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Star Trek: DiscoveryThe second season ended and it ended with a big hit. Several shots, even. In fact, his final season was about 90%. C & # 39; was Star Trek contrary to Star Trek as we have already seen, for better or for worse, but everything was built on something potentially more explosive than any amount of photon torpedoes could match.
Seriously, this episode was explosive! Not particularly revealing, apart from the end we'll talk about later, but by the simple mania action that resulted in much of "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" – an unimaginable reality on the franchise team New deep spaceThe Dominion War. It was as if something was coming out of Mass Effect, grandiose to the point of inconsistency sometimes, as the Business, the Discovery, a stream of modernized shuttles and survey modules, and some friends, old and new, have finally faced the fleet of Section 31 ships from Control. Which, it turns out, could shatter on even smaller ships, especially as phasers and explosions across the screen are reported.
And me mean constantly. The explosions were in the Discovery and Businessthey were out of it. They are even in the press photos!
We can not escape them.
But while the fights of this episode caused a lot of shock and fear,Star Trek loves to think of itself as a more cerebral space saga but can not resist a dazzling, action-filled dazzle, and has never done it – the main purpose she served was to distract us from the fact that nothing was not really event between the booms. Apart from a few remaining emotional bumps to take into account after last week's roller coaster, Michael Feelings has already shattered most of the biggest character stories of the season: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" is mostly about race at the most difficult time out of its climax.
A time that worked? Stamets and Culber realizing, amidst the fury of the battle, that they needed each other in their lives. One who does not? The incredibly delicate attempt to forge a link between Number One and Admiral Cornwell (two characters who barely exchanged or had the chance to do so, given Number One's lack of success this season) during 39, a scene and a half, before the latter decided to sacrifice himself so that the Business could safely contain the detonation of a torpedo stuck in his saucer.
Given the amount of pretty but dramatically empty stock that populated the episode elsewhere, I found myself wanting a tighter and unique episode, albeit perhaps a little lengthy, from the version of Such Sweet Sorrow "who would have better integrated the cleaning of the table last week. this week's wild action.
The consequences of the ginormal range of everything that takes place in the space would have felt a little heavier if this emotional heart was more directly absorbed by it. But Discovery lined these thoughts with another of his favorite distractions: nostalgic indulgence.
Why almost nothing happens? Look, the Enterprise draws old-school phaser beams! Why is Cornwell's sacrifice so hollow that his last moments are with characters with whom she barely had the chance to be on screen? Hey, the Klingons are here, they brought the D7s and they said today was a good day to die! No, seriously, why is the preparation for Michael and Spock's big moment so long? Just watch the explosions a little longer, they are not cool !!!
I was not even able to mention that at one point Leland was embarking Discovery and tries to collect the data directly, which leads to a complex corridor struggle between him and Georgiou, which results in the death of it by magnetizing the spore training chamber …somehow? It is swept very quickly. Maybe Georgiou found a scoop and then threw the pieces into the waste management system? But hey, Michelle Yeoh did some stunts, woo!
At least, when we reach this great moment of Michael and Spock, "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" takes a moment to calm down, gives up this sound and this fury to focus one last time on his duet the most powerful of the season. The double realization that not only Michael must return in the past of the season and plant the signals to guide it to this moment mentioned above, and this heartbreaking, wild explosion, a lot) means that Spock can not go back to the Discovery and traveling in the future with, it's beautiful. It's again a scene that explodes from the park (the park explodes by the way) of Sonequa Martin-Green and Ethan Peck. And unlike many inconsistencies elsewhere in the episode, it seemed like it had real issues as it reported, one last time, an emotional relationship that had built up during the second half of this season. He finally, among the flames of the battle, gave to this episode the heart which he lacked under his frightening spectacle.
With that Discovery found, through Michael, he could get rid of his past and take an incredibly daring step into an uncertain future. Because god they really did the thing!
Finally able to set his jump coordinates, Michael becomes the Red Angel, a purple light guiding the Discovery through a wormhole that will open and dump the ship 900 years into the future, on a planet where this season has really started its adventure. The show is no longer a prelude to the original Star Trekbut a distant sequel.
However, we do not yet have an idea of this future. Michael and the DiscoveryThe team finishes its story this season in a blinding white light, as it crosses the wormhole and makes sure that the timeline where Control has succeeded never arrives. One last indulgence: the last moments of the episode remained in the 23rd century to see what the Discovery left behind: the Business, gloriously restored after the battle. Pike aboard his familiar deck. Spock, with a shave and a haircut, in his blue uniform of the science division, taking his place, the the station, we will see it throughout the original hiking. We even see a hint of hiking Beyond this, Ash Tyler is entrusted with the task of reforming Section 31 into a better and more open structure than the pride of the organization that has let control take root and lay the foundation for its existence at the time of New deep space (where … it's really not a better or more open organization, so … good job, Ash?).
But again, this nostalgic indulgence is at the service of hope that his thrill will distract you from the awkward separation of Discovery of Star TrekHer official past (a necessity now that she throws herself into a distant future), as she tries to answer many questions raised by fans of the franchise since the beginning of the series. Why does not Spock ever mention the sister who wanted it? so a lot for him by the end of this season? Why does Starfleet apparently never work on Spore Drive technology? Why does the ship that saved the Federation from apparent destruction under the Klingon empire exist only as a footnote?
Because Spock tells Starfleet in his report that they should not talk about it, they demand that a full settlement be drafted Discovery was lost in the middle of a battle because of a misconception of spores, and that no one has ever mentioned, nor the drive, nor most of his crew (to know Michael), on pain of treason.
It's … extraordinarily awkward? But do you like it, Just look at this restored company! Look at the Vulock fringe of Spock! Do something besides paying attention to how weird it really is while simultaneously delivering the most shocking reversal of its premise, Discovery has also managed to find the most devious and ridiculous way to rationalize the tedious question of how to square the circle on the prequel format as a concept.
In this way, "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" looked a lot like the rest of the second half of the season for me. That is, after I accepted the fact that some of the most intriguing brain questions asked in his first half would not really have been addressed in his final phase. He burst inside, flying hundreds of miles a minute, flying over his pants or capitalizing on an emotional rhythm, hoping desperately that the heart or the frantic pace be so dazzling that you would not notice that very little really happened, and that little was only just makes narrative sense.
But I think I'm fine with a bit of deafening sound and fury, as long as it goes away with the promise – or rather the hope – that Discovery, having now obtained his greatest nostalgic indulgences from his system, is finally ready to go with audacity. Not just in a future of untapped potential never explored by the treks who preceded, but really in a realm where the show can finally be his own thing, and not have to rely on the simple thrill of nostalgia for classic Star Trek to paper on the flaws of his stories.
We will have to wait to see if that will keep its promise next season. For the moment, I will be very happy to be excited about the potential of the road ahead.
Assortment of reflections
- I'm sorry, but I have to say it: after a season of ability to get used to (and like) Panic! the Discovery Spock, seeing Ethan Peck in the classic bowl of the Vulcan bowl, was a) incredibly disarming and b) hungry for hokey? These favorites only do. Do not. Suit. Him.
- I can not say if it was intentional but this last shot of glory of the Business fly through the debris left behind when Discovery jumped in time, with a big bite missing in his saucer, made it look like the saucer design of the NX-01's Star Trek: Enterprise. Probably not, but so far, if something seemed to be a reference in this show, it's probably a reference.
- So it's interesting, and a little worrying, that Georgiou is always on board the boat. Discovery as it goes into the future, to the extent that it is supposed to receive its own series on Section 31. With Ash left to build section 31 in what we see in New deep spacemaybe we'll see Georgiou meet Section 31 of a distant future? Section 31 may not be as important as we have been led to believe, and it breaks away from the configuration Discovery must now do his own thing?
- Ok good, well: I always have hated this DiscoveryThe theme of the title ends by simply sweeping the fanfare of the theme of the original series – we always had the impression of not letting the new leitmotif fend for itself, while you become muffled on the head by reminding yourself that it 's been a precedent of the original. show. But to hear this awesome mix of the two themes of the series in the final credits was a good thing, and if that really ends up being the end of DiscoveryThe time is definitely in the 2250s, an appropriate final indulgence.
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