In this episode, we are faced with finding the second clue to discover what created all humanoid life in the galaxy, a technology descending from long ago, created by a species now only known as The Progenitors. We are faced with a problem. As told by the fifth and final verse of the Romulan poem, they are meant to go to Trill. They must find someone who had a specific pattern of spots, which they discover was Jinaal Bix. He is dead.
This episode takes a slower pace than the previous two, yet still fast in comparison to the last season. This episode delves deep into understanding the meaning behind understanding what created us. Burnham and Book beam down to the planet, alongside Adira, who will confront her emotions for Gray. While they do that, Burnham and Book go on a mission with Jinaal, the man they were meant to find, through the process of zhian tara, which moved his consciousness from the symbiont to Dr. Culber.
I enjoyed the acting by Wilson Cruz as he portrays this character, freed from the shackles of a symbiont to now getting to walk in a body he says really works out. The delivery of lines was very well done and the clear differences between him and Culber are intriguing.
I was worried, based upon the clip shown in The Ready Room, that this episode would be much worse. We have seen terrible writing surrounding the experiences of Gray and Adira. This wasn't as bad, but it still wasn't great. When they discussed ending their relationship, I found Gray's attempts to twist their ending into a new relationship very manipulative, especially since only a few lines before he seemed to understand why Adira wanted to separate from him. He seemed to force a confession out of her. This is the ending of a relationship, not a Cardassian interrogation.
The scenes between Rayner and the rest of the crew were amazing and the prime reason why I give this episode a higher rating. Callum Keith Rennie and Mary Wiseman have phenomenal chemistry as actors, and their lines bounce off each other quite well. Tilly continues to be amazing, as usual, and this episode had some of her best scenes of this season so far.
Even though I continue to be disappointed with Ian Alexander's acting (especially his very fake smirk), I still enjoyed this episode. I feared the worst, and it rose above my expectations. I'm still excited for what is to come. Let's keep flying.
This episode takes a slower pace than the previous two, yet still fast in comparison to the last season. This episode delves deep into understanding the meaning behind understanding what created us. Burnham and Book beam down to the planet, alongside Adira, who will confront her emotions for Gray. While they do that, Burnham and Book go on a mission with Jinaal, the man they were meant to find, through the process of zhian tara, which moved his consciousness from the symbiont to Dr. Culber.
I enjoyed the acting by Wilson Cruz as he portrays this character, freed from the shackles of a symbiont to now getting to walk in a body he says really works out. The delivery of lines was very well done and the clear differences between him and Culber are intriguing.
I was worried, based upon the clip shown in The Ready Room, that this episode would be much worse. We have seen terrible writing surrounding the experiences of Gray and Adira. This wasn't as bad, but it still wasn't great. When they discussed ending their relationship, I found Gray's attempts to twist their ending into a new relationship very manipulative, especially since only a few lines before he seemed to understand why Adira wanted to separate from him. He seemed to force a confession out of her. This is the ending of a relationship, not a Cardassian interrogation.
The scenes between Rayner and the rest of the crew were amazing and the prime reason why I give this episode a higher rating. Callum Keith Rennie and Mary Wiseman have phenomenal chemistry as actors, and their lines bounce off each other quite well. Tilly continues to be amazing, as usual, and this episode had some of her best scenes of this season so far.
Even though I continue to be disappointed with Ian Alexander's acting (especially his very fake smirk), I still enjoyed this episode. I feared the worst, and it rose above my expectations. I'm still excited for what is to come. Let's keep flying.