Interestingly, the ‘last time’ preview shows footage from one the first Short Treks episodes, where Tilly meets an alien intruder. Intrigued to see the relevance to this episode.
Discovery prepares to evacuate in preparation to destroy it. We see the crew grab their more valuable items as Discovery docks to the Enterprise. Before she departs, Burnham grabs the time crystal and sees a violent future imminently. The crew embarks on to the Enterprise. We see a shinier and more digital version of the Enterprise’s bridge. I don’t remember it being this red. Number One comments that the ship has permanently deactivated its ability to take holographic communications (a bit of messy continuity but okay).
Pike orders auto-destruct of Discovery, but (naturally) it fails. Pike prepares to fire at Discovery instead, but the ship has raised shields. Burnham flashes to a memory of the future of Discovery being crippled, Leland boarding and killing her and the crew.
Burnham comes to and tells them to not fire (I can’t tell if she’s travelled back to before they fired their first volley or not). She proposes they send the entire ship to the future to get out of Control’s reach. I really hope what this is leading to is the premise of se3 being set in the future Star Trek timeline …
They prepare to build a new Red Angel suit for Burnham to lead Discovery into the future. Spock speculates that that would mean Burnham is in fact responsible for the red signals the crew have been following, as it wasn’t her mother. Almost on cue, the 5th signal appears, and the crew prepares to leave for it, Discovery jumping and Enterprise warping.
They arrive at the planet belonging to the alien Tilly met in the Short, Po. Po bonds with a lot of the crew, except of Georgiou. Po works out how to get them to the future, but it will burn out the time crystal, stranding Burnham in the future. Burnham tells the crew about her destiny. Tyler is reluctant to let her, but Burnham gives a parting speech.
Sarek and Amanda arrive on Discovery to talk to Burnham, where they share an emotional moment. :’)
As Burnham prepares to leave, she bumps into Tilly, who leads her to members of Discovery who insist on coming to the future with her. Except for Tyler, who stays behind to ensure nothing like Control emerges from S31. Which apparently upsets Burnham despite the fact she didn’t want any of them coming with her.
Saru leaves a message for his sister, Tilly for her mother, Staments to a sibling and other members of the crew to their loved ones. Discovery moves away from Xahea, as Pike, wearing his Enterprise uniform, gives his goodbyes before departing back to his ship. An army of combat ready shuttles and smallcrafts surround defend the ships as Staments, Reno and Tilly work out how to increase the crystal charging rate without removing the safety cage. Without any other options, Reno decides to handle the crystal with her bare hands, seeing the same vision as Burnham.
Control’s ships surround the ships.
I’m not entirely happy with how the Enterprise looks. We’re suppose to accept that we go from this:
to this:
and then back to this:
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| I am having the weirdest de ja vu |
And don’t tell me ‘it’s the same bridge but obviously they needed to change it to make it fit 2019 TV’. Enterprise (albeit about 14 years ago) managed to recreate a Constitution-class bridge in such a way where it was both accurate and didn’t look out of place on a TV screen 37 years later.
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| This is fine! You tell me you can’t just recreate this?? |
The problem is – no matter how many times they play the theme from TOS, the new bridge they made does not invoke the nostalgia it should be and is clearly trying to.
You can make a thing look modern without necessarily having to change things.
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