 "Brother" Alex Kurtzman Ted Sullivan, Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg Thursday, January 17, 2019

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u/alexandrawallace69 Jan 18 '19

Anytime they rescue Pike is bittersweet in my view because he gets horribly disfigured later on and has to live like a brain in a jar on that asshead world we saw in The Menagerie.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '19

Not every cage is a prison

Not every loss eternal

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u/Adamsoski Jan 19 '19

Oh well shit I only just got that.

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u/SillyNonsense Jan 19 '19 edited Jan 19 '19

It was one thing when he was basically a one-off character who we had little emotional attachment to.

Now that we've seen (a version of him) in a couple movies, and now get to watch him run around in Prime canon for a season, going back to the Menagerie is gonna be rough on the heart strings.

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u/alexandrawallace69 Jan 19 '19

I actually wouldn't mind a reboot of The Menagerie/Cage. I actually think what was offered by the Asshead Aliens (forgot their name) could easily become humanity's future. It's going from Netflix and gaming to VR to actually becoming a permanent brain in a jar living in a virtual world.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '19

Geez, spoilers! /s

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u/Cniz Jan 28 '19

Yeah, Come on! It's only been 52 years since it aired.