I was not a big fan until season 4 which I loved for it's slower pacing and overall themes, but I'm enjoying this one a lot for totally different reasons, like the ones you mentioned. Disco's cast really lends itself to "fun", on the rare times it attempts it.

I was hoping that we would get a Calypso reference when that music started playing. Oh well. I still felt the episode was a super fun ride.

Ash Tyler would have been pretty special.

Funny way of spelling Voq!

Would have been funny to bring fellow Cylon Landry back and have Rayner say "wait do I know you?"

Also, if it’s affecting his DNA, is that a property of his body? He still has his personality in memories from before he spliced tardigrade DNA so it’s not tied to the specific body itself but I thought it would have been hilarious if they went back in time and Stamets is just past Stamets.

I no longer remember why, but I had the impression that the Lorca-era jump was pre-gene splice. But I could be wrong.

Edit: I just remembered - Landry was still alive.

I would have loved to see a quick shot of him waking up in a bar in San Francisco or something while Discovery was under construction just going like “wait what”

The deleted scene we deserve.

Also, what is dragging him along with Burnham and Rayner, while the consciousnesses of everyone else are presumably unaware of the jumps? Come to think of it what's the point of the Time Bug if nobody involved is usually aware of it? Is the jumping just a side effect of the ship being "frozen" in time?

I rewatched "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" last night, and had the same thought.

It probably wouldn't work, because that "secret" was so strongly tied to Burnham's emotional state on the night of that party, but...honestly, that makes me want to see the scene play out even more.

Especially because of the Book scene!

I'd guess Zora didn't want to run the DOTs to clean things up anymore

I didn't think it was excessive, but I suppose I've never abandoned a place for thirty years.