Episode two is pretty much more of the same, to be honest. It feels like we're still in the prologue and I want them to hurry up and get on with it.
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| Did he pack her lunch? |
The episode opens with a flashback showing Michael arriving with her dad for her first day of
school Starfleet. At first it seems like she's just going to be a dick to everyone but then maybe it's just her Vulcan ways? Or maybe not. It's hard to tell.
Back in the present she's in the middle of being arrested for mutiny while the bridge crew also try to figure out what all these Klingons are suddenly doing here, while over on the Klingon ship the heads of the noble houses are all demanding to know why they've been summoned. Whatsisname, the leader from the last episode, tries to convince them that the Federation is a threat that they need to unite against. Not everyone is on board.
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| You'd think they'd have better hologram technology than this. |
Then the Federation backup arrives and Yeoh tries to open up a dialogue with the Klingons. Unfortunately she uses the phrase "we come in peace", which the Klingons really hate for some reason. It seems to be a bit of a political rallying cry, symbolising this faction's opposition to the Federation. So they open fire.
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| Lots of explosions. |
As the titular battle commences we cut to the brig, where Michael's feeling really left out. Also the ship takes a hit leaving her cell open to space (but sealed off by a force field). While she's sitting there twiddling her thumbs she has a psychic chat with Sarek (which they can do because they're permanently linked after he saved her life as a child). He basically just gives her a pep talk.
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| I've got to admit, this does look cool. |
Then the Klingons really conveniently decide to stop shooting at them because they're helpless. Which kind of does make sense for Klingons - no honour in killing a disabled opponent - but on the other hand they are leaving them to drift helplessly into an asteroid, and you'd think finishing your opponent off would be the merciful (and honourable) thing to do there. But this provides the opportunity for another Federation ship to show up and save them.
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| Also there's an admiral on board. |
Then the Klingons pretend to accept a cease fire and ram the rescuing Federation ship. Which also doesn't seem very honourable. I'm beginning to doubt these Klingons' commitment to their stated principles. Anyway, they stop attacking, having made their point (that they don't like the Federation and want them to go away) and we return to Michael in her cell.
Which she is escaping from. She's obviously supposed to seem clever and resourceful here, but I think they laid it on a bit thick. It's one of those situations where you can see the writers working it out backwards, devising a problem to fit the solution they've already come up with. Obviously that happens a lot, but it's not always so apparent.
She returns to the bridge where Yeoh and Saru are coming up with a plan to fly a warhead into the Klingon ship. Michael says they can't kill the Klingon leader because that'll make him a martyr and Yeoh agrees. It's one of those situations where you don't know what the plan is until you see it play out, but basically they're going to beam a warhead into a dead Klingon so they'll bring it onboard (because the Klingons are recovering their dead) and blow it up as a distraction so they can grab the Klingon leader and take him prisoner.
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| Nice action poses. |
But their plan goes awry and Yeoh is killed. And then Michael kills the Klingon leader - for revenge, I guess? - even though she was the one who pointed out how bad an idea that would be. Saru beams her back and everyone evacuates and the final scene is her court-martial. So the best character's dead, the guy who seemed to be the primary antagonist is dead, and there's going to have to be some sort of shenanigans to get the protagonist back into a position to do anything. I'm still not sold on this show.
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| And why is it so dark? |
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