This episode just had everything going on. It was a real mess. The Klingons are back with their dumb Klingon bullshit. As I predicted, Tilly tried to keep her hallucinations secret. And also remember spock and the red angels? That stuff's still happening. Evil Georgiou is also back as part of stupid Section 31, which is evidently going to be very important this season. So with all these different things happening at the same time, there wasn't much actual plot. More just setting a bunch of stuff up to presumably pay off later.
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| At least the Klingons look way better with hair. |
The main story, I guess, was the Klingon stuff. L'Rell is still Klingon Chancellor and she's got Voq/Tyler/Voqler as her torchbearer, whatever that means - I don't think it was ever clear. But basically no one seems to like her. Which is understandable since she got the job by threatening to blow up the planet. Also she's had a baby, which is Voq's - but she hasn't told him it even exists. Voq thinks her uncle is being weird to him because of racism or whatever but it turns out it's because of the baby. It's all real soap-opera-y.
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| Also the baby's small and albino like its dad. |
The head of one of the Klingon houses finds out about the baby and kidnaps it, demanding that L'Rell sign over the Chancellorship to him or he'll kill the baby. L'Rell and Voqler go to meet/fight him and everyone on both sides gets killed except for the three of them (and the baby). Then a bunch more dudes show up and the bad guy is about to kill them when Georgiou shows up and kills him instead. She reveals that she's there to make sure L'Rell stays in power, and to do that she (L'Rell) has to get rid of Voqler and the baby. So Georgiou smuggles them out and creates some fake bodies for L'Rell to use to convince the other Klingons that they both died.
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| Voqler joins Section 31 and the baby is sent off to be raised by monks. |
Then L'Rell is able to go before the heads of the houses and tell them that she had a baby but Voqler killed it and also he was a traitor who was in contact with the Federation (which he actually was) and killed the head of the house who was blackmailing her. So that's all tied up neatly. Also she tells them not to call her Chancellor any more, she'd prefer to be referred to as Mother. Which is a bit weird but they seem to be going for it.
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| I'm your mother now! |
Meanwhile Tilly is still hallucinating her dead friend, and the hallucination is getting increasingly pushy and demanding, but instead of getting medical attention she just tries to ignore it until she can't any more and only then, after acting like a crazy person in front of the whole bridge crew, does she finally tell Michael. And Michael goes "Oh, you got zapped by some alien shit and then weird stuff started happening? Are you a fucking idiot? This is obviously some kind of alien bullshit." Actually she's a lot nicer about it, but anyway they go tell Stamets and he does some scans or whatever.
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| The hallucination starts out pretty positive but gets progressively less chill. |
So it turns out to be the spore that infected her in the evil universe interacting with the dark matter from the asteroid and they suck it out of her. It's not happy about it, but since there was so much happening in this episode this was all they had time for so the episode ended with them just slapping a forcefield around it and I guess they might try to talk to it next week.
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| I guess it got much bigger when they pulled it out of her? |
Meanwhile meanwhile Sarek's ship shows up and says hi, but instead of Sarek it's his wife, Amanda. She comes over to talk to Michael about Spock. They go to Pike to try to get some more info on Spock but he hits a dead end after learning that Spock's been accused of killing three doctors. So then they hack into his medical records and find all these pictures of the red angel, and Amanda's like "oh, that old thing, he's been going on about that since he was a kid." And Michael's all "WHAT!?". I was somewhere between that and an eye roll.
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| I don't know why but I took an immediate dislike to Amanda. |
So yeah, Spock was contacted by the red angel when he was a child and it told him where Michael was (because she'd run away from home at the time). They're just starting to put some information together when Michael feels the need to confess to something terrible she did to Spock - but not to actually say what it was she did. She says that the logic terrorists were targeting her so she decided she had to create some distance between the two of them so she did
something. And based on this pseudo-confession, Amanda decides to leave.
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| Also Voqler phoned Michael to tell her about L'Rell's problems and I guess that's how Georgiou knew to show up? |
If this is what the rest of the season is going to be like, I'm not looking forward to it. Last week's episode wasn't great, but it looked like the show might be moving in the right direction. This is some season 1 bullshit, and I am not into it.
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| The Klingons really do look way better this season though. |
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