Those two blokes weren't gay.
Remember when Dax kissed her goddang ex wife
right there on the frigging screen because they were both in love with each other? Trek's producers bent over backwards to assure the media that this wasn't a gay kiss Because Sci-Fi Reasons, so two chaps sharing a bathroom is not gay, Discovery, not by Trek standards.
I'm not saying we need a graphic sex scene to dispel any ambiguity - actually, yes. Yes I am.
Anyway. I might give it one more episode but that's it for me, I'm afraid.
Then I guess we'll see your fishy ass in the Orville thread where - in the interests of consistency - I will probably be discussing Star Trek Discovery.
I have theory why Lorca left Mudd behind: he'd seen TOS and found him a really annoying character and hoped he'd die on the Klingon ship so he wouldn't be in Lorca's show anymore. I don't blame him as - and you probably have no idea that this is the case - I really fucking hate the Harry Mudd character.