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Doug Jones and Sonequa Martin-Green in Star Trek: Discovery (2017)

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The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry

Star Trek: Discovery

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Factual errors

After the first jump, a crew member on the bridge says that the ship is stuck in a gravitational well of a Type-O star. This is incorrect since the star shown is orange. Type-O stars have surface temperatures in excess of 30,000K, and hence will appear blue/white in color. For a star to appear yellow-orange it must be in the G-K classes and have surface temperatures under 5500K. If Discovery HAD jumped that close to an O class star the hull would have instantly started vaporizing, as there's only a few known materials that can survive those temperatures and still remain in solid form ... and they're mostly ceramics. There's no known material that could remain solid at temperatures above about 4200K, so the 30,000K of an O class star would have no problem whatsoever.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Lorca asks Stamets if he wishes to be remembered alongside other great engineers such as the Wright brothers, Elon Musk, and Zephram Cochrane. The Wright brothers pioneered manned flight and, in the fictional history of Star Trek, Zephram Cochrane was the first human to develop faster-than-light technology. Elon Musk has made no such achievements.

Elon Musk has made no such achievements now, in the year 2023. Whether or not he himself will ever make any such achievements is debatable (after all, it is the engineers he employs who would be responsible). This episode, however, takes place in the year 2256, and Lorca was making that statement in the context that between present day and 2256, Musk will have made some such achievement.

Miscellaneous

When Kol stages a takeover of Voq's ship, he plies the hungry crew with food, including grilled meat. It has been well established that Klingons do not cook their meat.

Plot holes

In the final scene Michael Burnham opens the case left to her by Captain Georgiou. It contains a family telescope, the same one that was in her ready room on the USS Shenzhou. If no effort was made to recover the ship to keep it from falling into the hands of the Klingons how did the telescope make it to Burnham?
At the beginning when Michael is inspecting her uniform with a holographic mirror, the hologram appears solid and lifelike, despite all other holograms appearing translucent and illuminated. This was no doubt done to give the audience a temporary false impression that she is looking in an actual mirror.

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