Star Trek: Discovery Recap — Despite Yourself

Season 1 / Episode 10 / CBS All Access ***Spoilers, All the Spoilers Ahead** Whew. That’s how you come back from a midseason break: confirming recent fan theories, setting up new fan theories, doubling down on both time-travel and alternative universes…oh, and death and sex. Remember How We Got Here Refresher: One last jump. That’s what Captain Lorca guilted Lt. Stamets into at the end of the last episode, “Into the Forest I Go.” Don’t pretend like that wasn’t manipulation, because it was. And that manipulation has got the whole crew lost somewhere — the forest I suppose — with no one they can trust but themselves. Nothing is where it is supposed to be. The metal is weird. They’re being fired on by Vulcan ships. The “quantum signatures” are wrong. (Quantum signatures being Star Trek talk for “sciencey science”.) Is it? Yes it is! MIRROR UNIVERSE TIME!

Doctor Culber: The Best Medical Officer in Starfleet At the end of Episode Nine, Stamets’ eyes went all white and the muttering took over. Now he’s laying catatonic in a hospital bed with his husband/doctor, Hugh Culber, at his side. Things get a little dicey, it appears that catatonic Stamets can still throw a good left punch, but Culber is keeping it together. Well, except that he has become the First Officer of the “Lorca is not fit to be Captain” club (of which we should all be members). He knows for sure that Lorca did his husband dirty and pushed him too far. He makes that accusation, right on the spot. Even with that,…