So all of the rumors come house to roost with Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 10.
Discovery is certainly within the Mirror Universe, and Ash Tyler could very nicely be what the interwebs have suspected all alongside.
Sigh.
Do not get me mistaken. I am tremendous stoked in regards to the Mirror Universe adventures, and I am completely tickled by how fantastically they’re pushing the Alice in Wonderland allegory.
Or Alice Via the Wanting Glass, as it’s now.
However the complete exposition about how Tyler’s wounds had been assumed the results of torture however are proof of the Klingons turning him into another person?
Regardless of the shades of certainly one of my favourite movies, Gattaca, it’s so contrived, I cringed.
I imply, even when he had been surgically modified to look human, in and out, would not medical scans detect Klingon DNA?
I do know that Klingon and human DNA are suitable since bi-species kids are canon lore, however there needs to be sufficient distinction to differentiate it medically.
Double sigh. And so the implication is that Voq was surgically “adjusted” to seem like Ash Tyler after which psychologically overlayed with Tyler’s recollections and persona to infiltrate Star Fleet for the glory of Kahless, however now, his love of Burnham has shorted out the programming?
I did not just like the Ash-is-Voq idea when it was proposed as a result of it was only one silly too far for me. I stand corrected. Working this story system the place love will (or will not) save the day is the STUPID too far.
After which… Culber. Dammit, speak about kicking the pet of the crew. Solely, they KILL the one crew member who does nothing however heals and helps and loves his husband. My coronary heart breaks for Stamets…if he ever will get his mind again.
So, if that is the unhealthy of the winter premiere, what is the good?
Two phrases. Captain. Killy.
Lorca: Eliminate them as quick as potential. And speak as little as potential.
Tilly: …Have you ever observed that I speak quite a bit?
Lorca: Defy your each intuition.
Watching the bubbly, goofy, awkward cadet tackle the persona of her Mirror-Universe-self was pure superior. Even higher was how clearly scorching, but scary, Mirror-Universe Connor discovered her. And now she will get to make use of all of the cuss-words. Woo-hoo?
Critically, it was quite a lot of enjoyable to observe her embrace the function. As a result of, double critically, Prime Universe Tilly is tremendous annoying, so it solely is smart that I LURVE the Mirror-Universe Tilly.
Burnham’s response to seeing Connor once more is proof of how open she has turn into to her human feelings. It foreshadows quite a lot of angst as she shall be taking part in the function of captain of the ship she noticed destroyed on the Battle of the Binary Stars.
Functionally, she shall be accountable for a ship filled with her ghosts. When she has to kill Connor in self-defense and watch him die in entrance of her as soon as once more, we all know that she took Lorca’s recommendation to coronary heart.
Any more, we’re Terrans. Decency is weak point and can get us killed and the lives of everybody on this ship and the Federation are at stake. So that you do what you have to, no matter you have to, to anybody.
Lorca
Her abstract of Terran society and psychology completely sums up the world they enter once they board the I.S.S. Shenzhou.
Would possibly is correct. Machiavelli had nothing on this skilled ladder. And the Terran Imperial Forces look good climbing it.
Burnham in her captain’s seat, proclaiming “Lengthy reside the Empire” was a wonderful, electrical, bone-chilling second.
Terran power is borne out of pure necessity as a result of they reside in fixed worry, at all times on the lookout for the subsequent knife aimed toward their again. Their power is painted rust. It is a facade.
Burnham
And as a reward for the looong unfolding, the present wasn’t shy about throwing in some intelligent little in-jokes.
Lorca’s “disguised” Scottish engineer voice was a candy little Easter Egg for followers of the franchise.
And the reference to the Defiant was thrilling for many who adopted Star Trek Enterprise down its darkish rabbit-hole in addition to Unique Sequence aficionados.
As for the ugly of the episode, I might don’t have anything to choose on in the event that they’d simply run the credit after Burnham took her seat on the Shenzhou bridge. That will’ve been an finish scene of cinematic epic-ness.
However no, as an alternative, they tack on Tyler’s love declaration in her captain’s quarters. Three points right here.
First, his function on this mission is as her private guard. The place the frak was he when Connor tries to off her within the carry?
Second, why within the multi-universes would the I.S.S. Shenzhou within the Mirror Universe have the identical entry codes as the united statesS. Discovery from the Prime Universe?
And the way heavy-handed is the foreshadowing when he states for no explicit motive that he is aware of all of the codes as safety chief?
Lastly, oh my god, WHY are they making whoopie when Lorca is being held in, presumably with out espresso breaks, one thing known as an AGONIZING BOOTH? Worst. Mission. Brokers. Ever. Get the intel. Get out.
So in the event you watch Star Trek: Discovery online for the primary, oh, 97% of the present, it is a heckuva return for the sequence.
Okay, so who’s in your Mirror Universe wish-list?
Can we get Anarchist Saru? Serial Killer Culber? Do Mirror Lorca and Burnham present up?
OOOH, and the place’s Mirror Landry? And Mirror GEORGIOU?
As I stated, I am enthusiastic about this second chapter, regardless of the mushy stuff.
Additional on the Alice allegory, my cash’s on the “faceless” Emperor because the Jabberwocky as a result of in the event you’re gonna riff on Via the Wanting-Glass, you gotta swimsuit up along with your vorpal sword.
And if anybody’s gonna wield a vorpal sword, it is the dude with all of the loopy, unlawful weapons in his captain’s cave.
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