![]() UK viewers can watch episodes on Pluto TV. New episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 4 beam onto Paramount Plus on Thursdays in the US and Crave in Canada. That’s not to say that there are no interesting wrinkles to the story. As Detmer, Owosekun, Bryce, and Nilsson will tell you, serving on Discovery’s bridge is often a thankless task. In short, it’s an easy call and it costs nothing, which I think is a missed opportunity. So imagine the sense of deflation when he realized his only other contribution to the episode would be telling Burnham and Book that Starfleet had rescued his family from a hurricane. When he read in the script that Rhys had volunteered to assist in the rescue, he must have thought it was a rare chance for one of the supporting players on the bridge to get their moment in the sun. Arguably the most sarcastic officer ever to serve in Starfleet, she’s the crew’s only significant source of humor now that Tilly’s relocated to Starfleet Academy.īut spare a thought for Patrick Kwok-Choon, who plays Discovery’s tactical officer Lt Cmdr Gen Rhys. Possibly the episode’s biggest contribution to the season, however, is the return of Tig Notaro as Discovery engineer Jett Reno. Coming back from the dead is going to leave some emotional scars, after all. And while Kovich – Starfleet’s David Cronenberg-shaped officer-without-portfolio – needs to work on his far-from-cuddly bedside manner, he does make Culber realize he’s got plenty of his own demons to deal with. Culber.īecause having been carrying the entire crew’s burdens on his shoulders – surely in the 32nd Century Starfleet can find a way to share the chief medical officer/counselor roles between two people? – Discovery’s guardian angel has finally admitted he needs help. And second, working alongside Tarka helps the self-centered Stamets realizes he’s not the easiest man to work or live with – which is good news for his long-suffering husband, Dr. First, it’s now clear that the Anomaly has an object of immeasurable power at its center. Through the entire second half of S04E05. The test run results in two major outcomes. Id never fast forwarded through any episode of any Star Trek show, but, I just did. Otto Octavius’s ill-fated fusion experiments in Spider-Man 2 when the mini-Anomaly threatens to tear the ship apart, but here, safety-first Saru is there to hit the kill switch as soon as things get a bit dodgy – sensible and good for the VFX budget, but neither exciting nor dramatic. While keeping experiments “within safe parameters” rarely goes according to plan in Starfleet, the episode never quite delivers on the danger. He reckons he’s worked out how to build his own Anomaly, and – after the best use of mashed potato model-making since Close Encounters of the Third Kind – constructs a scale model of the DMA in Engineering. ![]() Entertaining he may be, but the crude, arrogant Tarka (played by Shawn Doyle, whose dad Jerry was one of the stars of Babylon 5) also specializes in making other people feel awkward – whether he’s mocking Saru’s feet or endangering Discovery with his experiments. ![]() There’s a similar sense of déjà vu back on board the ship, where rock star scientist Ruon Tarka is clashing egos with Discovery’s own Commander Stamets. ![]()
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