![]() And since then Earth has learned to be self-sufficient, reverting to its old status as United Earth. So much hostility! Well, the Federation and Starfleet haven’t been on earth for 100 years. She notes that their ship is of 23rd to 25th Century design, so how could they still be functioning? Fearing Discovery is a raider ship she beams troops aboard to take control immediately. Doya of the United Earth defense forces tells them when they hail. But a very different Earth: “A viewscreen? How quaint,” Capt. Who needs dilithium when you’ve got a sporedrive? Discovery jumps to the outer edge of the solar system, flies past Saturn, and then, before them, Earth. They’ve been gone for centuries.” She’s hoping there’s something on Earth they recognize. “They got breakfast, were late for work, had kids, I mean they had whole lives, and they’re gone. ![]() ![]() “We haven’t even had a chance to say goodbye to the friends we lost,” she says. Tilly opens up about the sadness they’re all feeling at having left everything they ever knew behind. There are a lot of unresolved emotions for the crew to work through, too. ![]() One of the moments in Season 2 that showed Burnham’s real growth was after an exchange with Tilly that flattered the ensign, Burnham simply gushed, “You’re amazing.” Take that, Surak. This relationship between Burnham and Tilly is such a bedrock for the show. “You do seem lighter somehow,” Tilly tells her. Burnham declines, instead flattering Saru with “You are a captain in the truest sense of the word.” This shocks the Kelpien, and he’s the first of several crew members to note how changed Burnham really does seem. Meanwhile, there’s some protocol to get through. The plan is to approach Earth at sublight and act like they were stranded by The Burn a century ago, with the people now staffing Discovery being the descendants of the original crew. So she and Discovery need to go to Earth and see if they can find Federation headquarters. But I suspect this is more the “Discovery” design team pulling a USS Zheng He on us.īurnham discovered a transmission from Admiral Senna Tal on Earth 12 years ago. The little glimpses that we got of this time period in “Voyager” (yes, yes, that was the 29th Century) and “Enterprise” made it seem far more advanced before The Burn. It’s a funny thing… these ships don’t look nearly as advanced as we’d expect them to have been in the 31st Century. The dilithium that powered the warp core of each spontaneously ignited: everywhere, all over the galaxy, and all at once. ![]() A group of Starfleet ships hanging in space, apparently just bunched together yet not going anywhere - when does that ever happen? - blow up. This meant we got our first actual glimpse of The Burn. We begin with the end of the premiere ep in “People of Earth.” Before Burnham finally discovered Discovery, she left a message for them that attempted to explain their new reality. This show works best when Burnham is interacting with other members of the crew, and the fact that she was separated from them in the first two episodes didn’t serve its storytelling strengths, even if Sonequa Martin-Green was far more comfortable carrying her own solo episode to kick things off than the rest of the crew was in giving life to Episode 2. This week’s, “People of Earth,” is a needed step up. Last week’s episode, “Far From Home,” stumbled in presenting the new reality of the 32nd Century for the Discovery crew and left us feeling it was just a filler episode. ![]()
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