I
remember seeing the coming attractions for Star Trek: Discovery. I hadn’t seen Saru’s race and was intrigued
by his claim that he could sense death and danger. It turns out that he was the only member of
his species in Starfleet. We do learn
quite a bit about his species during the second season. To set us up for this, we were given a Short
Trek between the first and second seasons.
This
episode gives us a brief glimpse of what it was like for Discovery’s firs
officer to have to leave his planet. He
always knew he didn’t belong. When he
finds a communications device, he’s supposed to bury it. Instead, he learns how to use it and ends up
contacting and meeting a then-Lieutenant Philippa Georgiou.
This
short episode doesn’t get into the details of the Prime Directive. It shows what life was like for Saru before
Starfleet. He didn’t really fit in and
wasn’t content to live a simple life.
His father and sister were. But
Saru knows that there’s more out there.
It
makes it a little easier to identify with the character. I’m sure there are a lot of people now that
would go out into space, given the chance.
We’re at a point that we’re just talking about going to Mars. Could you imagine going to different solar
systems?
It’s
a little strange seeing this after the second season of Discovery aired. I know that Saru does make it back to his
home planet. It must have been a tough
decision not knowing that, though. Given
that his people aren’t warp-capable, Saru could never bring that knowledge
back.
From
what I understand, the Short Trek episodes are coming out on DVD in June. I took the opportunity to watch these while I
had access to CBS All Access, but it would be nice to have another option. There are two “seasons” with the possibility
of others. I don’t know if future
seasons will be released individually or if CBS wants to release ten episodes
at a time. Maybe they’ll include them
with Discovery episodes. Either way,
they’re fun to watch.
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