I think that was the one of the intents of this mini episode, to do the origin of fast multiplying tribbles.
New Short Trek: The Trouble With Edward
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Looking at the post-episode quotes of Mr. Benjamin from Trek Today...
"Edward the Sociopath." Someone at Training and Doctrine Command screwed up for him to get in there in the first place. And the suggestion one of you made about him being bounced from ship to starbase to ship to outpost until finally he got to the Cabot...? If the officers convening that board of inquiry that Lucero was facing at the end did any degree of homework on Lt. Larkin, the evidence for Capt. Lucero's defence is going to come out PDQ.
I hope.
"Edward the Sociopath." Someone at Training and Doctrine Command screwed up for him to get in there in the first place. And the suggestion one of you made about him being bounced from ship to starbase to ship to outpost until finally he got to the Cabot...? If the officers convening that board of inquiry that Lucero was facing at the end did any degree of homework on Lt. Larkin, the evidence for Capt. Lucero's defence is going to come out PDQ.
I hope.
A court martial is pretty much the norm when a ship is lost, no? Doesn't mean the captain is guilty of anything, just SOP.
Captain Koloth managed.
Remember, at the end of "The Trouble with Tribbles", Scotty managed to beam a load of Tribbles to Koloth's ship. We don't know exactly how Koloth got out of this, but it probably didn't go well, given the mutual hatred between Klingons and Tribbles.
The point is, by the next time we see Koloth - DS9's "Blood Oath" - he has still managed to retain his honor, and is in fact a renowned Dahar Master. So if Klingons can handle a Tribble infestation, then surely Starfleet can as well.
I totally LOLed out loud at that. Pretty much perfect comedic delivery, there.
The whole of DISCO works better without trying to tie the trivia and minutia into TOS. This is no exception.
This and Q&A both entertained me. The Mudd short from last season was also good.
Sorry for the double-post. @Commander Richard will be on it when Picard Season 1 and Discovery Season 3 start up again! And hopefully for the rest of the shorts!
According to reliable sources Burnham's mutiny trial was next on the docket so as soon as tribble lady left they had to hurry and turn of the lights in the room and put on their,act sinister, game faces before the guards would bring her in. JasonI imagine that tribunal being the fans putting Discovery and Kurtzman on trial for continuity errors and she just saying he was an idiot.
To lose your ship to Tribbles? That’s a hard thing to come back from. Maybe captain of a garbage scowl.
That trial was bizarre. Made Starfleet look very sinister.
Yes, they should have played "Where my Heart will take me" on the PA, decorated the courtroom with balloons and handed the accused her choice of hors d'oeuvres before sentencing.
The scene was lit darkly to set a tone. It was to show it from her point of view. Her life was essentially ending, or at least she probably thought so. Does everything really have to be literal? On a sci fi show?
I'm not so sure her ship was "lost". Why not just blow the airlocks? Pretty sure a day of cold vacuum woule kill everything inside. Then just clean-up.
Also I'm sure the idea of replicating tribbles came up in an early TNG fanfic I once read. It ended badly then, too.
Also I'm sure the idea of replicating tribbles came up in an early TNG fanfic I once read. It ended badly then, too.
I imagine that tribunal being the fans putting Discovery and Kurtzman on trial for continuity errors and she just saying he was an idiot.
To lose your ship to Tribbles? That’s a hard thing to come back from. Maybe captain of a garbage scowl.
"Captain Lucero, you are hereby transferred to the Sanitation Patrol. Report to Otto Palindrome at Space Station Perma One. The Galaxy ad Infinitum!"
Apparently, it ended up on the planet and then destroyed it.
That...is an epic fuck up.
Yep. Probably reused from the Enterprise sets in Discovery season two. We see it in the briefing room scenes.
This was exactly what I needed. It proves that modern Trek can have a sense of humor, which anyone actually watching Discovery knows, but is a complaint I still see leveled against Trek.
I think Lucero's biggest mistake was re-assigning Larkin to another department. It's a pet peeve my daughter, a forensic science major, makes about portrayal of scientists, namely they are interchangeable. There seems to be a belief that scientists are jack-of-all-trades. Find a show with a scientist-type and they're usually the one spouting an astrophysical theorem in one instance, serving as the show's medical doctor in the next, and then taking on the role of a marine biologist.
I just don't buy the, "We're all scientists" hand-wave of this. I would have preferred it if he were reassigned to another, similar department. Or given a supervisor to report to. I just can't tell if this was on the writers or a sign that Lucero was unfit for command.
While I'm on minor nitpicks, the vacuum seemed to be Time Lord technology. It did not seem capable of capturing all that many tribbles without needing to dispose of them somewhere.
Despite these minor things, it was a great episode, overall. Great performances, seriously funny bits, and everything the Short Trek format can offer. So much so, I was checking how much was left, which led to me watching all the way through and finding the commercial, which was just, *chef's kiss.*
I think Lucero's biggest mistake was re-assigning Larkin to another department. It's a pet peeve my daughter, a forensic science major, makes about portrayal of scientists, namely they are interchangeable. There seems to be a belief that scientists are jack-of-all-trades. Find a show with a scientist-type and they're usually the one spouting an astrophysical theorem in one instance, serving as the show's medical doctor in the next, and then taking on the role of a marine biologist.
I just don't buy the, "We're all scientists" hand-wave of this. I would have preferred it if he were reassigned to another, similar department. Or given a supervisor to report to. I just can't tell if this was on the writers or a sign that Lucero was unfit for command.
While I'm on minor nitpicks, the vacuum seemed to be Time Lord technology. It did not seem capable of capturing all that many tribbles without needing to dispose of them somewhere.
Despite these minor things, it was a great episode, overall. Great performances, seriously funny bits, and everything the Short Trek format can offer. So much so, I was checking how much was left, which led to me watching all the way through and finding the commercial, which was just, *chef's kiss.*
The inference is - they didn't have time. They got on the Shuttle because things were completely out of control and they could do nothing to abate it; and I think it's implied very soon after (like minutes) - the ships Hull had a structural failure, and somehow, some of the modified Tribbles survived to make planetfall, and it cost the Civilization on that planet their world.
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