Story: Die Trying
There are some leaps of logic needed for this episode to work. Why does Burnham think of a ship and somehow that ship is still in service 900 years into the future? These are issues that a quick rewrite could sort out easily. Just have the Admiral mention that they know of and where a ship may be, but it is too far away to access or something, and Discovery can come in with their magic mushroom machine and save the day. It just seems odd to me that Burnham suggested the ship. I'm fine with her suggesting the idea of needing to study the plant life from where the aliens made their pit stop, but it seems overly convenient that she also knows the ship, and that the ship is still doing it's seed collection so far into her future.
Written By: Sean Cochran
Series: Star Trek: Discovery
Year: 2020
Discovery makes it's way to what is left of the Federation, and finds they are not welcomed with open arms, but trepidation. What they didn't know is that there was some fall out from the Temporal Cold War (oh god...that thing...), and as such any time travelers are going to fall under suspicion. But also facing the Federation is some alien refugees who are ill. Somehow Burnham remembers some ship with seeds, and that ship is still in service and out there somewhere...so they need to prove themselves by going to get the seeds in order to figure out an antidote for this poor dying alien race.
They find the ship, and the current steward is one of Nhan's people. His family was killed and he is phasing in and out...the Disco Dream team of Reno-Tilly-Stamets realize he was probably mid-beam when the ship was hit by some star stuff...and that is why he is messed up but survived. They are able to use the transporter to save him, but his family is gone. Nhan realizes she is homesick and welcomes the idea of staying with him in order to keep the mission alive. The mission is a success and it helps put Discovery's crew in the Admiral's good graces. He was intending to split up the crew and retrofit their ship, but he is now holding off on those plans.
There is also a small B-plot involving Georgiou being interrogated by David Cronenberg. Those scenes are worth it for the laid back Cronenberg performance. They also seem to have had some sort of effect on her which will no doubt come into play later.
This is a solid episode. I had some problems with the set up for the mission, but once Disco was on this mission I thought it worked well. I would not mind Georgiou disappearing forever. I liked her character as the good captain in the pilot (and a show starring the trio from that episode would have been delightful), and her initial turn as the evil Emperor, but everything in the Prime universe with her evil queen shtick I find tiresome. She is too tongue in cheek and the star of many choreographed fight sequences. I wish they had made a show in which she got to play that good Captain for longer.
Oh and as someone from Northeast Ohio I totally caught this writer trying to sneak in a Cleveland reference with the USS Cuyahoga. I knew I'd look up Sean Cochran and find he was Cleveland after that. He didn't disappoint.
NEXT TIME: Rescuing Book
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