I think you're right and that didn't occur to me during the episode. I was puzzled as to why M'Benga seemed so authentic in his conversation with Pike stating "I didn't start the fight." Didn't gibe given that they're longtime friends. But that makes sense.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x08 - "Under the Cloak of War"
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Speaking of careless stardates, Pike gives the stardate as 1875.4 in this episode (episode 8) while in the previous episode (episode 7), Pike tells Boimler the stardate is 2291.6 (which should place it *after* the current episode) Normally I might assume the episodes were just aired out of order, but the discomfort between Chapel and Spock in this episode seems to flow naturally from events in episode 7.
One of the side effects of Protocol 12 is being able to beat the circular light of truth thingy.
Do like that they referenced the 'Remain Klingon' message from the DSC Season 1.
They're just following TOS stardate logic, which were also nonsense.
It's pretty much how it was in TOS. It's just a number to give a "date" without actually giving one.
And TOS stardates were also all over the map. As late as TAS in the 1970s one stardate was actually lower than "WNMHGB" had but set near the end of Kirk's five-year mission.
Michael got advice from her Adopted dad, Sarek, on how to deal with Vulcans.
That means be aggressive and fight back first.
StarFleet & UFP has a policy of not being the people who deliver the first blow.
Ergo the mutiny when she insisted her policy was the right policy based on following her dad's advice blindly.
After the way he covered for Una in S1, if it is true that Pike suspects M'Benga and just lets it go, it starts to seriously impinge on his moral character as a starship captain. How much shady shit is he supposed to turn a blind eye to?
Then again, maybe knowing his own fate, he just doesn't GAF.
Or just rip it right off the witness chair and use it to beat the prosecutor to death with.
...Wait! Maybe that's how Pike's girlfriend Batel gets taken out!
And obviously the Klingons won't either.
Because time and relative position in space is weird.
Plus, daylights savings times is really weird out in space.
All the stardates during TOS and TAS ranged between 1254.0 and 5943.7. That's almost five years in deep space with many going backwards.
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This. To me, Chris was weighing his words, trying to break fairly bad news to M'Benga, and following up with letting M'Benga know that he was there for him if he needed to talk, because it seems clear to me Chris wasn't quite sure whether or not Joseph was telling the truth or not.
Everyone assumes that klingon brought the knife to the medical lab as it was his knife and had the blood of the three klingons the ambassador claimed to have killed on it. Plus the show left it up to the audience as to who started the fight. Sometimes it seems like people just don't pay attention
Well, and what evidence does the audience know vs. what can be proven?
We assume the characters know everything we see but that's impossible.
Not important to the story.
