‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 4 Teaser Reveals Captain Burnham’s Biggest New Threat (Video)
Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) took command of the U.S.S. Discovery at the end of Season 3Lawrence Yee | April 5, 2021 @ 2:39 PM
Fans got an extended preview of Season 4 of “Star Trek: Discovery” Monday, the first with Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the captain’s chair. The teaser dropped as part of First Contact Day celebrations.
Burnham took command of the U.S.S. Discovery at the end of Season 3 when Saru left the ship to return to his homeworld of Kaminar and mentor his fellow Kelpian Su’Kaul.
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.
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The fourth season of
Enterprise involved slave markets (more sexy green women), but late in the season, an Orion male reveals that even though their women appear to be slaves they are actually the enslavers, using pheromones to manipulate and control the men around them. The slave auctions involving Orion women seen earlier in the season are just a ruse to get close to powerful men. Sexy aliens are OK if they’re the ones who have the power, right?
Voyager’s “Macrocosm“), and now
Discovery takes its turn as Burnham, Book, and the bridge crew work to take the ship back from Osyraa.
There’s a lot to like about “There is a Tide…” only some of which involves the
Die Hard riff. But what’s great about the action-movie parts of the episode is that there is very little of the stupid plot tricks that tend to mar such plotlines. It starts with Osyraa not going right away into Starfleet HQ, but (a) having a plan and (b) not being able to implement that plan until her crew has the hang of running the ship.
Credit: CBS
Okay, my favorite part of the the third-season finale of
Discovery is the ending: the closing credits, which employs the closing-credits music from the original series. This probably would’ve been even niftier last week, which was the 800th installment of
Trek onscreen, but it’s still a nifty little call-back to end this season, and as we just completed a year that had three new seasons of
Trek in it.
isn’t a cliffhanger, which is a welcome relief, frankly.
There’s, um, a lot going on here, most of it good, some of it head-scratching, none of it actively horrible, though there were some moments there where I was really worried. And that non-cliffhangery ending is wonderful in so many ways, but the status quo it leaves for our two leads is problematic.