In sickbay, medical scans reveal that strange particles from the rift have been temporarily lodged in Book’s brain - but those particles reveal vital new information about the DMA’s origin: it comes from outside the galaxy! Stamets manages to shut down the drive (after Discovery spins like a top for an uncomfortably long time!), and while Book seems to be physically okay, the energy surge has left him seeing hallucinations of his dead, estranged father. To ensure that Stamets (Anthony Rapp) can keep working on collecting data from the subspace rift, Discovery’s second spore drive pilot, Book (David Ajala) volunteers to take on the task - but the rift doesn’t want to let Discovery get away that easily, causing a violent energy surge to rip through Book while trying to initiate the jump.
With only thirty minutes to go until whatever destroyed the DOT reaches Discovery, and no way of navigating a way out through normal propulsion, Captain Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) orders the one thing she was warned to avoid in this unpredictable location: a spore drive jump. Gray’s plan to help center Zora works, and she’s is able to make better sense of what she’s experiencing - even anticipating a deadly hull breach moments before it happens. While HAL tries to distract Dave Bowman his suspicions about the nefarious computer through a game of chess in 2001, Gray (Ian Alexander) offers to play a game with Zora to calm her and help her focus on the situation at hand, in a nod towards the newly-resurrected Trill’s plan to become a symbiont guardian.īecause of Zora’s newly-emerged emotions, as well as the disturbing external sensory deprivation from being in a featureless void, the computer is overwhelmed by her awareness of the minutia of what’s going on inside the ship. While the idea of Discovery having an ever-listening computer initially seemed a little ominous to me, in contrasting it with HAL’s silent eavesdropping on his ship’s crew, I realized Zora might be headed down a different path. Zora’s story asks the audience to see her as a kind of anti- HAL 9000, as she speaks up as Burnham fills Saru in on the latest developments on Zora’s emotional growth.
(Finally, the fact that I’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey more times than anyone really should has paid off!) This situation, one of external numbness and internal activity, plays havoc on the newfound sentience of Discovery’s computer Zora (Annabelle Wallis) in ways that immediately seem familiar. This rift is seemingly impenetrable, and more dangerous than any previously explored… and whatever “ate” the DOT is slowly closing in on Discovery itself.
Reminiscent of Nagilum’s “hole in space,” the ship’s sensors pick up no data whatsoever, and there are no points of reference to navigate around the desolate expanse.Įven a robotic DOT drone sent out as a probe can only get a few thousand meters away from the ship before it begins to disintegrate. Upon entering the spatial tear, the crew unexpectedly find themselves in a completely featureless void. In this week’s “Stormy Weather,” the USS Discovery crew explores a subspace rift left behind by the DMA, and finds themselves in uncharted - and unchartable - territory, as Zora’s newfound sentience calls to mind another famously-sentient computer from science fiction.Īs part of the continuing quest for more data about the dark matter anomaly, and who might be responsible for it - after last week revealed the DMA is not a naturally-occurring phenomenon - Discovery is sent to investigate a subspace rift left in its path.
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