Discovery S3 E9 (spoilers)

[lightofdaye]

You know the drill


Is an episode that depends on you liking Georgiou, the mirror universe and Michael & Georgiou's relationship. I can't say it's my favourite aspect of the show but it definitely needs it's time in sun. This season Georgiou's kind of been defang, she blusters and snarks a lot but is generally harmless and has positive interaction with the crew.

Now we're seeing just how much the prime!Crew and their values have rubbed off on her, and presumably how horribly wrong it's all going to go now she's shoved back into her old habitat. I really can't imagine how this is going to play out next episode.

Some other random nitpicks:

• Yor's uniform is an really early TNG Variant That was nice to see, but doesn't come from the year he was stated to come from. He is a time soldier though so maybe it was a disguise. He was also apparently from the Kelvin verse which makes the TNG uniform even stranger.
• That was a very very long, Teaser. It was a shock when the started credits went.
• I was just thinking ‘hmm mirror verse and time travel this would be the time to bring back some dead characters’, very next scene Landry pops up.
• Was I alone in getting a kind of Doctor/Time Lord kind of Vibe off of Carl? Maybe it's just the suit and impossible door thing. I wonder if He'll turn out to be original in a known super-alien race. Like a Q or one of the TOS ones.
• I'm curious how close to the original run, Georgiu's redo is. The ending seems to imply her not killing burnham then is the real difference, but Stamets wasn't dead in the original timeline either
• Was this the first mention of the supercomputer since the stress release episode? Given the upgrades I don't see how it can align with the short episode Calpyso.

Coincidentally, I wrote a brief tumblr post about Lorca being from the MU before watching this episode which is oddly apropos given suddenly we're back in the MU and Lorca is getting mentioned a lot.

Comments

[pauraque]

I assumed the time soldier's uniform was from the time/universe he went to, not the one he came from. I started to have some thoughts about whether they were trying to allude to some specific early episode of TNG, but I didn't get very far before the episode got me way too interested in everything else to think about that anymore.

[lightofdaye]

Ha, can't blame you there. Once Georgiou steps through the door, I kinda of forget about everything else.

[walgesang]

Those feels about Georgiou are pretty much a mood for me. :D

[lightofdaye]

I hope that's a good thing? Lol


Eta: oh now i see this a reply to the comment rather than the whole post it makes more sense.

[walgesang]

Yes! Sorry for the confusion, the mood was a good thing! :D