With a new crew member aboard, the USS Discovery heads to Trill in hopes of finding answers as to the location of Starfleet. The crew also confronts widespread trauma.
In the last episode, the crew of the Discovery made it to Earth and received a less than warm welcome. However, that was resolved, and now they are headed to Trill to find more clues as to the location of Starfleet. When they arrive there, they get a warm welcome this time, but things quickly take a turn for the worse after a misunderstanding. While Michael Burnham and Adira Tal try to find answers on Trill, Captain Saru, with the aid of Dr. Culber, attempt to offer the crew relief from the stress they have experienced.
On this episode, we discuss:
- Dr. Culber’s analysis of the crew and his lead in addressing their stress,
- Captain Saru’s attempts to address the mental condition of the crew,
- Michael Burnham and Adira Tal’s welcome on Trill,
- Saru’s dinner party for the bridge crew and what went wrong,
- Timeline issues we cannot resolve with the show,
- The PTSD that Lt. Detmer experiences and unleashes,
- Ensign Tilly’s and Lt. Commander Stamet’s dysfunction in engineering, and
- The appearance of the Sphere and its attempt to help Saru.
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Welcome to Warp Trails. This weekly show reviews each episode of Star Trek, from Discovery to Picard, 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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