The whole Red Angel Suit and Discovery escape into the future through the temporal rift while the Enterprise provides fire and cover is no less contrived and even it works. The shuttlecraft crash landing is momentarily exciting even if the resolution is invented out of the blue.
I get that. But Chekov's question of Plan B just annoyed me.Eh. It's Star Trek. If it doesn't half-ass some emergency lifesaving scene it won't be Star Trek.
Bligh was not really much of a disciplinarian. His record in that regard is not very different from any other captain, and in other ways he was very progressive, such as his attention to sailors' health and exercise. He did have a habit of blowing up at his officers and using foul language (apparently even by standards of the times, he was reprimanded for it once) and must have really gotten under his officer's skins, as he had two mutinies. What's interesting is that in the case of the Bounty, most of the crew were on his side, or at least made no move to help the mutineers. Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers misjudged the degree of support they would have, but did have an element of surprise. Christian had powerful connections, and money, at home, and his family more or less paid to have a hatchet job done on Bligh that still sticks to this day, which is a pity. He may have been the greatest navigator in history.
4000 miles in an overloaded, under-provisioned open boat without the loss of a hand? He has my vote.
We were talking about TFF and @cooleddie74 used Discovery to show how Star Trek can work even with contrivances.
No, no problem. I had to double check to make sure I hadn't commented out of line of the topic. I definitely can see the confusion.
