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S1:E2 - Battle at the Binary Stars

So despite the awful looking Klingon ships and whatever those stargate looking fighter things were, that was a good battle. I enjoyed watching it. I thought it was stupid that the Klingon messiah ordered the ship to cloak (dropping shields) in order to decloak (with shields still dropped briefly) in order to ram a ship. Also found it stupid how nobody on the Klingon ship thought to scan for photon torpedoes while using a tractor beam (not a transporter :/ ) to bring aboard dead bodies. That must have been an old Maqui trick that the Klingons were unaware of.

Now onto Burnham. I have no issue with them trying to give her Vulcan characteristics, but did they have to make her Spocks adoptive sister? Come on now. Plus in these first two episodes, she has real difficulty figuring out when the correct time to be logical is and when it's time to be emotional. Like logic would have dictated that she use her phasers stun setting in order to proceed in capturing that Klingon messiah... a plan she thought of! Instead she gets mad that he kills her captain, and she kills him. Thus doing what she previously warned against. I also find it strange that after seven years of serving on the Shenzhou, she'd still rather reach out to Sarek all the time and rely on him, rather than the support and advice of her captain and crew. Might explain why she chose mutiny over trusting a woman whom she's apparently been close with these past seven years... even becoming her number one.

One last comment on this episode. Why the fuck is Starfleet handing out life sentences instead of rehabilitation? I know it's mutiny but come on Starfleet, sentencing a sentient being to life in prison without any hope of rehabilitation seems as if it goes against the ideals of the Federation.

I'm going to watch a few more episodes later but I need some fresh air, so I'm going for a walk in the river valley.