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The Vulcan Hello

  • Episode aired Sep 24, 2017
  • TV-14
  • 42m
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Michelle Yeoh and Sonequa Martin-Green in Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
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While patrolling Federation space, the U.S.S. Shenzhou encounters an object of unknown origin, putting First Officer Michael Burnham to her greatest test yet.While patrolling Federation space, the U.S.S. Shenzhou encounters an object of unknown origin, putting First Officer Michael Burnham to her greatest test yet.While patrolling Federation space, the U.S.S. Shenzhou encounters an object of unknown origin, putting First Officer Michael Burnham to her greatest test yet.

  • Director
    • David Semel
  • Writers
    • Gene Roddenberry
    • Bryan Fuller
    • Alex Kurtzman
  • Stars
    • Sonequa Martin-Green
    • Doug Jones
    • Shazad Latif
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    7.2/10
    7.8K
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    • Director
      • David Semel
    • Writers
      • Gene Roddenberry
      • Bryan Fuller
      • Alex Kurtzman
    • Stars
      • Sonequa Martin-Green
      • Doug Jones
      • Shazad Latif
    • 56User reviews
    • 52Critic reviews
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    Sonequa Martin-Green
    Sonequa Martin-Green
    • Michael Burnham
    Doug Jones
    Doug Jones
    • Saru
    Shazad Latif
    Shazad Latif
    • Ash Tyler
    • (as Javid Iqbal)
    • (credit only)
    • …
    Anthony Rapp
    Anthony Rapp
    • Paul Stamets
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    Mary Wiseman
    Mary Wiseman
    • Sylvia Tilly
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    Jason Isaacs
    Jason Isaacs
    • Captain Gabriel Lorca
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    Michelle Yeoh
    Michelle Yeoh
    • Georgiou
    Mary Chieffo
    Mary Chieffo
    • L'Rell
    James Frain
    James Frain
    • Sarek
    Chris Obi
    Chris Obi
    • T'Kuvma
    Maulik Pancholy
    Maulik Pancholy
    • Dr. Anton Nambue
    Terry Serpico
    Terry Serpico
    • Brett Anderson
    Sam Vartholomeos
    Sam Vartholomeos
    • Danby Connor
    Arista Arhin
    Arista Arhin
    • Young Michael Burnham
    Emily Coutts
    Emily Coutts
    • Keyla Detmer
    Justin Howell
    Justin Howell
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    Ali Momen
    • Kamran Gant
    Bonnie Morgan
    Bonnie Morgan
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    • Director
      • David Semel
    • Writers
      • Gene Roddenberry
      • Bryan Fuller
      • Alex Kurtzman
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    • Trivia
      The cabinets in Captain Georgiou's ready room are filled with props that contain Easter eggs, but most are too difficult to make out in during the show. Behind the scenes photos reveal a bottle of 2249 Château Picard wine, Starfleet medals previously awarded to Jonathan Archer and James T. Kirk and a diploma from an Andorian military academy. The books on these shelves all feature Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) episode titles including The Cage (1966), Balance of Terror (1966), The City on the Edge of Forever (1967), Amok Time (1967), Mirror, Mirror (1967), Metamorphosis (1967), The Deadly Years (1967), The Trouble with Tribbles (1967), Return to Tomorrow (1968), Patterns of Force (1968), By Any Other Name (1968), The Omega Glory (1968), Plato's Stepchildren (1968), The Empath (1968), Whom Gods Destroy (1969), The Mark of Gideon (1969), That Which Survives (1969), The Way to Eden (1969) and All Our Yesterdays (1969).
    • Goofs
      Despite a claim that Michael Burnham cannot be a mutineer, since the rest of the USS Shenzhou crew never disobeyed the captain's orders, Michael did knowingly attack the captain and tried to take over the ship, which is the definition of a mutiny, so Michael is in fact a mutineer, even if the rest of the crew is not.
    • Quotes

      Saru: Their hull is covered in hollow, ornamental metallic pods, thousands of them, tightly interlocked, forming a kind of... armor.

      Michael Burnham: Not the most efficent defense.

      Saru: I suspect its purpose is more symbolic than practical. They contain Klingon biological material in various states of decay. Remote dating is wildly divergent. Some bones date back thousands of years, others only hours old.

      Michael Burnham: Their entire ship is covered with coffins.

      Saru: Commander, the captain listens to you. Tell her. We must withdraw.

      Michael Burnham: I'm afraid that's no longer possible.

      Saru: Your world has food chains. Mine does not. Our species map is binary. We are either predator or prey. My people were hunted. Bred. Farmed. We are your livestock of old. We were biologically determined for one purpose and one purpose alone: to sense the coming of death. I sense it coming now.

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      Featured in After Trek: O Discovery, Where for Art Thou? (2017)

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    What an intergalactic mess, Please make it not so.

    I am a devotee to Star Trek. I love it, I've watched every episode from each production many times over.

    During those decades of watching, you build an affinity to the theme and vision of the overall story, the structure, the characters, the forward movement—to boldly go where you haven't gone before. So why in the heck, has Star Trek put on the brakes of going forward and has started going backward with the wonderful universe they have created.

    The TV show Enterprise, the three new movies and now Star Trek Discovery, all have gone backward in time. And all lack the freshness, the adventure, the unknown of the other shows.

    Can you imagine if lived was like that?

    My family had the old black wall wired phone when I was going up. We graduated to a modular phone with color, then wireless phones, cells and now smart phones. Would anybody like to back to those old obsolete phones?

    So, why is a sci-f- show created to give us a positive glimpse of the future, constantly going backward?

    OK that's bad enough, but the new ST Discovery doesn't even feel like a trek show. While Spock was brilliant and courageous, their science officer is a coward. Kirk and Spock, Picard and Ryker, Sisko and Kira, Janeway and Chakotay were tight. In just the first episode of Discovery you have the first officer committing mutiny. The Klingons look like a cross between turtles and large pieces of liver. They can barely move with all the make-up and bulky costumes. Overall if you take away the trek badges and emblems and I wouldn't have any idea what the show was about.

    The sets and effects are terrific, as they should be with 2017 technology. However, they are used in a vehicle that bears no resemblance to the Star Trek I have loved for a half century. Why work so hard to build a great story structure, then ignore it.

    And of course, the final insult, showing one episode on regular TV then hiding the rest of them on the Internet. Some say the show has a "cinematic look." Yeah, a cinematic look that's doomed to laptops. It's quite clear that CBS is not interested in making true Star Trek, it's interested in making millions of dollars and it's using trek to establish that money base.

    Overall, I think Gene Roddenberry would be turning in his grave over this money-making contraption they call Star Trek Discovery.
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    • Release date
      • September 24, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Klingon
    • Filming locations
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada(location)
    • Production companies
      • Secret Hideout
      • Roddenberry Entertainment
      • Living Dead Guy Productions
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      42 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.00 : 1

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