Beginning off with a geek-dom S.O.S… I will want some enter on why Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 6 is known as “Lethe” and whether or not it actually had something in any respect to do with what occurred.
I am an enormous Greek mythology fan and instantly acknowledged the title because the identify of the river that grants oblivion or forgetting.
So, I feel, perhaps it is a reference to the reminiscence that Sarek’s thoughts is obsessive about as he’s dying?
However, regardless of his remark to his Vulcan suicide bomber co-pilot, V’latak, it isn’t like he ever forgot that day. And Burnham hadn’t forgotten it both so that does not work.
Then I look to Lorca and his entire “I blew up my earlier crew to save lots of them from Klingon torture and humiliation” revelation from Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 5. However, once more, he is by no means forgotten what he is completed so pfft to that.
Burnham has a crystal clear reminiscence of all her supposed crimes and it isn’t like anybody ever lets her neglect about it.
Our new component, Lt. Ash Tyler, appears to have an ideal (and horrendous) reminiscence of his time because the Klingons’ prisoner in addition to his life earlier than the Battle of the Binary Stars.
Nobody else (Tilly, Saru, Stamets) will get sufficient screen-time to warrant having an episode named for his or her plotline. At this level, I surrender on making a classical connection to the plot.
In desperation, I get away my Google-Fu and uncover that “Lethe” was the identify of a personality in a TOS episode referred to as “Dagger of the Thoughts” and he or she had dedicated some crime, had been rehabilitated with a “neural neutralizer”, and thereafter had no connection to the particular person she was earlier than.
A-HA! Now this might be in reference to any or all the major gamers right here.
Cornwell says that she would not acknowledge Lorca anymore as her long-time good friend (apparently with advantages) whereas we’ve got seen that Burnham, below the affect of Georgiou, had modified considerably from the Vulcan Science Academy grad.
Stamets has had an apparent persona change since his expertise on the mycelium freeway. And who is aware of what Tyler was like earlier than the Klingons captured him?
Somebody with higher information of the canon goes to must chime in on this. Please. It’s very bugging me.
On to extra thrilling parts of the present. How nice was it to have Sarek again? James Frain is getting a lot superior screen-time on this position. Not solely within the Starfleet context however with all of the Vulcan politics and racism!
The entire idea of “Logic Extremists” is a bit mind-blowing (err… no pun supposed) and it happens to me that the extra correct moniker must be “Vulcan Supremecists” since they’re dedicated to a purity of Vulcan tradition.
I really feel just like the Vulcan component is as essential because the extra apparent Klingon affect within the final story arc right here. Lorca makes a great level that Vulcans are fairly high-handed of their Federation dealings.
Lorca, publish Klingon captivity, is about as a lot a modified man as post-Code-Black Stamets. Providing his Safety Chief place to a P.O.W. he is solely identified for 5 minutes may really be consistent with his character however his flirtation and encounter with Cornwell was eye-opening.
Moreover, his protectiveness of Burnham is weirdly affectionate.
Telling Tyler that he may as effectively not come again if he would not convey her again safely…
Undecided if I imagined it however the look Tyler shoots Burnham after that alternate seemed distinctly jealous.
Landry’s ghost hasn’t gone far.
When he sees Cornwell off to her shuttle, I puzzled if it was going to inexplicably explode because it cleared the air-lock however no, he isn’t that far gone regardless of her promise to take away him from command on her return.
He does, nevertheless, appear like he’ll launch the slowest rescue response EVER.
However critically, the best indicator that Lorca’s not feeling like himself? He really SITS on the bridge.
Dude would not even sit in his prepared room.
Burnham’s method to goal-setting and career-planning veers dramatically to the left after she finds out that Sarek was the rationale why she was not invited to the be a part of the Vulcan Expeditionary Group.
All my life, the battle inside me has been between logic and emotion. However now, it is my feelings which are hiding. I take into consideration him and I wish to cry however I’ve to smile. And I really feel offended however I wish to love. And I am harm however there’s hope. What is that this?
Burnham
His position of mentor and father in her life is clearly central to her sense of self. Discovering that he selected to save lots of the place for Spock made her re-evaluate the pedestal she’d positioned him on.
Their relationship is a intelligent parallel to her new relationship to Tilly who has determined that Burnham is now HER mentor, a title Burnham clearly did not anticipate to be launched to Tyler with.
Tilly: It’s my expertise that what I lack in athletic potential, I greater than make up for in intelligence and persona…
Burnham: Everybody making use of to the command coaching program will likely be good. Persona would not depend.
Tilly: That is simply one thing folks with no persona say.
There are particular episodes that I would favor to simply sit again and calm down into. This one falls into that class as a result of the driving motion is mostly a gradual path to the ultimate rescue.
Burnham and Lorca each endure distinct developments of their characters and revelations about their motivations.
What I will want time to mull over is how these modifications will have an effect on the trajectory of the collection because it heads into its closing push to the mid-season hiatus.
Will Lorca’s battle of curiosity imply the tip of Admiral Cornwell?
Does Burnham’s new acceptance of her human-ness imply she’ll be a special form of Starfleet officer?
Anybody involved about how shortly Tyler is integrating into the core crew?
There is a idea on the market that I am not going into right here however I’ve to say that if it proves true, there is a heckuva a number of explaining that’ll want doing.
Burnham: I am guessing out of your response that modifying this neural enhancer is a viable methodology to realize what I want.
Stamets: Positive. Hey, why not? So, we increase your neural impulses to reconnect together with his katra, then pump those self same indicators into your noggin and… voila! Sarek-Imaginative and prescient.
Is somebody going to test if Stamets continues to be Stamets? He is turn out to be distinctly pod-person-esque in his persistent cheerinest.
Stamets: I gotta say, this katra stuff is means cool. An uncharted superhighway connecting all of consciousness and life?
Lorca: We’ve got precisely no time to debate the metaphysical implications.
I additionally surprise if his remark concerning the katra/soul is indicative of what has occurred to him.
Lastly, I am nonetheless just a little bewildered by the additional helpfulness supplied by the computer systems on this iteration of the Trek-verse.
I do not keep in mind a single time when the Enterprise-D’s laptop sighed,”Once more?” when Picard ordered his tea or made the tsk-tsk noise when Troi wanted her chocolate sundae.
If it may touch upon each merchandise of meals it replicates, I might perceive somebody down the road simply disabling that operate out of sheer annoyance.
Now, there have been a number of delicate glances and micro-expressions to learn into (in spite of everything, we’re coping with Vulcans) so you’ll want to watch Star Trek: Discovery online and let me know who YOU suppose goes to be the subsequent to hook themselves as much as some harmful and untested piece of tech.
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