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Six months after the occurences from last
episode, former first officer Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) finds
herself on a prisoner transfer from one corner of the galaxy to another,
when their ship runs into trouble and is only just saved from total
destruction by the sudden arrival of the USS Discovery. The Captain of the
Discovery, Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs), shows professional interest in
Burnham, and pretty much forces her to work for him, rather than serving
her time in jail. Burnham soon grows suspicious of the happenings on the
Discovery, which is supposed to be a science vessel, but carries a lot of
military personnel. Then she's picked on a mission to go to the
Discovery's sister ship, which has obviously been attacked by the
Klingons, to see if they left anything of value behind ... but on the
ship, Burnham and her landing party find everyone dead, friend and foe
alike, and they are soon threatened by a deadly monster, and it's partly
thanks to Burnham's ingenuity that everybody makes it off the ship alike.
But what she has seen on the other ship makes Burnham even more
suspicious, and she soon starts to think the Discovery and the othership
alike are experimenting with biological warfare - which of course goes
against anything the Federation stands for. Captain Lorca assures her
otherwise, claiming they're working on a revolutionary kind of energy
source that will allow them to travel to anywhere in the universe in an
instant ... but then why is he keeping the monster from the other ship in his closet? Another well-made and well-played
episode no doubt, but somehow this one seems to be above all the first act
of a story that combines element from Alien
and Aliens, without ever living up to either movie and spending a
bit too much time on the series' story arc as to live up to the story's
full potential, even. That said, there are some cool sequences in this
one, but not enough to stand out.
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