Discovery Just Rammed Its Endgame Into a Pretty Solid Episode of Star Trek
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This week
Star Trek: Discovery screamed: “WE’RE IN THE LAST THREE EPISODES OF THE SEASON” at the top of its lungs. It did, in the typical
Discovery manner, a fine job of flinging big emotions, big stakes, big twists, and more at our faces to get us ready for season three’s climax. But unlike past seasons, it managed to also deliver its own take on a classic
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This week’s episode picks up right where last week left off, with the crew still gathered in the mess hall to memorialize Emperor Georgiou, but the gathering becomes the subject of several revelations in short order, thus allowing
Discovery to finally head to the Verubin Nebula to investigate the origins of the Burn.
We start with the return of Gray to Adria’s headspace. There are several things I like about this particular development. One is that it isn’t being treated like a delusion. Stamets not only takes Adira seriously, but even turns to address the empty area where Adira says Gray is in order to rebuke him for treating Adira poorly. And we’ve seen in
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novelist Dave Galanter, whose work included the Voyager
novel Battle Lines
novel Dead Endless
, lost his battle with cancer at the age of 51. He was a valued colleague and a dear friend, and he will be sorely missed. This week’s rewatches and reviews are dedicated to his memory.
So this week we find out the truth about who Carl is, we find out what Reno’s been doing all this time, we see Booker making himself useful to
Discovery, we continue our lengthy digression into the Mirror Universe, and we bid goodbye to Philippa Georgiou, at least until she gets her spinoff.