62. Blue Redshirt (Discovery 3.06)

They had us at "unsanctioned mission".

• the Luke-Vader heist of Anika's dreams
• the teams are fracturing and it's AWFUL but also a bit great
• does Michael actually want to be in Starfleet? Did she ever choose to be in Starfleet?
• Michael Burnham and the Series-Long Badge Motif
• Michael/Book: how do we love it? We cannot even begin to count the ways!
• a Culmets duck family
• is Grudge a real cat: y/n?

We also go off on a wholly irrelevant tangent about the ENT episode "Carpenter Street".