The Vulcan
Hello/Battle at the Binary Stars two part premiere review
Clearly,
the two episodes are actually a single story, rather than two linked
stories, much like Encounter at Farpoint, Emissary, Caretaker
and Broken Bow were
single stories. Stopping at the E-D's arrival
at Farpoint, the discovery of the wormhole, Harry and B'Elanna
discovering the Ocampa City or the NX-01's
arrival at Rigel wouldn't have been a good idea either. (But the onus
is on CBS for that). But I digress. The premiere (or prologue) taken
as a whole is a very good introduction to the situation in the
Federation at this time.
The
relationship between Burnham and Georgeou is established to be
strong, in that the captain had thought highly enough of her Number
One that she was going to recommend that she have her own ship. But
it turns out that Phillipa didn't know Michael as well as she thought
she did. It is further established that Burnham had unresolved issues
in her past (as did Georgeou) that hadn't been triggered in the past
seven years. Not until She had run into T'Kumva's beacon ship. That
is what leads to the mutiny.
However,
Phillipa is able to forgive Michael by the time they go over to try
to capture T'Kumva, not that does any good in the long run. However,
the Vulcan education has given her highly honed cognitive abilities
(as the ethics discussion with the Shenzhou
computer in the brig shows), it will be interesting going forward to
see how she helps to solve problems that the Discovery
would run into. However, Sarek's motivations, his intentions, in
raising a full human child in a Vulcan environment hasn't yet been
elucidated. Hopefully, more of that will be revealed as the series
goes forward.
With
the Klingons, T'Kumva particularly, there was some backstory, that he
was bullied because of his father's disgrace (Discommendation?) and
discovered the ship along with Voq and then used it in order to not
be disgraced and to reunite the Klingons against the Federation;
that's an interesting story. Probably too bad he was killed off. It
will be interesting to see the repercussions from that. 8.5/10.
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