I totally get what you’re saying.

Time to bring back Ensign Daft Punk!

Also, this Control thing....was presumably helping them run the Klingon war. Which they were losing so badly they considered planetary genocide as the only way for the Federation to survive. Shouldn’t that be a serious “back to the drawing board” moment?

I don’t remember Burnham showing that much actual remorse. The show quite quickly started shaping her redemption, and didn’t really dwell on the fallout except show the rest of the Discovery crew keeping their distance at first.

I envy your optimism!

I’ll disagree with you on the Klingon war. Burnham beamed over with a clear mission, and a clear purpose: to capture T’Kuvma. It was explained that this was the way to defuse the situation, by deflating his status among the Klingons. It was also very clearly stated that were he to be killed, he’d become a martyr and…

Not to mention it shields Burnham from another hard choice- as with Saru’s ganglia, she just couldn’t do it and hey presto! she doesn’t have to.

Actually back in the Kelpia episode (please don’t make me look up the title) Saru beamed down to the planet through shields, so that’s no longer a problem, apparently.

Another bad, bad, godawfully bad script (apparently being a Logic Extremist does not disquialify you from Starfleet high command, it is morale-building to point out that someone was kept out of the war because they are “the best in Starfleet” in front of a crew that was not kept out of the war, security officers are…

“Ensign Tilly, I’m assigning you to help our guest familiarise himself with Discovery. This is the representative of the Centauri Republic, Mr.....erm...”-”Just call me Vir.”

Man, now I can’t help imagine Mollari loose on the Discovery.

I still think there’s an outside chance it’s Georghiou, after all those hints about how she knows more about Burnham than she thinks etc.

Nobody on Discovery’s writing team seems particularly in touch with logic and causality, so.....

Wow. Never thought about that. Yeah, for folks who hadn’t seen TOS this really threw a wrench in the gears. And as you say, it’s not like they didn’t recreate the planet for Discovery and couldn’t do modern re-shoots.

You’re articulating exactly my problems with Discovery!
As you say, this episode makes Spock’s actions in Menagerie seem less risky since he knows more about the Talosians. And it gives particular and definite history to his loyalty to Pike. Both these things lessen the impact of his actions in Menagerie. His…

Difference being Babylon 5 (a) really knew how to sell its over-the-top-dialogue and (b) had an actual plot and story to hang the dialogue on.

Actually I liked the throwback to “The Cage” at first. It seemed like a neat bit of chutzpah, the show boldly saying “yes, we look different to the original series, yes, we know our Spock doesn’t look like Nimoy, now let’s get on with it”. Unfortunately it turned out that was not the reason they did it, it was there…

What joy and cheer? She’s an embodiment of every nerd trope presented for our amusement, and so far hasn’t demonstrated a single spark of character development. There was the inlking of something moving a couple of episodes ago but that was snuffed out completely.

In one of his reviews of S1, Handlen wrote this:

Sadly true.