![]() ![]() The Federation president’s rather leftfield approach to the talks is to draft in Burnham and Saru to “remain silent and look official” as observers during the talks, clearly forgetting that it’s just a few short weeks since she told the captain she was “not ready” to command a prototype ship. (For anyone who’s been paying attention throughout five years of planet Earth’s real-life Brexit saga, a lot of the dialogue used will feel incredibly familiar – another example of Trek’s long history of bringing contemporary allegory to a distant-future setting.) The Federation’s negotiations with Ni’Var have hit a bureaucracy-shaped brick wall, and with the big bad BMA (Black Matter Anomaly) inexplicably sidelined – where did the urgency of season 4’s opening episodes disappear to? – its most significant involvement is prompting the Vulcans and Romulans to demand a get-out clause be added to their treaty with Federation. While Tilly is busy course correcting her life, Captain Michael Burnham is further expanding her impressive but increasingly implausible resumé – now she can add "diplomat" to traitor, scientist, savior of the universe, and Die Hard-style action hero. The experience is all the catalyst Tilly needs to rethink her career and, come the end of the episode, she’s requested a transfer to work at Starfleet Academy. She even comes close to sacrificing herself for her protegés, but the USS Armstrong arrives just in time to beam them out of trouble. Tilly, meanwhile, is her usual engaging self, gradually persuading them to work together despite impossible odds, and some scary ice that freezes your legs in real-time. It’s no surprise, then, when one of the cadets dies within seconds of impact, or when the survivors let pre-conceptions about their colleagues get in the way of functioning as a unit – these rookies will do anything they can to have the last word. What goes down on the moon’s surface plays out like an episode of Lower Decks, only with most of the gags surgically removed, and none of the cartoon’s knowing sense of irony about Trek’s occasional forays into cliché. ![]()
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