Charles Vance is quite skeptical about the crew’s story or abilities to function 900 years into their future. Tal’s memories get Discovery to the hidden Starfleet HQ. There, Adira is shunned by most but eventually wins over one “guardian” to assist in the process. In an effort to communicate with and/or access the memories of the Tal symbiote, Discovery travels to the Trill homeworld. Upon arrival, the crew learns that the now very paranoid and militant Earth is no longer home to Starfleet HQ and that Admiral Tal was a Trill whose implant survived in not exactly ideal circumstances within the Earthling Adira. After picking up a signal from one Admiral Senna Tal from Earth, Discovery sets course for the familiar planet. Discovery’s precious dilithium is stashed aboard Book’s ship, which in turn is stasthed aboard Discovery. Burnham and Book show up to free Discovery from the gnarly ice. Zareh, an exploitative courier, seeks to steal Discovery’s dilithium but Georgiou comes to the rescue, kicking ass and taking names.

Saru and Ensign Tilly venture out to a nearby mining settlement wherein they attempt to exchange dilithium for spare parts. The crew gets to work on repairing bodily injuries and damage to the ship while racing against the onslaught of parasitic ice which is slowly encasing the ship as the external temperature drops with night’s approach.

The Discovery emerges from the season 2-concluding wormhole and lands in generally intact condition on the surface of a mostly uninhabited planet. Needless to say, this is perhaps the single most action-packed episode in all of ST lore. Michael Burnham emerges from the season 2-concluding wormhole into the year 3188 (approximate stardate 864711), collides with a courier ship piloted by one Cleveland “Book” Booker, crash lands on an alien planet, gets dosed with some serious ecstasy-like truth-telling drugs, kciks butt in a number of firefights, helps save a member of an endangered interplanetary species and finally finds at least one representative of the Federation. For the first time, a Discovery season has Trek fans wanting more of a new vision… Star Trek: Discovery episode guide – Season 3 Beyond this, we get nearly a millennium’s worth of sociopolitical change, from Vulcans and Romulans living together to the return of rampant capitalism (and not the cute, vice-based sort favored by the Ferengi, either).īest of all, in a bleak future with the Federation on its knees, the Discovery crew ultimately comes to represent the optimism of the past, in a meta sense that of The Original Series (as well as, to some extent, The Next Generation and Voyager), as a force for good in a galaxy gone mad. Sure, Star Trek has given us glimpses into the furthest temporal reaches of its universe before: The Enterprise-J was seen by Captain Archer in Enterprise season 3, Voyager’s EMH benefitted from 29 th-century holographic emitter technology and Lower Decks showed us a historical perspective on a certain TNG/DS9 Starfleet member.īut not for decades (in real-time) has Star Trek presented us with such a fascinating array of new technologies, starships and the like: The programmable matter and personal transporters are as interesting to 20s audiences as were holodecks and badge communicators in the 80s.

Season 3, it can be argued, is where Star Trek: Discovery probably should have begun: After all, both Deep Space Nine and Voyager wasted little time to explore whoe new quadrants of the galaxy – in Voyager's case, about 20 minutes – so why take so long to get to treading truly new ground for the Star Trek franchise? On the other hand, without Discovery, why'd never have gotten Strange New Worlds nor the introduction of Captain/Emperor Philippa Georgiou and thus the upcoming Section 31…ĭiscovery season 3 is set an exciting 900 years beyond The Original Series in the wild 32 nd century.

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