Star Trek Discovery going to planet Talos IV.

[BootinUp]

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Talos IV is the strange planet where Gene Roddenberry set the original pilot episode of Star Trek also known as “The Cage”. It was later merged with new footage in a two part episode called “The Menagerie “. The alien race there have mental powers of illusion that they use on their subjects/captives, including Captain Pike. After Pikes escape, the planet was declared off limits to all Federation ships and the story of what happened there was classified.

Discovery’s new episode will be about events before the original pilot. The episode is called If Memory Serves. Should be good!

You can watch it Thursday on CBS All access, or the following week on Netflix. Edit: Netflix only shows it in countries other than US sorry for getting any false hopes.

[exboyfil]

1. So is this the Michael timeline?

The episode (like so many others) is meaningless if they continue the fiction that this is a prequel to TOS.

This was the problem with the Kelvin timeline. It made no sense that the Romulan's and Spock's entry into the timeline impacted it in the ways shown.

I have been keeping up with the show, but it should be considered another universe like the mirror universe (since it also has a mirror universe this does get confusing).

What folks really want is a continuation of the prime timeline. That apparently is not going to happen. I would be excited to see a return to Talos IV in that timeline. Something where Pike's happy ending turns into a horror.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Thanks for posting. Is ST is on Netflix? Added recently? If so, I did not know this (member of...

Netflix too)...

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. I couldn't find it at Netflix or Hulu...nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. It's only on CBS All Access.

It costs $5.99 a month with limited commercials, $9.99 for commercial free. The first week is free. CBS All Access

[BootinUp]

6. I may have erred, I think it's on Netflix in other countries. Nt

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Good a.m. BootinUp...just a follow up on your post...we tried locating the upcoming ...

star trek episode on Netflix, no luck (week after). Any more information you can give us? Thanks!

[BootinUp]

7. See post 6 sorry for the confusion.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Ahhh...thanks for clarifying. I will continue to watch out for, who knows, it may come to the US...

on Netflix one day! Take care.

[sfwriter]

9. I just find it unwatchable.

The plots are so contrived at times and the technobabble so inane that I just can't put up with it. When waterbears navigating a mushroom network became the key technology last season, I quit watching. The mush-mouthed Klingons almost did it. Watching those actors struggle to enunciate around massive oral appliances was just painful. I otherwise quite liked the nosferatu Klingons.

This season, I couldn't get through the pilot. All the big changes last season are being swept up. Oh look, no more mushroom drive. Oh look, the Enterprise missed the war. Spock having an unmentioned sister could be interesting, but all of the dramatic buildup rests on OUR KNOWLEDGE of Spock. It's not what we see of her relationship. She should hate that moody little green-blooded asshole, instead we are treated to a wholesale strip mining of our own nostalgia.

The show has great design. I love a lot of the characters. I keep hoping the show will find its own voice and quit shoving its hand up the butt of the original series and calling it a puppet.

[TexasTowelie]

10. It was an interesting setup for tonight's episode

with the previously on Star Trek footage from TOS. So now we know that there is another force out there which threatens all sentient life in the galaxy. It will be interesting to know if it is a force that is already in canon or something completely unknown.

[bluedigger]

11. So how did it end?

Every Thursday I get excited over the new Star Trek, and every Thursday evening I wake up to the final credits rolling. You would think the massive use of lens flare would overcome the slow pacing and predictable plots, but it never does. 😕

[BootinUp]

12. *SPOILER ALERT*

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Spock has seen the future thanks to the red angel, and it consists of all life being extinguished in our galaxy in some kind of attack. Spock is going mad because he is experiencing non-linear time. The Talosians help Spock back to sanity and share his memories of the future with Michael. Spock and Michael escape Section 31 with the help of the Talosians and start planning how they will prevent the future that they have seen.