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Star Trek Dis - Season 2 - Episode 07

Star Trek Dis - 2x07 - Light and Shadows

Originally Aired: 2019-2-28

Synopsis:
In researching what is left of the Red Angel's signal over Kaminar, Pike and Tyler end up in battle with time itself. Georgiou has a few tricks up her sleeve for Leland and Section 31.

My Rating - 4

Fan Rating Average - 3.83

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Problems
- Sarek: "I am not prepared to lose both of our children on the same day." Uh, Sybok? Yeah, he's not Amanda's. But neither was Michael.
- The exterior shots of the turbolift are still showing huge, implausibly cavernous empty spaces all throughout the interior of Discovery.

Factoids
- The opening theme changed to depict the red angel as technology instead of a blurry figure.

Remarkable Scenes
- The beautiful shots of Vulcan during Burnham's visit.
- Georgiou hatching a mysterious plan to help Burnham rescue Spock in defiance of Leland.
- Burnham flying off to Talos IV with Spock, the famous planet that Pike and Spock visited in the very first Star Trek episode TOS: The Cage.

My Review
With the search for Spock finally over, the story advances a bit. The various plots driving it forward are fairly effective. Some Vulcan family drama that is reasonably compelling. Some Section 31 intrigue that works surprisingly well. A fight with a time traveling giant squid robot straight out of The Matrix. Leland is apparently somehow responsible for the Klingons killing Burnham's parents, a curiosity to be followed up on later. Airiam is infected with a virus that might hopefully lead to the irritating questions about her backstory and capabilities finally getting reconciled with canon. None of this is terribly impressive, nor particularly problematic.

A notably unfortunate oversight in the story is the total lack of epilogue regarding the previous episode's events on Kaminar despite Discovery being ordered to remain in orbit of Kaminar. Apparently Starfleet isn't even remotely concerned about Discovery upending an entire society of two sentient species. They're only sticking around because of the red signals. The planet of Kaminar serves only as a pretty backdrop for dealing with the space anomaly. The writers seem to have forgotten about it so much that when the space anomaly explodes into a "time tsunami" at the end of the episode, Discovery just warps away without the slightest regard for how such a terrifying phenomenon might affect the scores of people on the planet below. Whatever. Screw them. They were last episode's problem.

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