Maybe Osayra meant that her torpedoes had higher yields but I agree her line about having "bigger torpedoes" was poor writing.
Poor writing indeed, but I was referring more to the writers misconception that 'bigger=better' (which is total nonsense).
If anything, Trek illustrated time and again that with technical efficiency you can build overwhelmingly powerful things in small packages (pretty much like its the case with real life too).
Also, I did not like Tilly saying Discovery had "photons torpedoes". That also felt like poor writing. Starfleet already had quantum torpedoes in use in DS9 era. Are you telling me Starfleet is still using photon torpedoes hundred of years later? Or did Starfleet not give Discovery any new torpedoes? Is Discovery still using her old photon torpedoes from her era?
Osyraa was using photon torpedoes against both Booker's ship and the Kweijan (planet), and Earth ships used Quantum torpedoes.
Long story short: the writers are stupidly unimaginative when it comes to technological advancement.
In essence, its as if nothing has really changed in 930 years (or 810 years - post Voyager) and things remained 'static' (which is again total nonsense), apart from of course 'minor' changes like programmable matter and neutronium/organic/holo fibers... which are a minor outgrowth of what was already seen in 23rd and 24th centuries (so basically, decades worth of advancement - maybe 20 years worth... certainly not 930 or 810).
The Federation should have been building Dyson Swarms (or full blown Spheres) by the 24th century around every Federation member planet star and become a Type III civilization by the 32nd century and gone extragalactic... alas, its as if no such 'real' advancement occurred.
Yeah. I suspect that someone in Starfleet is working for the Emerald Chain. Or maybe the Emerald Chain has an agent in Starfleet? I would not be surprised either if Vance turns out to be secretly collaborating with the Emerald Chain.
It was mentioned that Osyraa was able to determine where Discovery can jump to by analyzing their previous jumps from Kweijan (Sanctuary episode) - which is not a huge stretch when you factor in what sensors in the 24th century were doing, so at least THAT bit is credible (even if they had sensor data from just 1 jump - computers would have advanced to the point where extrapolating that data from large distances [not to mention unimaginably a lot more] would be possible).
It's the 32nd century for crying out lout... why doesn't Discovery regularly implement dampening fields during potentially dangerous situations to prevent hostile beam-ins? Heck, why didn't SF ships use this policy as far back as the 24th century when their enemies did on oh so many occasions?
We've also seen automatic forcefields going up to contain intruders frequently in the 24th century onboard Federation ships... even, in the 23rd (before jumping to the 32nd), Disco was able to project forcefields around that mushroom parasite in engineering. section.
You'd think force fields would automatically pop up around any and all 'intruders' as they beam in... rendering the boarding parties useless.
These 'too easy to capture' scenarios just end up going on my nerves every time I see them.
Why bother with repairing the shields manually?
Its the 32nd century... we've seen regenerative shield capabilities since the 24th century... automation would have repaired the shields much faster (heck the Nova class was able to bring its shields to 100% just by dropping them for 45 seconds and recharging the emitters - the Intrepid class [aka Voyager] was able to boost its shields by initiating a power boost from the main deflector - these are just 2 examples... you'd think these techniques would have been radically improved upon in the proceeding 810 years to the point where things like spatial anomalies and radioactive nebulae wouldn't pose a threat at all).
Furthermore, why aren't Discovery's shields adaptive to prevent the nebula radiation?
Crews were able to modify/adapt the shields to virtually endless situations in past shows... here they are just mucking about as if no one knows how to work anything and as if technology regressed (even though its 'supposed to have advanced as pointed out time and again' - so technically speaking, the shields should have been upgraded to be adaptive to wide range of scenarios, or the shields would progressively adapt pretty much like the Borg did).
