They conclude that the shockwave that hit the Discovery in last week's episode was a result of Su'Kal freaking out and consequently whatever frightened him 125 years ago, caused a much bigger shockwave - the Burn. What.? A subspace component? What does that even mean? ![]() Adira adds to his dubious deduction by informing us matter-of-factly that dilithium has a subspace component, consequently Su'Kal would have a genetic connection to subspace as well. Su'Kal is genetically connected to dilithium his genes have mutated to allow his body to interact with dilithium in unique ways. It can cause an individual's genes to be affected by their environment," he says. "That's when a normal chromosomal separation is disrupted in utero. Culber explains that he suspects Su'Kal is a polyploid. On the Khi'eth holodeck, Saru is slowly making progress convincing Su'Kal that he is actually Kelpien as they chat over a nice, hot bowl of Sàì-núù-lem. Discovery jumps to warp, closely followed by the Viridian and the Ni'var fleet. Vance orders the Ni'var fleet to hold back. The shields collapse on Federation HQ and Osyraa threatens some sort of chemical attack … in space … where it's necessary for ships to be airtight. One can only imagine how much 32nd century blasters would benefit from the inclusion of actual sights. However, Osyraa closes all the deck doors and begins bleeding the atmosphere into space. The bridge crew, led by Ensign Tilly (Mary Wiseman) are attempting to reach the bridge, blasting Osyraa's Regulators with the help of the those little DOT-23 droids that are now being controlled by the sphere data/Zora. On the Discovery, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Book (David Ajala) are bought to the bridge and then almost immediately taken away again, to sickbay to be tortured. Interestingly, the fleet from Ni'var arrives to assist and Burnham's mum, Gabrielle, is a no-show, which makes the whole emotional comms call from the Nakatomi building Jeffries tube in last week's episode somewhat less important to the plot of "Discovery" and more important in keeping with the influence of "Die Hard." With little lead, he's suddenly been written as a monumental tool, believing that he's the only one in danger of losing a loved one. (Also, this is how you write space battles.) Stamets seems to have totally lost his cool after Burnham saved his life last week and pleads with Vance to go back to Discovery to use the spore drive to rescue Culber. It would certainly make a change at this stage. ![]() It seems that every "Star Trek" finale incorporates a large-scale space fight it's not clear if the writers on "Star Trek" are aware that the story arc can include a large-scale space fight at any point in the season and an equivalent amount of tension can be achieved through a number of dramatic methods. Inside Starfleet HQ, Admiral Vance (Oded Fehr) gives orders that every starship open fire on Discovery while the Viridian, Osyraa's (Janet Kidder) ship is blasting the shield from outside. ![]() It's great to Jones being able to act in the flesh - so to speak - and utilize more of his expressions since many of the roles he is well known for, like "Hellboy" and "The Shape of Water" required him to wear heavy prosthetic make-up.Īdmiral Vance has developed into a great character and we hope to see more of Kovich in Season 4. Culber (Wilson Cruz) is gazing at the gormagander, a sentient cosmozoan species, which have a very similar production design and undulating motion to the giant space orchids we saw in " Picard." Saru (Doug Jones) is still trying to talk some sense to Su'Kal (Bill Irwin). We begin back on the KSF Khi'eth, which itself is on the dilithium planet in the Verubin nebula. Happy ones, sad ones, dying ones, still alive ones, proud ones, angry ones and even suffocating ones. The first thing to note is that, at at 1 hour and 2 minutes, this episode is longer than any other installment of "Discovery." But before long, you'll realize some of that gets taken up with the season recap (2½ minutes) and then later, as the episode unfolds, you'll see that much of that runtime is filled with So Many Face Shots of the bridge crew, so many. The traditional Kelpien dish Sàì-núù-lem has got to be easier to cook than it is to spell.
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