Penultimate episode and suffers a little being the middle of a three-parter. Directed by Jonathan Frakes and the action doesn't let up.
This episode quickly returns from last week's weirdness to a more normal "Die Hard" Christmas plot, it which Burnham has to make her way through Discovery to free the Bridge crew being held as hostages..
We surprisingly discover that Osyraa doesn't wish to destroy the Federation HQ but instead wishes to legitimise her Emerald Chain organisation with some kind of merger.
Burnham and Booker follow her using a Borg Transwarp conduit cluttered with broken ships, but in an unlikely series of events, the Coms breakdown so that they can't warn Admiral Vance about Osyraa, and Booker has only one personal cloak available (where has he been hiding this before?) He crashes into Discovery's shuttle bay (but twice claims that the cat is okay - surely the cat needs to leave home?)
The two-dimensional bad guy Zareh returns to hold Discovery while Osyraa goes to meet Vance. The Bridge crew use some Morse Code to make a break from their captors.
We discover that the Emerald Chain might not be all bad news. Many people depend on its mercantile exchanges. It is known space's biggest investor in scientific research. Even the Federation’s own deep space stations have partaken in its economy.
Vance will not step down from the Federation's ideals, and Osyraa reveals that she is, after all, merely the wannabe despot that she always appeared to be, while Aureli, her chief scientist, clearly has Stockholm Syndrome.
Michael reaches and frees Stamets, then Vulcan nerve pinches him and sends him off in an escape pod, so that she can prevent Osyraa from accessing the spore drive. Meanwhile Stamets pleads that the Discovery crew all chose to come to the future with Michael so she didn’t have to be alone, and she must allow him to rescue Saru, Adira and Hugh.
Then three robots manifest to help the Discovery crew take back the ship; the only part of the sphere data that Osyraa couldn't wipe.
This episode quickly returns from last week's weirdness to a more normal "Die Hard" Christmas plot, it which Burnham has to make her way through Discovery to free the Bridge crew being held as hostages..
We surprisingly discover that Osyraa doesn't wish to destroy the Federation HQ but instead wishes to legitimise her Emerald Chain organisation with some kind of merger.
Burnham and Booker follow her using a Borg Transwarp conduit cluttered with broken ships, but in an unlikely series of events, the Coms breakdown so that they can't warn Admiral Vance about Osyraa, and Booker has only one personal cloak available (where has he been hiding this before?) He crashes into Discovery's shuttle bay (but twice claims that the cat is okay - surely the cat needs to leave home?)
The two-dimensional bad guy Zareh returns to hold Discovery while Osyraa goes to meet Vance. The Bridge crew use some Morse Code to make a break from their captors.
We discover that the Emerald Chain might not be all bad news. Many people depend on its mercantile exchanges. It is known space's biggest investor in scientific research. Even the Federation’s own deep space stations have partaken in its economy.
Vance will not step down from the Federation's ideals, and Osyraa reveals that she is, after all, merely the wannabe despot that she always appeared to be, while Aureli, her chief scientist, clearly has Stockholm Syndrome.
Michael reaches and frees Stamets, then Vulcan nerve pinches him and sends him off in an escape pod, so that she can prevent Osyraa from accessing the spore drive. Meanwhile Stamets pleads that the Discovery crew all chose to come to the future with Michael so she didn’t have to be alone, and she must allow him to rescue Saru, Adira and Hugh.
Then three robots manifest to help the Discovery crew take back the ship; the only part of the sphere data that Osyraa couldn't wipe.
