Story: Rosetta
Written By: Terri Hughes Burton
Series: Star Trek: Discovery
Year: 2022
A small away team lead by Burnham and Saru head to a dead planet that shows signs of possibly once being the home of Species 10-C. While there they face crazy hallucinations and eventually realize that the dust in the air and around the planet can convey emotions of the 10-C. It's possible that this is a way they communicate, and as such gives Discovery some possible way forward to communicate with the species should they find a way into their crazy hyperfield.
Meanwhile, Book and Tarka are following Discovery and want to sneakily attach Book's ship without their knowledge, as Book is sure Burnham will find a way into their hyperfield before even the idiot genius Tarka can. They sneak onto Discovery in order to bypass some sensors. Book also overhears the Earth General/Delegate show concern for the current course of action and he decides to enlist her help in their plans. Tarka gets caught by Reno bypassing the sensors, so he takes her hostage.
I like the concept of an alien species communicating via emotions. I doubt they will fully stick to that, but it would be neat if they did. Book is increasingly just seeming like he is in too deep. He has to see at some point that maybe he has lost perspective. Tarka is increasingly just a selfish dick. He can tell all the sob stories he wants like the previous episode, but he is just being selfish, and his motives aren't, as he keeps saying, about saving billions of lives, it is about getting this power source. Why the General still agrees to work with Book is also kind of beyond me because, as she says, he and Tarka's actions in blowing up the previous DMA have now set a more powerful one on course for Earth. Why is Book or this general still thinking that Tarka's plan is still the best plan: he already did his "best plan" and it failed miserably. Morons.
NEXT TIME: Making First Contact
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