They really skirt the language issue in that hospital scene. I was wondering if someone would call the procedure a “Caesarian” before Claire just said “C-Section” and the doctor knew what she was talking about. So, I suppose a universal translator could account for that. But obviously having an alien say “Caesarian”…

About that. How does the teeth extraction tech know when a baby was yanked from the mother’s womb 2 weeks or a month before what its birth date would have been otherwise? If the technology is about extrapolating age from level of development then the best it could do is calculate a date of conception.

Yeah. I bet there has to be a subculture of people hiding babies and falsifying birth records to avoid bad months or achieve good ones.

Maybe because he’s always wearing different clothing? He’s not a crew member so he doesn’t wear a uniform. He’s on the ship’s civilian staff as one of the schoolteachers.

I think they missed an easy gag with the astrology talk, when they had to explain the concept of it to Isaac. They could have used an example of Earth’s astrology, and then one of the humans says “for example, I’m a such and such,” and then someone else says “that’s why you have problems with such and such.” A subtle…

I love the earnestness of the episode and the whole cheery tone of the build-up to the first contact put a smile on my face. The crew’s enthusiasm was really infectious.

Classic TOS retcon. Remember in the 2nd pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before, he tells Kirk he had an “ancestor” who was human. Heck of a way to describe your mother!

Right. They haven’t established anything that would negate the possibility of Sybok having already been there and left, they just haven’t mentioned him at all. If I recall Spock mentions that Sybok’s mother died and that the two were “raised as brothers.”

So, her being cold didn’t register as an alien tell to me since I figured she was just being coy with a bit of cuddle foreplay.

Also, both characters’ human last names were Tyler.

If they went to the trouble of recasting some of the characters from “The Cage,” with Number One due to show up later, then why not just do the adventures of Pike’s Enterprise as if “The Cage” had been the show that was picked up by the network? After the dose of energy Pike injected into the show I’d rather see a…

All the flashbacks to young Spock and the discussion of his and Michael’s childhood left me asking, “what about Sybok?” (and don’t @ me with “that movie sucked so don’t consider it canon”)

I thought it needed to be higher to compensate for the years of atrophy she’s already experienced in order to get her back to her normal levels.

Yeah it’s probably something like their gravity shields providing a uniform gravity for the whole ship in a bubble and not isolated deck plating. But if viewers can have questions about how it’s supposed to work (namely by comparing this show to Star Trek until the Orville gives us an excuse not to) the writers should…

Yeah, the fact that they depicted a high-gravity planet as basically an Earth-like civilization is going to cause a lot of grief for this episode from science nerds. Life would evolve so differently on this planet it would be unrecognizable, if it could develop at all.

No one’s suggesting she go to Earth. “Earth-normal” just means the equivalent gravity to Earth as simulated on a Union ship.

The highlight was the two doctors. You could throw a stick at any show and hit a couple of actors who have guested on Star Trek. (Heck, three of them are on the main cast of this show).

It’s Trek-style sci-fi. “tech the tech to the tech to compensate. Blah blah blah”

She wasn’t rendered super-weak in comparison with Earth gravity. She was still super-strong, just not as strong as she used to be. In terms of her home gravity she went from normal to slightly atrophied, and just needed the chair to help recover. That didn’t seem like too much of a stretch to me.

Given how the ship has to use artificial gravity, this seems like a weird problem to come up. Finn compares Alara’s situation in Earth-normal gravity to being like astronauts in microgravity, which makes sense. But if the ship’s artificial gravity works like the gravity plating depicted on Star Trek then it would be…