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S1E13

What's Past is Prologue

Star Trek: Discovery · 2018-01-28 · 44 min

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from 20 comments

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nobody yet

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what happens

Lorca plans to move forward with a coup against the Emperor, propelling Burnham to make a quick decision to save not only herself, but the U.S.S. Discovery.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

0

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

0

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 20 comments — 4 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

setupcomplicationdevelopmentclimax1007550250INTENSITYTENSION0%25%50%75%100%

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Drag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height
how intense it got, 0–100
gold above
how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail
how much was still unresolved
grey haze
how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit20 read

  • “Show started off kind of boring to me.”

    ▲ 73about 0–33% inread it ↗

  • “The whole "Lorca and a handful of soldiers conquer the city-sized ship of the Emperor in a matter of moments" thing seemed cheap, far too easy, and pretty underwhelming.”

    moom▲ 55about 75–100% inread it ↗

  • “I actually find myself getting anxious towards the end of each episode because I don't want it to end”

    baskura▲ 33about 75–100% inread it ↗

  • “Disappointed by how Lorca’s story was resolved”

    BumbleBee1984129▲ 26about 75–100% inread it ↗

who made it

directed
Olatunde Osunsanmi
written
Ted Sullivan

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

  • Sara Mitich as Airiam
  • Jeremy Crittenden as Lord Eling
  • Rekha Sharma as Commander Landry
  • Ronnie Rowe as Lt./Lt. Cmdr. R.A. Bryce
  • Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun
  • Patrick Kwok-Choon as Rhys
  • Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer
  • Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou
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