Meanwhile, Tilly has been hijacked and kidnapped by a vengeful mycelial alien, and Saru is dying. At the heart of it all, we’ve got a new Crystalline Entity situation - a super-ancient molten space rock that’s also … alive? - infecting the ship like a virus and pushing its systems toward catastrophic shutdown. But thankfully, this time its many threads are confined to the ship, and they work together to create a delightfully cacophonous new profile that actually does pull off the “what if Discovery but also The Next Generation?” experiment. It all makes sense now! These are the biggest dorks of Starfleet, and this week we saw them in full-on geek mode as they rushed to solve a fistful of mysteries - all while feeling the biggest feelings.Īs with “New Eden” a couple weeks ago, there’s a lot going on in “An Obol for Charon” (a reference to the coin one must pay the ferryman in Greek mythology to cross the river Styx into the underworld). If the Enterprise and Voyager were Gryffindors, the Discovery is a Ravenclaw.* And this insane pacing (not to mention all the hard science that’s more rigorous than anything seen in Treks previous) is all part of the show’s earnest, eager-beaver science nerd persona. Until now, it was easy to forget that this (save perhaps Pike now) is a ship full of absolute nerds.Įvidently it took the (glorious) return of Tig Notaro’s Jett Reno and her unbelievably good scientist roasts to make me realize it’s not just Tilly and Stamets getting psyched about “the power of math, people” - relative to the rest of the Federation, the entire Disco crew is all Tillys. Discovery NCC-1031 is a science vessel has been a given from the start, but almost every episode to date has flown in the face of that designation, what with all the dimension-jumping and Klingon-battling. Time will tell, of course, but I’m pretty certain that this week’s episode has finally shown us Discovery’s DNA what this show is going to be, both in the pantheon of Treks and as its own series.
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