New Captain, New Ship and More Mysteries.
(Spoiler warning for the first two episodes of the show)
After last weeks stellar beginning for Star Trek: Discovery, I was cautious that the next part wasn’t going to be as great. The first two episodes opened the show like it was a short Star Trek film and it created a relatable appeal like how The Force Awakens works to bring to back into the Star Wars world. The show now being in its regular forty minute episodes, however, is still just as impressive and the show is already delivering a lot of mysterious to advance to the story forwards.
Michael Burnham has been sentenced to life in prison for mutiny before she is picked up by the USS Discovery. Upon meeting the ship’s captain, Captain Gabriel Lorca, she is handed an opportunity to work on a ship again and be a part of Starfleet. Captain Lorca is a clearly a tough leader whose goal is to end the war with the Klingons and ensure peace for the human race.
This episode works well, as not just the next episode in the series but also a secondary pilot episode that introduces fresh faces and mysteries into the show. I was worried that the show would head into its usual episode by episode, problem by problem, a scenario that the other Star Trek shows have but luckily it doesn’t. Instead of that, we get an episode that introduces not just a new ship, crew and captain but also quite an interesting plot.
The current plot for the series now is that the USS Discovery is figuring out a new way of travel using a mixture of biology and science, that’s pretty much all I understood from it all but I get the idea. Behind all of this scientific research is a sinister plot where so far it would seem that Captain Lorca has some diabolic plans up his sleeves that Michael and the rest of the clue don’t know about.
Star Trek: Discovery is warping along at a good pace and with a lot of great moments in the middle. The sort of sci-fi horror aspect that this episode had was refreshing because it wasn’t just ship battles and the show is turning out to be more like Battlestar Galactica than say a slow-paced older Star Trek show or something like Stargate where it’s a lot of one episode at a time. I can’t wait for the next episode and to learn more about both the new crew and how they progress the story, I just still think it would’ve been better to release it all at once.