![]() Zora let's them have full access so they can take a look-see. The dialogue almost goes down the road of memories-being-used-a-cushion-to-control-emotions à la "Blade Runner," but instead it seems Zora has started dreaming and that's what everyone is seeing. No one wants to destroy Zora and the whole group learns of a new section of code that's unexpectedly appeared in a tiny area within the optical translator cluster. It's well-written and despite sailing close to being a teeny-tiny bit of cliché, it's made more interesting because he's not acting alone he's convinced Book that blowing this thing the hell out of our galaxy is the right thing to do. It's a little reminiscent of Malcolm McDowell's character Soran in "Star Trek: Generations." He's become so fixated on returning, that not much else matters. Tarka reveals a little of his backstory to Book and why he's driven to secure the power source of the DMA - basically, so he can use it to escape this universe and enter an alternative one. So many worlds are now represented in the Federation, including Earth once again and the Alshains (Image credit: Paramount+) So by adding the issue of potential sub-space damage to the discussion, instead of a relatively straightforward ethical dilemma, anyone wanting to simply destroy the anomaly and be done with it now has the added outcome of collateral damage on their conscience. However, he's used an Isolytic weapon to achieve this and they were banned in the Khitomer Accords. The situation is exacerbated when Tarka reveals to the entire assembly that he's developed a device that could destroy the anomaly by creating a cascading subspace burst (and allowing him to retain the power source). It quickly becomes clear that there are two basic choices, project peace while exploring the DMA origin or go in with shields raised and torpedoes loaded. You may remember her from last season's episode " People of Earth" (S03, E03). Now-General Ndoye (Phumzile Sitole) speaks for the former home of the Federation. And from Earth! It's about time that blue dot in Sector 001 got in on the action. Anyone who is anyone is there: The Orion and Andorian ambassadors, a Schlerm, a Morn, at least one member of Daft Punk and even representatives from Alshain IV that we were first introduced to in the premiere episode " Kobayashi Maru" (S04, E01). At a massive gathered assembly of every Federation member world – the first gathering of this size since before the Burn - President Laira Rillak lays out the facts. Meanwhile the primary plot this week involves Burnham, President Laira Rillak (Chelah Horsdal), Book (David Ajala)…and Ruon Tarka (Shawn Doyle). It's nice to see that the extensive damage done to Discovery last week wasn't just patched up overnight (Image credit: Paramount+) The discussion is an interesting one and as a gesture of good faith, Zora produces a device that if activated, would remove her from the Discovery's computer core. He's soon joined by Adira, Gray (Ian Alexander), Dr Culber (Wilson Cruz) and Lt Stamets (Anthony Rapp), who has a big problem with Zora exhibiting this kind of behavior, contrary to her instructions. Kovich gets to work on the Zora issue since Starfleet prohibits fully sentient integrated units. Granted, he's still not quite the sinister, spymaster-type he was last season, but the scenes and set pieces he's part of are benefitting from his inclusion. Once past the opening credits, we are joined by Dr Kovich (David Cronenberg) who, thankfully, has returned to being a more interesting character than a glorified schoolteacher, which seemed to be the route he was going down at one point. However, upon determining the coordinates, Zora refuses to give them to Burnham, the Federation or anyone else, thus setting up the secondary plot and a refreshingly simple pre-credit sequence, especially when you think about how much has been crammed into this space in recent episodes. With Adira's (Blu del Barrio) assistance, Zora can cross-reference all the information collected with the Sphere data and out of 147 possibilities she is able to determine the origin point at the edge of the Milky Way where the dark matter anomaly entered our galaxy. Once you get past the sudden deceleration from the last two episodes, this is not altogether terrible (Image credit: Amazon Prime Video)Īs we saw last week - and will continue to see much more this week - Zora (voiced by Annabelle Wallis) is developing as a sentient artificial intelligence.
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