Compared to what follows, however, the misstep barely registers.īecause – like an episode of The Simpsons – the second half of 'Coming Home' does all it can to get everything back to normal, ensuring that season 5 will begin in a spookily similar place to season 4. So, when United Earth General Ndoye volunteers to take her place – making amends for aiding Book and Tarka’s escape – it feels like a minor cop out. What follows is arguably the most powerful scene of the season: when Burnham coolly commands Detmer – the best pilot on board – to fly the shuttle, the glances exchanged between the doomed pilot and a tearful Owosekun convey more drama than numerous pages of dialogue.
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This is truly edge-of-the-seat stuff, and the stakes get even higher when – once free of the orb – the crew realise that the only way to stop Tarka is to send someone on a suicide mission to remove the rogue ship from the equation – with Book unlikely to survive. Think Star Trek: Voyager, but in the 32nd century. Trek has a long history of using long-standing tech in new ways to get crews out of a jam, and the consequences to this drastic course of action are never in doubt – after burning out the drive, the only way for the crew to get home will be a decades-long journey at warp speed. You can just about forgive the blatant deus ex machina as Book stumbles upon a cat collar with the capability to disrupt forcefields – Grudge has an established dislike of holograms, after all – and the convenient hypothesis that firing up the spore drive will allow Discovery to blast out of 10-C captivity.
Meanwhile, Species 10-C have brought negotiations to an abrupt halt, and Discovery is going nowhere. Having broken free of the mysterious orb encasing Discovery, Tarka is still on his one-man mission to destroy the power source behind the DMA – with Book and Reno seemingly powerless to do anything about it. If that serves as a reminder of what Captain Burnham and her crew are fighting for, it doesn’t make the task ahead any easier.
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