It
seems to be a constant in the universe that when you’re in a rush, things pop
up to block you. When you’re late for a
meeting, you catch all the red lights, for instance. Or you don’t get a check you need until five
minutes before the bank closes on Friday and the rent’s due Monday. Or, like, when you’re chasing your science
officer, who escaped from a psychiatric ward, and this giant sphere appears out
of nowhere and stops you from moving.
Ok. So, maybe that last one has never happened to
any of you. But it does describe what
happens to the Discovery. Spock has just
escaped from a starbase where he was being examined when a sphere holds them
and seemingly inserts a virus into their universal translator.
Many
of the other systems are affected, but the big problem is Tilly being stuck in
engineering with Paul Stamets and Jett Reno.
Stamets is a nice enough guy, but Reno seems to be a bit harsh. This wouldn’t be a problem, except that Tilly
is still dealing with that spore parasite that was manifesting as a
hallucination.
Add
to this that First Officer Saru is experiencing his death cycle. His species normally undergoes this process
right before being killed by the other major species on his planet, but he’s
not on his planet. So, what gives?
I’d
like to say that everything works out, but that remains to be seen. Spock is still out there, so that’s left
unresolved. Tilly disappears, but we
have to assume she’ll be found. As for
Saru, his threat ganglia fall out. He
lives, but he has no idea what that really means for his species. He’ll live without fear, but he’s never known
it to happen to anyone.
It
turns out that the sphere just wanted to dump its vast knowledge into the
ship’s computer before dying. This does
give the crew a lot of information. It
would also explain something about The Next Generation. In The Last Outpost, Data is able to give
information on the T’Kon Empire. I
always wondered how Data had information on an Empire that ended about 600,000
years ago. I doubt it’s directly from
the sphere, but it’s possible.
In
a nice bit of continuity, Number One comes onboard the Discovery for a few
minutes. We still don’t find out her
name, though. Maybe next time.
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