There's no point in expecting the writers to "get it right", because for one segment of the audience the hints will always be too blatant and for another too subtle.
But there's progress, certainly. From a sample of one, we learn nothing; from the current sample of two, we get a pattern. The signal appears just in time to draw USS Discovery specifically to observe and then negate a calamity about to befall on humans; it may also be that the Discovery herself creates the calamity by arriving (bumping the asteroid into the pulsar, disrupting the radioactive rings). And the ship can do squat until a signal appears (apparently, and logically, just blindly jumping to the approximate location where a signal first appeared back when all seven lit up at once would do no good, as the heroes could never hope to hit the exact spot, and in any case the Red Things aren't there most of the time), so all the investigating now is dependent on finding Spock.
Is the so far nameless episode 7 the next Red One? Quite probably. Will we get seven episodes for seven Red Things? At the rate we're going, perhaps, just barely. Will the season finale be Red? No doubt.
Are the Ba'ul a factor in this? Probably not. Is the sphere and its last will and testament? Probably not. Are the JahSepp? Probably not. The season is entitled to standalone plots in addition to the Red Story, as long as they somehow manage to slip in the obligatory reference to Faith vs. Whatever.
Timo Saloniemi
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