Such Sweet Sorrow

*** (3 out of 5)

With a ticking clock to save all living things, and a Section 31 Skynetfleet bearing down upon them, Discovery evacuates to Enterprise with the intention of scuttling the ship. 

As holographic communications are now equated with Control’s trickery, Number One has sworn Enterprise off them forever. We still trust our good chums Georgiou and Ash, of course, who spent a ton of time with Leland the Roiling Mass of Infectious Nanomachines. Georgiou even has a new dungeon guard uniform, and Ash can wander off, on his own, with any shuttlecraft he fancies.

The self-destruct is not responding, because the priceless Sphere data has self-preservation skills, so we're back to "throw all this volatile knowledge far into the future to be safe". The 5th Red Angel Signal of 7 takes Discovery to Xahea, the planet with a Midgard Serpent eating it or something. A real Van Art planet. Tilly's whiz kid chum Queen Po hands them her recrystalizer to power their journey, so Georgiou doesn't get to set off a supernova with a ghastly death toll.

 

“I love you. All of you. Thank you for the greatest moments of my life.” says Michael to the bridge crew. When??? Which of these ceaseless explosions and fraught horrors and upsetting concussions have been the greatest moments of your life?

"I wish there was more time... there isn't." They have SO MUCH SPARE TIME FOR TEARFUL GOODBYES! Sarek and Amanda even heard with their souls that there was trouble and drive up in their personal spaceship just ahead of what is about to be a baby tribble in a kill zone!

Instead of a solo suicide mission, everyone on board (as represented by a double handful of familiar faces) agrees to follow Michael into hell, unless they’re getting a Spin Off... into Space… with Section 31.

Hang on, those evacuation walkways seem ludicrous to me. The effects are shiny & elaborate, but why stretch them out from the FARTHEST point from the other ship? Why not dock saucer edge to saucer edge? 

Speaking of docking, my first thought and last thought when Ash and Michael kiss was “Gross”. Unless Klingons are big teeth brushers, can she still taste Georgiou from when Ash ate her? Mentor- The Freshmaker! 

Detmer’s best friend is Tazzy. How do I know? I'm a big fan of superanemic.

Oh, when did we arrive on the control deck of a TRON Recognizer? Nope- this is the Enterprise at Red Alert, I’m afraid. Enterprise bridge is a fine new design, but incapable of activating my nostalgia. Building an entirely new & different thing is not how nostalgia works. But at least it's colourful and at least Georgiou disdains it. 

And I get a few seconds of Pike back in nearly the right uniform. 

No! Don’t you dare kill Jett...

Cliffhanger! Hashtag Shave Spock.