While my favorite season of
Star Trek: Discovery is still the second one, this soft reboot created a whole new world order while still honoring what came before. Even with Federation being weakened, I could feel the values of “Star Trek” throughout the whole season.
Michael Burnham finally came into her own as a leader, and her leadership character arc this season makes it worth waiting to see her as Captain of Discovery. In the first episode, “The Hope is You, Part 1”, Michael is violently disconnected from her adopted family and the U.S.S. Discovery. She has to forge a new, more rebellious, and off-the-cuff identity with Book as a courier. When Michael found Saru and the rest of the U.S.S. Discovery crew again, she has to slowly find a way to merge her new way of thinking with her identity as a Starfleet Commander.