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As the Discovery's still trapped in the evil universe, and Burnham
(Sonequa Martin-Green) still serving as the (evil) Shenzhou's captain in
order to get to the data that might lead to a way back into their original
universe, things take a turn for the worse as she is told to destroy a
whole planetpopulated by the Klingon-Vulcan alliance, which of course goes
totally against her conscience. Somehow though she convinces her crew to
teleport herself and her second-in-command/lover Ash (Shazad Latif) down
to the planet first to ... well, they have some feeble excuse, but for
real Burnham wants to, by talking to the Klingons here, find out how to
negotiate with the Klingons back home. Thing is, when Ash sees the Klingon
leader Voq (also Shazad Latif) talk about peace and unity of the races,
something flips inside him and he violently attacks him, and it's only
thanks to Sarek (James Frain), Burnham's foster father in the other
universe that both Burnham and Ash are let go. Back on the Shenzhou
though, Ash confesses everything, that he's actually Voq who has been
remodeled as a human to work as some kind of sleeper, and his disguise was
so perfect that even he didn't know he was a Klingon anymore and could
easily fall in love with Burnham, but the meeting with his alternative
former self triggered something inside him. Burnham then condemns him to
death by teleporting him into outer space ... but before he can die out
there, he's beamed aboard the Discovery, as Burnham actually used him to
get the data for the journey back to her own ship. Now the only problem
remains for her and Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), her prisoner in this
dimension, to make it back as well, but before they can get go about that,
the all-mighty Terran Emperor appears - and it is (the evil version of)
Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), once upon a time Burnham's captain on
the Shenzhou ... There are quite a few narrative irregularities
in this episode, like why really does Burnham want to beam down to the
planet, why can't Ash all of a sudden not show any more restraint, and why
is so much time wasted on the story of Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp), whose
subplot is immaterial to this episode while it doesn't really move forward
on itself at all. But still, this is one of the more entertaining episodes
of the series, being mostly well-paced and devoid of too much bad
dialogue. Plus, it finally puts the jarring romance between Burnham and
Ash to a rest.
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