Things aren’t good in the 32nd Century. The Federation is a shell of its former self. The bad guy is The Emerald Chain, who seems to be made up of former Federation members. Dilithium is scares and everyone is hurting, causing everyone to hurt others. In The Sanctuary, that hurt comes to Booker’s home world, Kwejian.
Ryn, an Andorian who has gone against The Emerald Chain, is onboard The Discovery, as is Booker. Osyraa wants Ryn back. She correctly assumes that if she puts pressure on Kwejian, Booker will be the first person they call for help and that he (and, by extension, Discovery and Ryn) will eventually show up.
Saru is given explicit orders not to engage in battle. Starfleet is stretched pretty thin as it is. Another engagement wouldn’t make anything better. Instead, offer up some diplomatic solution to the problem at hand. If you know anything about the season so far, you know that’s not going to happen.
Osyraa really wants Ryn and she has Kwejian under her boot. (They have a locust problem and she has a repellant.) Saru is new as a captain. In fact, he’s looking for some sort of catchphrase. It comes across as goofy and unnecessary, but is probably more of a metaphor for the fact that he’s still finding himself. Either way, he comes to realize that battle may be the best option. It’s simply a question of how to go about it.
Everyone in this future is caught between two bad options. Kwejian can’t tolerate insects that eat their food, but the solution is to put themselves at the mercy of a sort of protection racket. Starfleet doesn’t want a battle, but that means implicitly allowing all manner of bad situations to continue. Granted, Kwejian isn’t really their problem, but Starfleet used to mean something. Starfleet used to do the right thing.
The Burn has really set thing back a long way. Warp drive isn’t really a thing anymore and no one knows what caused it. Fortunately, we now at least know where it may have begun. In the previous episode, a location was pinpointed and a distress call was found coming from there. No additional progress is made in this episode, which is frustrating.
However, we do know that there is something seriously wrong with Georgiou. We even get one scene where her face acts like programmable matter. It’s still not clear exactly what happened. Georgiou doesn’t offer up any clues and the doctors are at a total loss, as well.
I’m curious to see how all of this comes together. If someone did that to Georgiou, there would presumably be a reason. I’m also curious to see what this distress call is. Also, we find out a little bit about where a Booker got a human name. Why is his cat called Grudge, though? And is Grudge even really a cat? Anyone that’s seen Captain Marvel knows that cat-shaped creatures aren’t always what they seem to be.
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