Ok, am I seriously nuts and missed how important Robot Head Lady was on Star Trek: Discovery? I’m not being cynical here. Was she properly introduced and fleshed out in an earlier episode I skipped or zoned out during?
Tonight’s episode starts with this overly dramatic funeral service for a character (as far as I am aware) we were officially introduced to 40 minutes before she was killed off. Everyone delivers these touching speeches about how much the character meant to them, but we, the audience, were never SHOWN any of this.
I’m absolutely perplexed.
Spock’s funeral in The Wrath of Khan wasn’t as overblown and melodramatic. Maybe that’s because it didn’t need to be. We knew Spock. We cared for Spock. WE felt his loss and we knew how much he meant to the characters on the screen. Kirk doesn’t deliver a grand speech. He says only a few words and all of those words matter. The profundity of his final line amplified by his choked-up pause.
Wouldn’t all of that been more tender and heart rending if it was some no-named bridge crew member who got blown out of an airlock after trying to kill the whole crew?
Armchair Screenwriter 