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Star Trek: Discovery - Into the Forest I Go
episode 1.9
USA 2017
produced by Aaron Baiers, Kevin Lafferty, April Nocifora, Gretchen J. Berg (executive), Bryan Fuller (executive), Akiva Goldsman (executive), Aaron Harberts (executive), Alex Kurtzman (executive), Rod Roddenberry (as Eugene Roddenberry, executive), Trevor Roth (executive) for Roddenberry Entertainment/CBS
directed by Chris Byrne
starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Jayne Brook, Mary Chieffo, Wilson Cruz, Kenneth Mitchell, Michael Ayres, Conrad Coates, Emily Coutts, Julianne Grossman (voice), Patrick Kwok-Choon, Sara Mitich, Oyin Oladejo, David Benjamin Tomlinson
screenplay by Bo Yeon Kim, Erika Lippoldt, series created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman, Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Jeff Russo, special effects by Alchemy Studios, visual effects by Pixomondo, Spin VFX
TV-series Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek
review by Mike Haberfelner
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With the Klingons quickly approaching the peace-loving spore-inhabited
planet Pahvo with the express intention of destroying it, the Discovery is
ordered back to base - but Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), against express
order, decides to stay behind and ambush the Klingon destroyer flagship to
destabilize the Klingon Empire. But since the flagship has a cloaking
device, he first has to teleport two of his crew, Burnham (Sonequa
Martin-Green) and Ash (Shazad Latif) of course, over so they can place two
beacons on the ship to make it "visible" for the Discovery,
which thanks to its spore drive is able to appear anywhere and disappear
again within seconds and thus can hit the Klingon ship at all the vital
spots before blowing it up. And while the Discovery is busy doing that,
Burnham and Ash discover the body of Admiral Cornwell (Jayne Brook), who
got killed last
episode, and revive her, and Ash runs across L'Rell (Mary
Chieffo), whose prisoner turned lover he once was, which triggers his
PTSD. And while Admiral Cornwell tries to talk him through that, Burnham
has to duel herself with Klingon leader Kol (Kenneth Mitchell), and she
seems to be standing her own, before she, along with Ash, the admiral and
L'Rell are teleported back to the Discovery and the Klingon ship's blown
to Kingdom Come. A full-blown success of course, and one that actually
earns Lorca a medal despite his insubordination - but there's one problem,
it has really strained navigator Stamets (Anthony Rapp), the physical link
between the ship and the spores, and he agrees to do only one more jump to
then retire - but that last jump brings the Discovery into uncharted
territory ... It's one of those episodes that got you thinking:
Why are those beacons so darned big and clunky things that shine in the
dark, that sometimes talk, in other words that could be easily detected
even if one wasn't looking for them. Frankly that no Klingon just tripped
over one of them and destroyed it because that's what Klingons do is a bit
of a miracle? Plus, why couldn't they have just teleported into their
respective places without Burnham and Ash to deliver them and running
unnecessary risks - including being discovered? And how did the Admiral
get better from her death last episode? I might be nit-picking, but these
are things that took me out of the story a little, though as a whole, this
wasn't a bad episode - with maybe a bit too much spectacle and narrative
leaps (see above), but the story was rather original for a change, and
told with all the necessary energy.
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