The note at the top of the article has got me speculating on the meaning of the word play:
Episode 10 of season 1 of Starfleet Academy is titled “Rubincon,” and no, that is not a typo for “Rubicon.”
The suffix con leaps out.
Brakka seems a full on dark triad kind of villain. With that comes the Machiavellian manipulation and deceit, including cons.
For rubin, the first part of the word, the dictionary definitions I find say that it’s an obsolete word for ruby (alternative spelling is rubine).
So literally, the title of the episode means, well, “ruby + con”.
Which gets us back to a sound-alike for rubicon…
Clearly the writers are making a point here with this double entendre.
My money’s on the red wall of omega-47 being a grossly gigantic con where the isolation of the Federation is not quite the threat it seemed at the end of episode 9.
However, is it only Brakka who is responsible for the con, or is and has Anisha Mir been part of a long con of both Ake and her son from the start?
And, what is it that Brakka and Anisha Mir are really after with all this?
My money’s on the red wall of omega-47 being a grossly gigantic con where the isolation of the Federation is not quite the threat it seemed at the end of episode 9.
It would be very funny if Braka only had two omega molecules, and detonated them both last week as a show of force.
Looking again at the production photo of Tatiana Maslany as Anisha Mir, there may be an entirely different long con going on from the Federation side.
Could be a coincidental styling choice but, Anisha seems to be dressed in something close to a Section 31 uniform!
So, speculation…
We know from Discovery that Starfleet and the 32nd century Federation have some kind of shadowy espionage and covert operations organization.
Could it be possible that Anisha, who was known to Nahla Ake, was more than a desperate mother looking to trade her skills to the Venari Ral for sustenance for herself and her child?
Was there some kind of deep covert mission that went profoundly wrong? If so, was Ake read in?
If Anisha is somehow a Federation operative, how will Caleb deal with his being put at risk, then sacrificed for an operation?
Anisha may be less morally culpable for her actions as an infiltrator of the Venari Ral, but as a mother putting her child in the line of harm, there is a completely different calculus.
The picture of Anisha looks to me like she’s betrayed everyone and the dude in the background with what seems to be a weapon is with her.
Lura is back. I feel like it’s been a few weeks since we’ve seen her.
I was very relieved to see Lura back
I hope we’ll see much more of her in season two.
