Lorca is continuing
his revolution against Georgiou, releasing all his minions who have been locked
up and tortured forever. Personally I think someone who has been suffering
constant torture for a year or so may be less function than these people because
they all come out the agony boxes raring to go
This is also why you
need to KILL YOUR ENEMIES GUYS! Evil empires, stop leaving your enemies around
to plan epic revenge. It’s a bad idea, just kill them
And if you are going
to imprison them, maybe not on your royal throne ship within stabbing distance
of the Emperor?
They also have Terran
Landry which doesn’t make up for discarding her so quickly but it’s something I
guess
Lorca’s first stop is
to Stamets because he knows lots of shiny things. He also sold Lorca out but
he’s nicely slimy so is quite willing to change his allegiance at the drop of a
hat and can I say yet again how the Terran empire could not be functional.
Lorca also explains how he ended up in Prime universe in the first place: transporter
malfunction. And if we know anything about Star Trek the only thing more
likely to malfunction in freaky ways than a transporter is the holodeck. Health
and Safety regs are just lacking in the Federation.
Stamets knows where
Georgiou keeps her deadly bioweapons so that thins out a lot of her followers
Georgiou isn’t
bothered because she’s evil and what’s some dead minions? She plans to go hunt
Lorca down while Michael presumes to advise the Emperor. Hot tip, fascist
emperors aren’t big on unsolicited advice and she has Michael thrown in the
brigg. Since Michael is Michael, she evades the guards and goes into hiding
instead.
Meanwhile Lorca calls
to remind us he’s a) obsessed with Michael and b) he’s even more fascist than
the Emperor just in case anyone was thinking that Emperor Lorca would be better
than Emperor Georgiou. He really goes for a record level of evil here
Georgiou and her
forces confront Lorca and it goes pretty badly for her - she has to transport
out while her people are slaughtered, leaving Lorca free to take over the ship,
declare himself awesome and make another plea to Michael to join him in his
fascist future. She’s not buying it. Not needing him any more, Lorca also kills
Terran Stamets since he can’t be trusted which, to be honest, is fair
Michael has managed
to contact the Discovery and they compare notes: she tells them all about Lorca
the evil, and they warn her that evil Stamets has exploited the Magic Mushrooms
which is killing them all and because of that will destroy all life everywhere.
Because Magic Mushrooms are important. Saru is bemused at how anyone can be so
short sighted as the Terrans
Guys… I think we’re
supposed to be the Terran reality and Prime is the alternate reality. Because
this is us. But also insert my usual question how a multiple planet empire can
manage to exist and thrive when it just does everything so badly?
They have a plan - to
shoot the big orange mushroom thing on the Death Star so long as Michael can
take down the containment field.
The problem is by all
calculations this is a suicide mission… which Saru doesn’t accept, pulling out
a great big Epic Speech and pretty much solidifying him as captain in a moment
of awesome. Tilly is inspired and she comes up with a master plan to save them
all, much to Stamet’s praise
Back on the Death
Star, Michael finds Georgiou and continues to have issues with the woman who
earned her loyalty, the woman she betrayed and the woman she can’t let go of
even if this is the evil clone of hers. She has a plan to bring down Lorca
Which involves
showing up with Georgiou as an apparent prisoner and being willing to support
Lorca (but not in his bed because uckies uckies no) if he lets her crew leave.
Lorca hails the Discovery so they can talk and Michael launches her master plan
Her master plan is
basically her and Georgiou attacking and entire room full of guards. And the
Discovery shooting the ship which is 10 times their size but apparently
managing to shake it to its core… don’t they have better shields than this?
This ship would be useless in combat. They win and Michael proves she’s a super
noble Federation person by not killing Lorca. And Georgiou proves she isn’t by
killing him.
She then promises to
buy Michael time for her to escape - Georgiou is a defeated Emperor: in the cut
throat world of the Terrans there’s no way she can live now. She plans to hold
off the enemy while Michael is transported onto the Discovery. Instead Michael
grabs her and brings her on board as well
After which the
Discovery destroys the spore drive on the Death Star, saving the Magic Mushroom
Network, all life everywhere (which depends on the Magic Mushroom Network) and
uses the shockwave to transport them back to the prime universe.
9 months in the
future
Which is a problem
because those 9 months were long enough for the Klingons to win the war
We see a fair few
members of the crew here and I really wish we’d explored these a bit more
earlier in the series. Rather than the 8 million twists and surprises it would
have been nice to know who these people are, to not have people on the bridge
be extras. I mean, I’m not expert on Star Trek, but isn’t this unusual? Don’t
we generally know most of the prominent members of the crew?
I still hold that
Lorca the immoral Star Fleet captain would have been interesting - but I can
see why the writers have decided to make him Eviler than Evil now: so no-one
wants to support him being the Emperor and we can actually be Team!Georgiou
despite the whole Kelpian snacking
It is going to be
interesting to see Georgiou in the Prime universe - could she possibly adapt?
I’d almost forgotten
the Klingon war. I say again, there’s just too much rammed into this season!
