That the Burn, the tragedy that turned the 32nd century into a dystopian Wild West, was caused by a grieving child is a classic Trek twist, and Dr Culber and Adira effortlessly follow in the footsteps of Spock and Data when they work out what’s going on – they talk about polyploids and the resonant frequency of subspace as if they’re the most normal things in the world. The episode also shows it hasn’t forgotten its roots when it rolls out some old-school techno-speak. My one quibble is that the inside of Discovery seems implausibly large – have they borrowed some tech from the TARDIS since their move to the future? Inviting us behind the curtain of Turbolift technology is an ingenious move, a deep cut of Trek lore that just happens to allow for exhilarating chase scenes – it plays out like someone taking a joyride on Willy Wonka’s Great Glass Elevator. This has all the scale of a blockbuster movie, whether it’s ship-to-ship combat inside Starfleet HQ, or phaser fights in Discovery’s corridors.
Here, it just feels like the writers’ room backed themselves into a corner they couldn’t get out of.Įven if this isn’t Star Trek’s finest hour in terms of plotting, you can’t fault this season finale for ambition. In Harry Potter, they explain such contrivances away with a magical Room of Requirement. And the person who drops this bombshell? None other than Aurellio, the genius Emerald Chain scientist who was working for Osyraa barely 10 minutes earlier, yet has now apparently been inducted to the Discovery bridge crew. And it’s no problem when you think she’s about to be blown up by the warp nacelle she’s just sabotaged, because a Sphere Data-powered DOT droid turns up in the nick of time to play guardian angel.Įven Stamets’ absence is no barrier to using the spore drive, when it’s revealed – out of the blue – that Book’s enhanced empathic abilities give him a direct line to the mycelial network. Concerned about the crew suffocating when the Chain turn off their life support? Don’t worry, Lt Owosekun has a previously unseen talent for holding her breath for 10 minutes at a time. When she’s not taking down Emerald Chain Regulators with the ease of a Jedi slicing through Stormtroopers, she’s being helped by a succession of convenient plot devices that beam in from nowhere. Perhaps we should have read more into the episode’s title: "That Hope is You, Part 2" is the follow-up to the season premiere, when Burnham made a go of it after landing in the 32nd century all alone.įor all the Discovery crew’s efforts, Burnham’s greatest ally in the episode is deus ex machina. Despite a history of insubordination, Burnham’s always been one of Starfleet’s most capable officers, yet here she’s just too good to be true.
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She fights, she wisecracks and makes physics-defying leaps, all while still finding time to send a coded message to Tilly containing instructions on how to disable the ship. Not only is she the smartest person in the room – as Burnham has been since day one, to be fair – she’s now a full-blown action hero.
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