Lorca is a coward and murderer, how come he's a Starfleet Captain still??
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Plus will the first season end with him vanquished and Burnham in the captain's chair?
I bet one's from an agonizer. Lorca died on the Buran. This one came from the Mirror universe ... which is why he sleeps with a phaser under his pillow.
I wouldn't be surprised if Lorca's history reads that he was captured by Klingons, horrifically tortured, and then his ship rescued him only for them to get captured themselves--to which he detonates the ship lest they suffer as he had. Maybe while he's on a shuttlecraft or something.
Assault implys intent like his action where deliberate and he delibratly wanted to hurt her.
Fact he is has PTSD. As he was asleep he was likley unaware of what he was doing and he response automatic.
Completly diffrent to someone who delibratly beats a spouse or who has violent bursts of anger.
Now that doesnt mean however he doesnt need help. Only that I would not class him as a bad person for something he likely doesnt have control over. But yes he needs pychcatiric help.
And I saw this who has a relative who fought in WW2 with PTSD. Attacking people in his sleep because of nightmares was a common event my great aunt had to deal with.
My wife suffers from PTSD as well and I have to deal with it.
Yelling at her about it is unthinkable.
That's because you freebase. But we won't judge. Not in this forum.
Share. 
As a psychologist who boarded Discovery worried about Lorca she probably would've been best to stay in that role and her role as Admiral. Yes, she said she was his friend and they obviously had a past. Yes, she did the right thing getting out of there after he pulled the phaser on her but.. therein lies the problem. If he had pulled a gun on someone trying to wake him up for breakfast or any other reason, say she just went in there to talk to him.. she perhaps could've stepped up and had him evaluated, even relieved of command. However she compromised herself in the situation she was in. If she didn't think he was safe to be in charge of the most advanced ship in the fleet then why leave him until another day? Also he needs - help. Just on a personal level.
She actually seems quite decent and it's good to see a female admiral to be honest. Her professional reading and intuition was right but was clouded by having a relationship with him. Janeway was correct all those years ag... I mean to come.
Wait till the finale when Kirk shows up as the new XO.Lorca is the kind of guy that Kirk spent too much of his career straightening the fuck out.
Good arms too. He's seriously fit. (Sorry for destroying all your well-written observations to two words, lol)
But Lorca doesn't know that he's sending her off to capture, right? He knows it's a dangerous situation, and he knows he wants her anywhere but back at Starfleet, but unless I'm missing something big he doesn't know it is a trap, any more than the Vulcans did not realize it was a trap.
Shhh, this is the "Lorca doesn't get the benefit of the doubt" thread. He knew exactly what was going to happen to her, because he's, I don't know, a psychic. And evil. Evil psychic.
