When is the straight white male —for so long underepresented in entertainment— finally gonna get his chance to shine? Is the only position left open to him on the show (besides the previous comms officer if he was straight, and several crew members) to be the lowly captain of the ship, twice? Somewhere, off in the distance, the world's smallest violin plays a sorrowful song, but no one can hear it over all of the whining.
He wasn't an idiot, he was just arrogant and set in his ways, and therefore he became the "You must suffer for your hubris" character that always questions the protagonist in disaster movies and adventure shows and frequently gets killed ironically as a result (see: the boss in Dante's Peak for one example).
Stiles only learned his lesson because Spock saved him from dying. If the situation hadn't worked out that way and Stiles died, I would have preferred it less, but I wouldn't call it juvenile writing, I'd just say sometimes things don't work out. Jerks die in Trek all the time. It's nice when they become better people, but if every jerkass character had a big redemptive moment where they learn the error of their ways it would be a repetitive after school special. Sometimes jerks die. Sometimes good people die. That's just life.
What, you've never worked for incompetent bosses before?
Don't spout that nonsense.
I'm not sure what that means but it feels like a spoiler for the his Short trek which I haven't seen thus it seems this thread has now come full circle.
Jason
Yeah, they don't have to be assholes like the dude in this episode, they just have to deny the protagonist's conclusions, which we as the audience know are going to eventually be proven correct even if they might sound a bit crazy at the time. For another volcanic related movie, the MTA guy in Volcano who has the nerve to question that a volcano might be lurking beneath Los Angeles, so despite being a decent guy who helps save an entire subway car full of people, he must gruesomely melt to death in lava while getting the last person to safety as punishment for his earlier brief denial. Plus, he was totally the Zodiac Killer in Zodiac, so there was maybe some Karmic payback for that too.
Which is precisely why Burnham was written to tell Saru to use his eyes.
I got the feeling that Connolly was relying on the Autonav to help his manual steering (not just letting the pod fly by itself) and that was why it was doing such wide swings.
Makes a change from having the crew dominated by straight, white human males representing an inter species organisation.
