Billups: “My team replaced all the Cordry rocks in the ceiling panels on the bridge.”Ransom: “Ugh, hate those things. They always fall out and hit me on the head when we take damage.”Billups: “Well, their non-centrosymmetry disrupts the charge leptons in the isolinear pathways of the main deflector, which then causes-”
That would be bad enough for a Starfleet team, but being part of the incredibly secret and elite Section 31? And as their "alpha team"? It just doesn't make sense.
The woman who plays young Rachel Garrett does a good job
Why would Starfleet even send someone to supervise the team on their behalf?! That really does not go with how Section 31 had been shown to function. There should be nearly nobody that even knows Section 31 exists in the fist place, let alone some random junior science officer.
the effects are all very pretty
I thought the shapeshifter's visual effect was neat. Especially compared to the DS9 changeling effect.
I never understood the love for her Star Trek characters. It seems that people who hated Discovery at least complimented the Emperor Georgiou character as a high point. She is far from bad, but I just don't get it.
I think it is the opposite for something ready to be administered. Sure, a certain mass of the active ingredient is suspended in a specific volume of an inactive medium like saline. But when a physician is ready to administer it, it is much easier to portion out the desired volume of medicine than to weigh it out. As long as the mixture has an established ratio of active ingredient to inactive medium, measuring out the desired volume should be quick and effective.
It could be that the inaprovaline hypospray they use has a ratio of 1mg per 1cc, and that everyone knows that. Meaning that one could say either "20 mg" or "20 cc" and they would be asking for the exact same quantity of the active ingredient.
One year later and he’s casually jumping back to the 1960s just to kinda, y’know, see what was up?
The intro of that episode just casually mentioning that they voluntarily went back in time as if it was just some common routine was rather jarring to me. Until then, time travel occurring in Star Trek had always been some kind of unintentional anomaly.
I recognize most of those as things from early TOS episodes that were contradicted even in later TOS episodes. Is that "thousands of light years" thing also an example of that?
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