Star Trek: Discovery 3.05 Die Trying review
Die Trying
The fifth episode of the third season. Discovery finds Federation headquarters cloaked in the middle of space. (Voyager-J, USS Nog, Both are very cool, particularly the latter.) With Saru, Burnham and Adira beaming over, they find that the Federation is down to only 38 members from over 350 at it's height just prior to the Burn. It definitely has seen better days, but at least Kaminar is one of the 38. This sequence was done very well. However Admiral Vance wants to break up the Discovery crew, to which Burnham objects.
Why this would be a surprise to the Discovery crew I'm not sure, given usual rotation of officers in real world militaries, but that would be to digress. Some refugees are suffering from a disease, to which Discovery can get the cure in a timely manner, given the Spore Drive. How convenient, but the story makes up for it. See below. Meanwhile Mirror Georgiou is interrogated by someone who may be in Section 31. No contact with the Mirror Universe for 500 years? (Or is it, no known contacts?)
Not sure how she was able to crash those holograms by blinking rapidly. Discovery jumps to the Tikhov where the Federation's Seed Bank is being cared for by a family of Barzans. (It seems Barzan joined the Federation in the 25th Century, and is one of the 38.) The interior of the ship was interesting, and the mystery of what happened to the family was engaging. Of course, it may have been more than a Coronal Mass Ejection that may have effected the ship, but again, the story was engaging.
Nhan deciding to stay behind was unexpected, but it seems that she might appear later in the season. Then there's Detmer (her vitals are unstable according to Vance.) There is almost certainly more going on with her futher down the road. Saru being concerned about Burnham possibly being mutinous (again) was a good touch given the changes in her. Overall it was a good episode. 8.8/10.