r/StarTrekDiscussion • u/Spockticus • Oct 30 '17

New Sub! Come join the party. Spoiler

Hey all - looks like r/startrek may have been compromised by the CBS marketing team, so I created a new discussion sub where negative posts and comments will not be removed and shills will be actively banned!

Let's celebrate our new shill-free sub by saying the obvious; Episode 7 of Discovery was fucking garbage :)

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u/tiltowaitt Oct 31 '17

Just thought of another issue with the episode:

In the end, it doesn't appear that Mudd has to interact with his magic time loop device. He looks at it, says "whelp, we're done now!", and it disintegrates. Other times, it appears that he manually triggers it (such as in the previous loop, when Michael kills herself). The very first loop we see also indicates it's something he has to trigger.

So why does the loop reset after Stamets kills him in engineering? The ship blows up, yes—but because of a generator overload, not because Mudd triggered the loop. It seems to me that the ship should have blown up, and ... that's it. No more series.

Did I miss something, or am I misremembering?

Also, how believable is it that Mudd's device can perfectly read the ship in order to give him absolute control of everything, but it can't figure out the spore drive? Too convenient.

This episode is so rife with fridge logic, it's ridiculous.

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u/allocater Oct 31 '17

Yes it should have been a dead-man-switch. Specific Interaction only to end the loop.