Initiating a warp core overload without the certainty that Booker can activate the spore drive to get their asses out of there.
I guess when there is no choice than it's all or nothing...lol.
We're pretty sure the new engine will work.... never tried it before though... oops.
shareNot balls but could be the effects of the oxygen deprivation they experienced earlier. This wheelchair guy says Booker can connect with the Spore drive? Why not, we got separated nacelles for some reason too.
shareI think it has more to do with the writers operating with nothing greater than a 10 year olds' mentality. There have been massive plot holes throughout the three seasons, but the last three episodes of season three were the most ridiculous.
shareYeap, I usually chalk it up as "fantastical and magical" feats of choices and decisions due to lazy writing or lack of creative thinking and ideas.
I'm already used to these far-fetched and extremely implausible scripted acts even when the genre is not "fantasy".
But hey, it is science fiction, so why not.
I call it the "wouldn't THIS be cool" school of writing by committee. Yes, putting stress on your plot and characters by having the ship boarded is "cool". But to do that, the writers need to justify how it can happen in some sensible way.
And how did you like Discovery spore jumping back to Starfleet HQ, while Booker's ship, which could not do that, arrives only minutes later? LOL
Sensors don't work in the Shuttle Bay because there is a fire?
Armed guards standing around waiting to be attacked and not doing much to fight back?
It just goes on and on. Sheesh.
It seems like the writers didn't think or care that the audiences would not question the logic or physics behind these scripted choices and decisions; hell, maybe some of them were unscripted and improvised in the spur of the moment.
shareThey avoided the obvious conclusion that there was a mole inside Starfleet, providing them with the whereabouts of HQ, the strength of the shields, the existence of the spore drive, and the locations of all important areas on Discovery so they could beam into all the right spots simultaneously. Plus the fact that they needed Stamets to navigate. No way Osyraa could've known so much going in unless someone was feeding her intel. It couldn't have been the guy they drove out into the cold earlier in the season. He never had access to most of that information.
I found the source of the burn to be anti-climatic and it didn't make a lot of sense. My assumption most of the season was that it was an intentional attack, by someone who benefited from the post-burn order. Maybe the Emerald Chain. Maybe a much more formidable enemy, who would appear in the season finale and be the main challenge of Season 4 (perhaps beyond). Instead it was just a random Kelpien who somehow developed a connection with dilithium by having grown up around a lot of it. Yeah. Sloppy writing and questionable science, even compared to the usual handwavium of Star Trek physics.
So far I'd say Discovery has more good points than bad, or I wouldn't still be watching it, but I wish someone had thrown out the last three episodes and rewritten the scripts.
I haven't seen this show yet except for the pilot a few years ago, but that sounds like a normal Star Trek occurrence. They are always in an impending crisis and they have some untested technology or theory that can get them out of the scrape and so they end up having to use it and it all works out. Except sometimes they blow out all the anodine relays or damage the deflector dish or some such thing.
shareStarfleet officers need to be compensated for the level of risk they face. They're always seconds from death, pulling their asses out of the fire with a solution they came up with on the fly. And they frequently board ships or bases staffed by their comrades who didn't fare so well. Seriously. Hazardous duty pay for everyone! They should be able to stay at the finest resorts in the Federation and live like kings while they're on leave.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die! Probably. Unless we can figure out something highly ill advised and unsafe, and escape at the last second. 😳
Burnham is NEVER wrong. Regardless of any type of realism.
share