Review: Star Trek: Discovery, "Mirrors"
To its credit, Discovery appears to be taking its final season seriously. I don’t mean because of the stakes of the season’s main plotline: “this could mean the end of civilization as we know it!” is an old canard, and no matter how many times we’re informed that this time is somehow more dangerous and important than every other time, it’s never really going to land for me. I’m referring more to the nods we’ve been getting to the show’s history. Last week, there was the very obvious trip down memory lane that climaxed with present day Burnham running into (and having to fight) her more paranoid, outcast past self. This week, Burnham and Book end up chasing Moll and L’ak into an unstable wormhole, where they find (trumpets please) the Enterprise herself. Oh sure, it’s the Mirror Universe version, which makes it a little less special, but it’s still a call back to both the show’s and the franchise’s history.
It’s a random call-back, but not as bad as…
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