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After last week’s two-part premiere of the new Star Trek, episode three (“Context Is for Kings”) finally brings us aboard the starship of the title, introducing us to various members of the Discovery’s crew along the way. In that sense, this segment very much feels like a second pilot, which is sort of fitting if you consider that the original Star Trek series also had two pilots.
Michael Burnham is now six months out from her life sentence, the result of her mutinous actions and the fact that she is blamed for helping to start the war with the Klingons (“8, 186…”). As this episode begins, she’s a shell of her former self, motionless and emotionless while her fellow prisoners taunt her about her past. It seems that she’s lost everything, and has nothing to look forward to now but a life of regret. But then Captain Lorca shows up…
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After last week’s two-part premiere of the new Star Trek, episode three (“Context Is for Kings”) finally brings us aboard the starship of the title, introducing us to various members of the Discovery’s crew along the way. In that sense, this segment very much feels like a second pilot, which is sort of fitting if you consider that the original Star Trek series also had two pilots.
Michael Burnham is now six months out from her life sentence, the result of her mutinous actions and the fact that she is blamed for helping to start the war with the Klingons (“8, 186…”). As this episode begins, she’s a shell of her former self, motionless and emotionless while her fellow prisoners taunt her about her past. It seems that she’s lost everything, and has nothing to look forward to now but a life of regret. But then Captain Lorca shows up…
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