Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x04 - "Face the Strange"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
- Start date
Are they in cast photos? Here's an official cast photo for DISCO5
Other official cast photos from past seasons are also of the opening credits actors.
How do Cons works? Are all the guest official reps of the Studios? Sometime you get a Guy Fleegman
I'm talking about this photo:
By your logic, Gary Jones should have been treated as main cast on Stargate SG-1 moreso than Ben Browder, Claudia Black or Beau Bridges.
Holy sweet fuck, not this again. That was not an official cast photo, it was just a photo that was taken onset the day the medal ceremony in the S1 finale was filmed that several internet articles have for some reason treated as a cast photo. You'll note the actual official cast photos have never included Detmer, Owo, Bryce, Rhys or Airiam.I'm talking about this photo:
Clearly they are ignoring the best characters.Are they in cast photos? Here's an official cast photo for DISCO5
Other official cast photos from past seasons are also of the opening credits actors.
How do Cons works? Are all the guest official reps of the Studios? Sometime you get a Guy Fleegman
Should we start complaining that the Picard S3 cast photos didn't include the dramatically staring Bajoran guy?
Oh, that's right, when that show ignored the bridge character, it was The Best Thing Ever.
Oh, that's right, when that show ignored the bridge character, it was The Best Thing Ever.
This had a satisfying ending from a character stand point and I think it's good indication of if they can deliver on emotional moments later on in the series. The new number one, actually took in criticism about how he was coming across to others when connecting to people, took it in, and tried a different approach to connecting to people when push came to shove. I thought that was well done, about as well done as I have seen in Trek honestly.
That was predictableI'm talking about this photo:
I'm honestly surprised only one character in that 2018 cast photo has died on the show. The rest are still there. Given how the universe has been threatened with destruction every season of the series it's a wonder Airiam is the only fatality of those nine characters.
I wonder how many coin flips in the writer's room it took to pick someone.
I'm not. During the first season I thought "Anyone can die." If someone got killed off, it was par for the course. Prime Georgiou, Connor, Landry, Culber, Lorca... and even T'Kuvma who, before they killed him off, looked like he'd be the main antagonist for a while.
Then, when Airiam died and they went full ceremony, that signaled to me that as of the second season "Anyone can die" was out the window. If killing off Supporting Characters was a Big Deal, then the Main Characters were safe no matter what. Add into the mix that Culber's death was un-done. "He was always going to come back!" Yeah, but we didn't know that at the time he was killed off!
I'm not going to argue the whole Airiam thing again, or the controversy over Culber's death and resurrection. None of that's the point, and I don't want to go down that road again. The point is, during the second season, the show changed its entire mindset in regard to killing off its characters. So, from that point on, I wasn't surprised that everyone survived.
Which is why I countered so hard when someone said Saru was going to die because he was getting married. I believe it's no longer that type of show and hasn't been for a long time. If this were Season 1 and he were getting married and living happily ever after, then I'd have totally believed they were setting him up to be killed off. But not in Season 5. They don't do that anymore.
Last edited:
This. No one gave two shits about how we learned absolutely nothing about the Titan bridge officers, except for the bajoran guy having a kid. The sheer hypocrisy in this fan base never ceases to astound me.
When they did the time jump at beginning of the episode I rolled my eyes, oh no not a time travel episode. But it was surprisingly great. Loved it.
Young Michael and Airiam were pleasant surprises. But not doing Lorca was a missed opportunity.
At the end I was worried that they would change the past so Airiam survives but thankfully didn't happen.
When they time jumped to the future I thought it was to Calypso time but it was probably good that they didn't open that can of worms.
Did they use CGI de-aging software for some of the actors playing younger version of their character, especially Burnham and Tilly?
Rayner was really good.
Doug Jones not listed in the credits. First episode ever without Saru, or at least a walking talking Saru.
Young Michael and Airiam were pleasant surprises. But not doing Lorca was a missed opportunity.
At the end I was worried that they would change the past so Airiam survives but thankfully didn't happen.
When they time jumped to the future I thought it was to Calypso time but it was probably good that they didn't open that can of worms.
Did they use CGI de-aging software for some of the actors playing younger version of their character, especially Burnham and Tilly?
Rayner was really good.
Doug Jones not listed in the credits. First episode ever without Saru, or at least a walking talking Saru.
Last edited:
That was predictable
You know, this whole thing really started because I said I was annoyed that it took this long to find out Rhys was chief of security.
I'm an actual fan of DSC, but I guess heaven forbid I actually have critiques of it. The way some of you guys knee-jerk your responses, you'd think the general mindset is that DSC has been a flawless show this while time
My best attempt at rationalizing that is they were in denial over someone claiming to be from the future revealing the death of their friend. Because otherwise, yeah, it makes no sense that they wouldn't believe Airiam, a Starfleet officer, would sacrifice her life if the stakes were important enough. As they all presumably would.
But Paramount and StarTrek.com have highlighted some of them as cast members.
Did the Bajoran guy in Picard season 3 get his own article highlighting his role in the cast?
From StarTrek.com:
Emily Coutts made her mark on season one of Star Trek: Discovery with her role as Keyla Detmer, cutting quite a striking figure thanks to the helmsman’s unique eyepiece and severe haircut. She was equally striking as First Officer Detmer on the I.S.S. Shenzhou during the show’s time in the Mirror Universe. Viewers mostly glimpsed Detmer in the heat of the moment, initiating the spore drive, for example, or guiding the ship out of a gravity well. Coutts is currently shooting season two of Discovery, but during her time at Star Trek Las Vegas in August, the actress sat down with StarTrek.com to chat about her career, her experience so far on Discovery and her upcoming projects.
From Paramount+:
There are no small parts on the U.S.S. Discovery.
As we've come to know Star Trek: Discovery's main cast over the course of Season 1—everyone from first officer-turned-mutineer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) to the cautious Kelpien Saru (Doug Jones) to the mysterious Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs)—you may have noticed a number of other Starfleet officers who comprise the bridge crew. Each day this week, we'll introduce you to a new member of the Star Trek: Discovery bridge. Today, we're chatting with Emily Coutts, who plays Lieutenant Keyla Detmer.
So she's been interviewed, so what? Back in 2016 the official Doctor Who magazine did an interview with actor Gordon Tipple over his twenty second appearance in the 1996 TV movie.
I mostly agree with you, but practically the second Culber died they were screaming "he's coming back!" because there was massive uproar over killing a gay character.
Audience outcries meant nothing. The season was written and filmed before the first episode was released. Culber was always coming back, protests or not.
But they weren't planning on telling us that until the uproar.
Similar threads
- Poll
- Poll
- Poll
- Poll