Great first impression of the new episode, artifice to preserve the canon. Lots of action and it zipped past so very fast that the end titles took me by surprise. Captain Pike is good and the way he is feeling out his relationship with the established crew is realistic. Loved the bit where Burnham called him out on the bridge, it brought him up short and made him reassess and he showed his class by acknowledging that he was out of order. She does it again in the landing pod in getting him to realize that the crew are smart professionals and he should trust them. I wonder if we have just met our new chief engineer in the Jett Reno character as she is obviously brilliant.
This is just a first impression as I only finished watching it a few minutes ago and as with the last series I think I need to mull it over for a while to get past just those first thoughts but it is obvious that Spock is off on a hunt about these seven anomalies and if Burnham wants to remedy the problem between them she and Disco are going to have to follow.
I am still working through the episode for comments after your podcast but one plot hole (I think) is as follows.
When we find Enterprise it's communications are shot and we learn that this happened while investigating the anomalies yet Pike would only need a new ship after the damage so just when did Starfleet authorise him to take command of the Disco?
I assume that when the change of command occurs it is transmitted to Starfleet and the lack of signal back in surprise means the writers have just got it wrong .
It would have been more realistic if Pike had come aboard to use their coms and then been given permission to take command.
I really like Sarek in this episode, he seems much more empathic towards Burnham much more the father than he was last season . Also Amanda's amazing Disney princess dress was beautiful Mia Kirchner is very good looking and that dress was great on her .
I was a little confused as I thought that Burnham was younger when she was taken in but then I remembered that in the last episode she said she was nine when she lost her parents but in the scenes of the attack on the learning center she looked younger than she does here.
Loved Tilly in the episode both in her interaction with Stamets and with Burnham both before she goes to the asteroid and in the sick bay where they are finishing each others sentences.
I really am starting to love some of these characters.
I am just super hoping that Jet Reno is a new regular. I LOVE her. Soooo much. Yeah, I have to watch it again before I can really talk about it.