If "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" establishes anything, it's that Stamets' sporegasms give him a kind of superpower to perceive things others can't, like being trapped in a time loop. Anything else?
Well, he does have a weird, seemingly throwaway line in this episode. After colliding with Burnham and giving her a sweet hug ("Why would you apologize for a random act of physical interaction? Y'know, these are the moments that make life so gloriously unpredictable!"), he turns to Tyler and, for no apparent reason, says, "You're a very tall man." Only...he's not. Tyler is on the tall side, but he doesn't seem to tower over other men around him. Saru towers. Tyler doesn't. But Stamets thinks he does.
Klingons are pretty tall, though. Hmm.
And then Stamets follows up with this: "May I say, you're astonishingly grounded for having endured seven months of torture." It's almost as though something he sees triggers this observation about the extreme unlikelihood of Tyler's story. Hmm again.
So Stamets has a superpower. Does it let him see Tyler's secret identity? Stay tuned...
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