![]() ![]() That just leaves Tilly, whose fungal issues are a bit less uplifting and a lot less cut-and-dry. Thus it’s revealed than Kelpian biological fatalism is just the legacy of their oppression – how very Star Trek! In an extremely emotional scene with Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), he asks her to basically euthanize him by removing his ganglia, which in the nick of time fall out on their own, and he’s fine. ![]() His biological clock is ticking because his species has been bred for servility and docility because he’s uniquely empathic, he’s picking up on the space-rock’s willingness to die, which kelpians themselves experience whenever they’re due to be culled and slaughtered by their slavers. Its messing with the ship’s systems causes all kinds of confusion and problems, so I guess it’s understandable, but all the thing really wants to do is pass on its legacy and experiences before it snuffs it 100,000 years of information for the betterment of the galaxy, thanks very much. So, the giant, ancient space-rock is dying and attempting to communicate, which it takes a while for everyone to figure out. Luckily Discovery is still resolutely its own thing, and all problems can be solved with just a little bit of outside-the-box thinking. Goodness, if Discovery was really of a mind to commit to the Game of Thrones aesthetic we saw last week, this could have been the “Red Wedding” episode. The problems in “An Obol for Charon” were as follows: A giant old asteroid thing is killing the ship, a supremely pissed-off mycelial alien is killing Tilly (Mary Wiseman), and a unique Kelpian illness is killing Saru (Doug Jones). But whenever this show really makes an effort to embrace its underlying sentiments of teamwork, optimism and scientific cooperation, it’s able to manifest excitement and emotion like almost no other. This is the kind of hour that highlights everything Star Trek: Discovery does well, even if it did also shine a light on a couple of things it does poorly, such as moving too quickly and cramming too many impending catastrophes into one episode.
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