Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x08 - "Labyrinths"

[Quantum21]

Thanks! I feel like the only person on the BBS who’s never heard of him!

I still don't know who he is

A guy who worked on Star Trek Blurays, then Axanar. Due to controversy hehind the scenes there he's been a pariah and can't get professional work. He now has a troll channel on YouTube to generate funds by tapping into hate for new Trek. More hate the better. It would be sad if he wasn't so consistently negative and pointless.

 

[Dar70]

I still don't know who he is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Meyer_Burnett

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Ah FFS I thought ye were talking about Nicholas Meyer this whole time

 

[Quantum21]

Ah FFS I thought ye were talking about Nicholas Meyer this whole time

Nick Meyer is cool, at least he's truthful.

I think we've played out RMB now

 

[Tuskin38]

I still don't know who he is

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Meyer_Burnett?so=search

 

[Commander Troi]

Anyway...

I liked the episode. The Library was cool in and of itself. Burnham's various wrong guesses were amusing (especially the maze and sand). Moll's constant undermining of the Primarch was fun to watch, but even with that I didn't guess she'd kill him and take over. As someone else wrote, L'ak would be sad and angry (and may still be) to watch her use his Scion-ness to take the kind of power he never wanted.

Book (both of them) was the MVP here. His reaction to the root from his world tree was sublime. While we've seen Burnham deal with some of her insecurities before, my favorite bit here was when she resignedly said, "can you at least tell me what the test was?"

I'm wondering if they'll pull a subversion and the McGuffin won't be able to raise L'ak, leaving Moll to actually deal with her grief.

 

[Macintosh]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Meyer_Burnett?so=search

Ohhhhhhh. The Axanar guy.

 

[publiusr]

I liked this one.

I can't put my finger on what exactly it reminds me of, but this episode had much more of a Fantasy Genre feel than Sci-Fi.

That's the ghost of Jorge Luis Borges whispering in your ear.

He, the master of the labyrinth...

Tonight's homework reading assignment:

The Library of Babel
The Book of Sand
The House of Asterion
The Aleph

This would have been obvious had the Librarian been played by Javier Bardem...who I so very badly want to see play JLB...read his fictions for audiobooks, etc.

As he gets older, he looks more and more like JLB --long a favorite of mathematicians like Rudy Rucker (INFINITY AND THE MIND).

 

[The Wormhole]

Ohhhhhhh. The Axanar guy.

Although he was involved with Axanar, RMB isn't the one typically considered to be "The Axanar Guy." That's Alec Peters.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, Peters IS the Axanar project at this point. He's responsible for almost all the press.

 

[TerryTrek]

Oh Lawd..

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[eschaton]

Is someone going to put up the thread for tomorrow's episode?

 

[fireproof78]

Is someone going to put up the thread for tomorrow's episode?

It won't arrive until Tuesday.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Oh Lawd..

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"Are all Co.."
Constipated?
Cool?
Corn flakes?
Cobras?

 

[Macintosh]

Although he was involved with Axanar, RMB isn't the one typically considered to be "The Axanar Guy." That's Alec Peters.

Oh OK. Apparently I still don't know who he is

 

[fireproof78]

Oh OK. Apparently I still don't know who he is

Probably for the best.

 

[Rahul]

This episodes' plot really was paper thin:
Burnham has to solve a mind puzzle where the solution is to cry. It takes place in a library, but neither the plot, not the themes, nor anything else had anything to do with books, knowledge of, well, libraries. At the end the Breen catch up.

However...

... I really liked that emotional scene!
And I have hated so, so, so many of Burnham's crying scenes before. Because they always felt fake, artificial, overdramatic - like soap opera or the Tennant-era Dr Who sapiness.

This scene though, Burnham just introspecting, felt very real, and very honest, and Sonequa's acting was just fantastic.

Also, on a side note, David Ajala is an absolute Goat and this shows secret charisma weapon.

 

[The Wormhole]

"Are all Co.."
Constipated?
Cool?
Corn flakes?
Cobras?

I was going to point out you could click on the video and get the full title, then I saw the icon in the corner indicating it's a Major Grin video and realized why you haven't done that.

 

[Midquest]

I just got around to watching this one. I found myself watching Sonequa Martin-Green's performance in this one and realizing that Burnham has become one of my favorite characters in all of this franchise and its many iterations. Few characters have been afforded such rich development and journey, and I suspect that revisiting the character's growth will be one of the points of enjoyment in rewatching this show.

 

[Macgyver]

I was surprised that the Primarch attacked the library. It put me on the edge of my seat.

I also now have that Toronto Library on my "places to visit" list as well. it looks pretty cool!