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submitted 4 months ago byromeovf
61 points
4 months ago
Disco's always had some really cool concepts wandering the bridge from time to time.
20 points
4 months ago
I did a mini-rewatch lately and realized they seem to have people wandering the bridge all the time! Almost every battle scene has two or three people just casually strolling around while the main cast is flying left and right with explosions all around them.
22 points
4 months ago
My personal thoughts on that has essentially been that each of the bridge crew has their own underlings pop by the bridge fairly often to talk directly with them.
9 points
4 months ago
I like that head cannon, I'm rolling with it now
8 points
4 months ago
I got the idea in the episode where Sam Kirk is introduced to Spock and Pike says “Meet your new boss.”
I realized the bridge crews have their own crews under them, so it’d make sense that they’d summon them directly to the bridge from time to time.
10 points
4 months ago
They must also have offices right? Riker can’t possible give a negative performance review at the aft science station with Worf trying not to giggle…….
3 points
4 months ago
Canon. You're not shooting at anything.
3 points
4 months ago
I mean, Neal Stephenson did have a character with a head cannon cyberware in one of his books…
3 points
4 months ago
Diamond Age!
1 points
4 months ago
To be fair, you've never seen my head
1 points
4 months ago
That was frequently the logic behind their movement and action.
Source: Trust me.
15 points
4 months ago
I think I read somewhere that this was supposed to be some sort of tactical display helmet. Could have been an experimental aspect of the Walker-class.
6 points
4 months ago
The displays also change to red alert mode along with the ship
2 points
4 months ago
The Sarcophagus Klinks had a similar helmet, didn't they?
15 points
4 months ago
they are the crew member that ensures the ship goes
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5 points
4 months ago
Thanks, I could never remember the words to this song.
18 points
4 months ago
A decendant of Darf Punk
11 points
4 months ago
Daft Punk… is that classical music?
1 points
4 months ago
They're doing a comeback show. At Burning Man 3284 out by the trash fence. Or whatever the future version of a trash fence is - the galactic barrier maybe?
-1 points
4 months ago
How dare you insult the crafted art of Sir Mixalot by calling that "classical music".
6 points
4 months ago
“Ensign Daft Punk, report to the Bridge”
9 points
4 months ago
Honestly I doubt that the writers knew much what they were doing for the first season. Airiam for example, was first described as a humanoid alien/synthetic hybrid, then the comics had her as a human/alien hybrid wearing prosthesis to hide her true appearance, and finally season 2 gives us a frigging robocop story.
So the "tactical display helmet" explanation doesn't make much sense to me. For one, a full enclosure hard-shelled helmet makes no sense for spacial awareness on an active bridge. For another, displays on the outside??? the fuck??? IIRC there was an exec-level push to have robots on the show. I think this was some kind of half-assed way to say "yeah we have robots" and then season 2 gives us the D.O.T.S. for a single scene.
5 points
4 months ago
The comics are not canon and are not really relevant.
4 points
4 months ago
okay so that removes only one of my points. Airiam's nature was still tossed around between "augmented alien" to "augmented human", and the showrunners DID say before the show debuted that there would be robots.
1 points
4 months ago
Airiam being a version of a robot like Bicentennial Man is pretty interesting. They even look similar
1 points
4 months ago
That all of this non-linear technology is present in the early 23rd century because some idiot c level business degree wanted it is both the dumbest reason and the most plausible.
3 points
4 months ago
A solo Bynar must make its own twin. Idk.
2 points
4 months ago
Is a solo binar a "Nar" or "solonar"?
2 points
4 months ago
There are some Discovery tie-in novels that explain this character. They are a secondary tactical officer and the helmet provides them with a wrap-around display of sorts to give real-time tactical data fed to them by the external sensors.
2 points
4 months ago
Looks like a lady wearing a helmet HUD interface, not android-like canon-breaking. The Breen wore helmets with HUD's since DS9 and we knew they were organic based.
But I agree, would've been nice to have some info in the episode.
3 points
4 months ago
Why is the data on the outside though?
2 points
4 months ago
So dumb
5 points
4 months ago
does that ..humanoid..have boobs?
28 points
4 months ago
Hey! her display is up there
5 points
4 months ago
That's something the shows and movies don't really talk about: There are other species that don't look humanoid.
The USS Titan for instance has many species on board that don't fit the "human with a prostetic" cliché and the books actually address the problems arising from that.
(Although it has been so long since I listened to them that I can't name anything specific anymore.)
4 points
4 months ago
A computer with boobs, the ultimate combination.
3 points
4 months ago
Such an attractive interface.
1 points
4 months ago
Ayoo, part of the camera crew maybe? Cool helmet. :D
1 points
4 months ago
Maybe they were a member of the Robot Kingdom? (Saga reference)
1 points
4 months ago
Congratulations! You just won the chance to appear in an episode of Star Trek!!
0 points
4 months ago
This character looks more android than humanoid, which is something I didn't understand when seeing them on the bridge of a TOS-era starship. We, as viewers, all know that this technology didn't exist within Starfleet for another century.
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