Star Trek: Discovery - Into the Forest I Go

This episode follows directly from the previous, with the Klingons about to show up and destroy the peaceful aliens. Discovery is ordered to run away, bu obviously the captain is a maverick who plays by his own rules (but dammit, he gets results), so they're not going to do that.

Apparently they can just blow up whole planets.

So they come up with a plan to use the blink drive to take a whole lot of readings of a cloaked Klingon ship so they can figure out the cloaking and defeat it, but it requires that they plant two transmitters on board. That means Michael and the new guy have to go over there. Fortunately there's a small window between the ship uncloaking (which it has to do to fire its weapons for some reason) and putting up its shields (which apparently can't run concurrently with the cloak), so they're able to beam across.

There are surprisingly few Klingons on this Klingon ship.

Which kind of undermines the whole Klingon threat, really. Their ships have a giant vulnerability that no one's exploiting, and for no reason. I think this might even have been a plot point on an episode of TNG or something. If you can beam something on board when they decloak, just send a bomb. Do it every time you see a Klingon ship decloaking. That's their biggest advantage and it turns out it just makes them incredibly vulnerable. They're clearly not able to detect you beaming stuff onto their ship, so send a nuke and be done with it.

It's about time, guys.

Anyway, they beam over there and detect a human on board - the admiral, obviously - so they go to rescue her, and the Klingon in white is also there and not dead. Then Michael fights the new Klingon boss and the three humans and the Klingon in white all get beamed back to the Discovery, which can now see through the cloak and blows up the Klingon ship.

Also Tilly accidentally revealed that he'd been secretly sick for ages.

But all the blinking has been taking its toll on fungus guy, and he's finally come clean about it and decided he does need to see a doctor, so he's just going to do one more jump to get them back to a starbase. But the captain knows that he's about to get reported as a loon and he's possibly also not keen on his blink drive pilot taking any time off, so he fucks with the coordinates and sends them somewhere else instead. So now they're lost in space.

Also the new guy really need to see a psychiatrist.

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