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The Discovery puts a plan into motion to destroy the Klingon homeworld
from within, and thus per spore drive jump into a huge cavern on the
planet, then the Discovery's new captain, Georgiou from the evil universe
(Michelle Yeoh), Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), the de-Klingonized Ash
(Shazad Latif), and bubbly Tilly (Mary Wiseman) are teleported onto the
surface of the planet, to find out more about its cave system, each in
their own way, but frankly none with much success - and then Tilly finds
out that what Georgiou has brought with them is not a drone to explore the
surface but a hydrogen bomb to destroy the planet for good. Now
everybody's in shock, especially Burnham, but once she's found out,
Georgiou is quick to get a head start to the planet's most vulnerable
point, and almost detonates the bomb when Burnham intervenes, claiming she
has come jup with a better way - and thus they hand the detonator to their
Klingon prisoner L'Rell (Mary Chieffo), a Klingon outcast, in hopes that
she will ... oh, I don't know really, but she uses it to unite the houses
of Klingon into one terrific strike force - so maybe not the perfect plan. Oh right, and then there's
Ash's subplot: He's now totally human, and Burnham is willing to give him
another chance, but decides to stay with L'Rell,
because ... not sure. Frankly, there are too many plotholes and
leaps of reason in this episode to be a satisfying season finale, and the
post finale scene where Burnham has a big speech and everybody gets a
medal is rather cringeworthy. On the plus side though, many of the
season's narrative threads to at least get tied up in the end, and when in
the final scene we see the Discovery being hailed by the original USS
Enterprise (then still under command of Captain Pike, who'll only appear
in later episodes), bridging the gap to Star Trek's original pilot The
Cage and serving as an interesting kick-off for season 2. Oh,
and a bit of trivia: Clint Howard, who plays a pretty pointless role as
some sleazy alien who drugs Tilly in this one, has been first in Star
Trek in the original
series' episode The Corbomite Maneuver
from 1966 (and several times since in different series), making him the
longest serving (if occasional) cast member of the series.
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