But we’ve also never really seen the details of how a ship transitions from one captain and crew to a new one. This is an opportunity to depict how Starfleet ensures continuity of command and crew cohesion when something happens to one of their captains.

I like seeing that there’s a system of mentoring and intership collaboration in place so that when there’s a sudden shakeup in the crew roster it’s not an unforeseen calamity but just another eventually they all trained for. Presumably this is happening all across the fleet, and it could well be that Kirk is doing this with several other ships as well as part of his command track.

It only seems strange because we know he’s destined to take Pike’s chair. He doesn’t know that. He’s just learning and absorbing all he can about how different crews function.

Seems to be like a Starfleet mentoring program we just haven’t seen in action before. It makes sense to me that they’d want their rising stars to get some exposure to other established captains and develop relationships with other crews beyond their own. I like it.

Apparently it’ll be available for free on Switch in a few months, and the public beta for PC opens soon. Looking forward to it. I’ve heard nothing but good things so far.

I see they’ve not done anything to rectify the horror show that is Rok-Tahk’s mouth.

Yeah, except for that damned pus-filled boil that is the Osu logo. It’s a pox that never goes away. I despise every person involved with putting it there.

You’re a cool dude, OP. I withdraw my griping. :)

I really would love for this community to implement tags of some kind. I honestly couldn’t care less about what characters are doing in the comics.

I can’t be the only one getting a little tired of clickbaity headlines like this exploiting the ambiguity.

Edit: Big props to OP for editing the title.

There have been three outright comedy episodes this season, out of ten.

It doesn’t work on mobile, does it? I tried to place a pixel using my phone and got nothing.

Joke’s on you, those are just the low level s31 interns, whose job it is to distract you from the actual operatives.

Not necessarily. They’ve already seriously retconned Pike having foreknowledge of his fate, and used that burden to expand his character immensely. They did a similar thing to Chapel by having Boimler accidentally spoil the fact that she and Spock don’t end up together, and that has been further built upon to allow her to grow as a character. There are enough big gaps in canon to play around a lot.

I think of it like a historical drama. For, say, a show set in the thirties, you know the next decade is going to be all kinds of hell for every single character, but they don’t know it, and the dramatic tension of that is something that can be used to write stories that you can’t do otherwise.

Shades of Guinan and the Nexus there.

Yep, there they are. It’s less noticable because everyone wears pants/leggings under them, unlike in TOS/TNG, where a skirt/skant meant bare legs. The effect is almost more like a long tunic or jacket.

Maybe Pike keeps the ship’s environmental settings a little colder than the others, so nobody wants to free the knees.

Oh heck, that’s right. I’m slipping. Must be time for another rewatch of TWoK.

Credit is definitely owed to Discovery for giving us this iteration of Pike, Una, and Spock. Flawed and uneven as that show is, they did hit this one out of the park.

Thanks, I hate it

Its brevity was what made it hilarious. I think a single second longer and it would have outstayed its welcome.

But I have to believe that there was material left on the cutting room floor for this episode, and I hope we get to see it some day.

On the other hand, she made a breakthrough in actually opening up to Kirk, and he didn’t reject her for it. If anything, him being unavailable for other reasons may be a relief to La’an, releasing her to focus on other things now that she knows that door is closed to her (at least for now).

I’m a huge sucker for altered opening credits. Enterprise still wins for the best one of these with its mirror universe episode.

The Klingon bit was the best part. Imagining them being forced to sing like that while having no context for that style of music is hilarious.