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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x04 - "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"

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A Federation that has scarce dilithium supplies and yet uses energy to make holographic mirrors deserves to fall. Go Voq go.
I'm sure a holographic mirror uses a miniscule amount of energy compared to the warp drive, shields, phasers, etc. Shoot, they might run of a separate power source altogether. Either way, it's nothing to worry about.
 
That plan went out the window when her Captain was stabbed. Plus, do we even know Burnham knew what T'Kuvma looked like? Georgiou did, but Burnham wasn't on the bridge during the comm link. She didn't necessarily know who that was until afterwards.

Boarding a Klingon ship and trying to abduct a member of a fight-to-the-death race was dangerous. Who could have foreseen that?
 
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Oh, and, cosplay challenge!
 
^ He's referred to in all official information and on Memory Alpha as "the Discovery's medical officer", not as "one of the Discovery's medical officers", and he's clearly presented in Episode 4 as being the seniormost of the few doctors we see because if he weren't, Lorca would've been talking to somebody else.
 
The glaring plot holes always take me out of the story. Are we really supposed to believe that the Klingons let the only ship with a cloaking device adrift in space and its crew without food for 6 months?
As far as the Klingon High Council is concerned Voq is unworthy; so they could care less what happens to his one ship, or the Klingons now willing to follow him. Kol only came back because he wanted the cloaking technology. If Voq survives and is able to rejoin the fleet on his own, maybe they'll reconsider; but he did nothing to 'prove himself' to them like T'Kuvma had in drawing in the Federation Fleet and setting up the ambush T'Kuvma himself carried out.

We even find out that the Council ISN'T fighting FOR the honor of T'Kuvma; because Kol believes that as soon as the war ends and they are victorious; the Council will splinter again. In general Klingon society Voq is and will always be (unless he himself does something truly worthy), an unworthy outcast.
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That's why the Klingon High Council left his ship and crew in the situation they were.
 
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They don't ring hollow at all. Rather, they are the actions of a flawed human being. We're so used to Star Trek where flawed human beings are almost always the bad guys. Well, now we have flawed human beings who make mistakes, pay dearly, and try to make restitution for them, while still being among the good guys. Burnham is a good soul who made a terrible mistake in the heat of battle. She's trying to make up for it. If we eliminate the humanity from Star Trek, then what the hell's the point?
Exactly so. People make mistakes, well except in previous Trek series where they were generally perfect. I find this approach so much more refreshing! Gasp! She killed the Klingon who killed her beloved Captain! Yeah, she considered it a mistake afterwards but at the time it was a human response.

Just like in Obsession where both Kirk and the ensign hesitated (different points in time) because that was the human response in that case.
 
^ He's referred to in all official information and on Memory Alpha as "the Discovery's medical officer", not as "one of the Discovery's medical officers", and he's clearly presented in Episode 4 as being the seniormost of the few doctors we see because if he weren't, Lorca would've been talking to somebody else.
I don't think we can conclude much from his appearance in Knife. He was fixing a broken nose by shining a light on it, I don't think the Captain would have necessarily needed the chief medical officer to oversee that one. The actor is pretty explicit that he isn't the CMO, but he looks to be wearing commander's insignia (everybody squint!) which would suggest otherwise.
 
Lorca tells him to finish fixing Stamets up and then gives him a separate direct order pertaining to something else involving the ship.

If he weren't the CMO, Lorca would've given that order to somebody else.
 
As far as the Klingon High Council is concerned Voq is unworthy; so they could care less what happens to his one ship, or the Klingons now willing to follow him.

No one suggests otherwise.

Unless he's brain dead, Kol would care immediately about the cloak.

This is called "idiot plotting." You're going to see a lot of it, because the likelihood that the creators know or have given any thought to how a war and combat like this would happen is - on the evidence so far - nil.
 
but it licked Michael affectionately.
I thought it was eating the spores on her. What I would, noncomittantly, call the tardigrade is a rather evolved animal with a brain bigger than a dolphin's. The name reminds me of Tardis. Is Dr Who's Tardis sentient, for all of its spontaneous navigation? Anyway, it doesn't need to be sentient to have the right not to suffer.
 
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