What is wrong with Detmar?

[Nerys Myk]

Let's see

• Was injured and lost her Captain at the Battle at the Binary Stars
• Went through a war
• Had to go renegade to save the universe
• Lost a good friend to Control
• Jumped to the future leaving behind everything she knew
• Was injured on arriving in the future
• Has a high stress job

It would be amazing if nothing was wrong with Detmer.

 

[The Wormhole]

It would be amazing if nothing was wrong with Detmer.

If anything, it's kind of amazing Detmer's the only one on the ship going through PTSD.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If anything, it's kind of amazing Detmer's the only one on the ship going through PTSD.

I sure she isn't, she's just the one who's more obvious about it.

 

[Lord Garth]

Boring answer: Detmer has PTSD (for all the reasons given above). She has it worse than the others because she had head trauma before, during the Battle at the Binary Stars.

If there was more, Vance would've found out about it while they were debriefing and examining the crew. It's that simple.

 

[Mage]

As said, this is classic PTSD. And it would be very nice for Star Trek to really dive into that.

If they're planning on making it something physical in coming episodes, I'd be surprised. Both 23rd and 32nd century medical equipment has thorougly looked her over, they would have found something by now.

 

[DEWLine]

I'm inclined towards PTSD as a long-term arc for Detmer as well. She's got a good set of supports around her to help with coping/recovery as needed.

 

[Timo]

The thing is, Starfleet ought to have a pill for that.

That is, Starfleet must have a pill for that from the 2260s on. Nobody gets stressed out with trivialities such as losing family or friends or limbs or wars or twenty years of one's life any longer. Heck, some face the horrors for fifteen years straight (even if many settle for seven, and some for just four). So why is Detmer so fragile? Isn't she popping hers?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[fireproof78]

Thats horrifying to me...but potentially accurate given people's abilities to handle bad things in very quick fashion.

Pop some PCP and good to go.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The thing is, Starfleet ought to have a pill for that.

That is, Starfleet must have a pill for that from the 2260s on. Nobody gets stressed out with trivialities such as losing family or friends or limbs or wars or twenty years of one's life any longer. Heck, some face the horrors for fifteen years straight (even if many settle for seven, and some for just four). So why is Detmer so fragile? Isn't she popping hers?

Timo Saloniemi

Come on, I know you've watched Star Trek. People get stressed. They mope. They get mad. They act out. The cause trouble for the ship. It's a thing.

 

[The Wormhole]

The thing is, Starfleet ought to have a pill for that.

That is, Starfleet must have a pill for that from the 2260s on. Nobody gets stressed out with trivialities such as losing family or friends or limbs or wars or twenty years of one's life any longer. Heck, some face the horrors for fifteen years straight (even if many settle for seven, and some for just four). So why is Detmer so fragile? Isn't she popping hers?

Timo Saloniemi

Sounds like you're thinking of Doctor Who

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[Dryson]

The crash jarred something loose in her.

 

[Search4]

I believe the quote is “crazy shit happens every week”. Heck when we first meet Chris Pike he’s about to resign.

They must have a pill!!

 

[Sci]

The thing is, Starfleet ought to have a pill for that.

That is, Starfleet must have a pill for that from the 2260s on. Nobody gets stressed out with trivialities such as losing family or friends or limbs or wars or twenty years of one's life any longer. Heck, some face the horrors for fifteen years straight (even if many settle for seven, and some for just four). So why is Detmer so fragile? Isn't she popping hers?

Timo Saloniemi

Shockingly, I don't think Star Trek: Discovery has any obligation to invent a magic pill to explain why previous Star Trek shows featured emotionally dishonest writing.

 

[fireproof78]

Shockingly, I don't think Star Trek: Discovery has any obligation to invent a magic pill to explain why previous Star Trek shows featured emotionally dishonest writing.

Indeed. I struggle so much with much of TOS and onward because it treated horrible things as routine and to be shrugged off.

More painful is the fact that Detmar is being treated as acting oddly as though she has no reason to do so. That's not how trauma works and unless they are reprocessing her brain off screen (possible, I suppose) then she has work she needs to do and no one else.

 

[DEWLine]

Culber recognizes that Detmer does have cause.

 

[fireproof78]

Culber recognizes that Detmer does have cause.

She does have cause. Culber is doing his job quite well.