I watched Episode 6 last night of Season 4, and yeah, its got the sauce. In this episode they get stuck in the dark matter anomaly and need to get out. During it their ship, Zora, who has recently become sentient, has an autistic meltdown from sensory overload and needs to be talked down by Gray. This finally gave Gray something to do other than be Adira’s partner or being a trans allegory without any further development, and it was a breath of fresh air. While Burnham once again was the ultimate hero of the episode, needing to stay behind on the ship to keep Zora company - honestly it would have made more sense thematically to let Gray be the one since they were the one who bonded with Zora - just giving other characters more screen time is a great change of pace, and while the idea that the computer is sentient has been drip fed for more than a season now, there was literally zero payoff or interesting consequences from it until now, and its great to actually get some payoff. I admit to getting a little lost halfway through the episode during the action-y-er parts, so I don’t know if I’d say it was a perfect episode, but it was a very good one, which gave people other than Burnham time to shine without actually changing from Discovery’s identity as he Burnham show, and whose solution relied on something other than people yelling about how cool science is or extreme violence, the two most common solutions on Discovery, only one of which feels very Star Trekky. The cringey song the ship sings to Burnham was super cringey, but like, I kinda liked it? It felt like a throwback to Uhura singing weird shit to Spock or crazy holodeck episodes. All around, I liked it a lot.
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