This second, and final for now, Georgiou episode was much better than I remembered. Sarek doing the distant mindmeld kinda bothered me the first time, but I think it really helps establish the direction they have always been going with his character. He is a Vulcan who cares about people in a somewhat un-Vulcan way. The irony of him making Michael into someone who is in many ways more traditionally Vulcan than he is seems like it wasn't an accident. I am looking forward to the Lorca episodes, but Michelle Yeoh remains incredibly impressive in her final outing as prime universe Georgiou. Her immediate jump to sabotaging the Klingon ship and then going in to kidnap their leader is hella badass. In some ways it seems unreasonable for her to take Michael along, but I can understand the feeling behind her decision at least. Her death of course only makes it look worse when it comes to the court martial, but presumably that wasn't her intention.
We start with the showdown where we left it with 24 more Klingon vessels arriving as Michael is stuffed into the brig. After a classic Disco meeting inside a major conflict the Klingons have a massive conference call while ignoring the Shenzhou. All but red face dude agree to follow T'kuvma into battle. The federation fleet arrives and they open a channel. The Klingons are only really waiting for Georgiou to say the, "we come in peace," line to open fire. The titular battle is on and isn't going great for the federation. Klingon vessels are taking shots, but the Shenzhou is heavily damaged and Michael gets to watch a lost bridge crew member get sucked out into the void also trapping her inside a forcefield in an other wise vacuum filled brig.
Things seem to be looking up with the Europa shows up and Admiral I Am Not Looking Up His Name Because He Dies In Three Seconds shows up just long enough to get his ship cut in half by a kinda unreasonably huge Klingon ax ship? Kinda silly, but the Europa intentionally blows the core evening the score. The Klingon fleet withdraws in victory? leaving the Shenzhou to watch them collecting their dead. Michael gets a pick me up super distant mindmeld from Sarek who basically tells her to get off her ass and save some people. She does and talks the computer into letting her out rather than just leaving her to die which seems pretty reasonable honestly.
Michael shows up in Georgiou's ready room some how (did the bridge crew not mind her walking through despite being under arrest in theory????) And she breaks into Georgiou's suicide bombing mission with her own plan to instead kidnap T'kuvma. Georgiou splits the difference and does both hiding a torpedo warhead in a corpse to be collected and then blowing the bridge off the Klingon ship. She then takes still under arrest but now armed Michael to go try and kidnap T'kuvma despite the Shenzhou not being itself able to warp. They fight a bunch of Klingons but T'kuvma gets the best of Georgiou and Michael has to watch her mother figure die in front of her before fatally shooting T'kuvma, the thing she knew was wrong, but presumably her feelings convinced her to do. She is beamed out and we watch as the Shenzhou is abandoned. In fairly quick epilogue Michael pleads guilty at her court martial and is sentenced to life in prison.
This was a surprising strong episode. The space battle worked very well and while I don't think Michael should have done what she did, I can understand it.
8 out of 10
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