Also, that she thought the Nazis were the heroes of Indiana Jones.
I’m just giddy that, here and on reddit, people who noticed it was the same actress, said, “Wait, she’s a Krill spy,” and then it happened. That’s the biggest, most obvious lampshade/Checkov’s gun ever.
Interesting that they are now playing off Star Trek episodes from less than a year ago.
Also, it is getting harder to make props seem futuristic. That thing with the best of Billy Joel? A current MicroSD card can hold every recorded version of every Bill Joel song ever made in uncompressed WAV format in even less space than that.
Aren’t they riffing on their own show from season one? The one that happened before the Star Trek show? Although my memory might be a little fuzzy on the timelines here.
Valid. But how small should it be? It almost gets lost in her glove. Are we gonna do the Zoolander/Amy Wong swallowed her phone gag? Have him instead transfer the password to his online resource, the way we do today? (Yeah, that’s my NetFlix code, just watch whatever you want.) In fact, it probably would have been better to hand her a 5 cm glowing crystal sphere that was an autonomous sound system. I don’t think she’s gonna rush to her quarters, and plug in a random bit of alien technology … she’s not Bortus, after all.
If you’re part of an organization that’s gone to the trouble to set up “decoy” codes… don’t tell the enemy about them, please. That’s Decoy 101 right there.
He does that on purpose. He’s decided that he can “trust” her, and wants to show that she can “trust” him. Partly, that’s because he’s still all “in love” with her, the “her” he thinks she really is inside. But it’s also partly, I think, to make sure she realizes she really hadn’t “won”, yet, at the point the other aliens crashed the party.
Well I loved this episode. Even with the romance BS, it was relevant at least. I don’t care if it was an idea taken from another show. I don’t watch those shows anyway.
What other show was it taken from?
Yes but the truth was really a lie. If they run the code then a Billy Joel song uploads into the enemy ship with an embedded virus and the ship explodes into a cosmic image of Jeff Goldblum.
That’s Decoy 102. Reuse an old sci fi plot until something explodes.
Like putting too much air in a balloon!
I have to say I liked the Patrick Warburton character. They need to do an episode where he paints himself for a sporting event and is mistaken for the devil by another species.
I have a feeling we won’t see much more of Patrick Warburton because Kelly said the new security chief “will be here next week”. I found that kind of cool because it really will be next week, not TV time next week.
I didn’t see the twist coming. Sometimes it pays to be unobservant. 
I loved it! Great episode all around.
yeah - except that it also means that he didn’t give up the codes for the girl he loved - I know my wife would have smacked the hell out of me for bluffing while she’s being tortured.
He should have continued the ruse - and let her find out later that he’s not a complete imbecile - it would have also told the Krill that human’s aren’t so easily manipulated.
Well, my first thought was “I hope he didnt actually just betray his galaxy wide alliance for the girl he’s been dating 2 weeks”
Agreed.
The Krill are fascinating and I’m intrigued by what their culture was like pre-interstellar travel. And forgot about the cellular transformation; what’s really unnerving is that they’ve already infiltrated the Union enough that they were able to create a fake military officer with fake transfer orders. :eek: Janel wasn’t just someone they found stranded in space or even a civilian scientist. Also there’s clearly already some kind of diplomatic back channel (likely a 3rd party) given that they were able to arrange a repatriation for Teleya (& presumably the Krill children).
I didn’t see the twist coming or realize it was the same actress. I missed the hints.
Also isn’t a captain giving up codes, especially over a woman he only dated for a few weeks, court martial material? Jeez. This is a military ship after all.
Also I agree, they seemed nonchalant about the krill infiltration.
And I’m guessing the krill are a metaphor for the growth in xenophobia and Islamic extremism in this age of globalization.
In this episode, a new crew member turned out to be an altered alien enemy from earlier in the series. In last season’s Star Trek Discovery, a new crew member turned out to be an altered alien enemy from earlier in the series
and don’t forget that one time, in the neutral zone…
Hey, what Picard does with his Ressikan flute is nobody’s business but his!