The Wolf Inside

Yes, there you have it. The show is getting better and better! The chemistry between characters is gradually building up. We've got tension, action, bonds and actors glued to their characters. Sure, the story still leaves us with a lot of questions and some gaps here and there. But hey, there's four more episodes left!

That, plus a whole new second season to be excited for. Those of you who keep on bashing on this show, please don't call yourselves Star Trek fans anymore. You are just ungrateful, unrealistic and all you do is type nonsense and throw delusional marks on every episode. Just stop. The show builds up slowly but it is starting to shine. Give it a chance.

This episode is celebrated as having the the longest opening teaser in the whole Star Trek Cannon. Fourteen minutes. (I got that little snippet from Memory Alpha after wondering why I had nodded off a couple of times).

A great deal of effort has gone into establishing a different atmosphere here in the Mirror Universe where Michael Burnham is strutting around pretending to be her evil-twin Terran equivalent while her Captain faces the prospect of a trip to the agony booth.

We have the moody, subdued lighting, languid bathing scene and slinky lingerie so Michael Burnham can indulge in the obligatory Mirror Universe recreational use of a junior crew member before getting into her gold-plated uniform.

We watch a "spacing" execution and MB, who is apparently captain over here, volunteers herself for an away mission to infiltrate the rebel base and gather intelligence rather than blasting them from high orbit.

Meanwhile, back on Discovery - at least I think that is where we are - A gold-encrusted Cadet Tilly is defending Commander Stammets from the widespread belief that he was responsible for the death of Doctor Culber. The multiple subterfuges and confusing character swaps currently taking place in this episode cannot eliminate the fact that NO SURVEILLANCE OF ANY KIND appears to have picked up Ash Tyler snapping the Doctor's neck.

Time for a well-earned cup of tea. What do you mean, the main part of this episode hasn't even started yet?

The problem isn't with the basic idea, but at some point one will look into the plotting and see all kinds of holes. It's getting harder and harder to tell who's who without a program. Even if there were such a possibility, how does a humble crew member continue to work outside his or her memories and experiences and continue the charade. Nevertheless, I'll give it another shot.

Considering their understand of DNA and more, and how everything is monitored, how could they possibly not know who committed a "hands on" murder?

And what happened to Voq.

I loved "Mirror Mirror" in TOS. I loved all of the Mirror episodes in Deep Space 9. And I really liked the "Fairest of them All" episode of Star Trek Continues. I'm familiar with Jerome Bixby, the science fiction writer that wrote "Mirror, Mirror". He was a writer for pulp sci fi rags back in the 50's along with Heinlein and Niven. Of the Original Trek franchises efforts in regard to the Mirror 'Verse, the closest to what we have here is probably the excellent two part "Through the Mirror, Darkly" eipsodes of Enterprise.

However, in these last 2 Discovery eps, we see a Mirror 'Verse even more sinister than in those two Enterprise entries.

And we still had the Mystery of what had happened to Voq. Now we know, and it didn't even happen in the Mirror 'Verse. We remember that L'Rell brought Voq to meet her Family, and she intimated that in order for Voq to re-claim his place as T'Kuvma's Successor that he would have to do something that was pretty much unspeakable.

On the other hand, Michael and Tilly need to keep being people who they are not, which goes far beyond deception. There is also some odd reference to The USS Defiant, first seen in "The Tholian Web" and this brings us back to the Enterprise episodes.

At first I didn't quite understand why Defiant was being brought up, until I remembered certain aspects of those Enterprise Eps.

All I can say about that, is the Discovery's Spore Drive stomps over everything. Prime Universe, Mirror Universe, past, Present and Future. So the Trick here is getting Stamits Fixed.

We've been hearing about a mysterious, unnamed, Emperor. Wonder who that could be?