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Star Trek: Discovery – S1E3 – “Context is for Kings”
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On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Adam and I discuss Season 1 Episode 3, titled “Context is for Kings”, which is the first time we actually see the U.S.S. Discovery! We finally have Burnham join the NCC-1031, under less than ideal circumstances.
What about the Ship?
We didn’t talk a lot about the ship during the episode, so what do we think of it? Well, it’s cool! It looks way better than it did in that original teaser back at Comic Con 2016. We’re excited to finally see it. We said last time that this is not your father’s Star Trek, and I would also say that Discovery is not your father’s Enterprise. Keep in mind the 51 years since the original show, and don’t get too hung up on it. From what we can see, they are sticking to story canon pretty well… for the most part… and we think that is most important.
We have a bit of a mystery as to what’s going on with the Discovery. That may play a bit different than your “problem of the week” did back in the 80’s and 90’s, but for a long form, this has almost as many mysteries as Westworld did.
New Characters!
We get to meet new characters this episode, particularly many from the main cast, such as Stamets, Tilly and Captain Lorca. Each is much different than you may expect. We both loved Tilly, though one of our listeners didn’t agree. Stamets was not what I expected. Lorca’s going to be an interesting character, and I have tons of questions about his menagerie.
We also meet Chief of Security, Commander Landry. Although not on the main cast, I think we’ll be seeing a lot of her the rest of the season. We also see the sister ship, the USS Glenn, and a familiar pet of the Captain’s.
We both loved the episode, and can’t wait for next week!
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I just listened to the podcast for Ep 3, Context Is For Kings, IMO Lorca, contaminated the prison shuttle, then untethered the pilot , in order to make it necessary to rescue the shuttle and get Bernam on board. As for not trusting Lorca, egads no, esp if he/they are section 31! But we are supposed to be bonding with Michael, she is our idea of Starfleet, omitting her terrible and emotional decisions of the first two episodes, the lesson here is that being raised by Vulcans enhances intelligence but stunts emotional growth. I really liked the episode and give it a 9.5 stunted emotional Vulcans. Oh and I loved Tilly?