- The walls of L'Rell's torture room
Ah, L'Rell, not T'Rell - I blame the makeup (and hail the actors for managing nevertheless)!
have multiple little doors featuring what look like little chutes
Might simply be how they do ventilation. You know, shafts of hydrodynamically useful size, but also sadistically scaled so that the humanoid prisoner is
just too large to sqeeze through even after months of starvation...
- When Ripper dehydrates, a bunch of CG water comes out. Perhaps this is related in some way to the CG water that moistened the bulkheads in pre-Tardigrade spore travel? Maybe this isn't water at all, given how Ripper gets his groove AND his volume back without having a sip of water on the way out later?
With a whole universe to literally tap into, I guess access to water never was his problem. (Indeed, if what materialized above that tabletop in Burnham's cabin was the average of what materializes in a given room during a Black Alert, a single tardigrade probably couldn't have been the physical source of the total amount.) But yeah, I bet there's a connetion.
- It was fun to see bat'leths in action again, even these wierd reimagined ones. Still, it's a tough sell as a practical weapon in the closed confines of a starship corridor, with no room to get a real swing going. Good thing the Klingon rifles of this era have really awesome triple bayonets.
Hmm. The blades of a non-DSC bat'leth apparently aren't sharp - only the pointy ends are. So the proper offensive maneuver should really be a thrust, while the swings are for defense or for unbalancing the opponent.
- I suppose Lorca didn't finish L'Rell off because she was prone on the floor and he didn't want to vapourize whatever potentially explosive things lay just under it. However a disintegration beam actually works, it makes a certain amount of sense that if the target has nothing behind it, it's somewhat safer to fire than if there was a solid surface in direct contact with the opposite side of the target body, which could also potentially get vaporized, and all that this entails.
I'm not sure this should be the case. If the concern is about the phasing effect propagating, then surely standing on a floor is as risky as lying on it? If it is of the actual death ray piercing and hitting the floor, it doesn't seem to be much of a risk - all the previous bolts Lorca fired were very short and ceased before the victim was vaporized. And OTOH, a miss would mean hitting a wall, and
that never stopped a hero from firing.
Indeed, in the TNG/DS9/VOY era we see that misses are generally harmless to walls, ceilings or (in TNG "Conspiracy") even to gaudy paintings. Which is in excellent harmony with the ST6 scene where the phaser vaporizes a kettle but not its contents: propagation from one type of material to another apparently seldom happens.
- So if Mudd had come along, where would he have sat in the cute little Raiders?
He wouldn't have wanted to know...
- I know it's hardly the first time we've seen this, but the Discovery transporter has no problem re-integrating people in standing position after beaming them out while sitting.
Indeed, it would be difficult to find a transporter that wouldn't have demonstrated this one. Kirk's already "erected" Captain Christopher, now didn't it?
- I'm guessing it was lost in editing, but it seemed clear that Stamets kicked everyone out of Engineering before becoming one with the drive.
What sort of staff does he normally have there, though? In the early experiments, Burnham ogled for reasons. But all the button-pushing or spore container insertion was done by Stamets himself, right? Perhaps there'd be nothing unusual in him shooing the crowd out?
Saru was surprised at seeing the telescope, which puts his role in its getting to Burnham in question.
Indeed. But this could go two ways:
1) He was the one who grabbed the thing from the dying ship, but never expected it to end up willed to Burnham.
2) He always knew Georgiou would give the thing to her adoptive daughter, but didn't realize anybody had saved it from the
Shenzhou.
- I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've seen anyone brush their teeth in Trek, tooth sharpening sequences aside. I'm guessing that whole vibrating toothbrush fad is here to stay.
...Shall we see LaForge's futuristic no-moving-parts shaving machine again, perhaps?
- Calling it. Literally, the mirror universe.
...Hey, with those 3D mirrors in their cabins, I'm pretty sure our heroes and sidekicks are already thoroughly familiar with Mirror Universes. I mean, I sure know what I'd play when off duty!
Timo Saloniemi
That's my head-canon now.