The Europa Admiral...Played by the bad guy out of Designated Survivor....I especially liked his 'What the fuc...' face as his ship started to blow up!
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x06 - "Lethe"
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But Stamets isn't just some test tube jockey. He holds the key to winning the war and needs the authority to boss people around. Rank and the position of Chief Engineer would give him that.
Yes, rank signifies achievement, but it also is a declaration on how many staff, and which staff that any one officer can command, or should command.
Doctors outrank their patients, no matter what, but still have to boss around the subordinate doctors and nurses and other support staff.
Margaret was a major, so how come she took so much shit from Hawkeye?
Doctors outrank their patients, no matter what, but still have to boss around the subordinate doctors and nurses and other support staff.
Margaret was a major, so how come she took so much shit from Hawkeye?
She was a nurse. He was a doctor.
So. Thought experiment. If we take Saru's threat ganglia seriously...if Lorca was such a threat, why hasn't Saru's ganglia gone off like gangbusters?
Aside from bad writing--always a possibility--the most parsimonious answer is that Lorca isn't a threat.
Heavy cruiser... In current times indicates more guns and heavier armour, but in future times, yes it's still about more guns, but it should be about heavier shields, not thicker hulls... Which may be why a constitution class is so damn small. An unnoticeably bigger reactor for sure, but the smaller the ship, the easier it is to shield, double shield and then triple shield.
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Make the safe play. Get assigned to a science ship studying mushrooms.
That's a very generous interpretation of what little we know so far. Very generous indeed.
Last night we saw Lorca banging a lady friend then leaving her to be captured and tortured by the Klingons. That, too, may have set back the war effort since she appeared to be managing Starfleet's military strategy at the highest levels.
Why did he do that? 'Cos she justifiably thought he was too unstable to be commanding Starfleet's secret weapon.
It was all about himself, and that was played out quite vivdly. What makes you think the Buren incident was any different? Perhaps the Buren was a rustbucket, and he saw a chance to move into a fancy new beast about to role off the line at Utopia Planitia.
Also I think the eye thing is ridiculous. It's just an excuse to have the sets so bloody dark all the time. In Star Trek we always know shit's going down when the lights are dimmed. I mean, on Voyager it happened automatically when red alert was triggered
And if nothing else, they want us to think Discovery is very much a show where Shit Is Going Down.
Operational improvisation is what we called it Downrange. Standard for commanders on the scene. Rarely countermanded by HQ because, most of the time, HQ isn't stupid enough to second-guess the tactical situation by the subject matter expert on-scene.
Most of the time...
I wasn't trying to list Sci-Fi shows. Just dramas. You can have great writing regardless of whether a drama is Sci-Fi or not.
The writing on STD simply isn't on par with the high quality dramas of today. Maybe that will change.
Mr. Robot has an excellent first season. It's not Sci-Fi, but it's really fascinating. Man In The High Castle is an alternative history show where the Japanese and Nazi's won World War II. Japan controls the western half of the US, and the Nazi's control the Eastern half. It's really good setup. Very interesting.
Could it be a confused misrecollection of Lt. Valeris in Star Trek VI who, according to Spock, was the first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class?
Nah it's been floating around fandom since TOS and even made it's way into various books.
The commbadges on the 24th century shows also could be popped on and off similarly.
I have to disagree here, I think the drama's of today seem to function on "lets shove as much drama on screen as we can at any one given time" and often I find the drama doesn't have room to breathe.
I happen to think, as exciting as GoT is, I don't think the drama is so well written or conceived that it's worth writing home about. I happen to think what we're getting on Discovery is more interesting.
It was a strange gesture. We've seen people take off the commbage when they resign or when they wish to distance themselves from their Starfleet affiliation. Does sex require someone to leave Starfleet, permanently or temporarily? Why no just leave it on the uniform?
Saw the same thing happen to a guy whose father was a three-star admiral. Boy, when he flamed out...
The crazy spin is only when they initiate the drive. When it drops out of it, it just appears. And the saucer sections are spinning when it drops out so they did use the s-drive...not sure how though.
Inertial dampeners and artificial gravity stops the crew (inside the ship) from noticing that the ship is never level nor upside-right, unless they are looking out a window, which is probably part of black alert: "Don't look out the windows dudes".
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