The backstory of Moll and L’ak is revealed while Captain Michael Burnham and Cleveland Booker explore a familiar ship for the next clue to the Progenitor’s technology.
Having defeated the time bug in the prior episode, the crew of the Discovery now begin their search for the next clue in their quest for the Progenitor’s technology. Their mission leads to interdimensional space through the aperture of a wormhole. When Captain Booker and Cleveland Booker take a shuttle inside, they find a very familiar ship and encounter Moll and L’ak. The backstory for the season’s antagonists is revealed during the course of the story. We have different opinions on this episode, so join us as we discuss the story beats and details in this episode of Warp Trails.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Our overall thoughts on this episode,
- Commander Rayner’s progress and character arc,
- The appearance of an iconic ship in the interdimensional rift,
- Moll and L’ak’s backstory and why they are on the run,
- Booker’s attempts to get through to Moll by making appeals to her memory of her father,
- Tilly looking to be a shoulder Dr. Culber can lean on,
- The acquisition of the latest clue and the lesson to be learned from it,
- Burnham and Booker talking about their past, and
- The absence of key bridge officers in this episode and why they are gone.
Theme music licensed from MediaMusicNow.
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Welcome to Warp Trails. This weekly show reviews each episode of Star Trek, from Discovery to Picard and Lower Decks, the latest incarnations of Star Trek airing on CBS All Access, and discusses Star Trek news. Your hosts are Dennis and Beth Keithly, a husband and wife team living in Texas. Beth is an old school fan of Star Trek whose fandom is grounded in The Original Series. Meanwhile, Dennis is a relatively more recent fan who traces his fandom to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. Since they met, Dennis and Beth made consumption of Star Trek content part of their weekly routine. The have also named four of their past six pets after Star Trek characters.
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