Review: Star Trek: Discovery, "Face the Strange"
Oh hey, would you look at that—a perfectly cromulent episode of Discovery. “Face the Strange” is the closest thing the season has done so far to a standalone; while the macro plot magical Progenitor tech is still the driving focus, the main story involving Burnham, Rayner, Stamets, and a “time bug” has a beginning, a middle, and an end. These are good things to have, and the discipline forces the writers to pull back on some of their worst impulses. I am, at this point, a skeptic when it comes to this series, and “Strange” didn’t turn me around and make me a fan again (if I ever was one). But it was a good reminder that under all the nonsense, the creative team is still capable of delivering something that works like it’s supposed to: an hour of television with a clever hook, some fun twists, and an emotional resolution that’s in service of the plot instead of just kind of floating around between special effects.
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