Story: Scavengers
Saru is ordered to keep the ship on standby as there is a potential problem and they may need a ship that can jump in a flash to put out the fire. Unfortunately for Saru, Book's ship arrives with only Grudge (the cat) aboard. Along with it is a message to Michael from Book, who says he has found a black box from one of the old ships in the Burn, and if his ship arrives with just the cat something went wrong.
Written By: Anne Cofell Saunders
Series: Star Trek: Discovery
Year: 2020
Discovery gets a refit, taking many of it's 23rd Century tech but modernizing it with the latest and greatest of 32nd Century. The nacelles are now detached, their interfaces are crazy, even their combadges have a lot to offer...they aren't just communicators now, but also project interactive holograms and serve as tricorders too. It's impressive stuff! They did so much work on the ship, they even designated it the NCC-1031-A. Don't tell the Short Trek "Calypso" though, as many of these design changes will apparently be undone by the time of the ship's abandonment.
Burnham wants to go get the black box and clearly wants to rescue Book, but Saru needs her to ready the crew for their potential emergency mission. She decides to go anyway...with the one person she can count on for a rogue mission, Georgiou. This puts Saru in a tricky spot...he is trying to prove the ship and it's crew to Starfleet, but now he can't count on his own first officer. Meanwhile, Burnham and Georgiou are successful. Book is essentially a slave, and they rescue him and others from this servitude, and retrieve the black box.
For some reason, Burnham is hung up on the idea that the Federation cant possibly come together again unless they have solved the mystery of the Burn. I suppose it could help, but it seems odd that when there is a major mystery, many Federation members are like "well then I no longer WANT to work together!" To me it just feels like this writing staff can't envision a serialized story without some sort of hackneyed mystery box plot. The first season had it with the "what is up with Lorca" business, the second leaned hard into it with the ultimately unsatisfying Red Angel thing, and now we can't just explore the far future of the Trek universe, it has to be shrouded in some sort of mystery. Our crew being out of time and out of their element would be just as interesting without some kind of mystery plot.
Well the Admiral gives Burnham a good talking to, but leaves her actual punishment up to Saru since she saved lives. Saru reassigns her as just Science Officer because as First Officer he can't trust her at all.
NEXT TIME: New Vulcans and Romulans
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