Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x11 - "Su'Kal"

[Fateor]

It's the future. They probably don't need more than the bridge crew and a few sturdy engineers on call at any time. Especially now since they have autonomous robots doing the rough stuff.

The farther in the future you go, the less crew you likely need. I wouldn't be surprised if they have holographic crew as well, plus they have a super-smart hybrid AI capable of running the ship herself (although they might not know that yet).

Star Trek III showed us a Constitution with like six old guys running it on 90% automation. I always imagined that most of the Discovery crew were just scientists doing whatever. 90 is probably way more than they ever need.

It's not whether they can since we have known since TNG that a single person could technically run a starship if it were needed.

It's that doing so would tank the efficiency of everything into the ground.

The thing they apparently forgot here is that it's not "90 people running the ship" it's "3 groups of 30 people" running the ship.

 

[Discofan]

It was probably his vahar'ai that triggered the burn

Or maybe it was puberty kicking in... Maybe the program should have made him a holographic girlfriend...

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was talking about boarding an enemy vessel when it has shields up.

I was talking in a more general sense. I never specified the shield transporting thing.

thinking of it, they might only come up during red alerts.

Up to episode 18, still no guards under any situation.

 

[Jax]

Was it mentioned before they had a Cloak?

Why don't they cloak right after coming out of Black Alert instead of being sat out in open for hours and hours.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Was it mentioned before they had a Cloak?

Why don't they cloak right after coming out of Black Alert instead of being sat out in open for hours and hours.

Was there a reason to be cloaked?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I miss PG she would have kicked that green bitche's ass and delivered fun snark at the same time, or even Lorca he wouldn't have taken any of this shit.

Grudge is the hero we wanted she will morph into a badass warrior and slay the intruders

 

[Jax]

Was there a reason to be cloaked?

You are in a ship with the only Drive that doesn't require Dilithium and The Chain want it. Surely you would do it for safety reasons. Also you detect an unknown Federation ship on sensors coming towards you and you still sit out in the open until it comes out of Warp.

Precautions people.

 

[Nerys Myk]

You are in a ship with the only Drive that doesn't require Dilithium and The Chain want it. Surely you would do it for safety reasons. Also you detect an unknown Federation ship on sensors coming towards you and you still sit out in the open until it comes out of Warp.

Pre-cautions people.

Yes, cloaking when the ship showed up on sensors would have been a good idea. But not one that promotes drama. Trek ships have a habit of waiting too long for a defensive measure until it's too late. They never listen to Worf, Saavik or anyone else recommending something other than wait and see.

 

[Jax]

Sisko & Dax knew when to cloak

 

[fireproof78]

Yes, cloaking when the ship showed up on sensors would have been a good idea. But not one that promotes drama. Trek ships have a habit of waiting too long for a defensive measure until it's too late. They never listen to Worf, Saavik or anyone else recommending something other than wait and see.

We can't have drama in Disco.

 

[Deks]

Yes, cloaking when the ship showed up on sensors would have been a good idea. But not one that promotes drama. Trek ships have a habit of waiting too long for a defensive measure until it's too late. They never listen to Worf, Saavik or anyone else recommending something other than wait and see.

Worf had a tendency to act irrationally under unknown circumstances at best.
However, with an established enemy like the Emerald Chain and Osyraa, preemptive measures would have been useful (we've seen SF crews implementing them when dealing with known and potentially dangerous empires).

 

[Nerys Myk]

Worf had a tendency to act irrationally under unknown circumstances at best.
However, with an established enemy like the Emerald Chain and Osyraa, preemptive measures would have been useful (we've seen SF crews implementing them when dealing with known and potentially dangerous empires).

They thought it was a Federation ship at first. Did the usual "something isn't right...." bit of business, until the last minute. Which per usual is too late.

 

[fireproof78]

They thought it was a Federation ship at first. Did the usual "something isn't right...." bit of business, until the last minute. Which per usual is too late.

Yup.

 

[flandry84]

I’m not worried about Osyraa...somebody will probably drop a Kansas farmhouse on her!

 

[Nerys Myk]

I’m not worried about Osyraa...somebody will probably drop a Kansas farmhouse on her!

Does Michael own a gingham dress?

 

[JD]

That's the wrong witch, The Wicked Witch of the West had the green skin, and she was melted by a bucket of water. It was the Wicked Witch of the East, who had the house dropped on her. I'm assuming I don't need to put a spoiler warning up for an 81 year old movie that 90% of the population has probably seen.

 

[Nerys Myk]

That's the wrong witch, The Wicked Witch of the West had the green skin, and she was melted by a bucket of water. It was the Wicked Witch of the East, who had the house dropped on her. I'm assuming I don't need to put a spoiler warning up for an 81 year old movie that 90% of the population has probably seen.

What a world...what a world

 

[flandry84]

I got confused about which witch was which.Sorry.

 

[Starship]

After to watch this episode... I think it is the worst of the entire season! Maybe one of the worsts of the entire Trek franchise...
So, a grown (crying) kelpian is the responsible for the burn!?!? C'mon....
And Tilly in command was... Terrible!
But wait... I saw a Dementor there! The USS Harry Potter must be coming to save the day!
After to watch this episode, all i can say is that i won't watch Discovery anymore. I'm out!
After to watch The Mandalorian, it is even more perceptible how Discovery was bad written...

 

[Shawnster]

That's the wrong witch, The Wicked Witch of the West had the green skin, and she was melted by a bucket of water. It was the Wicked Witch of the East, who had the house dropped on her. I'm assuming I don't need to put a spoiler warning up for an 81 year old movie that 90% of the population has probably seen.

Doesn't Glenda threaten her with having a house dropped on her, too, though?