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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x03 - "Choose to Live"

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I want Gray and Adira to break up. Gray needs to find himself in his new existence. Once the novelty of the new body starts to fade, I can imagine him undergoing an identity crisis. He's (presumably) the memories from Tal that it absorbed from the original (real?) Gray during their brief joining, and has no memories from Tal or the other hosts, including Adira. I imagine he doesn't remember how to play the cello, for instance. Who is he? And should he really be attached to someone he entirely depended on for existence for months? Maybe they can get back together some day, but I think they really need time apart.
 
5 or 6 worst one in awhile..
Few nice bits but mostly meh.
No Nvar pres and Saru flirting? Darn..

As for the moon .. Could have had just low warp.. Even at lightspeed.. The universe is huge. Think Aliens or ECS taking months between systems.
 
Aproxamaltry 1.5.

At beginning of season one, she is fresh out of the academy.
Season one and two go by about less than a year.
Season three goes by about a month.
Season four starts six months after season three.

And she has no combat skills. Tactical officer Tilly is comically ridiculous.
It's highly likely the writers and directors forgot that in their rush to push Tilly into screen-time.
 
Prediction for the Season: The Qiwot Milot are going to be a problem as Ni'Var rejoins the Federation. Or, at some point, T'Rina wants to do things in a way that Rillak isn't going to approve of and that's going to create some wedge. I expect Ni'Var to actually rejoin the Federation, but there's going to be a monkey wrench or a speed bump along the way.

A note about Culber: This is where it's the most obvious this is a series that Michelle Paradise inherited. I think if it was her series from the beginning, but with the same characters, she would've just had Pollard as the Doctor, and would've made Culber the Counselor; full-time as opposed to pulling double-duty. That just seems to be the difference between what the writers thought of versus how it's starting to play out in progress.
 
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Next weeks episode also seems to have plots not directly related to the anomaly.

The preview scene at the end of this week's Ready Room showed David Cronenberg's character with Adira and Tilly, they're apparently going to go on a mission with some cadets to help teach leadership and interpersonal skills.
 
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If we're honest, they were able to, then not able to, etc, etc. Another "speed of plot" thing (and no, I don't remember specific episodes, but I am certain it varied)
But that's been the SOP since TOS as well (IE - There were a few episodes where they beamed to planet/ship with shields up); but it's something that continued with TNG (another example is TNG S4 - "The Wounded - Yes O'Brien DOES been thorough the shield the the U.S. S. Phoenix, but only because of an engineering 'glitch' he knows about on that particular ship..)
 
It's directly listed in the technical bible, and episodes of TNG, DS9, and VOY that they can.

Hell, it was done in TNG: Relics, and the very first episode of Voyager.

Sorry, but this just isn't the case. TNG Tech Manual page 139 "The annular confinement beam that serves as the transmission medium for the transporter beam requires such a wide EM and subspace bandwidth that it is normally impossible to transport through shields."
Even when O'Brien does it in The Wounded, it's only because he found a "window" when the shield was refreshing. He could exploit it due to his specific familiarity with Federation tech.
--Of course the real world answer is that transporting through shields is plot dependent, but generally, it is established that when shields are up, transporters cannot be used.
 
The interiors didn’t really bother me since they have always been pretty shitty since the start. I’m used to them now.
 
I want Gray and Adira to break up. Gray needs to find himself in his new existence. Once the novelty of the new body starts to fade, I can imagine him undergoing an identity crisis. He's (presumably) the memories from Tal that it absorbed from the original (real?) Gray during their brief joining, and has no memories from Tal or the other hosts, including Adira. I imagine he doesn't remember how to play the cello, for instance. Who is he? And should he really be attached to someone he entirely depended on for existence for months? Maybe they can get back together some day, but I think they really need time apart.
He wants to be a guardian so I don't see how that gels with Adira wanting to be a Starfleet officer. There may be trouble ahead
 
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