First 10 on quite awhile... Season has been ho hum for quite a few episodes, even a couple garbage ones but this.. Was excellent.
Last year, even this year's season, the discovery and her crew have been .. Superman.. Some one from outside reminding others of the best they could be. From a time when the federation were full of hope.
All plots this episode were great, council, zora, absolutely love Kovich.. Cronenberg brings that gravitas.
It's been a great season so far. I'm glad they're exploring the positive and competent aspects of the crew and its role in this future.
Isn't the spore drive capable of cross universe travel like they did at the end of season 1 with the mirror? ?? Why does douche scientist need the dma power source of the shrooms can get him home?
Good question. It might be a case of end-to-start writing again, but it might be something else since he's obviously untrustworthy. We'll have to see once all is said and done.
It's strange to think that, as of the middle of the fourth season, there's a good chance we're probably about half-way through Discovery. I think we've now reached the second half of the show.
Time flies.
It's been a long road.
Just a thought--in Tarka's first appearance, he was so cocky that he felt he could basically recreate a mini version of the anomaly on Discovery itself. Now, it's stated that the anomaly is so far beyond his power and knowhow and that of the Fed's, and Tarka needs to steal a power source from it to jump universes.
It may not be a contradiction per se especially when technobabble is added in, but the sudden change in tone is sort of jarring.
He seems to be conning Book, so I'm not sure we can take anything he's said at face value. Neither his goals nor his motivations can be trusted. Some of it may end up being true (at least in parts), but I suspect this was at least a con to get Book to pilot the Spore Drive for him using his device on Book's ship. He needed Book, because they don't have any other Navigators yet. Everything else between them is pretense for that.
I really can't stand him (the actor's doing a fine job, though). I'm concerned that someone wearing so many "I'm just this side of being a bad guy" flags isn't throwing the entire crew into at least Yellow Alert around him during their personal interactions. He's well beyond Stamet's grouchy cockiness. I guess they've finally healed from Lorca, but it does make the crew seem a bit dim/naive more than I suspect it's meant to. I appreciate the implication that Starfleet is adopting shady figures Operation-Paperclip style, but I'd expect some on the crew to be more wary than just worried that he isn't being sufficiently careful. Just because Starfleet is trusting him doesn't mean Discovery should since they come from a different perspective; after all, that's one of the useful differences the show has in the new premise.
Zora indicated she knew they were powerful based on knowing the species. That's the reason she didn't reveal the coordinates immediately. She knows something about them.
That's what I thought, too, but after seeing the responses here I rewatched the scene and the wording is clear in retrospect but was subtly misleading for me. I immediately thought they were setting up a reveal that the aliens responsible are the Kelvans, but now I'm less certain. SF wouldn't have known about them yet when Discovery left, but I'm sure they've updated their databases by now and Zora would be aware of them (if she didn't already have knowledge as the Sphere). The fact that they've brought up the galactic barrier also makes me wonder if they're going to examine that concept further. Why is it there? Are the ones responsible for the DMA also responsible for the barrier? Is the milky way inside of a petri dish?
I'm still not convinced that there's any basis to assume it's not a natural phenomena, but I'm pretty sure we're supposed to
accept the premise even though there's no logic to it; I doubt they're using it as a red herring, but it seems like a missed opportunity making it be a potential adversary (intentionally or accidental).
The constant questions around here about the Klingons do make me wonder... could they be connected to this? Has the show been keeping quiet about them hoping we don't ask until the reveal? Seems very unlikely to me, but it's also the sort of thing earlier seasons of the show would have thought was terribly clever so I can't completely rule out such a silly idea. I definitely hope not.
I do wonder about their fate. Given how much this show has developed the idea that Klingons were deeply into time travel research, I'm concerned they were specifically targeted and as a result were a casualty of the Temporal Cold War. That could be an interesting concept, and one that Burnham might wrestle with given her history with them.
