7/9/2023 0 Comments Star trek discovery season 3![]() Meanwhile, in our other ongoing tête-à-tête, Vance finally finds a point where Osyraa isn’t willing to make concessions: when she suggests that a scientist should be the public face of their partnership, Vance insists that that person is not just a puppet for her and that she stand trial for her crimes. That way, Osyraa can’t use him to get what she wants. She puts him in a protective bubble and launches him out into space. “My whole life is in that nebula!” he shouts. Of course, what Stamets wants is to jump the ship back to the nebula immediately to rescue Saru, Hugh, and Adira. It’s a battle of wills between him and Stamets from then on.Īt least until Michael gets to Stamets and stuns the corrupt guy. We’ve seen their like on “Star Trek” many times before, but the soft-spokenness of this one, his tough backstory, the way he talks about being a family man, the rationalizations he’s created for supporting Osyraa, give us a particularly rich characterization. This is a predatory scientist for whom ethics are just an obstacle. Of course, she has an ace up her sleeve, a corrupt doctor who’s trying to get Stamets’ tardigrade DNA out of him so he can make any number of others capable of flying the spore drive themselves. In exchange the Federation will share Discovery’s spore-drive technology, so that the Emerald Chain will no longer need dilithium. She’ll outlaw slavery and “walk back” her plundering of innocent pre-warp civilizations. While she’s picking off pirates, Osyraa engages in negotiations with Admiral Vance: she wants her Emerald Chain syndicate to merge with the Federation and go legit. What resulted was a uniquely exciting and thought-provoking episode, one that never sacrificed small character moments to advance the plot. ![]() ![]() (Not that she’d have been able to with the Sphere Data aboard.) But no, she wanted simply to get her foot in the door with the Federation to talk terms about a potential armistice. You’d be forgiven for thinking, as I did, that she was using her capture of the ship to turn it into a Trojan horse to destroy Federation Headquarters outright, to just blow it up from the inside. But in this second to last installment of the season, “There Is a Tide…” even she is made more complicated. The only real villain we’re facing right now is Osyraa (Janet Kidder), the Orion pirate lord who captured Discovery at the end of the previous episode. Though it seems like they’ll have to “stop” Su’Kal somehow before he can trigger another Burn, won’t they? Instead, the Burn was caused by a Kelpien man-child’s emotional distress and his unique ability to inflict his damage on the whole galaxy. Season 3, and the jump to the year 3188 with its attendant mystery of “What caused the Burn?,” hasn’t really turned out like we thought, huh? The obvious answer to the season-long mystery would have been some sinister power from “Trek” past, possibly setting up a Dominion War-like arc for the future. This Trekkie has to say he’s pretty excited about where “ Star Trek: Discovery” is going.
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