Where, exactly, Tilly’s arc is actually going this season remains unclear. (And her explanation of how paths can end and change in life without our necessarily realizing it when it happens is really quite good.) But somehow Gabrielle actually shares a more meaningful scene with Tilly in this episode than she does with her own daughter. ) The closest it comes to a meaningful moment is during the scene with Tilly in which she rattles off all the ways her mother was a terrible parent who didn’t even like children, but that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t hug the crap out of her if she had one more chance to do so.Ĭlearly, this is meant to force the Burnham women to address the friction between them, because they’ve been gifted with just such a miraculous second chance. (I don’t know about y’all but I’m not particularly interested in Gabrielle’s relationships with her fellow Qowat Milat. Though “Choose to Live” is clear about this distinction and the messiness it results in, the fact that it ends with Gabrielle’s group essentially making a vague promise that J’Vini would face consequences before just peacing out entirely feels like a pretty convenient dodge.ĭiscovery also doesn’t give us enough real focus on Michael’s relationship with her mother to make this specific side quest worth it. But Michael is too – J’Vini did kill several innocent people, and even if she did so in the name of protecting an alien species from going extinct that still doesn’t make murder okay. On many levels, Gabrielle is right, and context does matter. The question of whether renegade Qowat Milat member J’Vini will appropriately pay for her crimes is left up in the air, particularly given how seriously – and sacredly – the Romulan group takes the whole idea of lost causes. ![]() In “Anomaly,” she had to purposefully risk someone she cared about in the name of the greater good, this week she has to swallow down some of her more idealistic notions about what justice should look like in the name of political expediency. The Qowat Milat situation also neatly dovetails with the season’s larger themes concerning the compromises and difficult choices Michael is finding herself forced to make as a captain. (Michael sure did fix that cryostasis problem fast, huh?) But, at the very least, the hour shows us a Discovery that’s gamely trying to wrestle with big questions about what an entity like the new reconstituted Federation is supposed to be and do. Or perhaps I am just a monster who found the resolution of the rogue Qowat Milat nun’s story a little too conveniently pat. And there’s no sign of Grudge, which is always deeply personally upsetting to me. It’s just not quite as good as the two episodes that preceded it. This is not to say, though, that “Choose to Live” isn’t a generally decent hour of television it is. ![]() (Save for the fact that David Ajala continues to impress, even with reduced material.) ![]() But the result is an episode that doesn’t really stand out in any significant way. Perhaps it was always going to be difficult to balance Michael’s mission to track down a rogue Qowat Milat who killed a Starfleet officer while stealing dilithium with Commander Stamets’s trip to Ni’var to collaborate with the Vulcan-run Science Institute.Īnd that’s without throwing Book’s evolving grief, the attempt to move Gray’s consciousness to a synthetic body, and Tilly’s new self-improvement journey in there too. Star Trek: Discovery tries to serve multiple masters in Season 4 episode “Choose to Live” and the end results are predictably muddled. The following contains STAR TREK: DISCOVERY spoilers Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 3
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