[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by photon

Good episode I thought, more character focused is good.

Could see the ending coming a mile away, I wonder what they're setting up for the captain down the road. Are they setting up Burnham having to make the same choice as before?

There's only 3 episodes left before the break (the rest start in January), so they'll build towards a mini-cliffhanger.

Lol at the preview for next week, it could be titled "Hey Look, we're Star Trek, no really!"

I agree, this one was an improved episode because they uncluttered it, this show is still struggling to find its footing in terms of what it wants to be though.

Some thoughts

Spoiler!

This episode was really about family type connections. The Captain and Admiral Cromwell, The Captain and Tyler, Sarek and Michael, Michael and Tilley. But in the end the guy feeling is that all of these ties or links are incredibly broken.

Michael mentoring Tilly to be a Captain by following a script before realizing that it was bad advice. Sarek bascally deciding that Spock should go to the Vulcan expeditionary Force instead of Michael and lying about it. Cromwell showing up to basically do an evaluation of the Captain and realizing that he might be mentally unbalanced and having him sleep with her to change her mind, and Tyler having a dead mother and father seems to be a big coincidence.

I think the biggest problem is that the writers are making a huge assumption that we understand these characters so they're throwing them into story lines without us knowing the characters and its not helping us in getting to know them.

Stamets personality has completely flipped after becoming the navigational computers, and then in an interesting link at the end of the episode the Captain stares at his reflection in the window before the Camera pans down to a phaser in his pants (Or was he just happy to see Cromwell).

So I have this assumption that the Captain knew that the Klingon's were throwing a trap, so when he says to the Admiral "May fortune favor the bold", it comes out as incredibly threatening. And then when instead of running to her rescue he tells Saru to call Star Fleet because its not worth risking the Discovery you have to wonder if the Captain is hoping the Klingons kill Cromwell for him.

Now the prevalent theory and maybe the heavy handed attempted to make us believe this is the mirror universe, which I'm convinced its not, I'm beginning to believe that the spores are having an adverse effect on the crew. Lets be honest, the one thing that's kind of stood out from the start is that this ship's crew have a higher jerk reading then normal. Maybe the spores are sentient and evil.

Are we going to be seeing Michael throwing another Coup, or does she view Lorca as a father figure that she will not betray.

I'm intrigued by the idea of Vulcan logical insurgents, remember in Enterprise the Syranites (sp?) were insurgents and reformers who wanted to follow the path of logic and tolerance, but in this case logic says intolerance of humans. I also found the line "In times of crisis, ignorance can be beneficial," interesting because its opposite of what the Vulcan's that we know would say.