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Oct 29, 2017 · Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad: Directed by David Barrett. With Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp. As the U.S.S. Discovery crew attempts to let loose at a party, an unwelcome visitor comes aboard bringing about a problematic and twisted sequence of events.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- David Barrett
- 2017-10-29
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad. Help. S1 E7 46M TV-14 V. As the U.S.S. Discovery crew attempts to let loose at a party, an unwelcome visitor comes aboard bringing about a problematic and twisted sequence of events.
- 47 min
- Summary
- Memorable Quotes
- Log Entries
- Background Information
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Act One
Michael Burnham attends a party on board the USS Discovery, where Sylvia Tilly and other crewmembers are having drinks, dancing, and playing games like beer pong. There is a brief power interruption causing the lights to dim and music to stop. Just afterwards, Tilly approaches Burnham to discuss her recent interactions with Ash Tyler, which included calibrating rifles in the armory and a shared dinner at the end of their shift. Tilly encourages her to give Tyler a sign that she is interested...
Act Two
Burnham tells Stamets that the drive is going to overload, but he already knows. He states that it has happened multiple times before, and he has not figured out how to stop it. The Discovery is then destroyed by an explosion. The timeline returns to the party, with Tyler asking Burnham to dance, but the two are summoned to the bridge before she can answer. After they leave, Stamets appears at the party in search of Burnham, asking Tilly where they went, though she does not know. On the bridg...
Act Three
Lorca brings Mudd into his private lab, which is filled with weapons. As Mudd picks up one weapon and asks what it does, Lorca points out that killing a Starfleet captain would get the perpetrator locked up for life. Mudd then tells how he has killed Lorca fifty-three times with varying methods, including being shot with a phaser, vaporized, and beamed into space. He then notes that his thirty minutes is just about over, but that he will figure out how the spore drive works eventually. Mudd t...
"Thought those things had been hunted to extinction." "Hunting isn't the cause of its reduced numbers. It's primarily due to their mating practices, or lack thereof. They spend their lives feeding on alpha particles in solar winds. They're often so consumed by this task that they ignore all other instincts, including reproduction." "That's as depre...
"Personal log, Specialist Michael Burnham, Stardate 2136.8. Despite my fears to the contrary, I seem to have found my place on this Discovery. An air of routine has descended upon the ship, and eve..."Captain's log, Stardate 2137.2. Captain Harcourt Fenton Mudd recording. I am about to close the deal of the millennium...""Personal log. Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change. I guess the truth is, we never really know what's coming. Sometimes the only way to find out where you fit in is to st...Format and title
1. This is the first episode of the Star Trek franchise since "Encounter at Farpoint" not to start with a teaser. This episode, instead, opens with a recap of previous episodes before going straight into the opening titles. It was the first of two consecutive episodes to do this, with the second being "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum". 2. The episode's title is taken from Homer's Iliad, Book XIV, line 217 ("πάρφασις, ἥ τ᾽ ἔκλεψε νόον πύκα περ φρονεόντων"), in Robert Fagles' translation. It refers t...
Story and script
1. Having enjoyed how Rainn Wilson had portrayed Harry Mudd in the earlier DIS Season 1 installment "Choose Your Pain", the writing staff of Star Trek: Discovery chose this as the optimum time in the season to have him return to the show. "We knew we wanted him back," noted Erika Lippoldt. 2. The DIS writing staff decided to have this episode largely separate, tonally, from the rest of the first season. "We just always had this notion of, 'Let's just have one episode where it's kind of crazy...
Cast
1. Katherine Barrell is the first actress to portray the actual Stella Mudd. Kay Elliot played multiple android duplicates of Stella in TOS: "I, Mudd". 2. Rainn Wilson described this outing as a "pretty meaty episode" in which Mudd "gets a lot to do." (Star Trek Magazine issue 189, p. 17) 3. Stamets actor Anthony Rapp found it fascinating for his character to be the only one to be aware of living through a very oft-repeated time loop. "It was really interesting, 'cause, like, I think that Sta...
Starring
1. Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham 2. Doug Jones as Saru 3. Shazad Latif as Ash Tyler 4. Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets 5. Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly and 1. Jason Isaacs as Gabriel Lorca
Guest starring
1. Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber 2. Katherine Barrell as Stella Grimes 3. Peter MacNeill as Baron Grimes 4. Rainn Wilson as Harcourt Fenton Mudd
Co-starring
1. Milton Barnes as Deck Crew #1 2. Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer 3. Jason Deline as Medical Officer 4. Hamza Fouad as Deck Crew #2 5. Julianne Grossman as DiscoveryComputer 6. Patrick Kwok-Choon as Rhys 7. Sara Mitich as Airiam 8. Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun 9. Ronnie Rowe Jr. as Comm Officer 2 10. Izaak Smith as Jogger #1
Oct 30, 2017 · What were the best moments in "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"? A simple dance in a corridor, a simple shot of a space whale gracefully gliding through space, and a character's simple reflection (and later admittance) of being lonely.
"Star Trek: Discovery" Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (TV Episode 2017) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Oct 30, 2017 · Posted: Oct 29, 2017 6:30 pm. Full spoilers follow for this episode. Click here if you want to learn how to watch Star Trek: Discovery. The party never ends on the USS Discovery… thanks to the ...
Oct 29, 2017 · As the U.S.S. Discovery crew attempts to let loose at a party, an unwelcome visitor comes aboard bringing about a problematic and twisted sequence of …
