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I’ve seen the third episode SPOILER ALERT

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It’s 6 months later, Brown Sugar is on a prison shuttle with some non-starfleet prisoners (she has a different color jumpsuit) being transferred to a mine because the Federation forces convicts to mine? WTF? One of the prisoners said he murdered 3 Andorians. Another is a rough looking but sexy Asian chick I think I’ve seen before, she said her sister died on some ship lost to the fighting. The realize who Brown Sugar is and loathe her for some reason like they think the war is her fault, which is nonsensical.

Some little sparkles that eat electricity attack the shuttle and things look bleak and Brown Sugar looks like she welcomes death. But a ship tractor beams them into it’s shuttle bay. Long panning shot with inspirational music to show us that it’s.....The Discovery. No shiite Sherlock? I was expecting the Saratoga. The thing looks more advanced than Voyager. I wish they had a way to keep the better special effects without making it seem like they’re more rather than less advanced than TNG let alone TOS. At least their phasers suck, aside from actually looking like guns instead remote controls. The previous ship the USS Whatever, Yeoh’s ship, still had “phase cannons”, an ENT era weapon that is the same thing really.

The security officer calls them garbage, I’m not feeling their treatment of prisoners being like that. They eat with the crew in the mess hall and the other 3 prisoners attack Brown Sugar before she’s carted off to meet the Captain.

The tall alien science officer from the USS Yeoh is the first officer.

Captain Lorca seems cool, cool name. He has something wrong with his eyes where by he needs to adjust slowly to bright light or something? He was standing in the dark and then turned the lights on. I don’t get it, at all. His family used to make fortune cookies, that was neat, a reference to capitalism existing in the past. He tells her he’s putting her to work, obviously he arranged to bring her here in the first place.

She gets a roomate, nerdy socially awkward redhead. She wants to call her “Mickey” but is shot down. I will now call her Mickey. There’s a “black alert” and like little drops of water appear in their room....they are testing whatever their secret project is.

Then she’s off to work where the fag character debuted, he’s insufferable, he’s a science offer upset that his research is being used to help the Federation defend itself against a hostile race of psychotics that attacked them for no reason instead of building unicorn rainbow farms in the sky, upset that he and his ‘friend’ (sounded platonic but the guy was also obviously a fag) were taken from their lab and put on separate ships, upset the Captain is “warmonger”. He called Mickey a “lurker” for approaching him to talk about work while he was gabbing on the phone. You’d think they’d want their first fag character to be likable, guess not.

There’s a restricted lab with a breath (wtf?) scanner to get in, she steals her roommate’s drool and uses it to gain access, looks like a greenhouse inside. There is better security in the modern day than this, iphones have face scanners now, and ankle monitors exist. But Lorca knows she broke in anyway.

Another science ship, working on the same secret project suffers a mishap and everyone is dead. They go over, fag tells Mickey that physics and biology is the same thing at a quantum level. There are weird distorted corpses, and dead Klingons, they attacked. There’s a big old monster that can eat through solid metal. They get away, Mickey reads aloud passages of “Alice in Wonderland” while crawling through a jeffries tube. Later the redhead seems amazed when Mickey has a copy of the book “Is that a book!?” Is that a tampon?! Is that a sandwich?! Is that a toenail clipper!?? What other mundane everyday objects do you have in your bag, Mickey? Don’t tell me there are no paper books, GD Picard had books.

If anyone explained what the monster was supposed to be, I missed it. Lorca asks her to stay and says their project is not a bio weapon as Mickey suspects but a way to use spores (yes, spores) to travel faster than warp or teleport or something I DON’T GET IT. They don’t talk about the monster. The final scene reveals Lorca had the monster beamed aboard the ship and has it behind a force field or something. The female security officer seems like she has the hots for Lorca.

At one point they use a site to site transport, always possible but almost never used.

On a scare of 1-10. I can’t rate it because those are all normal numbers and this was too weird.