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Jan 7, 2021 · Despite an occasional overreliance on fight sequences, “That Hope is You, Part 2” ultimately affirms the central messages of this season – that connection matters, the ways we care...
Jan 8, 2021 · Twelve installments have boldly come and gone, all leading up to the pivotal third season finale that will set the future course for both the U.S.S. Discovery-A’s crew and Star Trek: Discovery itself. Peril abounds as Saru’s away team suffers through radiation sickness on the dilithium planet.
Jan 7, 2021 · After spending a week focused elsewhere, Discovery's latest episode, "That Hope Is You, Part 2," opens on the dilithium planet, where Saru (Doug Jones) is attempting to broach conversations with Su'Kal (Bill Irwin) delicately. Culber (Wilson Cruz) sets up the stakes of their situation, as the Kelpien's outburst in their previous encounter ...
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Updated: Nov 3, 2022 6:43 pm
Posted: Jan 8, 2021 1:19 am
Full spoilers follow for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 13. Read our review of Discovery Season 3, Episode 12 for where we left off.
Let’s start with The Burn, the big quest arc of the season. Yes, Bill Irwin’s Su'Kal triggered that galactic calamity over a century ago. That was pretty clear two episodes back, but here we get confirmation that it was the result of his crying out in anguish as a child at the moment of his mother’s death. It’s a great concept -- that the Federation, and the rest of the galaxy, were crippled not by some lethal, mysterious alien foe, but rather by the desperation and pain of one lost child -- and it’s a terrific scene here when Su'Kal (and the Disco away team) learn the truth, but it’s also anticlimactic because it was kind of easy to predict two weeks back.
I would imagine that the viewer who didn’t see this reveal coming might’ve appreciated this finale more than I did, but I can’t help but wonder if combining the episode “Su'Kal” with the character’s story from this week would’ve worked better as the final episode of the season. The answer to the season-long mystery combined with the emotional impact of the truth are quite effective, but they are unnecessarily spread out among the other, less compelling story thread that closes the season.
That would be the siege of the Discovery by the Emerald Chain, the show’s new group of villains who were, in the end, just not that interesting a threat. Indeed, it was in last week’s episode, “There Is a Tide...,” that Janet Kidder’s Osyraa finally became more than just a mustache-twirling baddie, as she came to Admiral Vance (Oded Fehr) with an offer of peace. The reasons for that treaty not being realized -- she wouldn’t stand trial for her crimes -- made sense, but unfortunately at that point she reverted to the manual manipulation of said mustache. And that led to a lot of running and gunning and running out of oxygen for the Disco crew this week. In the end, when Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) shoots Osyraa after their big fight, it almost seems too easy, like the Orion is going to come back ala Jason Voorhees or somebody. But nope, she’s gone, and you kind of forget about her just like that. (The show’s writers seem to feel the same way, with a throwaway line at the end here that “the Chain fractured,” indicating they were a one-and-done threat.)
The action stuff during Osyraa’s takeover of the Disco is all well done, of course, but it overshadows some of the more interesting twists from last week’s cliffhanger that needed more play here. For one thing, the DOT-23 drones that showed up to help the Disco crew last time around -- inhabited by the Sphere data as they were -- were kind of a non-issue in this episode. And Stamets (Anthony Rapp), ejected from the ship by Burnham to keep him from saving his husband (she had her reasons!) last week, keeps getting sidelined during this episode. Rapp is skilled enough to be able to convey his feelings of betrayal with a couple of glances, but a real scene between Michael and Paul would’ve been nice.
In the end, Burnham has saved the Federation, solved the riddle of The Burn, and finally taken the captain’s seat (and let’s face it, God love him but Saru was a bad captain). But what did this season of Star Trek really tell us about the loss of hope, the dissolution of our dreams? Michael’s refusal to take no for an answer is all well and good, but right now things seem worse than ever in the real world, while all Discovery’s problems were solved in 13 episodes flat. It remains to be seen where the show will go next, but hopefully its writers will find a way to mine the less than ideal 32nd century concept further in Season 4.
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“That Hope Is You, Part 2” is reflective of the season overall in that it has plenty of moments that shine, but it’s also very uneven. Everything looks great as always, but the hour could’ve used less action and more character interplay and emotion to really center the resolution to the mystery of The Burn. Here’s hoping next season mines the compl...
In that way, “That Hope is You, Part 2” really was the perfect bookend to the premiere that started this far-future arc. That being said, the episode also set up some fascinating plot and...
Jan 7, 2021 · Here’s the thing though, as is so often the case with Star Trek: Discovery at its messiest—despite these flaws, what makes “That Hope Is You, Part 2" work as a finale to this season (in...
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Jan 10, 2021 · “That Hope is You, Part 2,” the season finale, continues Michael Burnham and the crew’s journey to retake the ship from the clutches of Osyraa and the Emerald Chain. And they need to hurry, as Saru as the away team continue to negotiate the situation within the Verubin Nebula.
