Burnham’s scientific breakthrough comes with ethical ramifications
How do you want to be remembered in history?
Alongside the Wright brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane?
Or as a failed fungus expert?
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Lorcas excoriation comes amidst a fast-paced episode that finds the Discoverys crew on the clock.
From a humanitarian perspective, many innocent lives are at risk.
The closest ship to Corvan 2 is 84 hours away, Cornwell explains.
The situation necessitates Discoverys pioneering spore technology.
In an outright lie, Lorca promises unequivocally that the Discovery is up to the task.
Though the Discovery escapes the fiery dilemma, Staments sustains a skull fracture and ends up in sick bay.
Stamets isnt the only Discovery crewmember to question their role as part of the Federation war machine.
Weaponize it, he commands Burnham.
The wartime commander demanding ingenuity from his underlings is a trope as old as war itself.
This, naturally, comes with some trial and error.
Maybe to the characters, but Landry was one ofDiscoverys less intriguing characters.)
In aTrek-ian flourish, the science-minded Burnham by turn employs Cdr.
Saru and Cadet Tilly to help her ferret out what exactly makes Ripper tick.
Sure enough, the creature reacts positively, inhaling the substance and rubbing against Burnham like an affectionate cat.
She goes to Stamets with a breakthrough.
Aboard the Glenn, she recalls, the engineer had found spore-related technology that he couldnt understand.
To build her case, she brings Stamets and Ripper to Discoverys cultivation bay.
Ripper immediately begins to symbiotically communicate and transfer energy with the growing fungi.
I always wanted to converse with my mushrooms, Stamets remarks in a grin-inducing cadence.
The brand of instantaneous combat Starfleet has hoped to hone with the spore-based technology works like a charm.
But Burnhams uneasy with how the situation plays out.
As the Discovery is flitting around the galaxy utilizing Ripper, she observes the tardigrade screaming out in agony.
Afterward, she brings spores to its containment pen and apologizes.
The emotional toll is amplified in the episodes closing scene, when Burnham accesses Cpt.
Georgious last will and testament.
A hologram of the deceased officer Michelle Yeohs return,as promised!
appears and tells Burnham that shes as proud of you as if you were my own daughter.
The captain has left Burnham her familys heirloom telescope, driving home the connection between scientific discovery and compassion.
The Federation portion of The Butchers Knife… soars; the Klingon portion, less so.
First, Voq ally and former TKuvma lieutenant LRell convinces Voq to board the U.S.S.
Shenzhous wreckage to salvage its dilithium and make his own vessel ambulatory once again.
And he only has to sacrifice everything.
