History Funny / StarTrekDiscovery

** Also, Georgiou has joined the long list of characters who feel the need to stop Tilly from rambling. [[HypocriticalHumor Even Georgou's ability to enjoy public discomfort has limits,]] probably because she wanted to get back to trolling Stamets and Culber.

** When Burnham asks why the Red Angel (possibly her future self) didin't simply tell them upfront about the coming galactic apocalypse, Spock suggests that its her "penchant for dramatics". All Michael can do is give a ''very'' subdued but annoyed "Okay."

* On a {{meta}} level, the reveal that Stella, contrary to Mudd's view of her as a plain-looking screeching harridan (later made flesh in android form), is a young, attractive heiress who honestly loves him even though she knows what he's really like.

** Reno and Stamets undergo a forced MushroomSamba when May doses them with spores. [[OutOfCharacterAlert Stamets realizes something is wrong soon after he and Reno compliment each other's looks.]] [[note]]In case anyone doesn't get the {{meta}} joke, we're seeing gay male and female actors playing gay characters hitting on each other.[[/note]]

* Meta: Obviously, [[Creator/HJonBenjamin Sterling]] WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} would be responsible for creating tribbles. Even better, casting him in the role of [[MadScientist Dr. Krieger]].

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* On Creator/{{Netflix}}, one of the show's options for subtitles is ''Klingon''. (That is, subtitling the English with captions in Klingon, not the other way around.)[[note]]It also naturally subtitles Klingon in English.[[/note]]
* The ''Shenzhou'' is presumably named for the RealLife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_(spacecraft) Chinese spacecraft]]. The name translates from Chinese more-or-less as "divine craft" or "vessel of God." [[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier What does God need with a starship?]]
* In response to the common fan theory that Ash Tyler was really Voq the Klingon in disguise (and that Voq's actor, Javid Iqbal, is a pseudonym for Tyler's actor, Creator/ShazadLatif), Iqbal--or someone posing as him--[[https://twitter.com/RealJavidIqbal?lang=en created a Twitter account]] and started [[TrollingCreator trolling his fans]] by posting pictures of himself on set with Voq's head poorly photoshopped over his real face. He also started every tweet by [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial insisting he's a real actor and that Latif is "a totally different person"]].
* The second season has a StoryArc centering on a mysterious being known as the "Red Angel." It's easy to see how this could result in more literal examples of RougeAnglesOfSatin than one normally encounters online.
* [[http://chrysreviews.com Chrys Reviews]]' created [[http://chrysreviews.com/index.php/star-trek/ recaps of the first two seasons' episodes]], consisting of [[FunWithSubtitles alternate subtitles]] playing up each scene for comedy. For example, from the Season 2 opener "Brother":
-->'''Sarek:''' I found an orphan.\\
'''Amanda:''' What happened to the parents?\\
'''Sarek:''' ''[[[{{Beat}} Beat Panel]]]'' [[AskAStupidQuestion They fucking died Amanda she's an orphan.]]
* With the announcement of a new spinoff series featuring Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock serving aboard the USS ''Enterprise'', it has been observed that the original ''Star Trek'' pilot "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" technically ''finally'' got picked up for a first season order, albeit nearly sixty years later, with everyone recast.
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** Bonus points for a beleaguered and visibly confused Culber valiantly trying to do damage control for "filters off" Stamets.

* Before they get caught in the loop, Stamets is shown as acting like he's ''totally'' stoned due to his genetic alteration.

* The "WTF?" look on Burnham's face when Stamets hugs her after they collide in the corridor. And then Stamets saying to Tyler "You're a very tall man" for no good reason. Bonus points for a beleaguered and confused Culber valiantly trying to do damage control for "filters off" Stamets.

* The "WTF?" look on Burnham's face when Stamets hugs her after they collide in the corridor. And then Stamets saying to Tyler "You're a very tall man" for no good reason. Bonus points for a much-beleaguered Culber trying to do damage control and, at the very end of the scene, barking out an exasperated “…okay.”

* The "WTF?" look on Burnham's face when Stamets hugs her after they collide in the corridor. And then Stamets saying to Tyler "You're a very tall man" for no good reason.

* When Saru tells Reno to hurry up with the time crystal, she snaps back "Get off my ass." Then [[OhCrap realizes she just said that to the CAPTAIN]]. So she tries to fix it by saying "Sir! Get off my ass, ''sir''!" as the turbolift closes, while [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Tilly gapes like a codfish]].

* When Mirror Burnham is finally released, she's disappointed to learn that the Emperor has removed Kelpien from the menu, because Burnham was craving ganglia in her cell. The Emperor's reasoning for doing so? Kelpiens are too high in cholesterol, and Burnham accepts this as valid. Despotic, xenophobic regime that encourages KlingonPromotion. . . but at least they're health-conscious.

* Georgiou submits the villain to an unceasing torrent of verbal abuse, which she justifies on the basis of him being a bully. Not because she's offended by him being a bully, but because she's found bullies always crumble when faced with ''bigger'' bullies.

* Owo decides to enter a no-holds-barred prize fight to secure some necessary funds for their mission. Captain Burnham takes on the role of hype woman to get folks to bet on her, calling her "Oh Wow" Owesekun, which gets her a funny look from Owesekun.

* Burnham compliments the food served at the Emperor's table, and [[IAteWhat is visibly distressed]] to learn that she's eating the Kelpian the Emperor made her choose earlier.

** Spock leaving both the audience '''and''' [[{{Corpsing}} his fellow Starfleet officers (including an Admiral!) in stitches]] at what is clearly not simply Vulcan bluntness: [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling its a little brother tweaking his big sister's nose in front of all her friends...]]

* Adira gets awe-struck when she seems Commander Detmer walking by on her way to the mission of the week, and can't think of anything better to say than "Fly Good!" Thus making an unwitting callback to Captain Pike giving Detmer similar guidance.

-->'''Book;''' ... [[SureLetsGoWithThat Crystal?]]

* The broker's nicknames for Book and Burnham are "Glowworm" and "Right Hook." Also, he's a ShipperOnDeck.

* Book and Burnham find themselves in a high-stakes poker game for the MineralMacGuffin against two Emerald Chain goons and decide to [[EnemyMine team up against them.]] Burnham's strategy seems to be as distracting as possible and to tell what are strongly implied to be embarrassing stories about Book.

* While debating whether the destruction of a Federation communications relay was a random mishap or an act of malice, Saru insists it must be malicious, fully expecting Burnham to disregard his concerns. While she does needle him for his paranoid tendencies, Burnham states that she agrees with him (much to Saru's surprise). Georgiou remarks to the bridge crew that both of her senior officers agree on something and asks to have it noted in the ship's log.
* Saru complains that he can't get a solid lock with the ship's sensors to determine a mystery object's nature. Burnham's response is to physically crowd Saru off of his own station to read the sensor data out loud (mostly just giving off its position relative to ''Shenzhou''). Saru bumps Burnham back out of the way and states that he cannot determine anything ''useful'' about it, as opposed to just reading numbers off of a screen like ''anyone'' could do. One gets the impression of a pair of bickering siblings, with Georgiou filing the role of an amused parent. (The smirk on her face and the above comment about how rarely Saru and Burnham agree on anything suggest that this isn't the first time she's watched a scene like this play out.)

* Saru protests Burnham's plan to EVA out to the object due to the hazardous radiation. His description of the effects it would have on her very genetic makeup ''should'' be terrifying, except for his choice of words for ''how'' her genes would unravel:

* Georgiou suggests, for the sake of safety, that Saru should accompany Burnham on the EVA, only to watch both of them immediately protest: Burnham feels bringing him along would only add to the risk, and Saru doesn't want to go.

* Admiral Anderson [[DeadpanSnarker dryly suggests]] that Burnham should, in the future, avoid disturbing ancient cultural artifacts belonging to warrior races the Federation hasn't dealt with in a hundred years. Given how frequently "disturb ancient dangerous artifact" was a plot line in previous shows, he's wise to make the suggestion.

* Of all the things to happen after a DroolHello, probably the last thing you'd expect is for all of the replicators in the galley to go ballistic, bombarding the hapless Tilly with a barrage of food. With the replicators helpfully describing each meal item as it is sent flying across the room. The replicators seem to be particularly excited to announce "French fries!"

* After the second or third time the Runaway bristles at Tilly's approach, Tilly responds in kind by hissing back at her, thus beginning their SnarkToSnarkCombat.
* Tilly explains away the mess in the galley without revealing the Runaway's presence by claiming it was caused by a "hormonal space-rabbit." One with mood-swings.

* A couple of times, Kritt seems taken in by Mudd's lies, only to laugh in his face. At one point Kritt asks if ''anyone'' has ever fallen for his claims.
* TheReveal that Mudd has been posing as a masked female bounty hunter, selling android duplicates of himself to various dupes who try to cash in the bounty with various Starfleet crews who have obviously become quite familiar with the routine. One ship, the USS ''De Milo'', is shown to have a storage room full of Mudd-droids, and the officer who receives Kritt is ''not'' thrilled at having to deal with ''another'' one. The droids then break out into a rousing chorus of "If I had any money I'd be sipping jippers on a beach somewhere!" Either the androids are so poorly-programmed that they'll readily blow their cover with the right prompting, or Mudd ''deliberately'' programmed them, when their cover was already blown, to break out in a low-key musical number just to twist the knife that extra bit. Either way, perfectly in character and ridiculously funny.

* [[NumberTwo Number One]] notes that Ensign Spock has been aboard for over half a minute and failed to ask a single question. A poor first impression for a Science Officer. She insists that he barrage everyone he meets with questions until it becomes a nuisance. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor And then the turbolift they are sharing gets stuck.]]
** Spock, at Number One's insistence, throws every question he can think of at her, down to what matrix is used by the replicators. When he finally runs dry on relevant questions to ask, he asks her if she likes eggplant.
* The episode manages to pack an impressive degree of ShipTease into a single UncomfortableElevatorMoment. Number One orders Spock to give her a boost so she can reach an access panel. Spock is about to grab her by the waist before she stops him and orders him to [[AccidentalInnuendo get down on his knees]] instead so she can ride on his shoulders. It's all in the command tone she uses.

* Also of note is Larkin pointing out that because tribbles move so slowly, that they'd be easy to hunt.

* As the tribbles begin to overrun the ship, one crewmember can be seen in the background with a giant backpack vacuum sucking up tribbles one-by-one.
* Facing a Board of Inquiry for losing her ship, being the center of a biological disaster that required evacuating a ''planet'' and causing an incident with the Klingons, Admiral Quinn, in obvious disbelief, asks Lucero how this all could have been the fault of just one man.

** What really sells this is that the crux of the issue between Edward and Lucero (and thus, the impetus for the tribbles getting out of control) is that each thinks that the other is bad at their job, or dumb. Edward complained to Lucero's superiors that she's a bad captain and "dumb" for moving him from protein studies to climatology, and then insists she thinks he's dumb because of that reassignment and because she decides to transfer this malcontent off her ship. Before Edward's death, she insists she doesn't think he's dumb (and indeed, she never ''said'' that) while trying to convince him to escape from the avalanche of tribbles about to crush him to death.

* With the announcement of a new spinoff series featuring Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock serving aboard the USS ''Enterprise'', it has been observed that the original ''Star Trek'' pilot "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" technically ''finally'' got picked up for a first season order, albeit with everyone recast.