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double post for the new episode. *heavy spoilers, it's a spoiler thread*

Episode 5 is a love letter to Ben Sisko. Lots of good character work and fun stuff in this one. SAM's first focus story. Her bosses/creators are dicks though.

Written by and guest starring Tawny Newsome, writing yourself in as Dax... that's fanservice too far for me. Plus in Disco, a trill symbiote of similar age was dying of old age, so I didn't expect Dax to be still around.

OTOH, getting Cirroc Lofton back as Jake was amazing and very well integrated. Definitely liked his sequences.

I should have more to say about this. Oh the visual styling... someone liked Ms Marvel's style I guess?

And the Doctor. Poor guy, he's not dealing well with the centuries of loss. I hope this gets more exploration as the series goes on.

And I don't often say this but there's doesn't seem to be heterosexual explanation for Jay-Den and Kyle. Kyle's clearly into him. So gay love triangle with Jay-Den/Darem/Kyle? That's cool. I hope it's intentional and will be followed up on.

Don't really care about Caleb/betazed princess but at least it's moving forward.

I was expecting the ambassador thing with kerec to be an elaborate prank/set up but nothing doing. Didn't really like the B Plot of feel it was necessary to be honest.

Overall, this one was fun and aside from glitter vomit not nearly as Lower Decky as I expected.

This episode we have the consequences of the prank war. Including War College cadets using parts of the Athena. While the previous episode had the Athena in space, without any mention of it.

Anyone else get the feeling that episodes were aired out of order ?

bilateralrope wrote: 2026-02-07 02:18am This episode we have the consequences of the prank war. Including War College cadets using parts of the Athena. While the previous episode had the Athena in space, without any mention of it.

Anyone else get the feeling that episodes were aired out of order ?

Could be. Or bad script editing/proofing. Or the bits they weren't co-habitting weren't on Athena.

Series Acclimation Mil got me right in the pylons.

bilateralrope wrote: 2026-02-07 02:18am This episode we have the consequences of the prank war. Including War College cadets using parts of the Athena. While the previous episode had the Athena in space, without any mention of it.

Anyone else get the feeling that episodes were aired out of order ?

The core of the ship was designed to take off and land at will, and easily enough time passed for it to return to San Francisco.

Did everyone forget that holodecks can be used for training ?

bilateralrope wrote: 2026-02-12 10:57pm Did everyone forget that holodecks can be used for training ?

Huh... Well... well then the episode couldn't happen? I can't actually recall them using holodecks much in the 32nd century. Did they use them in Disco's quarters a bit in Disco

the War College might also prefer live fire exercise for traditional reasons though it seems odd to use if for cadet's first go in that case.

Aside from that it seemed a dark, effective episode. A decent tense situation for the away team of cadets, and good two hander between Akhe and Braka. It played out like a typical episode might except Braka ends up being one step ahead of the game.

Although, considering the Venari ral disabled that ship instantly I'm not sure why it was deterring six others from attacking a starbase. Maybe it's defenses weakened by using the sonic canon (in space).

Still lots of trauma and potential stuff for the cadets to grow on. Caleb seeing people sacrifice for him. Kyle seeing his friend die. SAM maybe traumatised by taking damage for the first time. (does she have a mobile emitter, a red dwarf style holobee, she's self-generating somehow.) Tarima being in a coma again Caleb and her brother.

Lots of stuff to work with.