Impressions after 15 episodes in a weekend

[Tuskin38]

To what

Her captain and friend being killed infront of her?

but was she an enlisted officer at the time?

She was the first officer.

 

[BillJ]

I find it interesting that someone with such training - both by a military organization and having been raised on Vulcan - would be far more emotionally feeble as such.

I find it interesting that someone as smart as Sarek would give Burnham the information on "The Vulcan Hello". He had to know she was emotionally unstable where Klingons were concerned.

 

[jaime]

I find it interesting that someone as smart as Sarek would give Burnham the information on "The Vulcan Hello". He had to know she was emotionally unstable where Klingons were concerned.

This is Sarek. He’s really good at repressing emotions in others by ignoring them.

 

[fireproof78]

I find it interesting that someone as smart as Sarek would give Burnham the information on "The Vulcan Hello". He had to know she was emotionally unstable where Klingons were concerned.

Even insanely smart people have their blind spots. Sarek admits as much in Star Trek III.

 

[Ovation]

Even insanely smart people have their blind spots.

No we don’t.

 

[Noname Given]

To what and to what extreme? A kneejerk reaction or did she just stop giving a damn? I don't recall much of the episode, but was she an enlisted officer at the time? I find it interesting that someone with such training - both by a military organization and having been raised on Vulcan - would be far more emotionally feeble as such.

But they showed that type of irrational emotional response was something that plagued her from childhood (the Vulcan Education Room scene where as soon as the Computer starts asking her questions about Klingon Raids, and the Raid the killed her parents, she reacted in a similar emotional fashion.

When her surrogate mother figure Captain Philippa Georgiou, she wasn't thinking rationally. She saw the murderer commit the act, and in the heat of passion she pulled the trigger and killed him. That was a big part of her character conflict - she wanted to be / and thought she was as emotionless as any Vulcan; but the Vulcans around her could immediately see that wasn't the case and she was still at her core 100% Human, and prone to irrational Human emotional responses.