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Star Trek: Discovery

"All In"

Air date: ii/10/2022
Written by Sean Cochran
Directed by Christopher J. Byrne & Jen McGowan

"All In" describes the discipline, just non the spirit, of this week's episode of Discovery. This is fine equally a routine stopgap sort of episode, merely the lack of ambition is notable. Fortunately, the lack of ambition is somewhat offset past the fact that at least there'southward a solid character core here, even if that grapheme core feels mostly redundant when because what happened at the end of the previous episode. This episode is non strictly necessary, but then what episode of television is? (I guess it'due south probably a problem if I'chiliad waxing philosophic on the existence of all telly episodes.)

When you consider the previous episode concluded with Booker deciding to go with Tarka to pursue their forbidden mission to destroy the DMA, do y'all really need "All In" to explicitly prove how Booker and Burnham come to grips with that realization and further affirm to each other that they're committed to their positions? On the one hand, Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala exercise a proficient job of making me believe the emotional stakes of this relationship. On the other hand, setting this aboard an conflicting port amid the major set pieces of an Ballsy Muzzle Fight and a High-Stakes Poker Tournament feels a bit tropey. It's like a TOS throwback 60 minutes.

On the plus side, this episode is a adept showcase for Owosekun (I will never fence with this prove providing spotlights for the supporting characters, especially Owo, the most likable of the agglomeration), even if it can't be bothered to retrieve of a more imaginative apply of her than putting her in a ring where she takes 2 dives so she tin can hustle her competitor before then kicking his donkey. As plot goes, it's pretty bones — but besides kind of fun.

The aforementioned goes for the poker tournament, overseen past Haz Mazaro (Daniel Kash), who keeps altering the deal and telling you to pray he doesn't alter it further. Book and Burnham must confront off confronting each other in order to win this week's MacGuffin — the isolynium, the unobtainium substance necessary to create the isolytic explosion that can destroy the DMA — but must kickoff piece of work together to defeat a pair of other players (using over-the-table signals that would get yous kicked out of any casino worth its common salt) lest they end up with the dreaded isolynium and do something awful with it. For all the lacking inspiration here, this mostly accomplishes its modest goals and is decently executed. Burnham loses to Booker, as she must for this storyline to continue, only the actors do a proficient task of selling the cost of the choices fabricated, and this looks to solidify the cease signal of their relationship (maybe).

1 thing that continues to irk me on this show is the way characters are able to jump to new conclusions with regard to the sci-fi properties of the DMA simply because the story decides they tin can. Only like the discovery that the DMA was artificially created came after about 30 seconds of unpersuasive dialogue, we become hither the revelation that the DMA is actually a mining device being used to collect the free energy needed to ability Species 10-C's presumed superior technology. But notice how this changes nothing in terms of the mission or how the characters approach it, only reinforcing what they already know they need to practice (finish Booker and Tarka). Maybe if this testify would spend a little more effort exploring its sci-fi mysteries in compelling and believable ways rather than just piling on chilling discoveries with minimal context and on-the-spot conjured technobabble, this would work better.

"Admiral, in that location be whales hither!":

• The inclusion of a DS9 Changeling as a casual throwaway just had me wondering where the Dominion actually is in this century.
• Tarka continues to get the best acerbic ane-liners: "You're boring me. Go stand somewhere else."
• Tarka has stolen the Federation'southward new image spore bulldoze so that he and Booker can leap around like Discovery. They're sure in deep.
• Vance has Burnham take on the mission to stop Book against Rillak's wishes. The Starfleet higher-ups can never be on the same page, can they? At the cease, various riot acts are starting to be read, until Burnham reveals she can track Booker cheers to a hidden transponder she has planted.
• How's this review for cutting to the chase? It's a necessary component of keeping footstep and not getting behind, especially after the week I've had. Are shorter reviews a welcome change? Is less really more than? Are y'all happy with life?

Previous episode: ...Simply to Connect
Side by side episode: Rubicon

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