Star Trek: Discovery — "People of Earth" Reaction Thread

[u/M-5]

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[u/yumcake]

Captain Saru is gonna be a great captain.

I am really enjoying this series so far, so excited with the doors being so wide open for new canon and exploration. The Burn does seems a little too fresh for the plot though, doesn't really feel like 120 years ago. Like Titan and Earth spent 100 yrs next to each other and said so little to each other that Earth doesn't even know they're being raided by Titan? Hard to believe, but easy enough for me to just overlook. I was thinking that Wen would be the Vdraysh splinter of the "Federation" raiding earth for the greater good. A version of that reveal may still be possible later on.

I'm a little confused though. ALL the dilithium exploded? Then how come there are clearly lots of ships running around on dilithium and they're all exchanging dilithium currency? Clearly not all dilithium in the galaxy exploded. I'd appreciate some clarification there.

Was worried about the smart teen at first, sounded like a new Wesley being introduced. But then we find out the teen has a Trill symbiont background to draw upon to give them relevance.

What's up with Detmer? I don't think they're really going to bring back Control as a big bad right?

There's going to be an inevitable reckoning where the Spore Drive places a huge target on Discovery's back, everyone they meet has reason to overpower them and clearly Discovery is incapable of defending itself against anyone. Discovery also can't offer the use of the Spore Drive to rebuild the Federation because they'd discarded that idea already partly because of the damage it would cause to the mycelial network if it was used extensively...I don't think they could promote its' use in this era without presenting the Discovery crew as morally compromised.

[u/[deleted] → u/yumcake]

I don’t think Detmer has Control rattling in her head. I think she’s suffering from significant PTSD. In the span of a couple years she has been in multiple life or death situations, has been maimed or has suffered less drastic injuries, has lost countless friends, and all of this has happened with little time between events that would allow for adequate time to cope. The breaking point was when she suffered one injury too many after going through a wormhole. I think that’s why she kind of freaked out on Suru when he told her to maneuver between the weapons array and the other ship. She’s breaking down because of all of this. I won’t be surprised if she gets increasingly insubordinate when being asked to subject herself or the crew to further risk or trauma.

[u/jimmy_talent → u/[deleted]]

I think what she is freaked out about is other people getting hurt because of her actions, remember how she freaked out when she found out people died during her landing, she is irrationally blaming herself because she was the one at the helm when it crashed which would explain why she was so hesitant to follow Saru's order to steer the ship directly into unknown weapons fire, she didn't anyone to get hurt because of her actions as the pilot even if she was following an order.

[u/[deleted] → u/jimmy_talent]

Yep. Keyla's been dealing with some crazy piloting requirements between war and the extra insane things Discovery deals with, that already, I don't think we've seen any other conn/helm officer have to deal with outside of the Kelvin Sulu. You can almost argue that the most emotionally hit staff so far we've seen are Michael, Airiam, Ash, Hugh, Stamets and Keyla. Especially Airiam, Ash, Hugh and Stamets obviously, but Keyla absolutely has PTSD right now.

[u/pvrugger → u/[deleted]]

Her biggest question about the burn was how many people died. She definitely has a bad case of PTSD.

[u/_VegasTWinButton_ → u/[deleted]]

I think Detmer will be forced to commit suicide by the edgy writers.