{"id":106080,"date":"2020-11-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/star-trek-discovery-review-everyones-got-secrets\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T04:00:00","slug":"star-trek-discovery-review-everyones-got-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-trek-discovery-review-everyones-got-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"#Star Trek: Discovery Review: Everyone’s Got Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Star Trek: Discovery Review: Everyone’s Got Secrets<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Starting off with a geek-dom S.O.S… I’m going to need some input on why\u00a0Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 6\u00a0is called “Lethe” and whether it really had anything at all to do with what happ<\/a>ened.<\/p>\n

I’m a huge Greek mythology fan and immedia<\/a>tely recognized the title as the name of the river that grants oblivion or forgetting.<\/p>\n

So, I think, maybe it’s a reference to the memory that Sarek’s mind is obsessed with as he is dying?<\/p>\n

\n \"Vertical<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

But, despite his comment to his Vulcan suicide bomber co-pilot, V’latak, it’s not like he ever forgot that day. And Burnham hadn’t forgotten it either so that doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

Then I look to Lorca and his whole “I blew up my previous crew to save them from Klingon torture and humiliation” revelation from Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 5. But, again, he’s never forgotten what he’s done so pfft to that.<\/p>\n

Burnham has a crystal clear memory of all her supposed crimes and it’s not like anyone ever lets her forget about it.<\/p>\n

Our new element, Lt. Ash Tyler, seems to have a perfect (and horrendous) memory of his time as the Klingons’ prisoner as well as his life before the Battle of the Binary Stars.<\/p>\n

\n \"Ash<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

No one else (Tilly, Saru, Stamets) gets enough screen-time to warrant having an episode named for their plotline. At this point, I give up on making a classical connection to the plot.<\/p>\n

In desperation, I break out my Google-Fu and discover that “Lethe” was the name of a character in a TOS\u00a0episode called “Dagger of the Mind” and she had committed some crime, had been rehabilitated with a “neural neutralizer”, and thereafter had no connection to the person she was before.<\/p>\n

A-HA! Now this could be in reference to any or all of the primary players here.<\/p>\n

Cornwell says that she doesn’t recognize Lorca anymore as her long-time friend (apparently with benefits) while we have seen that Burnham, under the influence of Georgiou, had changed significantly from the Vulcan Science<\/a> Academy grad.<\/p>\n

\n \"Burnham<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Stamets has had an obvious personality change since his experience on the mycelium highway. And who knows what Tyler was like before the Klingons captured him?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Someone with better knowledge of the canon is going to have to chime in on this. Please. It’s totally bugging me.<\/p>\n

On to more exciting elements of the show. How great was it to have Sarek back? James Frain\u00a0is getting so much awesome screen-time in this role. Not only in the Starfleet context but\u00a0with all the Vulcan politics and racism!<\/p>\n

The whole concept of “Logic Extremists” is a bit mind-blowing (err… no pun intended) and it occurs to me that the more accurate moniker should be “Vulcan Supremecists” since they are devoted to a purity of Vulcan culture.<\/p>\n

I feel like the Vulcan element is as important as the more obvious Klingon influence in the ultimate story arc here. Lorca makes a good point that Vulcans are pretty high-handed in their Federation dealings.<\/p>\n

Lorca, post Klingon captivity, is about as much a changed man as post-Code-Black Stamets. Offering his Security Chief position to a P.O.W. he’s only known for five minutes might actually be in keeping with his character but his flirtation and encounter with Cornwell was eye-opening.<\/p>\n

\n \"Hello<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Furthermore, his protectiveness of Burnham is weirdly affectionate.<\/p>\n

Telling Tyler that he might as well not come back if he doesn’t bring her back safely…<\/p>\n

Not sure if I imagined it but the glance Tyler shoots Burnham after that exchange looked distinctly jealous.<\/p>\n

Landry’s ghost hasn’t gone far.<\/p>\n

\n \"Ash<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

When he sees Cornwell off to her shuttle, I wondered if it was going to inexplicably explode as it cleared the air-lock but no, he’s not that far gone despite her promise to remove him from command on her return.<\/p>\n

He does, however, look like he’ll launch the slowest rescue response EVER.<\/p>\n

But seriously, the greatest indicator that Lorca’s not feeling like himself? He actually SITS on the bridge.<\/p>\n

Dude doesn’t even sit in his ready room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n \"Captain<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Burnham’s approach to goal-setting and career-planning veers dramatically to the left after she finds out that Sarek was the reason why she was not invited to the join the Vulcan Expeditionary Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n All my life, the conflict inside me has been between logic and emotion. But now, it’s my emotions that are hiding. I think about him and I want to cry but I have to smile. And I feel angry but I want to love. And I’m hurt but there’s hope. What is this?
\nBurnham<\/small>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His role of mentor and father in her life is obviously central to her sense of self. Discovering that he chose to save the position for Spock made her re-evaluate the pedestal she’d placed him on.<\/p>\n

\n \"Sarek<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Their relationship is a clever parallel to her new relationship to Tilly who has decided that Burnham is now HER mentor, a title Burnham obviously didn’t expect to be introduced to Tyler with.<\/p>\n

\nTilly: It is my experience that what I lack in athletic ability, I more than make up for in intelligence and personality…
<\/br>Burnham: Everyone applying to the command training program will be smart. Personality doesn’t count.
<\/br>Tilly: That’s just something people with no personality say.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are certain episodes that I would prefer to just sit back and relax into. This one falls into that category because the driving action is really a slow path to the final rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Burnham and Lorca both undergo distinct developments in their characters and revelations about their motivations.<\/p>\n

What I’ll need time to mull over is how these changes will affect the trajectory of the series<\/a> as it heads into its final push to the mid-season hiatus.<\/p>\n

Will Lorca’s conflict of interest mean the end of Admiral Cornwell?<\/p>\n

\n \"Lorca<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Does Burnham’s new acceptance of her human-ness mean she’ll be a different sort of Starfleet officer?<\/p>\n

Anyone concerned about how quickly Tyler is integrating into the core crew?<\/p>\n

There’s a theory out there that I’m not going into here but I have to say that if it proves true, there’s a heckuva a lot of explaining that’ll need doing.<\/p>\n

\nBurnham: I’m guessing from your reaction that modifying this neural enhancer is a viable method to achieve what I need.
<\/br>Stamets: Sure. Hey, why not? So, we boost your neural impulses to reconnect with his katra, then pump those same signals into your noggin and… voila! Sarek-Vision.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is someone going to check if Stamets\u00a0is still Stamets? He’s become distinctly pod-person-esque in his persistent cheerinest.<\/p>\n

\nStamets: I gotta say, this katra stuff is way cool. An uncharted superhighway connecting all of consciousness and life?
<\/br>Lorca: We have exactly no time to discuss the metaphysical implications.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also wonder if his comment about the katra\/soul is indicative of what has happened to him.<\/p>\n

\n \"The<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Finally, I’m still a little bewildered by the extra helpfulness offered by the computers in this iteration of the Trek-verse.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember a single time when the Enterprise-D’s computer sighed,”Again?” when Picard ordered his tea or made the tsk-tsk noise when Troi\u00a0needed her chocolate sundae.<\/p>\n

If it’s going to comment on every item of food it replicates, I could understand someone down the line just disabling that function out of sheer annoyance.<\/p>\n

Now, there were a lot of subtle glances and micro-expressions to read into (after all, we are dealing with Vulcans) so be sure to\u00a0watch Star Trek: Discovery online\u00a0and let me know who YOU think is going to be the next to hook themselves up to some dangerous and untested piece of tech.<\/p>\n

Diana Keng<\/b> is a staff writer for TV Fanatic. Follow her on Twitter.\n<\/div>\n

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