Spoilers Who is Captain Lorca?
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He has it in the waist of his pants. It comes off more like a pyschological defensive reaction to being vulnerable to both Cornwell and the rest of the crew.
He's Batman.
It is also possible that those marks on Lorca's back are from his time as a captive with the Klingons. They could have done more to him than what we saw.
Wait he didn't know about the meteor shower? I need to pay more attention to that scene when I rewatch it.
They were completely healed and showed scarring.........they looked to be OLD to me.
Whatever Lorca currently is, he was basically all that even before the one episode where a switcheroo could have taken place, "Choose Your Pain". So we have
1) a messed-up person before and after the watershed event, acting somewhat against Federation interest but still killing Klingons left, right and center, vs.
2) a person who has lacunae in memory, doesn't seem to recognize his own fortune cookies, and starts seeping innuendo about Tyler being a Klingon only after the watershed event.
Is the supposed watershed relevant? If Lorca has been a Klingon agent (and potentially even the Klingon Voq himself) all along, that is, since his "escape" from the doomed Buran, why does he do that goof with the fortune cookies only now when he earlier on was familiar with them?
Timo Saloniemi
1) a messed-up person before and after the watershed event, acting somewhat against Federation interest but still killing Klingons left, right and center, vs.
2) a person who has lacunae in memory, doesn't seem to recognize his own fortune cookies, and starts seeping innuendo about Tyler being a Klingon only after the watershed event.
Is the supposed watershed relevant? If Lorca has been a Klingon agent (and potentially even the Klingon Voq himself) all along, that is, since his "escape" from the doomed Buran, why does he do that goof with the fortune cookies only now when he earlier on was familiar with them?
Timo Saloniemi
My theory is that the showrunners are going to go super-meta/Benny Russell with Lorca. Lorca will realise that he is being played by actor, Jason Issacs and his actions are being caused by the personalities of all the villains Issacs has played manifesting within Lorca.
I am in between the ages for Isaacs and Brook and I don't remember a lot of what should be memorable details from my 20s and early 30s unless they are hugely memorable (e. g. my wedding day, my first real boss, etc). I have no problem with him not remembering, or saying he doesn't.
I think they had a thing years ago or maybe she liked him back then. Hard to say but the roll in the hay, I think, was either nostalgia or to get her to back off and stop the conversation dead in its tracks (and it worked). She blushed fiercely whereas for him it was a bit of charm but no feeling behind it. I have known guys like that so that doesn't tell me he's not human, either.
I think he's just damaged - and we might learn he had a family on the Buran or something. I think Tyler is, too.
I'm going with them just being two screwed up guys.
But Tilly is really a space salamander in disguise.
Yeah, between this and the "Lorca is a Klingon" theory, I just don't get why fans are so eager for the show to step on its own dick.
If any of the "so-and-so is really someone else" theories play out at this point - And probably one of them will - it's going to diminish the credibility of the drama. The actors are too good in their roles, and even in Tyler's case Latif gives too strong a sense of his inner life for the guy to be a mask for someone who hates and is working against the people around him - which, I suppose, may be the genesis of the "He doesn't know who he is" versions of the theory.
Maybe it will turn out that Voq's big secret is that he went to the Romulans for help?
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