Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x09 - "Project Daedalus"

[Rhodan]

Again, I can understand they might want to go against the usual fix it up cliché, but it also felt bizzare that this background character was supposedly some ultimate supersoldier who could defeat the entire ship and this situation was truly heading to galactic extinction...

 

[Longinus]

The transporter plothole is real and it would have been easily avoidable. The facility was a former prison, so it would have been perfectly reasonable for there to be a field that disrupted transportation in the vicinity. Then the team would have just taken a shuttle there.

It's a minor thing really, but so would have been fixing it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Again, I can understand they might want to go against the usual fix it up cliché, but it also felt bizzare that this background character was supposedly some ultimate supersoldier who could defeat the entire ship and this situation was truly heading to galactic extinction...

The background character wasn't the "ultimate super soldier". The AI that took her over made her into that.

 

[Rhodan]

The background character wasn't the "ultimate super soldier". The AI that took her over made her into that.

I will soon rewatch the episode.

 

[Longinus]

Also, I really don't buy 'Airiam would destroy or takeover the ship' as an excuse for not beaming her over. Jettisoning her when she was a direct and immediate threat is quite a different thing than killing her due abstract and unreasonable fear that she could overpower a full ship. I must assume that there was some unmentioned technical reason why they couldn't do it. Though it is kinda stupidly obvious plot hole considering that the sort of rescue that reasonably could have been attempted here was done in this very same show earlier.

 

[Alan Roi]

Again, I can understand they might want to go against the usual fix it up cliché, but it also felt bizzare that this background character was supposedly some ultimate supersoldier who could defeat the entire ship and this situation was truly heading to galactic extinction...

Since when does anyone have to be 'the ultimate supersoldier' to defeat an entire ship? Again, hippies, Harry Mudd, etc.

 

[Alan Roi]

Also, I really don't buy 'Airiam would destroy or takeover the ship' as an excuse for not beaming her over. Jettisoning her when she was a direct and immediate threat is quite a different thing than killing her due abstract and unreasonable fear that she could overpower a full ship. I must assume that there was some unmentioned technical reason why they couldn't do it. Though it is kinda stupidly obvious plot hole considering that the sort of rescue that reasonably could have been attempted here was done in this very same show earlier.

There are probably dozens of ways a possessed Airiam could have destroyed the ship before they could stop her (see: Harry Mudd), and I'm sure that if they still had his time loop device they could have tried out each one until they managed to stop her from destroying the ship, but based on Pike's response to her statement, that particular device is't on board. "I didn't like it" isn't a synonym for "its a plot hole".

 

[Longinus]

There are probably dozens of ways a possessed Airiam could have destroyed the ship before they could stop her (see: Harry Mudd), and I'm sure that if they still had his time loop device they could have tried out each one until they managed to stop her from destroying the ship, but based on Pike's response to her statement it wasn't on board. "I didn't like it" isn't a synonym for "its a plot hole".

Discovery is (anachronistically) capable of site to site transport. They could have transported her into a brig filled with sleeping gass. Or even if they for some reason had to do it in old fashioned way, a full squad of redshirts with phaser rifles on stun waiting her materialisation should have been pretty effective. If they decided to kill her due some bizarre one in million chance that she could avoid capture then they're just callous murderers. And that pretty much also kills the drama of her death.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Needs of the plot.

 

[Alan Roi]

Discovery is (anachronistically) capable of site to site transport. They could have transported her into a brig filled with sleeping gass. Or even if they for some reason had to do it in old fashioned way, a full squad of redshirts with phaser rifles on stun waiting her materialisation should have been pretty effective. If they decided to kill her due some bizarre one in million chance that she could avoid capture then they're just callous murderers. And that pretty much also kills the drama of her death.

I can certainly recall all the times that gas and phasers set on stun stopped duotronic computer systems from activating destruct sequences via wireless transmission. If only she hadn't been a cyborg...

 

[BillJ]

"I didn't like it" isn't a synonym for "its a plot hole".

I did like it, and it is still a plot hole.

 

[GNDN18]

Needs of the plot.

…outweigh…

 

[Gilora]

I can certainly recall all the times that gas and phasers set on stun stopped duotronic computer systems from activating destruct sequences via wireless transmission. If only she hadn't been a cyborg...

And all set up 15 seconds!

 

[Delta Vega]

Airiam said (paraphrased, probably), "I will open this door and kill you. Then I will complete my mission, and destroy Discovery."

They believed her, and she was seconds away from either resuming or finishing the download.

She stated that Control was overwriting her motor functions so she couldn't control her actions. If they'd beamed her to the brig or sickbay or wherever, as soon as she was able she would resume the mission to download and transmit the sphere data. There was no way to win (and Jim Kirk was apparently unavailable ).

That's how I interpreted the situation, anyway.

Jim Kirk would have knocked her out then confused her with duplicitous statements when she had came to, until her head exploded/systems shut down........delete as applicable.

 

[Reyman]

Jim Kirk would have knocked her out then confused her with duplicitous statements when she had came to, until her head exploded/systems shut down........delete as applicable.

Or made her fall madly in love with him.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Or made her fall madly in love with him.

Both.

 

[Reyman]

Both.

Made love to her until her head exploded?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Made love to her until her head exploded?

Yes.

 

[fireproof78]

Transporters can solve lots of problems...this just was another one added to the list of times it was forgotten.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Comes standard with the NX model, just like the cup holders.

and the AM/FM radio on the console

Meanwhile some lovely photos of Hanna Cheesman