“Your humanity was beautiful.” – Burnham Previously on… Star Trek?! Holy shit, that’s the TOS logo and music, and these are clips from “The Cage” and I am freaking out. And even the way this is edited is so 1960s,…
Let me paint for you, briefly, a portrait of a child. This child is young, no more than 10. Questions of identity, gender, and purpose are still well into his future. He spends most of his day failing: failing school,…
“I’m sorry, sir. You know how I get around violations of causality.” – Ensign Sylvia Tilly In lieu of a “previously on” segment, we open this episode with a personal log from Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green). I’m beginning to think…
“This Kelpien IS our people.” – Captain Pike Previously on Star Trek Discovery: Pike (Anson Mount) and Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) learn that Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) is working with Section 31, and tasked with hunting down Spock. Spock had been drawing…
At their cores, Discovery and Deep Space Nine are connected not just through their many Trek-y things in common, but through their overarching themes of loss, redemption, and hope. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on season…
“See, we do what we do so you can do what you do.” -Leland to Pike Previously on Star Trek Discovery: Emperor/Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) showed up on Qo’noS and whisked Tyler (Shazad Latif) away to a life in Section…
“You are the most empathic soul I know.” Burnham to Saru Previously on Star Trek Discovery: The Enterprise is in dry dock and Pike still has command of Discovery. Burnham is struggling to understand the seven signals and what they…
“Be sure to kill us both, Kol-Sha. The one left standing will be the one who returns for you.” -L’Rell Previously, on Star Trek: Discovery: Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) showed off her ability to follow orders to Pike (Anson Mount) as they…