[CaptainCrunch]

Wow the reviews of this episode are all over the map, from outright white faced nerd rage to, I so love this show, and it reminds me of kittens.

So I have some more thoughts on the plotting and writing of this episode

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Burnham is pretty much a disaster of illogical when it comes to her planning. She's in a mirror universe run by a evil callous merciless version of her former mentor, and she is going to give her the plans to a spore drive that can not only allow ships to immediately travel from point A to B, but allow them to skip between universes. In addition, she instructs the Discovery to meet the Super Duper mobile killing machine known as the Imperial Palace.

The logic of the discussion with the Empress was actually hilariously bad to me.

Empress von killing machine "Was the Georgeou in your universe an honorable woman?"

Michael - "Yes"

EVKM - "well, I should be too, because we're exactly the same as our mirror counterparts, so trust me, brink your ship here and give me the ultimate weapons of plans"

Me - "Um huh, the Georgeou in this universe is a megalomaniac, psychopath, with no empathy or mercy, oh and who likes to eat aliens that can hold a conversations, while the Georgeou in the other universe was a nice incompetent mentor."

So from now to the end of the season, we're going to call this the ever worsening plan of Michael Burnham.

I think its pretty clear that this is Lorca's final year in the show, at least as the Captain of the Discovery.

Well unless they open a broom closet on the Discovery and find Prime Universe Lorca tied up with a ball gag in his mouth.

Some people liked this show because the primary character isn't the captain of the ship, but i think its likely that Michael ends up as the Captain of the Discovery as Saru won''t be given the job because um he has fear ganglia which while tasty make him probably too cowardly to be a Captain.

There are just a lot of wasted people in this show. That's what makes this show different for better or for worse.

We have all of these crew members on the show, but the focus is on a small few. We still have the scared helmsman who's only real contribution to the show is to look angry and have her mirror self beam people into space.

The other issue to this show is that its too much plot, addicted to twists and no character.

Its tough to care about these characters, because they all come across as a bit wooden, except for Saru who could probably be served on a slab of wood with some soy sauce.

The problem with an over reliance on twists and surprises is that it starts out great with a lot of

"Holy Shyte", "I never saw that coming", "I can't believe that Vader is Luke's father"

but eventually due to burn out it goes to

"hmm", "that twist wasn't that good" and "Reaganomics"

Discovery has had multiple twists so far this season, and thist season is only 15 episodes long.

We had the Voq/tyler twist which was pretty poor, everyone could see it coming, and it actually destroyed the character and made him look like the biggest dummy every

We had the Lorca twist which a lot of people saw coming because of how Lorca commanded, threw his girlfriend basically out the airlock, and then had a Lorca custom jump that lead him to the mirror universe. But whether this twist is successful is dependent on what happens in the next couple of episodes.

Then we have the Georgieou is the Emperor twist, which is just a lets do the Tilly Twist but make it huuuuggggeeeee. But I think that when this ship skipped to the mirror universe that everyone saw this coming.

I would expect that Burnham is going to betray Lorca, save the Emperor and leave the mirror universe and become the Captain of the Discovery, after some admiral says, "Yeah you did kill your captain, but she's alive in another universe and she doesn't want to lay charges so your free to go"

I would hope that the way this show was written this year was a gamble to gain an audience with a short attention span, and that the show settles down a bit for next year, and doesn't need to rely on twists in every second episode

Additional about the time line

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One think that they're doing surprisingly well is integrating this Star Trek into the Prime Timeline which is shocking with the way that the show started off.

With the rebels pretty much eliminated, or about to be eliminated it allows for the empire to rise to the place it was in TOS, but with less goatees

With the spore's sick, and likely to die, it allows the elimination of spore technology as a bad technology.

With the more radical religious sect and leader of the Klingons being dead and no longer a threat, it makes sense that the war between human's and Klingons will end.