Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2

***(3 sorrows out of 5)

Thanks for spinning the camera like a top on a stick. It’s so hard to know what is happening that I’m forced to assume it was something cool! It was Emmy Nom worthy, anyway!

If only we hadn’t spent our last hour saying tearful goodbyes, we wouldn’t need to have a dozen people frantically throwing together a Red Angel suit all at once during a fire fight. 

It’s quite a fight. 30 Section 31 drone ships that (surprise!) split up into swarms of small drone ships versus 200 heroically manned fighter ships which somehow fit inside Enterprise, a ship with 200 crew, who are therefore all cross-trained as pilots? Apparently the ship’s cavernous interior workings are packed with factories and Wall-E droids who can build shuttle fleets at the drop of a hat? That might’ve been nice during ‘The Enemy Within’, but as we know Scotty ripped it all out to store thousands upon thousands of whiskey bottles.

Incessant noise and whirling lights! Queen Po intuits the method to destroy Leland’s drones- two fighters must simultaneously hit a drone at each end. How? With help from Ash and L’Rell on an ever-loving ding dang dongus called a Klingon Sleeve Ship. And noted SPACE FIGHTER PILOT Saru’s little sister, fresh from a lifetime of training as a gardener priestess.

The exact episode mid point is a Culber/Stamets hurt/comfort scene that would have disqualified this from fan fiction publication in earlier decades and is really rather wonderful. “You’re my home. I’m your family. Wherever we go from here. We go together.”

Enterprise gets a face full of torpedo, and because literally all the crew are off being fighter pilots, Admiral Cornwell becomes their munitions guy and explodes while saving the ship, which doesn’t seem to give anyone any feelings.

“I’m good,” says Michael, despite being made entirely of concussions by this point. With Spock’s assistance, she blasts vividly back in time to accomplish 5 previous Red Angel events, then opens a 6th wormhole to take Discovery 930 years into the future.

I’d hate to lose the Barzan security officer in the Georgiou/Leland fight but otherwise I do not care who wins in Genocidal Emperor v. Venom Symbiote. I feel like whoever won you’d still want to keep them well away from any position of power. Why does Saru trust Georgiou with computers on his bridge? Oh, right. Everyone has concussions. Plus without Georgiou, Control would have won, as she now kills misogynistic infiltrator Leland with magnets.

If Control is neutralized, why does Discovery continue on through the Devil’s Anus? And bring along Leland’s Control-riddled corpse? Not our problem!

Everyone left behind in 2258 claims Disco exploded. We’ll also swear each other to secrecy- Discovery never existed in the first place. The Authorities claim Control is definitely gone forever and we’ll all be very careful not to make any more brilliant killer computers… named Control… again.