Slight spoiler for this week’s episode:
Based on a blurb I read…
apparently…
Mudd returns this week.
…wow.
I actually really liked that one. It was very Next Generation. All of the characters were likable, even the new security guy. The ending was a bit “trite”: but it fit in perfectly with how a Next Gen episode would finish, so I can forgive that. 
Doing a time loop primarily from the POV of a character who’s not actually looping was a good choice. I’d have liked to see a few more loops before Stamets finally manages to convince Michael what’s going on, but there’s only so much time for that, so it’s definitely for the best that they didn’t.
I liked that Stella seemed nice enough, if a bit strident - though we did get a hint of the harpy that Mudd programmed the Stella android to be in I, Mudd. But just a hint - it’s pretty clear that either that was mostly Mudd’s subjective opinion, or else a reaction to living for close to a decade with Mudd.
Still tho - Mudd knows too much about Discovery to be let loose…
I actually really liked that. After all, in Starfleet, you get embroiled in weird shit on a daily basis; additionally, Burnham has her Vulcan training, so she assessed the situation calmly, judged there actually being a time loop as the most likely explanation, and acted accordingly. It’s a nice change from the usual repetitive incredulousness at extraordinary circumstances, despite extraordinary circumstances basically being routine, that you see in many sci-fi shows.
I’m sort of wondering where they’re going with Stammets sudden character changes, though. I’m kind of thinking there’s going to be some sort of mirror universe shenanigans in the near future; actually, the idea crossed my mind that we may have been seeing (perhaps a version of) the mirror universe up to this point.
I liked the little detail that Mudd’s suit was obviously Andorian.
Also, do the old-style communicators have clocks now?
Nah, concider it a penetration test, he identified previously undetected venerabilities.
Kinda funny in an interstellar war, they still have to save the whales.
It was, wasn’t it? TNG with a grumpy captain and a lot more murder. Best episode yet, IMO.
Yeah really good. The montage of Mudd killing Lorca was fun.
I kept looking for the tribble in Lorca’s study. You would think that Mudd would have come across it one of the bajillion times he attempted his scheme.
Why tribbles? Tribbles were Cyrano Jones’ thing. Mudd was android hotties.
Damn! Well my faulty memory will be the end of me yet. My apologies.
I’m enjoying Tardigrade Man’s character a lot. He’s flipping out and getting groovy and Lorca just has to put up with it if he wants his ship to go places.
Yes I think the cast is starting to gel a little. I liked that Tilly was not a wall flower at the party. Very business like on duty and with Michael but not always on her own time.
The Trekkie in me wants to say that Music like what they played at the party is probably not what they would listen to in three hundred years and I am not sure how to reconcile the pretty young Stella in this episode with the old crone we see in I, Mudd set ten years from now (although technically that was a simulacrum of Stella) but Trekkies grumble, that’s what we do
You know how in shows like Game of Thrones they speak their own language but we hear it as English? Well, in DSC, they play 24th-Century R&B, but we hear it as Al Green.
I liked that the intro disco music was ‘staying alive’.
I also liked that after the ‘previously,…’ opener - they went straight to the opening credits then started the episode -
Another parallel universe maybe, but not THE mirror universe, as they would already be under the rule of Empress Hoshi Sato at this point. (see Enterprise, “In a Mirror Darkly”).
I liked this one too, even thought it’s something we’ve seen a million times on ST and otherwise by now. Well done.
And I stand by my assertion: there is NO WAY that Taylor is the Klingon outcast dude. He blends in far too well as a human. He’d have to have studied Federation culture for years to pull it off as well as he is, and he’s put himself in harm’s way to save the ship and save Federation lives too many times at this point to make his motives make sense. (He still could be some kind of brainwashed or mind-controlled sleeper agent etc… I’m not counting that out, but I’ll call BS if he’s an actual Klingon.)
I worry about about Stamets and the doctor. He’s gone through such an EXTREME personality shift… can their relationship weather that? If you love someone, can you still love them when they suddenly turn into their polar opposite?
My nitpick of the week: why did those purple people dissolving pellets dissolve people and their uniforms, but stop before eating through the deck?
So, they’ve still got the time crystal in the space whale in the shuttle bay, right? Anybody wanna take a bet whether it’ll be conveniently forgotten, never to be mentioned again, despite probably being able to immediately win the war for the Federation, thus following (or pre-empting?) tradition for new Star Trek? (See also: Khan’s blood, Scotty’s transwarp transporter, the jury-rigged cloaking device from Beyond…)
Didn’t/wouldn’t the Time Crystal disappear with the armband when he allowed it to expire?
It would be a pretty lame Time Crystal that disappeared after(?) use. Anyhow it is mentioned that Mudd had been using it to rob banks and such.
In one of the original episodes, Scotty figures out how to travel through time by simply going really, really fast, or something.
Maybe, but still, this a piece of immensely valuable tech the Federation now knows to exist, and that Mudd apparently had repeated access to. Just shrugging one’s shoulders going, well, I guess it’s gone would be a supremely lame reaction to this knowledge.
Seems that as far as usefulness for the war effort is concerned, it would vastly outstrip Discovery’s spore drive.