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- Despite a premiere that augurs poorly for its broader narrative arc, Discovery's third season at least momentarily succeeds in thinking about undiscovered things to come.
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By Scott Collura
Updated: Jan 7, 2021 9:02 pm
Posted: Oct 15, 2020 12:05 pm
Full spoilers follow for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 1.
And I say that as a fan of the first two seasons of the show. But there’s no denying that placing Disco in the time period just a few years before Captain Kirk took command of the Enterprise (i.e. the years of the original Gene Roddenberry series) often made things awkward, not just in terms of why we had never heard of the Disco before or how it fit into that world, or why its tech looked so different from the finely attuned world of Trek of that era, but also in the show’s own mission statement. The Original Series was Wagon Train to the Stars, about strange new worlds. The Next Generation represented a new era of new worlds. Deep Space Nine took a long, hard look at one particular part of the galaxy. Voyager was lost in space. And Enterprise was about the birth of Starfleet and the Federation. So what was Discovery, when you boiled it down to its essence? I’m not sure even its creators quite knew the answer.
But now here we are, and Burnham and the Discovery have landed in the 32nd century, far from Klingon wars, Red Angels, Captain Pike, and any other Kirk-era distraction. The show now, finally, is on its own and positioned to expand the Trek world in a totally new way.
After a brief tease involving a lonely Starfleet type “searching for signals,” apparently to no avail, the season premiere kicks off essentially where Season 2 ended, with Burnham blasting through the other end of the wormhole she created and landing in the year 3188. It’s almost a thousand years from where she originated, but this time period still has roguish, heart-of-gold space pirates, including new series regular David Ajala as Cleveland "Book" Booker. Burnham, in her Red Angel spacesuit, immediately collides with Book’s ship and the two go plummeting to the planet below in a crackerjack action sequence that requires Burnham to do that most fearsome of things… reboot her computer. Terrifying.
The first two episodes of the season were shot on location in Iceland, and the alien landscapes on display here bring the expected, and expensive, high level of production that Discovery has made a mainstay for modern Star Trek. Also expected is Sonequa Martin-Green’s one-thousand-percent approach to playing Burnham, which reaches one of several peaks in this episode when the character confirms with her suit’s computer that her mission from last season -- and the reason she wound up in the future -- was successful and that, yes, she and her comrades did save all life in the galaxy. Her screams of joy (and subsequently, grief at what she has lost) effectively sell what is, after all, a plot point from mid-2019.
Unfortunately, the episode loses steam once Burnham and Ajala’s characters meet one another on the ground of this barren world and are forced to go to a nearby alien city-bazaar of sorts that feels better suited to a Syfy Channel also-ran than it does the rest of this hour.
The episode drags during these scenes. For one thing, the setting doesn’t feel particularly revelatory despite this being our introduction to life in the 32nd century. In fact, with its floating holograms and neon-signs, the place could just as easily have been one of the worlds visited in Star Trek: Picard earlier this year. And the tech doesn’t seem all that advanced, like the big guns that form around the bad guys’ hands like glowing vacuum cleaners. Give me a phaser any day of the week. Still, we do get a fun bit with Burnham during this stretch where she’s been drugged and acting very un-Burnham-like (and yet also somehow very Burnham-like).
Martin-Green and Ajala have good chemistry, but amid all their running around what’s really at stake for Burnham, and the season’s arc, emerges. The Federation and Starfleet are essentially kaput.
“You believe in ghosts," Book tells Burnham. "That badge on your shirt. Sometimes you see a guy with one of those badges getting himself all worked up about the Federation, the old days. The true believers. They can’t handle that it’s gone.”
You see, a catastrophic event took place about a century earlier -- no one seems to really know the specifics -- called The Burn, in which a huge swath of Starfleet was wiped out in an instant when the chief fuel source used in starships, dilithium, exploded simultaneously, apparently everywhere. Starfleet and the Federation were crippled by the mysterious event and eventually fell apart.
And so Burnham, and the missing in action (for now) Discovery crew, have a new mission: Restore and rebuild the Federation -- or at least maintain through their actions the ideals of the organization that they devoted their lives to.
Star Trek: Discovery has hit the soft reboot button with a time-jump a thousand years into the future, which may have just given the series the mission statement it was always missing. The Season 3 premiere provides Sonequa Martin-Green with plenty to do and lots of fun to have, even while it gets lost for a spell in a low-rent “future” city that a...
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Discovery returns, a thousand years in its own future, for a fun episode that establishes a whole new Star Trek world.
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