YMMV / Star Trek: Discovery S1E05 "Choose Your Pain"

• Broken Base: The episode features the Star Trek franchise's first on-screen use of the F-word. This split fans, with some not minding and even applauding the use of the language as it was used in the context of being excited over science, and those who felt it had no place in Star Trek and was a juvenile use of the license provided by the show's TV-MA rating. The fact no such language was used in previous episodes, and no such language appeared in succeeding episodes (at least for the remainder of the first half of Season 1), led to further debate over whether the language was appropriate or a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
• Misaimed Fandom: The Klingons' treatment of their Starfleet prisoners provoked some outrage among some of their fans, who typically claim that Klingons are honorable warriors and would never stoop to something so low as abusing prisoners or torturing them for information. In reality, however, we've seen Klingons in the "prime timeline"—namely Kor in "Errand of Mercy", and Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock—flat-out executing prisoners in order to try and force the protagonists into surrendering or revealing desired information. Additionally, a Klingon in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Apocalypse Rising" brags about how he deliberately killed a Benzite Starfleet captain by ripping off her breathing apparatus so she'd suffocate in an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. The Klingons actually taking honor seriously (as any concept that the show's target audience would recognize as honor) has always been an Informed Attribute, with the Klingons actually depicted as being huge fans of subterfuge and court politics. It's not for nothing that a Klingon Promotion has little to do with being recognized for one's merit and accomplishments on the battlefield.

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