Star Trek: Discovery Review - ‘Terra Firma, Part 2’

The latest game news from IGN - one of my fave channels ever - check it out Full spoilers follow for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 10. Read our review of Discovery Season 3, Episode 9 for where we left off. [poilib element="accentDivider"] And that’s a wrap on Emperor Georgiou. Well, kind of. With “Terra Firma, Part 2,” Michelle Yeoh exits Star Trek: Discovery, a series which she’s been a part of since the pilot episode back in 2017. Of course, we also know that she’s heading to her own show, which will reportedly be a Section 31 spinoff, so this isn’t the end for the character or the actress’ involvement in Trek. But this episode is seemingly the conclusion of her story with the Discovery crew, and with Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) specifically. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-trek-discovery-season-3-photos-terra-firma-part-2&captions=true"] After last week’s trippy trip back to the Mirror Universe from where she originated, this second-parter picks right back up in that realm where mustache-twirling is a way of life. The thing is, having uncovered the conspiracy her daughter (Mirror) Michael is leading against her, Georgiou decides to actually try to rehabilitate her charge rather than just kill her. So the question remains, can a Mirror Universe resident really be redeemed? It seems by the end of “Terra Firma” that we have our answer: Maybe, sometimes. Because while Mirror Michael turns out to be rotten to the core, Georgiou, through her experiences in the Prime Universe, has turned a corner. Indeed, the Georgiou who says goodbye forever to Prime Michael is so far removed from the character we’ve known that it’s almost difficult to accept that it’s the same person. Her evolution prior to these two episodes wasn’t really explored as much as it could’ve been, and so the big moment when she completes this journey feels a bit off. As for Mirror Michael, this is someone who was obviously traumatized as a child, and then rescued -- if you can call it that -- and raised by a sociopath. That’s not the sort of thing a few weeks of tough love will just cure you of. If Georgiou had converted her daughter to her new way of thinking, it probably would’ve been a bridge too far in terms of believability. Mirror Universe gonna Mirror Universe, after all. [caption id="attachment_2454603" align="aligncenter" width="1735"] The Guardian of Forever![/caption] Which brings us to the specifics of how Georgiou is cured of her out-of-time/out-of-space malady. It turns out “Carl,” the cigar-chomping anachronism who sent Georgiou on her second-chance journey to the MU is actually one of the most iconic of all Star Trek mechanisms -- the Guardian of Forever from the classic episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” The Guardian was a strange, alien construct that allowed its users to travel through time, and here it sent Georgiou to a different universe in addition to a different time. All of which was a test ultimately to see if she was worthy of redemption or not herself, a second chance at life in the past. As exciting and “whoaaaa” a moment the reveal of Carl’s true nature is -- even the original Guardian voice is used for a second -- it’s ultimately a fairly empty one. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen this thing in live-action, but here it could’ve just been any old time-travel device that was put to use ultimately. Yes, the fact that Carl/Guardian was testing Georgiou is interesting, and shows that it has changed since the time Kirk encountered it, but it feels more like an afterthought in the context of the episode. In the end, the goodbye between Georgiou and Michael is heartfelt and works, and the actresses are terrific, but it leaves one wishing there had been more development of Georgiou’s journey towards good prior to this point. Maybe that story will continue in the Section 31 spin-off. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/star-trek-discovery-season-3-episode-8-clip"] Questions and Notes from the Q Continuum:

• Meanwhile, back on the ship, Book is proving his usefulness with all his knowledge of that crazy Emerald Chain tech, and Saru is facing a Kelpien dilemma next week as the crew chases down the missing ship that is somehow tied to The Burn.
• The opening credits sequence is a negative reflection of its normal self!
• Airiam returns, and in her human form here. As does Hannah Cheesman, who played the character in Season 2.
• Lorca tease! So much Lorca teasing, and we got nothing in the end. Crueler than an agonizer booth.
• “The City on the Edge of Forever,” of course, is the TOS episode where Kirk and Spock wind up in the past and Kirk has to let his new girlfriend Edith Keeler (Joan Collins) die in order to ensure the timeline will be persevered and the Federation will come into existence.

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