![]() (Yes, yes, we get it: He’s Lando and Han.) They dose her with some vaporized cross between truth serum and poppers to get her to tell them where her merchandise is, which almost goes well. ![]() Apparently, the Andorians and the Orions have allied now, and they run the joint with a decidedly inconsistent hand, first failing to stop Michael at the doors for not having ID (her merchandise is way too valuable to pass up), then flubbing her arrest when Book betrays her by telling her their vault is the comms array and letting her walk into a stasis beam, freeing him to take the rest of her tech. Requiem and its mercantile were ripped straight out of the nearest cyberpunk franchise, with a splash of surly Mos Eisley Cantina clientele. Thanks to the Burn, the Federation is virtually nonexistent now, presumably having disintegrated into protectionism in the face of the ensuing resource crisis, so she needs to conceal her “true believer” status in this unfriendly new world. (Don’t worry, only fans of Star Trek: Enterprise will already know anything about this 31st-century conflict.)ĭilithium is now the most precious commodity in the known universe, thanks to a massive disaster known as the Burn, when the “galaxy took a hard left” and nearly all dilithium suddenly exploded, killing millions on warp-capable ships. En route, he reveals several critical new realities that send Michael reeling:Īfter the Temporal War, during which the Gorn destroyed a whopping two light-years of subspace, all time-travel technology was expressly banned, so her presence here is already sus. ![]() (I don’t blame him it is a little like she and her idealism came through the wormhole from the spring of 2019, while Book is everyone living through 2020.) However, he is “space broke,” and her offer of a mint-condition, 930-year-old antique tricorder finally sways him into taking her with him to Requiem, the city where he gets work as a courier, to find a comms array to contact Discovery. The pilot is a very good-looking, very distrustful rogue named Book (short for Cleveland Booker) who is in the middle of transporting some clandestine, extremely valuable stolen cargo and wants absolutely nothing to do with Michael. She collides with a ship on her way into 3188, so after getting no response from Discovery and sending the suit back to the 23rd century to set the last signal for Spock, she goes looking for him. Isn’t that great? We made it through the wormhole, and there’s life on the other side. And I have no idea what’s going to happen next. It’s exciting it’s beautiful it’s funny as hell it made me full-on sob at the end. Because after the dense, chaotic struggles of last season, “The Hope Is You, Part 1” is everything it needed to be. After a moment, her Daedalus suit’s computer chirps: “Multiple life signs detected.” That scream of relief and triumph that comes out of Sonequa Martin-Green’s mouth here? That’s the only natural way to respond to this episode. So at the outset of the premiere, Michael Burnham (“Science Officer, USS Discovery, serial number SC0064-0974SHN”) scans the seemingly barren planet, where she has crash-landed, for signs of life. And now? In this economy? Not to be dramatic, but the world really needs Star Trek to be great right now. It’s finally able to grow, unfettered by entrenched canon or unnecessary blockbuster aspirations (or unnecessary white guys - did y’all even see one this week?), into a series that will succeed or fail as a Star Trek show on its own merits. Finally Discovery was actually going where no one has gone before, rather than filling in the gaps of where others have been going for over a half-century. This season was always going to be do or die, literally and figuratively, even before the events of this year sent the world into chaos. And over the past few months, Lower Decks has done basically whatever it wanted, in a way that, for better or worse, has injected a breath of fresh, irreverent air into an otherwise brutal time.īut all this while the fate of our flagship nerd gang has weighed on my mind. Earlier this year, Picard did … all that. Section 31 and Strange New Worlds are in preproduction. ![]() So much has happened in the rebooted Star Trek universe since we left the Discovery crew last April.
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