Story: Perpetual Infinity
Written By: Alan McElroy & Brandon Schultz
Series: Star Trek: Discovery
Year: 2019
I found last week's episode to be very tedious, with it's information dump and Section 31 nonsense, luckily this week still has a lot of info it wants to get out there, but it does so in a more organic way. Michael awakes in sickbay in the aftermath of last week's episode. Initially she believes that the whole twist from last week may have been a dream or hallucination. She is quickly informed that the Red Angel is, in fact, her long dead mother. This is a lot to take in for her and, spoiler alert, she spends 90% of this episode in tears. Meanwhile on the Section 31 ship, the AI known as Control has overtaken Leland's body and is attempting to find a way to get the Sphere Data so it can become truly sentient and destroy everything.
Michael wants to talk with her mother, but her mother isn't as interested. It seems that years of struggling with Time Travel and the Red Angel suit failing to take her home for any significant period of time, and her long struggle to stop Control from becoming sentient and destroying everything has turned her cold and keeps her from looking back to Michael any longer. Only her mission to save the universe matters now. At the same time, the Discovery crew can only keep her trapped in a containment field for so long, because for some reason she is being pulled back into the future. They attempt a plan to send the data to the Red Angel suit and hopefully send it back into the future with out Dr. Burnham, but Control's attempt to hijack the info screws the plan up...and Michael is forced to let go of her mother yet again.
Her mom is pulled back to the distant future, Discovery returns the away team, and tries to blow up the place with Control/Leland still on the surface. But it seems he escaped to the Section 31 ship and has taken off. Oh yeah and earlier in the episode Tyler discovered Leland is now Control and gets stabbed. He ended up in an escape pod at the end of the episode so we can keep him around next week. Joy.
I think this second half of the season may have been something of a letdown from the first half, but I'm not miserable watching it. This episode was stronger than the last few weeks, but overall I would say that the first half felt like it had a stronger focus, and this half does not. Ironically they've been diving deeper into the arc and less into episodic adventures, so why does it feel unfocused? Perhaps because the Red Angel and the Seven Signals were more intriguing as a mystery. I don't know. Anyhow, this one gave me hope that the show can still make this story work. If they could learn where to cut the fat on a regular basis, we'd be in business.
NEXT TIME: Boreth
Written By: Alan McElroy & Brandon Schultz
Series: Star Trek: Discovery
Year: 2019
I found last week's episode to be very tedious, with it's information dump and Section 31 nonsense, luckily this week still has a lot of info it wants to get out there, but it does so in a more organic way. Michael awakes in sickbay in the aftermath of last week's episode. Initially she believes that the whole twist from last week may have been a dream or hallucination. She is quickly informed that the Red Angel is, in fact, her long dead mother. This is a lot to take in for her and, spoiler alert, she spends 90% of this episode in tears. Meanwhile on the Section 31 ship, the AI known as Control has overtaken Leland's body and is attempting to find a way to get the Sphere Data so it can become truly sentient and destroy everything.
Her mom is pulled back to the distant future, Discovery returns the away team, and tries to blow up the place with Control/Leland still on the surface. But it seems he escaped to the Section 31 ship and has taken off. Oh yeah and earlier in the episode Tyler discovered Leland is now Control and gets stabbed. He ended up in an escape pod at the end of the episode so we can keep him around next week. Joy.
I think this second half of the season may have been something of a letdown from the first half, but I'm not miserable watching it. This episode was stronger than the last few weeks, but overall I would say that the first half felt like it had a stronger focus, and this half does not. Ironically they've been diving deeper into the arc and less into episodic adventures, so why does it feel unfocused? Perhaps because the Red Angel and the Seven Signals were more intriguing as a mystery. I don't know. Anyhow, this one gave me hope that the show can still make this story work. If they could learn where to cut the fat on a regular basis, we'd be in business.
NEXT TIME: Boreth
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