Star Trek: Discovery 3.02
Oct. 23rd, 2020 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which we find out what happened to ship and crew.
I felt like hugging the entire crew. I missed them! Also, again, a great opening episode, reintroducing everyone and introducing them to the future. Also, let's hear it for Saru, who's come such a long way since the first time he had to assume command back in the Lorca and early s1 day. By now, he can balance authority and compassion, keeping focus but also be ready to change plans when a new situation arises very well indeed. And he didn't just have to deal with being stranded on an ice planet and evil warlords, but also with Georgiou. Speaking of balance, in s2 there were times when I wasn't sure whether the one between not forgetting who Mirror Philippa was and what she did in her past and moving her forward worked, but in this episode it does. Georgiou continues to be a (very dangerous) wild card. (And I will never object to the fanservice of finding ever new excuses to give Michelle Yeoh fight scenes.)
Meanwhile, awwww on Saru choosing Tilly to make a good first impression in the unknown future. And the best thing is, he's not being nice or patronising. Tilly has more than proved herself through the last two seasons in terms of bravery and inventiveness under fire. But she also has warmth and an ability to connect with people. (Even traumatized stoics like Michael, or runaway queens.) And is very observant. Alas for the first person she bonds with being the redshirt of the episode, but I'm satisfied that the other miners in the end are won over by the fact Tilly and Saru continue to display ethics (while also demonstrating their ability to fight, i.e. the ethics aren't because they have no other choice).
Much as I enjoy the Paul and Jet comedy engineering act, I'd enjoy it even more if Stamets got back to deploying sarcasm himself, now that he and Cullber are also emotionally reunited and neither of them is in a coma anymore, so get on that, script writers. I also hope we'll find more about Jet, now that she's on Discovery for good.
Kayla Dettmer: shocked or something else? I just hope we're truly done with Control, those "previously" flashbacks in combination of how she acted through the episode made me afraid some of the nanos made it from Leland's dead body into Dettmer's (though I don't see how, they were i completely different places and Leland was in a completely sealed area), and I really hope I'm wrong, because I want to be done with the Control plot.
Last week Michael and Book were wandering through volcanic landscapes, this week we get ice surrounding our crew; in both stories, the capacity to reach out, to help (see also: that exchange between Kirk and Edith Keeler about "let me help you" being the most important words in the universe) is key, as is not giving up hope and to respond to your own danger and misery not by concluding "to hell with everyone else" but to face the danger and misery together. Keep at it, Star Trek, you may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs to hear it.
Lastly: I'm glad Michael found them at the end. Two episodes with separate stories are fine, but no more, because Michael & the other regulars interaction is what I signed on for.
I felt like hugging the entire crew. I missed them! Also, again, a great opening episode, reintroducing everyone and introducing them to the future. Also, let's hear it for Saru, who's come such a long way since the first time he had to assume command back in the Lorca and early s1 day. By now, he can balance authority and compassion, keeping focus but also be ready to change plans when a new situation arises very well indeed. And he didn't just have to deal with being stranded on an ice planet and evil warlords, but also with Georgiou. Speaking of balance, in s2 there were times when I wasn't sure whether the one between not forgetting who Mirror Philippa was and what she did in her past and moving her forward worked, but in this episode it does. Georgiou continues to be a (very dangerous) wild card. (And I will never object to the fanservice of finding ever new excuses to give Michelle Yeoh fight scenes.)
Meanwhile, awwww on Saru choosing Tilly to make a good first impression in the unknown future. And the best thing is, he's not being nice or patronising. Tilly has more than proved herself through the last two seasons in terms of bravery and inventiveness under fire. But she also has warmth and an ability to connect with people. (Even traumatized stoics like Michael, or runaway queens.) And is very observant. Alas for the first person she bonds with being the redshirt of the episode, but I'm satisfied that the other miners in the end are won over by the fact Tilly and Saru continue to display ethics (while also demonstrating their ability to fight, i.e. the ethics aren't because they have no other choice).
Much as I enjoy the Paul and Jet comedy engineering act, I'd enjoy it even more if Stamets got back to deploying sarcasm himself, now that he and Cullber are also emotionally reunited and neither of them is in a coma anymore, so get on that, script writers. I also hope we'll find more about Jet, now that she's on Discovery for good.
Kayla Dettmer: shocked or something else? I just hope we're truly done with Control, those "previously" flashbacks in combination of how she acted through the episode made me afraid some of the nanos made it from Leland's dead body into Dettmer's (though I don't see how, they were i completely different places and Leland was in a completely sealed area), and I really hope I'm wrong, because I want to be done with the Control plot.
Last week Michael and Book were wandering through volcanic landscapes, this week we get ice surrounding our crew; in both stories, the capacity to reach out, to help (see also: that exchange between Kirk and Edith Keeler about "let me help you" being the most important words in the universe) is key, as is not giving up hope and to respond to your own danger and misery not by concluding "to hell with everyone else" but to face the danger and misery together. Keep at it, Star Trek, you may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs to hear it.
Lastly: I'm glad Michael found them at the end. Two episodes with separate stories are fine, but no more, because Michael & the other regulars interaction is what I signed on for.
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Date: 2020-10-23 05:55 pm (UTC)Yes! Loved this!
I'm hoping Detmer's stuff is related to the Burn and not to Control. That could easily be incorrect, but I'm hopeful.
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Date: 2020-10-24 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
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