Our Sci Fi World
Couple Jeff & Steph explore Supernatural and Star Trek in a series-exchange response format to watch and rewatch and real time reaction to see and explore the complicated dynamics that makes all of these shows the icons that they are. Episodes released weekly.
Our Sci Fi World
201 Driver Picks the Starship (DIS201 Brother)
🛸 This episode kicks off the Trek half of Our Sci Fi World with Discovery S2E1, “Brother.” The ship’s in trouble. The captain’s new. The crew watches him closely.
Steph asks questions about Federation command structure. Jeff grins like a kid watching Saturday morning sci-fi. Together, they lock into Burnham’s emotional architecture, Pike’s confidence, and the grief hiding in the corners of the ship.
They break down the shuttle escape, the production design shift, and the command style that Anson Mount walks in wearing. Steph calls it aesthetic trust. Jeff calls it earned presence.
Family tension threads through everything. Burnham carries the past in silence. Spock stays gone. Saru tries to steady the room. Tilly softens the edges. Stamets wants to leave the story altogether.
Jeff compares Pike to past captains and future ghosts. Steph clocks how Discovery holds emotion in framing and tone. They both pause on the final image of Burnham’s grief wrapped in a new mystery.
This episode of Our Sci Fi World doesn’t just start a new season. It rewires the show.
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