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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x14 - "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"

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Not only that, they were fully committed to going to the future when he was still alive and well and freely roaming on the ship!
Well, it also makes me wonder this now; let's say Discovery successfully got away from Leland while he was still alive. Now what? Now Starfleet has to deal with this all on their own?
 
At that point, practically all the crew was still/again on board.
Going to the future let’s them live.
Blowing up the ship kills them all.

I‘d prefer option 1 as a Discovery crewmember.

At that point, Control was dead, and all of the bad guy's ships were disabled or destroyed. They have literally all day at that point, no longer a rush at all. Take your time, evacuate, take anything you like, have a goodbye party if you like. All the time in the world.

That was my point about pacing, they needed to show them going into the wormhole BEFORE Control was totally defeated, as that gives them the thing to escape. No longer escaping once the bad guy is dead. It would be like Spock walking into the reactor in TWOK after the Genesis device had been safely disarmed. Kinda pointless sacrifice...
 
At that point, Control was dead, and all of the bad guy's ships were disabled or destroyed. They have literally all day at that point, no longer a rush at all. Take your time, evacuate, take anything you like, have a goodbye party if you like. All the time in the world.

That was my point about pacing, they needed to show them going into the wormhole BEFORE Control was totally defeated, as that gives them the thing to escape. No longer escaping once the bad guy is dead. It would be like Spock walking into the reactor in TWOK after the Genesis device had been safely disarmed. Kinda pointless sacrifice...
it's tv - it needed to be solved this season
 
The situation is quite different if your objective is to regain the control of preferably intact ship/station than merely destroy the whole thing.

And none of this gives it magic powers. It cannot do things the ship normally couldn't.

But the consciousness is the one angle via which they could have made this to work. It would have made a great trekkian episode if they had realised that the data has merged with the Discovery and it is now a sentient being. In the end it wouldn't have been about them not being to able to destroy the ship, but not wanting to kill a living being. This I would have bought.
At that point, Control was dead, and all of the bad guy's ships were disabled or destroyed. They have literally all day at that point, no longer a rush at all. Take your time, evacuate, take anything you like, have a goodbye party if you like. All the time in the world.

That was my point about pacing, they needed to show them going into the wormhole BEFORE Control was totally defeated, as that gives them the thing to escape. No longer escaping once the bad guy is dead. It would be like Spock walking into the reactor in TWOK after the Genesis device had been safely disarmed. Kinda pointless sacrifice...

They do not know how long they have before Control might recover or have itself a backup plan? As far as they know Control is just temporarily disabled (They are going to 100% trust MU Georgiou's word for it? really?). You want them to change their plan completely on the assumption that they have won, when its entirely possible they have been tricked. Again, Pike and Saru aren't the guys who are going to change horses midstream.

And no, this is not Spock sacrificing himself after the genesis device is disabled, this is, the moment Reliant has had the shit kicked out of it and is going nowhere the Enterprise gets the hell out of there at whatever top speed it can muster and doesn't hang around until Khan activates the genesis device and then finds itself not able to get away because they didn't think he'd do it.
 
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