Ok, still enjoying things, and there are parts of this episode that are great. Especially the Burnham parts. But the Klingon prison bits dragged a bit for me. Not terrible, and I know where some of it is leading, but not my favorite parts of the show so far. I do look forward to the Mudd episode, but he was weaker in this introduction that I remembered. Without ruining this totally for someone who might be watching along, but Tyler's secret seems pretty obvious in hindsight.
We open with Burnham having a nightmare about being the tardigrade in the spore box getting tortured. She brings her concerns about the suffering it is really experiencing to Culber who initially is skeptical, but willing to listen and figures out quickly she is right. Lorca is at a command meeting and gets chewed out for being good at war or something and as a bonus reward gets kidnapped by Klingons on his way home. The race is one to try and torture Lorca for info on the spore drive while Burnham tries to convince Saru not to kill the tardigrade by trying to jump to much. Lorca gets tortured, gets mad at Mudd and finally escapes with the totally not shady Tyler. They jump with the tardigrade once, but it shrivels up and will die if they revive it, but to escape with the captain they need one more jump so Stamets gives himself an injection of dino DNA, I mean tardigrade. It doesn't kill him and they save Lorca and Tyler and maybe best of all the tardigrade gets set free to ride lightning of the cosmos or something.
A good, but maybe not as great as the episodes around it episode. Kinda hard to stand out in the middle, but not bad in any particular way. Also establishes my favorite trek couple so it can't be terrible.
6 out of 10
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