Star Trek: Obsession (First Watch: S2E13)

Death count: 3 red shirts, death by sparkly cloud. 1 more red shirt, death by sparkly cloud. 1 red shirt in sickbay in a blue shirt because it increases his chances of survival. 1 crewmember dead, one injured.

In media res isn’t used enough, either.

Phaser works on things harder than diamond good to know

Well it’s shiny

Well I saw one too bad I lost my communicator

The Yorktown huh?

Yeah it kinda retreated

Eleven years ago huh?

And I love how the red shirts are all like “weird order but it’s kirk he knows what he’s doing”

Nothing, huh?  Like, they can’t send fake readings out?  With some sort of mechanical thing maybe?

Wait what

Wait

Vampires are real

And they’re giant clouds that sparkle in the sun

Nnnooooooooo

Also with a title like that expect a moby dick like story

Bones staring at him in shock like “jim those are people’s lives who are counting on those supplies what are you doing”

Corpuscle :)

The Farragut huh.

Bones is just like “jim something’s wrong let me help”

Cold, like vamps.

That obsession is like the hunt after Kodos.

I have.  Once.

Changing its molecular structure—like a shapeshifter?

And just sending spock to go watch it with bones too.

Garrovick—he looks and music sounds suspicious.  Can cloud vamp pretend it’s a human?

First(?) time phasers not on stun?

Get the smoke machine!

We’ve already seen sparkly cloud possession is a thing in this universe so

Kirk isn’t usually this harsh in criticism.

I’m surprised they don’t have a thing to rapidly replace blood in the future.

You know it’s every time he uses the word ‘conspiracy’ that he’s not doing well leadership wise.

“fortunately, I read somewhat faster” speed-reading I ENVY SO MUCHHHH

Jim monologues in his head.  O.o

Bones comes in without being invited all the time

You already did y’know

Bones the psychologist

No you can’t help how you feel that’s known as PTSD

I’m trying to help you you jerk.

That was perfect timing spock

This time he didn’t take it personally though that’s more the captain I know (seriously, court martial)

Why are you traveling again?

Would you look at that a storm in space

Yet another interesting life-form.

It’s playing with you

Chapel is great SHE’S EVEN BETTER OH MAN

You know what would make everything better?  Bones muttering ‘call me Ishmael’

That filter’s gonna be important

And now it’s inside.  Brilliant, Jim.

(spoiler alert I have never actually read moby dick…I attempted and got creeped out by all the long descriptions)

That might work…or it might give it superpowers

Wrong about what bones??

Spock attempting comfort with logic

Wait—wait, Spock took that literally.  “Don’t comfort me, go comfort someone else” goes directly to do so.

(also jim’s like…yeah, at this point it doesn’t matter my crewmen and ship are in danger aaaaagh)

That’s helpful spock you can’t actually cut it off with your hands

Pressure is helpful when dealing with evil alien vampire gases

(ooh I didn’t think about that it doesn’t like copper-based blood)

(…uh, also, half-human, why isn’t half his blood human blood?  How does that work anyway?  Of course species that different don’t have viable babies on Earth so that’s an open question but)

It’s the special connection between captain ahab and the whale

Open the vent? Why?

Kirk listened to Spock.  And is essentially reassuring his younger self.  That’s adorable.

You make no sense and are probably right, but you make no sense.

(days between systems = realistic!)

That’s the same exact argument Pike used for Number One (I kinda miss them they were awesome too)

I’m not willing to put my people in dang—

Fisticuffs!!

I ken do zat!

There’s bones’ ‘bleh transporters’ thing

And now he’s grinning :)

Talking about people he knows in common with his crew