This was a weird and quite bizarre episode to put out on Christmas Day, and a cliff-hanger too!
It was also most peculiar that Saru suddenly realised that the marks on the forehead of Dr. Issa were not radiation burns, but instead meant that she was pregnant. I mean, where exactly was he during the briefings about this. We are told that she cannot be the survivor because she would be too old, so the survivor must instead be her child. No one cares to ask how the child survived the radiation, was nurtured alone, or even that the child itself would be almost as old. Instead, they rush headlong into the Nebula without any real forward planning.
Inside the nebula is a planet of pure Dilithium, except that Discovery cannot penetrate far enough into the nebula without her shields collapsing from the ionizing radiation storm. So, Book takes his ship into the storm to find a safe position for Discovery to remain. His ship can also do the disassembling thing to avoid asteroids and all the pieces fly at the same velocity, in the same direction, with him in full control. You can tell this is the future, because that is indistinguishable from magic.
Burnham tells Book that she's worried about Saru. She says she thinks he cannot be objective with Kelpiens involved, and worries how he'll handle it if he has to make a hard call. From what we've observed so far in this series, he'll do so a lot better than when Michael has been called to do so, so this conversation just appears odd. She has resigned, was court-marshalled, and stood down from command.
Michael, Saru and Culber beam down to the Khi'eth but appear as different alien species: Culber has become Bajoran, Burnham is a Trill, but Saru is human. Burnham immediately recognises Culber is a Bajoran. Bajor First Contact has never been mentioned but would need to be no earlier than the 2290's and probably much later. Contact with Cardassians was certainly very much later. How does Burnham know what a Bajoran looks like? (Maybe it was the year she spent as a courier before Discovery arrived?)
They find the grown up Kelpian boy existing within holographic simulations that partly symbolise his trauma and his fears (including creepy forest and MC Escher ruin) and were constructed to educate and amuse him, but have malfunctioned for some considerable time. They also provided life-support and “preparation for arrival of anticipated input,” or rescue, to you and me! The boy, called Su'Kal has been in his holo-castle in the cloud for 125 years, 3 months, 17 days and 4 hours. We then get several surrealistic sequences, "fear demons," and stories from a old wise Kelpian.
When Su'Kal lets out a scream it begins to destabilise Discovery's Dilithium. They quickly realise that Su'Kal has fused with some technobabble subspace radiation/Dilithium planet during his in utero gestation resulting in more technobabble (possibly explaining his age) and also pointing to him technobabble triggering the original cause of 'The Burn'. You wanted Turkey for Christmas? They supplied it!
Meanwhile, Osyraa is back! She uses a Borg Transwarp tunnel, attacks Discovery with ease, and despite Tilly saying that it isn't over yet, it is all over, and she takes control of the ship pretty quickly. They deploy some snake-armed tentacled thing around Discovery, and some mind control tiaras to the crew. They then Spore Drive back to attack Federation HQ.
It beats me! They lost me with the fear demons.
Hardly an unexpected threat! It's been signposted for most of this Season.
It was also most peculiar that Saru suddenly realised that the marks on the forehead of Dr. Issa were not radiation burns, but instead meant that she was pregnant. I mean, where exactly was he during the briefings about this. We are told that she cannot be the survivor because she would be too old, so the survivor must instead be her child. No one cares to ask how the child survived the radiation, was nurtured alone, or even that the child itself would be almost as old. Instead, they rush headlong into the Nebula without any real forward planning.
Inside the nebula is a planet of pure Dilithium, except that Discovery cannot penetrate far enough into the nebula without her shields collapsing from the ionizing radiation storm. So, Book takes his ship into the storm to find a safe position for Discovery to remain. His ship can also do the disassembling thing to avoid asteroids and all the pieces fly at the same velocity, in the same direction, with him in full control. You can tell this is the future, because that is indistinguishable from magic.
Burnham tells Book that she's worried about Saru. She says she thinks he cannot be objective with Kelpiens involved, and worries how he'll handle it if he has to make a hard call. From what we've observed so far in this series, he'll do so a lot better than when Michael has been called to do so, so this conversation just appears odd. She has resigned, was court-marshalled, and stood down from command.
Michael, Saru and Culber beam down to the Khi'eth but appear as different alien species: Culber has become Bajoran, Burnham is a Trill, but Saru is human. Burnham immediately recognises Culber is a Bajoran. Bajor First Contact has never been mentioned but would need to be no earlier than the 2290's and probably much later. Contact with Cardassians was certainly very much later. How does Burnham know what a Bajoran looks like? (Maybe it was the year she spent as a courier before Discovery arrived?)
They find the grown up Kelpian boy existing within holographic simulations that partly symbolise his trauma and his fears (including creepy forest and MC Escher ruin) and were constructed to educate and amuse him, but have malfunctioned for some considerable time. They also provided life-support and “preparation for arrival of anticipated input,” or rescue, to you and me! The boy, called Su'Kal has been in his holo-castle in the cloud for 125 years, 3 months, 17 days and 4 hours. We then get several surrealistic sequences, "fear demons," and stories from a old wise Kelpian.
When Su'Kal lets out a scream it begins to destabilise Discovery's Dilithium. They quickly realise that Su'Kal has fused with some technobabble subspace radiation/Dilithium planet during his in utero gestation resulting in more technobabble (possibly explaining his age) and also pointing to him technobabble triggering the original cause of 'The Burn'. You wanted Turkey for Christmas? They supplied it!
Meanwhile, Osyraa is back! She uses a Borg Transwarp tunnel, attacks Discovery with ease, and despite Tilly saying that it isn't over yet, it is all over, and she takes control of the ship pretty quickly. They deploy some snake-armed tentacled thing around Discovery, and some mind control tiaras to the crew. They then Spore Drive back to attack Federation HQ.
It beats me! They lost me with the fear demons.
