Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x05 - "Choose Your Pain"

At least one non-human would have been nice. I understand that since TOS it's mostly been for budgetary reasons, but it would be nice if we actually saw a real representation of the Federation's diversity in Starfleet instead of it universally being 90%+ human. Nothing about the Trekverse makes me more queasy.

 

Before that bit was added in the special edition, was anybody actually confused about how Vader got to his Star Destroyer? I suspect that they were not.

 

Best Klingon ever:

 

After the first part of the episode (w/ the admiral), aren't Lorca/Starfleet going to be an itsy bit upset about Saru allowing Burnham to set the Tardigrade free?

 

She can only go up. Right now she's rankless.

Wrong Decker. Matt commanded the Constellation. His son Will was the captain of the Enterprise.

 

Once Tarantino gets a shot at a trek episode there will be long 10 minute walks down corridors where two Black-Badges discuss the time that Admiral Anderson threw April out an airlock for giving Georgiou a footrub, and whether it was justified.

 

If it's a sentient being, they have no choice.

 

He commanded it for about 10 minutes in The Doomsday Machine, didn't he? However short it was, I would have put "commanded the Enterprise" on my CV if I was him.

 

I don't know if they're considered super-strong. They can be good at hand-to-hand combat, but are probably trained to that with bladed weapons. These two just had disruptors. Plus we've seen plenty of Starfleet characters take on Klingons and win, including Sisko, Kira, and Dax.

 

Matt Decker did command the Enterprise briefly in "The Doomsday machine."

Kor

 

I was pissed that Ronald Tracy wasn't on the list.

 

I feel that Decker has kind of been redeemed/validated, since the only time we saw him before, he was an emotional wreck who no longer belonged in command.

Kor

 

Of all the TOS characters, he's the one I'd be most interested in seeing. Maybe not this season but I've always had a curiosity of what he was like before his noggin checked out for lunch.

 

Worf was super-strong (he killed that 12-year-old), but I'm willing to accept that these Klingons operate under different rules. I would've preferred more ingenuity though from Tyler and Lorca than just "Let's break their necks!", since we should assume that they are both physically and mentally exhausted, fighting guards who should deal with this kind of nonsense plan every other day.

But what's done is done, and it's all probably make believe for Lorca's benefit.

 

Were the Klingons holograms then, or did L'Rell send them all to their death in order to place Voq on the Discovery?

 

They only had room for five. While Georgiou was necessary for the story, and Archer to acknowledge Enterprise, I probably would've removed April, Decker, and Pike, putting in Garth and two random names (maybe a Vulcan name, like T'Kumbra) to represent random Captains between 2161 and 2250.

 

The Ramsey Snow method of play acting, I imagine. They're expendable crew.