Meanwhile, there’s some reasonably cool run-and-gun adventure happening concurrent with Michael’s sneaking in which Tilly leads the bridge crew to overpower their captors and begin arming themselves for battle. It’s been a while since she went full-on action hero, and it’s a good time, if a little derivative. The bulk of her journey is the most overtly Die Hard of any Trek episode since 1993’s “Starship Mine” - Michael taunts the black hat Zareh (Jake Weber) over a comlink and even ends up barefoot for a while. If she can get Stamets off the ship, then the Chain has no hope of stealing or reverse-engineering the technology. Stamets, the living key to Discovery ’s spore drive. Once inside, Michael must wander the ship alone looking for Lt. There’s also a sweet romantic moment between Michael and Book, and I continue to appreciate how their relationship can feel like part of the story without having to be the center of the drama. I hope its explosive last-second crash into the shuttle bay isn’t the last we see of the Not Millennium Falcon, because frankly that morphing effect is cool as hell and I’m not done looking at it. This sequence is great fun, providing some of the Star Wars -style space adventure that reliably comes about whenever Book’s ship is involved, answering the question as to why no one uses transwarp corridors in lieu of warp drive, and finally making good use of the puzzling fact that Discovery ’s barn door is always left open. Michael makes a dramatic entrance into this episode, as she and Book fly his ship through a dangerous abandoned transwarp corridor to intercept Discovery and board before she can enter Federation HQ. Now, with Discovery captured by the Emerald Chain, it’s Commander Michael Burnham’s turn to yippee-ki-yay.
Spore drive in action series#
Every Next Generation- era series has at least one episode where someone crawls through ducts and takes out an occupying force John McClane style.
The original Enterprise used to get seized by godlike beings regularly, requiring that the crew come up with some clever way of taking the ship back from a superior force. It’s a rite of passage for every lead Star Trek ship to get hijacked at least once. In true Star Trek fashion, Starfleet takes one last swing at peace, and failing that, our heroes prepare for war.
For part two in the trilogy, we leave the riddle of Su’Kal and the Burn behind for now and focus on the conflict between the Federation and the Emerald Chain. Last week’s episode kicked off the season’s three-part conclusion, uncovering its central mystery and making a true threat out of Osyraa (Janet Kidder) and the Emerald Chain, who capture Discovery and jump towards the hidden Federation headquarters.
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