Ah thanks. I have no interest in his film after what I read from his last year, but I'm trying to place where I heard his name way back. Maybe I saw it in 90s Trek credits.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x01 - "Kobayashi Maru"
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"My shoulder Anakin."
My details are completely fuzzy and no doubt someone will know it better. But that's what I can recall (and don't care to read much more).
Think one of the issues is that everyone is so chummy chummy on the ship. They're even more "no conflict" than TNG now. There's no internal butting of worldviews and professional opinions anymore.
Burnham needs someone close to tell her off and also be her confidant. Not an external force, like the President.
Burnham is anything but wooden. 
Saru will be back. And Tilly's role is changing subtly.
And 32nd century Earth and the Federation are hardly a "utopia." The absence of interpersonal conflict is a little jarring now that I think of it.
Burnham is anything but wooden.
SMG is such a charming emotive actress. She's what a good action-adventure lead should be. And she lives up to it.
And Mirror-Lorca didn't help matters, nor did the manner of Airiam's death.
(And the latter also informs Pike's choices as much as his visit to Boreth re: his own future, but that's for SNW to explore.)
Her anchor is her dialogue. She's just fine and has been since the start.
Every time SMG smiles it always feels very warm and genuine. She's a great lead.
His name is Book. And he's not going to be that foil anymore once he blames Burnham for the destruction of his planet (we all know this is coming)
For what it's worth, I asked Michelle Paradise on Twitter when Burnham took the Kobayashi Maru as she didn't go to the Academy. No answer, but a lot of Disco haters unfortunately used my comment as a jumping point to proclaim that Disco writers don't do any research.
Oh well. I do understand not all Trek writers are as chatty as, say, Michael Chabon in Picard.
It's possible Burnham was enrolled in Command College after her stint at the Vulcan Science Academy when she joined Starfleet. And that she took the test then.
Or that Burnham knows about the test from other officers, since it's part of the fabric of Starfleet. Maybe she's like Spock -- he didn't take the test either and was a starship captain. But he was well-aware of it. Although, guess its debatable on whether he created the test in the Prime Universe as he did in the Kelvin.
Or that Burnham knows about the test from other officers, since it's part of the fabric of Starfleet. Maybe she's like Spock -- he didn't take the test either and was a starship captain. But he was well-aware of it. Although, guess its debatable on whether he created the test in the Prime Universe as he did in the Kelvin.
She already had those but the problem was they were her boss so when she didn't listen it looked really stupid. It's the same for the president.
Having Saru and Tilly as voices of reason but ones she can over rule might be good
I disagree. She may not have actually cried but she overacted a lot in S3, basically making that face you make right before crying, but in a really exaggerated way. Maybe it fits better to replace "crying" with "wearing your emotions on your sleeve". Whatever you call it, she toned in down in this episode which I appreciated.
Damn those emotions. Damn them all to hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Michael Eddington is rolling in his grave.
Everyone should want to be in the Federation. Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join. (President Rillak says "Hi") You're only sending them replicators (dilithium now, but close enough) because one day they can take their 'rightful place' on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways, you're even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious. You assimilate people and they don't even know it.
Can't wait for Book to give the 32nd century version of this speech now that his homeworld has been destroyed.
Everyone should want to be in the Federation. Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join. (President Rillak says "Hi") You're only sending them replicators (dilithium now, but close enough) because one day they can take their 'rightful place' on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways, you're even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious. You assimilate people and they don't even know it.
Can't wait for Book to give the 32nd century version of this speech now that his homeworld has been destroyed.
Burnham had a repressed Vulcan childhood so she has decades of catchup on emotional processing to do.
Indeed. But, apparently being a healthy emotional person should be completed within a season.
You're hitting the nail on the head here. Captain America is a man with superhuman abilities who can take a lot more punishment than standard humans. Taking that into account it's kinda more plausible for such a character to be quippy when they have less life threatening consequences compared to that of a normal human being.
I completely agree and I'm very interested what direction they go in here. All the past captains in Trek already had experience being captains (Sisko was promoted but already had experience in the role) I can't recall many times in Trek where someone is learning a completely new role (Worf switching to a red shirt in DS9 comes to mind and they did a story or two about him making adjustments). It's perfectly normal to have growing pains, learn, and make adjustments but doing that to Burnham would conflict with the "Burnham is always right" manta we have seen so far.
But I'm not sure that Burnham has made any wrong choices so far. If she was miles ahead of anyone else on the crew in pod experience then her personally piloting it was the right move given the high stakes. Staying until everyone has been recused is also perfectly normal captain behavior. I did find her statement that her experiences have prepared her for any type of captain experience a bit arrogant. She literally just started being a captain. If it were me I would take some time to get used to that role before making grandiose claims that I can do anything.
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