Story: Battle at the Binary Stars
The second half of the pilot, which premiered the same night, but exclusively on CBS All Access (the first half basically used as a tease on primetime TV to tease fans into finishing the pilot online), is as solid as the first...with Burnham locked up for her actions at the previous episode's conclusion, and the Shenzhou must now try and figure out the best course of action in the face of 24 Klingon ships (representing each of the major houses) suddenly at their door.
The episode focuses a lot on the Klingon T'Kuvma, and what his intentions are, which is to unite the Houses and become the new leader of the Empire, and he believes he can do this through taking on the Federation in all out War. He is able to convince the other leaders to do this when all the Starfleet back up shows up, and the declare, as he predicts, that the come in peace. From there War is declared and they attack the Federation.
Meanwhile in the Brig, Burnham is able to communicate with Sarek via his Katra (which apparently he shared with her during her childhood during some traumatic event), and he is able to give her the encouragement she needs to escape the Brig (in which she will most certainly die, becuase of damage to the ship in the battle), and once she does escape, she teams back up with Georgiou who, despite her disappointment in Burnham's actions, still has a level of trust for her, and decides to take her advice and attempt to beam aboard the Klingon ship and capture T'Kuvma. This course of action would humiliate the attempted leader of the Klingon Empire, thus keeping the Houses from uniting...whereas killing him would only make him a martyr.
But unfortunately, the plan falls apart when in their attempt to capture him, T'Kuvma kills Georgiou, and in a moment of weakness Burnham shoots and kills T'Kuvma...thus making him the martyr they hoped to avoid, and only perpetuating the war they hoped to end before the battle was over. The war continues, and the episode ends with a Tribunal, in which Burnham is convicted of Mutiny, and sentenced to life in Prison. It's a fascinating way to end a Star Trek pilot...your main character is not only not the Captain of a ship, but we have yet to even see the titular ship of the show, it's Captain, and our main character is now a convict on her way to prison!
Say what you will about the new show, but it is certainly attempting to boldly go in a new directions for Trek!
NEXT TIME: Black Alert
Written By: Akiva Goldsman & Bryan Fuller
Series: Star Trek: Discovery
Year: 2017The second half of the pilot, which premiered the same night, but exclusively on CBS All Access (the first half basically used as a tease on primetime TV to tease fans into finishing the pilot online), is as solid as the first...with Burnham locked up for her actions at the previous episode's conclusion, and the Shenzhou must now try and figure out the best course of action in the face of 24 Klingon ships (representing each of the major houses) suddenly at their door.
Meanwhile in the Brig, Burnham is able to communicate with Sarek via his Katra (which apparently he shared with her during her childhood during some traumatic event), and he is able to give her the encouragement she needs to escape the Brig (in which she will most certainly die, becuase of damage to the ship in the battle), and once she does escape, she teams back up with Georgiou who, despite her disappointment in Burnham's actions, still has a level of trust for her, and decides to take her advice and attempt to beam aboard the Klingon ship and capture T'Kuvma. This course of action would humiliate the attempted leader of the Klingon Empire, thus keeping the Houses from uniting...whereas killing him would only make him a martyr.
But unfortunately, the plan falls apart when in their attempt to capture him, T'Kuvma kills Georgiou, and in a moment of weakness Burnham shoots and kills T'Kuvma...thus making him the martyr they hoped to avoid, and only perpetuating the war they hoped to end before the battle was over. The war continues, and the episode ends with a Tribunal, in which Burnham is convicted of Mutiny, and sentenced to life in Prison. It's a fascinating way to end a Star Trek pilot...your main character is not only not the Captain of a ship, but we have yet to even see the titular ship of the show, it's Captain, and our main character is now a convict on her way to prison!
Say what you will about the new show, but it is certainly attempting to boldly go in a new directions for Trek!
NEXT TIME: Black Alert