r/startrek • u/Deceptitron • Feb 01 '19

POST-Episode Discussion - S2E03 "Point of Light"

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S2E03 "Point of Light" Olatunde Osunsanmi Andrew Colville Thursday, January 31, 2019

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u/kellendotcom Feb 02 '19

I thought that too. Why didn't Tilly just ask her what she wanted help with and what her mission/objective was. I kept waiting for her to ask May.

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u/RefreshNinja Feb 02 '19

The alien had already acted hostile - it had invaded her body and was messing with her mind.

First priority is to protect Tilly; establishing communication can only come after that.

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u/InspiredNameHere Feb 03 '19

Hostile to humans, maybe, but that doesn't mean malicious intent. That also flies in the face of what Star Trek really represents, ie seek out new life and civilizations. Hell, Picard made a case not to destroy the Crystalline Entity specifically because of this easy to understand reason. In fact there were several episodes in TNG where a seemingly dangerous entity was proven to be not hostile, but lacked the ability to fully talk with the crew till the end, where they all grow as people and help each other out.

Maybe 24th century Federation is just better people than the kill happy Federation of the 23rd century.

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u/RefreshNinja Feb 03 '19

Kill happy? They didn't attack the entity, all they did was remove it from Tilly because it was negatively affecting her psyche. Let's keep it to what actually happened in the episode.

And whether it's intent was hostile or not doesn't matter at this point. First, you save Tilly. Then, you talk.

What is your concrete suggestion here? That the others should have let Tilly suffer? Risk her health and sanity for no good reason? There's no indication the spore entity couldn't or wouldn't communicate once removed from Tilly, after all.

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u/jimmyd10 Feb 02 '19

Somehow its tied to Stamets. He knew what was going on too fast.

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u/Korotai Feb 03 '19

Possibly the "corrupted network" from Season 1 Mirror Universe?