In “The Sanctuary,” we finally get our first proper look at what seems to be the Season 3 Big Bad, and they’re just as power-hungry and ruthless as we’ve been told. Without the Federation to keep the peace and stability of the universe, a power vacuum formed that allowed a force like The Emerald Chain to grow up in its place. The Burn may have been a tragedy of epic proportions, but it was what followed that truly sent the universe into disarray.
What Is the Burn? Star Trek: Discovery Season 3’s Biggest Mystery Explained By Ryan Britt After all, The Burn happened because most dilithium in the galaxy went mysteriously inert, causing the detonation of every active warp core. While that theory has been discredited by Michael and the rest of the Discovery crew, it’s not hard to imagine that the Federation’s desperation to solve their dilithium problem didn’t lead to The Burn in some way. As we learned in “Unification III,” the Ni’Var had been convinced for more than a century that their own experimental alternate transport project led to the tragedy. This season has hinted multiple times that the mystery of what caused The Burn is probably related to the Federation’s desperation to either find new sources of dilithium or to find an alternate way of getting around. But, like most plot elements in this episode, I am willing to go with it-one, because Discovery has earned itself a great deal of narrative goodwill this season and, two, because it sets up an interesting parallel between The Emerald Chain and the pre-Burn Federation. It seems unlikely that Ryn would be the only person who knows this deep, dark secret. It’s a weird secret, honestly resources, even for crime syndicates, involve supply chains and supply chains are made up of people. Once Discovery has earned Ryn’s respect for standing up to Osyraa, we discover that Ryn’s value lies in knowledge: he knows that The Emerald Chain is running out of dilithium. Not only is it hard to believe that no one else has ever stood up to The Emerald Chain, but it’s even harder to believe that Osyraa didn’t simply kill Ryn years ago. This is why Ryn is so unique, Detmer spells out for us: he’s the only person to have ever stood up to Osyraa.Īgain, it’s an effective but inelegant plot point. The way in which Osyraa doesn’t bat a viridian eyelid before carpet-bombing Kwejian tells us viewers everything we need to know about The Emerald Chain’s dominance: they’re not used to being met with any resistance-or at least any resistance that stands a chance. While the set-up and execution isn’t particularly elegant, perhaps it doesn’t need to be. It’s been a pleasure to see Detmer’s character used more this season, and watching her go “full manual” is only one entertaining example.Īnd what does Oysraa want? Ryn, the Andorian refugee we met in “Scavengers,” whom we’re told again and again in this episode has unique value to The Emerald Chain. Detmer, with Ryn as a co-pilot, gets to show off her considerable piloting skills in an epic space assault that loses no points in my book for being heavily reminiscent of Star Wars. Oysraa, understandably, doesn’t care about Saru’s superficial reasoning-to her, the Federation has attacked-but the damage has been done. Saru is easily persuaded into engagement, using the thinly-veiled excuse that it isn’t the Federation who is engaging it’s Book’s Millennium Falcon-esque ship. Oysraa shows up on the scene, and almost immediately sets about using coercion and violence in an attempt to get what she wants. From the moment Admiral Vance allowed Saru to captain his ship to Kwejian, I think we all knew where this was going to end…Īnd what an ending it was. As far as no-win scenarios go, this one has a pretty obvious moral high ground. This was the case in “The Sanctuary,” which saw not only Michael but the whole Discovery crew sent to Book’s home planet, Kwejian, to strictly observe, Emerald Chain leader Oysraa show up to bully the trance worm-loving planet. This isn’t a bad narrative habit, especially for a show as thematically-driven as Star Trek, but some Kobayashi Maru scenarios are more interesting than others and, some, well… some are just plain clunky. Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 8įrom the very beginning, Star Trek: Discovery has loved putting Michael Burnham in an impossible situation, and making her choose. This Star Trek: Discovery review contains spoilers.
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