8mo ago

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x09 "Lagrange Point"

Written by: Sean Cochran & Ari Friedman

Directed by: Jonathan Frakes

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Seeing Discovery firing weapons in the distance while heading towards the dreadnought from the perspective of the dreadnought’s shuttle bay … I just loved that.
- The effects are so good overall, and used so creatively, I kind of feel badk for taking them for granted.

This season is really shaping up to the the Summer of Rhys, which is an unexpected surprise.
I was glad to hear the bit about the Breen using transwarp tunnels - it was bugging me that they were seemingly able to zip around the known galaxy nearly as quickly as Discovery.

They made it seem like the object was between the black holes, which would be L1, but only L4 and L5 are long-term stable. To remain at L1 (or 2 or 3), you need stationkeeping. The ability to keep station for billions of years is a wonder all on its own.
- As I understood it, it was actually the scientists that put the portal there.
  
  I thought the scientists just enclosed the portal in that cylinder of duranium. The final scene shows the cylinder being destroyed and the portal being exposed to space. That means the portal existed independently of the cylinder. If the cylinder was generating the portal, it would cease when the cylinder was destroyed.