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Thursday 28 February 2019

Review: Star Trek Discovery Brings a Classic Twist

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Full spoilers follow for this episode.

And finally, Spock!

After teasing him for half a season, Star Trek: Discovery finally gave us Ethan Peck’s Spock this week… though he’s not really the Spock we remember and love. No, this rambling, mentally disturbed version of the iconic character is certainly different, impaired apparently by his interactions with the Red Angel. And alas, in this form he’s also dramatically inert and uninteresting, which makes for an anticlimactic debut for this version of the character.

Michael Burnham’s reunion with her brother is half the story here, and the rest of the episode is centered on Captain Pike and Tyler dealing with some timey-wimey stuff in the wake of the Red Angel’s departure from Kaminar. There’s some fun to be had in that B story for sure, but it also feels like it never hits the heights that, say, last season’s Groundhog Day-esque outing “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” did. The result then is an episode that, like several of Discovery’s recent outings, offers plenty of individual joys and nice moments, but doesn’t quite come together as efficiently as one would hope.

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