![]() ![]() But the time for mysteries is (thankfully) over. They don’t remember anything before getting picked up in an escape pod not so long ago and, frankly, they are an impressively functional human being given that backstory. Though we met Adira as the genius teen engineer in last week’s episode, this week, we really get to delve further into their character-and, you know, so does Adira. It’s a heavy-handed, but not unappreciated metaphor for the Trill host-symbiont relationship that makes up the focus point of the episode’s other major plotline… Here, she’s seemingly new, an evolution of the computer as influenced by the sphere data, and she’s got movie recommendations! As Saru later theorizes to Hugh, she’s protecting the crew in the same way the crew protects her. There, she was the lonely artificial intelligence of the Discovery computer, long ago abandoned by her captain and crew. Well, no one on Discovery knows her as Zora yet, but we do-we were introduced to the character who evolved from the Discovery’s computer in the Short Treks episode “Calypso” ( written by Picard showrunner Michael Chabon). He asks Stamets and Tilly to find a way to use the spore drive should Stamets become incapacitated or worse, and he takes his crew’s mental health struggles seriously, getting some helpful advice from an unexpected source: Zora. He is a holistic captain and he’s taking the relative lull between crisis situations to address some of these lingering and complex issues. (Though Detmer and Stamets may not agree.) The hardest parts have come after: in surviving through what they’ve found on the other side, in learning how to live in the in-between times without the rites and rituals they took for granted in their home time. In many ways, the easy past was jumping through that wormhole. Out here in the darkness of the future, there’s only the mission of finding the Federation to hold onto and, for some, that’s understandably not enough. “For a crew of overachievers, that kind of vulnerability can be hard to hold.” When he presents the report to Captain Saru, he diagnoses the crew with heightened stress levels pretty much across the board, but he doesn’t have an easy fix. “First they have to accept help,” muses Hugh in his log. Of course, just because Hugh is asking the right questions, doesn’t mean he’s getting the honest answers. Either way, this addressing of the crew’s mental health is long overdue for a show that encourages us to accept that Starfleet is some form of utopian institution. Perhaps it’s particularly easy to find catharsis in this depiction of Discovery’s mental health struggles because of what’s going on in the real world now. ![]() The personal moments we use to define ourselves-birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, funerals-we’ve jumped past all of them.” Um, relatable. ![]() The opening voiceover, though presumably written well before coronavirus, is startlingly relevant: “It’s starting to hit everyone… just how little we have to hold onto. It may not include epic space battles or a trip to the Mirror Universe or a jump 930 years into the future, but it does attempt to address the cumulative collective trauma of an entire starship crew that has gone through all of the aforementioned-a narrative endeavor that has much less precedent than bearded Vulcans.įittingly, the episode begins with a log (supplementary) from Discovery’s doctor, Hugh, who is in the midst of compiling a comprehensive report on the crew’s health. In some ways, “Forget Me Not” is Star Trek: Discovery‘s most ambitious episode yet. So let's take a look at all the Discovery Season 3 Easter Eggs.This Star Trek: Discovery review contains spoilers. Season 3 has now finished, and the Easter Eggs, callbacks, in-jokes and references came thick and fast. Sometimes these are sly jokes that only the most dedicated fan would spot, and sometimes they are crucial plot-points and familiar characters. Every episode contained multiple references and callbacks to something from the grand 55-year history of Star Trek, which you can check out in our Season 1 and Season 2 Easter Egg galleries. But while the first two seasons of Discovery took the story and characters in some surprising directions, the show has remained very aware of its past. Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 followed in 2018, and embraced a darker, more emotionally complex approach to the series. ![]() The show's producers faced the difficult task of making a show that appealed to modern audiences and new fans, as well as satisfying die-hard, long-term Trek devotees. While Star Trek found a new lease of life on the big screen in 2009, it had been more than a decade since the last TV show in the long-running sci-fi franchise when Star Trek: Discovery premiered in September 2017. ![]()
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