Warning: Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery, Season 1, episode 10, “Despite Yourself.”
I’ve always skipped past “mirror universe” episodes of Star Trek. To me, they always seemed so cheesy: Oh look, evil Spock has a goatee!
But on Su…
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If you’ve been wondering whether to jump on board with Star Trek: Discovery, the show CBS is using to sell its $6-a-month All Access streaming service, Sunday night’s episode answered your questions with an unqualified yes … just in time for its long mid-season break.
When the show returns in January — spoilers for the mid-season finale follow — the crew of the Discovery will literally be in a new universe. And that’s not the only place that Episode 10, “Into the Forest I Go,” took us for the first time.
We also got what I believe is Star Trek’s first proper, full-on gay kiss, as well as its first ever sex scene. Unfortunately, the latter turned out to be a PTSD-inducing Klingon-on-human rape, one that shockingly subverted all our expectations about one character. Read more…
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For a show involving cosmic fungus and a giant tardigrade, Star Trek: Discovery has been pretty serious this season.
That’s not a bad thing. But Sunday night’s episode — called “Magic to Make the Sanest Man go Mad” — marked a glorious return to the campy, cheesy version of Star Trek that made other series so much fun.
This episode had it all: time crystals, a time loop, and a man in a cape. Oh, and plenty of old-school references for diehard Trekkies.
Rainn Wilson, who you might know as Dwight from The Office, holds the episode together. He plays Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd, a con man who features in several episodes of the original 1966-68 Star Trek. Read more…
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