I watched star trek growing up, the same way people watched tv back in the day: whenever I found it, without knowing which season or episode it was. She’s binging all of it (and I mean all of it). I’ve been reading stuff up on Memory Alpha regardless of her efforts, especially when something on here piques my curiosity.
She has no idea. Jadzia is her favourite character, and I have to constantly be :X about all of that.
Last night I finally ended up seeing how they justified the jump to the year 3000+ in discovery. “oh, why do you want to watch season 3 and not anything else” , “because SPOILERS”
No, silly. He has an inertial damping field around him that essentially transfers his own indestructibility to any object or person he is holding, at will. It’s the same principle that keeps his cape and tights from getting shredded when he walks through explosions or gets shot. The sheer force of impact crumples the very front of the train, but the rest of it will be fine.
In this case, he is just respecting the child’s own personal space and choosing to risk the corporate-owned property of the train rather than potentially upsetting the child.
Byrnian revisionism! This is clearly the golden age version of the character, where all his powers came from Earth’s lower gravity and the writer of the moment’s whims.