Except this is Star Trek, a franchise about teamwork. She’s the rebel cop who plays by their own rules. But it’s earned her a share of detractors off-screen, because Burnham often disobeys orders and ignores good advice. She always does what she feels is best, and it’s made her crew unfailingly loyal to her over the past few seasons. Like Kirk, Michael Burnham also doesn’t believe in the no-win scenario. Kirk is known as the only person to have actually beaten it, because he reprogrammed the scenario he cheated. It’s been called a “no win” scenario,” and the Academy is interested in how a cadet reacts to it rather than the actual outcome. To cross the border to rescue the craft is to risk war, but to preserve peace means to consign that crew to death. In the simulation, the cadets are faced with the choice of rescuing a ship stranded in enemy territory. But things do go awry when the Discovery is tasked with rescuing a station crew and have to make a few hard choices, thus the title of the episode: “Kobayashi Maru.”įor those unfamiliar with Star Trek lore, the Kobayashi Maru is a test that all command-track cadets must take at Starfleet Academy. It all seems rather staid, but Star Trek has always had its share of pomp and circumstance so it was actually a nice change of pace for the program. The season opener is largely dedicated to showing off a new optimistic status quo, with Starfleet Academy being reestablished, Booker traveling to attend his nephew’s coming-of-age ritual and a new Federation president getting sworn in. And everyone seems to be in a good mood, a contrast to when everyone was just worn down in the 23rd century by years of war and secret experiments. They exhibit some of the excesses of modern Trek like an emphasis on frantic action and quippy dialogue - at least there’s less lens flare this time around. The parallels to the weakest of the three Abrams-era films are not entirely an accident or even a homage: both Into Darkness and this week’s season premiere were co-penned by Star Trek head Alex Kurtzman. The mission quickly goes awry, strongly reminiscent of the madcap opening of Star Trek Into Darkness. That’s where we join the USS Discovery, as Burnham and Cleveland Booker are attempting to give a shipment of dilithium to a species new to the Star Trek audience. Season four begins five months after the previous episode, with the Federation now in high gear reaching out to old members and allies. After three seasons of war, it finally looked like the USS Discovery could finally get down to Starfleet’s long-stated mandates of science and exploration. The crew of Discovery had jumped 900 years into the future, to a galaxy where dilithium fuel for space travel was in short supply and the Federation was in tatters thanks to an event known as “The Burn.” Burnham and the rest of the Discovery crew figured out the source of the disaster and solved the problem in last year’s finale, opening the doors to a show dedicated to rebuilding the Federation and its ideals. Things certainly looked promising at the end of last season. So fans were curious to see if the pattern would continue in the Kurtzman era of Trek. Enterprise’s final season is generally considered its best. Season four of The Next Generation started with the riveting “The Best of Both Worlds,” and produced a number of classic episodes like “Family,” “Clues” and “The Drumhead.” Deep Space Nine added Worf to its crew in its fourth year, while Voyager got Seven of Nine.
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In the past, season four for Star Trek series has always been a turning point, the moment when a show finally figures out what it wants to be. While some changes have been made to the show over the years to smooth these rough edges, the elevation of Michael Burnham to the captain’s chair for season four has made it clear that Discovery is still largely going to do its own thing, regardless of what the fandom thinks. There was a long laundry list of complaints: the series is too dark, everyone is mean, everyone cries too much, the Klingon designs suck, it shouldn’t be set before the original series, Michael Burnham is an unlikeable main character. Since its debut back in 2017 (and even before then, really), Star Trek: Discovery has been a divisive show. The following only contains slight spoilers for the first episode of season four of ' Star Trek: Discovery.
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