Star Trek: Discovery Recap — Vaulting Ambition

Season 1 / Episode 12 / CBS All Access I’ll say one thing for Star Trek: Discovery, they don’t play around with these plot twists. Last week, we got confirmation that Ash Tyler was Voq, Son of None and that in the Mirror Universe, Phillipa Georgiou is The Emperor. That’s a lot for a 49 minute episode. This week, “Vaulting Ambition,” with its short run time of not even 40 minutes, still packs in the surprises. The twists are coming fast, one on the next, some predicted, but some not. This does two things: 1) We watchers are constantly being reminded that while we think we know this world, we really don’t know anything. 2) This keeps giving the actors chances to bring something themselves to their roles. Disco is playing in a 50-year-old sandbox, which should be pretty messy, but these twists keep the story feeling fresh and unexpected. Let’s get to it. Going to See the Emperor Burnham and Lorca alone on the shuttle, they review what that know: The U.S.S. Defiant used “interphasic space” to get to the Mirror Universe. How did they do it? Where is this “interphasic space”? Who can say. Lorca charges Burnham with finding the real Defiant records, then tries to reassure her that they are together on this. Then he gives her that arm touch that is getting a bit too creepy for my tastes.

Stamets is in Mushroom Heaven What’s going on in with Stamets? Well Prime Stamets thinks he’s dead and, against all his scientific expectations, that he’s on his way to The Judgement. Mirror Stam…