Question:
They needed 'Ripper' to do the nav calculations for longer jumps, because the further they went the more unpredictable their location would be after the jump.
But they jump instantly, so why couldn't they just do 100 small jumps in one go to ensure they get where they need to?
Nothing and worse still it was something almost anyone with a brain immediately thought about when they just had to get to this randomly undefended ridiculously important outpost immediately. Yet no one with half a brain on the crew suggested this. Basically just more bad writing as 99% of it is.
The new episode, was weird, it opened like an ep of a CW show, Disco shirts, seriously, the Captain with his man crush he has no reason to trust at all. The replicator spouting out weird facts was just... weird. There was also more weird exposition from dialogue. I forget who, was it the captain who said something like ah yes, your parents were killed leaving you to be brought up by Sarek... but you know that already, but we already know that anyway, we've seen it and been told it already in previous episodes, we already know that relationship yet they still had someone spell out the exposition then explained why him doing so was stupid.... amateur level writing.
Honestly the series is just so completely all over the place, 5 episodes specifically ignoring 95% of the crew as just extras, very claustrophobic, no planets(really, 5 mins at the very start of the first episode), zero character development, then out of nowhere ep 6 is like pure character development, also have a planet surface being shown even if it's in his mind, still has the stupidity of cross galaxy telepathy. But if you make a series where you've made major decisions to have little to no character development, then suddenly having a episode that is completely opposite feels incredibly out of place, it felt like a different show but still with lots of terrible writing.
Lastly, they sporefarted over to this nebula in an instant because no other starfleet ships can move around this fast, but the one admiral that we've seen in the series basically appears almost at the same time with normal travel. then somehow she goes to this meeting which is a trap, but her ship is.... where? Her crew is where, starfleet wasn't prepared incase it was a trap by sending several ships, there weren't already standing orders for them to warp in if the task force that anyone would have sent to this meeting came under attack.
It's constantly just this bad writing where conveniently everyone does stupid unexplainable things to get the writer where he wants to go... me want new security officer, how to kill the old one, right, make her chief security officer on a ship the captain can pick whoever he wants to be on... she's braindead.
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Cant wait
