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Because of his senses? They'd be far more useful in sensing ambushes and deception than be a liability.
It's been a while since I saw season 1, but wasn't his early behavior characterized by a desire to avoid stress? Discovery definitely benefited from his skills and senses though.
Nah, not quite. His character was built like a prey animal so he has heightened stress in general. If he was actively trying to avoid stress then he wouldn't have taken on the job of First Officer, wouldn't have stayed with Starfleet after the Battle of the Binary Stars, etc. He's the first of his kind that they've made first contact with so he's a fairly bold individual. The short trek elaborates more on that as it takes place when he's on Kaminar and contacting Georgiou.
He doesn't actively seek out stress but he doesn't run from it either.
His main thing was that he had a heightened sense of death and danger due to his being a 'prey species'. Just acted like a spooked horse most of the time. At least until his Vahari anyway.
Damn, ok I need to watch s1 again 😆
I don't blame you for skipping through it. Honestly, I usually do too. I'll stick to a few key episodes that are important or that I like but 95% of Star Trek shows have a weaker first season.
I can also see why you thought that. He is constantly nervous in the first season and first half of the second. It makes sense that you'd come to the conclusion he tries to avoid stress. I just happen to have most of Discovery memorized at this point. Half for love of it / half from years of watching scenes and reading episodes to refute some of the more insane criticisms that I hear people make.
🤣 My S1 recollections are most bad because I watched a black market copy I got from a Ferengi. If I remember correctly one episode was in German so I just relied on kinda sorta deciphering the French subtitles. (I don't speak French)
... Jesus lmao