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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x04 - "An Obol for Charon"

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There is a Star Trek trope that I call the "Rule of Threes". Often times when a Star Trek character lists three things, this list goes as follows:
1. An example from our relatively distant history.
2. An example from more contemporary times.
3. An example that does not yet exist and is ostensibly from our future.

Example:
1. Genghis Khan
2. Abe Lincoln
3. Colonel Green
Newton, Einstein, Surak..
 
"I once shot a Klingon in my pajamas. What he was doing smuggling microscopic data in his bloodstream I have no idea."
 
Speaking of Southern men who like to hang out with and romance teenage girls, I wonder if Judge Roy Moore's descendants actually made it to the 23rd century?

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Some will claim Roy Moore's interest in underaged girls harmed his candidacy and lost his party a Senate seat to the relatively longshot candidate Doug Jones. But I prefer to be positive and think that a great number of Alabamans were motivated in no small manner by the extraordinary acting job Mr Jones has done as Saru on Star Trek Discovery. It is a credit to his race, as a Kelpian, that he has been able to be both an actor and a legislator in such trying times.

Doug Jones 2020 and Season Three!
 
Really?! I would never have thought that those could be anything but windows to the outside. What makes you think they are merely simulating light? Aren't they styled exactly like the windows elsewhere on the ship?

Well, I'd say because in 2x03 we saw Michael adjusting their brightness. I assume they're windows but they have some kind of natural light simulation going. Also, it would be weird if those windows were bright white two weeks in a row in two different parts of space when all other windows have shown stars and such outside. And sickbay also seems to have windows that aren't actually windows...
 
Well Number One certainly likes her Burger and Fries but wasn't that a replicator she ordered it from?

Didn't think they had those yet.


Otherwise that's the fastest food I have ever seen.
 
In my experience, continuity wonks are big fans of tortuous rationalization..

A. Explanation for the TOS Pike episode where all of the human crew were light, bright and definitely white
Number 1 - "The doctor says the crew are suffering from temporary albinism, he is working on a cure before his retirement"
Pike - " Glad to hear it, Uhura looks way better with brown skin"

B. Explanation for the TOS years when the Enterprise had only one alien crew member
McCoy " I heard the Species Equality commission are threatening to take Starfleet to court for discrimination"
Kirk - "That's ok Bones, I'm keeping that Vulcan officer Pike recommended".
McCoy - "Ok but only take one, can't stand those green blooded bastards, they never gave humans a chance, holding us back for 100 years. Great uncle Jonathan never forgave em...."
Kirk - "Let it go Bones, you're sounding like one of those crazy Terra Primers.."
 
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Well Number One certainly likes her Burger and Fries but wasn't that a replicator she ordered it from?

Didn't think they had those yet.

Remember "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and the chicken soup that instantly appears from a food slot in the transporter room? Or the time Kirk tried to order a chicken sandwich in "The Trouble with Tribbles"?

They had automatic food slots on TOS. How exactly they worked was never explained.
 
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