These episodes are intense and hella dense, which is a poor mix for me not feeling great, so the summary is going to be a bit short today, but I continue to be impressed with how they are developing Burnham. The Alice in Wonderland analogy is pretty strong at this point, with her starting to figure out who the Starfleet people are on the ship, and who the Lorca people are. I had forgotten how antagonistic her relationship with Saru was at this point in the series. They are way past bickering and basically try to cut each other to the core every chance they get. Wild stuff for episode 4. There are things I love about the Klingons, but I am getting the feeling this season that the Klingon subplot may be the part that should have been cut to give the rest of the story room to breath. On the other hand they have time to slow down a little after this if I remember correctly, but maybe I am wrong?
We start with Burnham getting her uniform and having feels only to have it jacked to 11 by Tilly arriving with the last will and testament of Captain Georgiou. Burnham never gets to slow down though and she is off to work with the creature in Lorca's lab along with Commander Landry who for some reason I don't remember all that well. We get some news the Klingons are going to destroy a colony full of Federation miners of Disco can't jump so the pressure is on Stamets to deliver. But instead they almost jump into a star, but Burnham notices the tardigrade (she figured that out somewhere in here) reacted when they jumped.
Commander Landry gets herself killed by the tardigrade, but Burnham figures out it just wants spores and works with Stamets to get it into the spore box. With it's help they save all the miners, but the tardigrade takes some serious damage along the way. I am going to put all the Klingon stuff in at once instead of intercutting. We learn Voq's ship is in bad shape but L'Rell convinces him to take parts from the Shenzhou. Kol steals his thunder though by showing up with food which is enough to get Voq's crew to mutiny. Voq is left behind, but L'Rell shows up and offers to let him win the war if only he is willing to sacrifice everything. We close with Burnham finally opening the package from Georgiou, and wow, the speech she gets from holo-Georgiou is both intense and basically just what she needed to hear.
Another really good episode. I didn't remember how long this season was so I wouldn't mind if they slow down a bit. It ends in a way that makes me look forward to watching again tomorrow and I couldn't ask for more! Although I will get it since I also get a new Strange New Worlds tomorrow, but I don't have to review that.
8 out of 10
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