Yes I know I’m behind everyone else!
First the away team spends a long time debating if they should proceed or… step outside for five seconds to call the ship. They ultimately decide that stepping outside for five seconds is not feasible.
But then literally one minute later Ensign Gamble is somehow beamed up. Presumably they must have called the ship to do this? Did they just… leave out the part about the (now obvious and real) danger? Was there a scene where Pike said “ok yeah his eyes are gone but you can keep going”?
Then later in the episode the away team spends a long time talking about trust and friendship while debating if they should walk on an invisible walkway instead of just like, I don’t know, tapping it lightly with their toe or throwing a pebble on it first?
The Ensign Gamble B-plot was good and freaky and featured some great acting by everyone involved. But the A plot felt like it was vibe-scripted! I love SNW but come on.
What I find particularly egregious in their decision making is that after Gamble lost his eyes, Beto is still hanging around. Like, helloooo? Film making student that has 0 training in anything remotely related to this, get back onto that ship IMMEDIATELY.
I didn’t questioned that, I saw him like those cameramen that were tasked to document the front lines during the WWII, or the journalists that go to the current conflicts.