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The Senior Senior Trekker Speaks, and does not rant about things that don't occur in this episode.

We get to see Ensign, er, Captain Sonya Gomez for the first time in... 36 years? I think the last time we saw her was in the movie "batteries not included".

What promises to be a standard first contact situation becomes a potential catastrophe for Captain Gomez' Excalibur class ship - and there is not a damn thing Captain Gomez can do about it.

It is almost "Q Who" all over again.

Fortunately, the Cerritos was to accompany them as backup.

So this episode shows us what the California class Cerritos really can do when all of the crew are acting together and supporting each other. At the beginning of this episode, we don't think that would be the case. But Captain Freeman pulls it all together and the lower decks crew also pull it all together. It is upper decks and lower decks together solving a conundrum. And they perform some thing that we have never seen in over 50 years of Star Trek, something that we have never conceived of, and they show it right here.

The imagery in this episode is magnificent and for a couple of seconds now and then we forget that it is animation.

Cerritos is such an unusual ship, it is 3/4 of a constitution class upside down, with the warp engine assembly of the NX01 connecting the engine nacelles in the middle.

How do people get from the saucer section down into the engineering section? Is there a catwalk like they had on NX01?

Very good second season finale, a beloved next generation character returns and more grief with the Pakleds is on the horizon...

"The slimiest cola in the galaxy!"

I'm not going to tell you when this beverage appears, you will see it if you pay attention. But this was the second or third time that we got to see Discovery's Ferengi bartender, who started appearing at the end of season four. Now all we needed was a bar room character of the same race as Morn... we started seeing those at the beginning of season three. One of them got eaten by Book's Trance Worm... Captain Rayner/"Leoben" says the drink looks positively radioactive- and he starts becoming a genuine part of Disco's crew.

A crew of all kinds of odd sorts, I think the word that we want to use is "diverse". And some so-called fans take issue with this, as if being diverse isn't what Star Trek was all about in the first place. This was a very interesting episode in this Star Trek version of a game of clue... not only are Discovery collecting clues, but there are also little references to past Star Trek shows and episodes splattered all the way through this episode. This episode hails back to the deep space nine episode "Facets", when Jadzia had her Zhiantara. This time, we get to speak to a 800 year old Trill host. But he can't just come right out and tell Burnham what she is asking and she is being very pushy. There was a reason why "Those Old Scientists", who laid these clues did so in a manner where people would have to prove their worth.

Meanwhile "Mal" and "Lak'k" are figuring out new ways to bugger Discovery, in a most literal sense. Why would they follow Discovery to Trill? Which sets up the conundrum for the episode following this one.

Overall, I found that these episodes were very well written, very well directed. Making use of previous episodes and other Trek shows. In fact, this entire season was based upon the next generation episode "The Chase", but instead of being just one 45 minute episode, we have 10 of them. Adira has to deal with her changing relationship with Gray, who is becoming a trill guardian... which were introduced in the deep space nine episode "Equilibrium".

And of course we get to see deadly invisible owls.

"The slimiest cola in the galaxy!"

I'm not going to tell you when this beverage appears, you will see it if you pay attention. But this was the second or third time that we got to see Discovery's Ferengi bartender, who started appearing at the end of season four. Now all we needed was a bar room character of the same race as Morn... we started seeing those at the beginning of season three. One of them got eaten by Book's Trance Worm...

Captain Rayner/"Leoben" says the drink looks positively radioactive- and he starts becoming a genuine part of Disco's crew. A crew of all kinds of odd sorts, I think the word that we want to use is "diverse".

And some so-called fans take issue with this, as if being diverse isn't what Star Trek was all about in the first place.

This was a very interesting episode in this Star Trek version of a game of clue... not only are Discovery collecting clues, but there are also little clues to past Star Trek shows and episodes splattered all the way through this episode.

This episode hails back to the deep space nine episode "Facets", when Jadzia had her Zhiantara. This time, we get to speak to a 800 year old Trill host. But he can't just come right out and tell Burnham what she is asking and she is being very pushy. There was a reason why the scientists, who laid these clues did so in a manner where people would have to prove their worth.

Meanwhile "Mal" and "Lak'k" are figuring out new ways to bugger Discovery, why would they follow Discovery to Trill?

Which sets up the conundrum for the episode following this one.

Overall, I found that these episodes were very well written, very well directed. Making use of previous episodes and other Trek shows.

In fact, this entire season was based upon the next generation episode "The Chase", but instead of being just one 45 minute episode, we have 10 of them.

Adira has to deal with her changing relationship with Gray, who is becoming a trill guardian... which were introduced in the deep space nine episode "Equilibrium".