Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Donald]

she must have spent hours gelling that elaborate do into place.

She is the Vulcan captain of a (by the looks of it) mostly human ship. She read humans use size to assert dominance so she's using her hair to make herself look bigger to reinforce her position as leader. Logical.

 

[Umbran]

And don’t understand the remorse. Those 7000 people were willing to kill millions.

Yes, but they were also still 7000 people. A goodly sized town, all at once.

Kirk was having the most common moral quandary in heroic fiction - when you fight monsters, you must be careful to not become a monster yourself. The fastest road to heck is to say, "Well, they were bad people, and so killing them is not a moral crime." Because the definition of "bad people" will slip...

If he hadn't been effected by the first time he ordered 7000 people to die, I'd fear he would be a sociopath.

 

[Ryujin]

Yes, but they were also still 7000 people. A goodly sized town, all at once.

Kirk was having the most common moral quandary in heroic fiction - when you fight monsters, you must be careful to not become a monster yourself. The fastest road to heck is to say, "Well, they were bad people, and so killing them is not a moral crime." Because the definition of "bad people" will slip...

If he hadn't been effected by the first time he ordered 7000 people to die, I'd fear he would be a sociopath.

And we all know that Kirk isn't a sociopath. He's a philanderer.

 

[James Gasik]

And we all know that Kirk isn't a sociopath. He's a philanderer.

Unless AI's are involved.

 

[Micah Sweet]

And didn't even need to serve out her full suspension. Why do they have so much trouble following through on any development of this character?

Maybe it's because, cool as she is, she's a prequel character with much thinner plot armor and narrative history than Pike, Spock, Chapel, Scotty, or Uhura? And her story is IMO less compelling than Lin'a [sic], M'Benga, or Number One.

 

[Morrus]

And don’t understand the remorse.

Yikes. That's a lot to unpack.

 

[pukunui]

And didn't even need to serve out her full suspension. Why do they have so much trouble following through on any development of this character?

They didn’t even leave her hand mangled. I guess M’Benga can regrow fingers more easily than eyes!

 

[Morrus]

And didn't even need to serve out her full suspension.

What was the time difference between the two episodes?

(I mean, clearly you think it was less than two weeks. I'm wondering why you think that?)

 

[pukunui]

What was the time difference between the two episodes?

(I mean, clearly you think it was less than two weeks. I'm wondering why you think that?)

It’s not a matter of how much time has passed. Number One tells M’Benga that, because everyone is “pulling an all-nighter” during the neutron star mission, she “even recommended” to Pike that he reinstate Ortegas. M’Benga asks if Number One trusts her, and she says yes. (Ep 4, just before the 19 minute mark.)


EDIT: That being said, I don’t think we need to assume that Ortegas has gotten over her PTSD already. I mean, La’an was able to do her job effectively while suffering from her Gorn-induced childhood trauma. It’s possible it will come back to haunt Ortegas again in future episodes – especially since we’re not quite done with the Gorn, what with Batel and the Vezda still being around.

 

[Donald]

That being said, I don’t think we need to assume that Ortegas has gotten over her PTSD already.

My comment wasn't 'oh good she's cured' it was 'oh, the plot point has been completely forgotten'.