Far From Home
The second episode of the third season. The Discovery arrives in the 32nd Century and crash lands on a planet. The crash landing sequence was done rather well. Almost as good as the ones in Generations and Beyond, and a lot better than the one in Timeless. The rest of the episode is about the crew dealing with the situation they have found themselves in. Saru and Tilly making First Contact. The rest of the crew making repairs to the ship. Something is up with Detmer! Other things happen.
Saru and Tilly go out on the planet, and find themselves in over their head, discovering that the colony is being exploited by a 'courier' as a result of the lack of dilithium. The Western beats were strong with this one. Zarah was as much a Western antagonist as Calvera, or Buford Tannen. He and his gang certainly had the Coridanite miners under his thumb. He's also an effective fighter, but he was ill-equipped to deal with someone like Georgiou. Him being left alive at the end was a surprise, but it was well done.
Back on Discovery, the crew races to repair their ship. The various characters shine here. What of Detmer? It isn't an injury, or damage to her implant. (it's certainly leading to something.) Culbur, Staments and Reno are all good. Reno is much the same as the previous season, while Staments put himself on the line to make that final repair. That's certainly believable.Reno encouraging Staments to do the repair (so she woundn't have to), and Culbur calling out his partner for being reckless were both good.
Both these storylines are good. Although, having Burnham rescue Discovery from the ice, rather than having them escape under their own power seems anticlimatic. It would have been better for the former occurrence to happen. But that didn't make their efforts useless. Overall, a very good episode. 8.5/10.
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