The Archer theme gave me chills, even if the space-dock just looks like every space-dock they've had since The Motion Picture lol Maybe it's deliberately meant to make the Federation still feel sparse and depleted, but it sure does make it look like there's no-one left. This virtual (I think) set for the Starfleet Academy class feels like the scale is out of whack though, its huge for the.twenty people that are in it. This is more elaborate than we get for most alien cultures period outside of the Klingons and the Vulcans, which makes me think that the Kelpians are going to be a pretty major presence this season.
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Did the show get a budget upgrade this season? This underwater Kelpian conference room thing is immediately a step up from S3, where it felt like the three set groups they had access to were "Discovery", "Federation HQ", and "Industrial Plant". Still a good theme song with a good intro sequence.
If its a statement of tone and intention for this season of Discovery I'm into it, if only because I'm hoping this time around they'll both give us more time with the rest of the crew and maybe be a little less portentous. I don't think I've ever seen something quite like this in the franchise, outside of maybe the Kelvinverse movies. This swoopy, upbeat sequence with all of the crew chiming in on Michael's problem while they're fleeing on the planet below has a sort of jaunty energy to it that's pretty weird for Star Trek generally and for Discovery specifically. the tone here is immediately interesting. "Okay so do your empathy thing" I'll let them have this very obvious line because honestly I had forgotten about Book's empathy thing, so fair cop. And not everyone is having it, there's friction about rejoining the Federation from what seem like some reasonably skeptical people.
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And out of the gate having Michael and Book running around doing diplomatic work is a much needed gesture towards showing that time actually passes in this series and characters actually doing things outside of the main plot. We're just going to take the show on its own terms and see what they do with it from this point forward. Michael being captain is still dumb but you know what? I'm just going to roll with it.
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