It’s an impassioned speech, and one pointedly directed at Burnham (as much as to anyone else in the room). When the assembly reconvenes, Book speaks again, urging the group to vote in favor of using Tarka’s weapon to prevent the DMA from taking any more lives. (His plight is moving, and while it might be too much to ask I hope there’s a way for both plans to succeed: peaceful first contact with Species 10-C, and a way for Tarka to reunite with his friend in that idyllic alternate universe.) Immediately shutting down talk of the Mirror Universe, Tarka has set his sights on a another peaceful plane of existence: a dimension where the Burn never happened, the Emerald Chain never formed, and where he believes a fellow scientist and friend - who he worked with during his time in Chain captivity - may be waiting for him. As he speaks with Book, we find out why Tarka is so keen on disabling the DMA instead of outright destroying it: he needs anomaly’s the immense power source to create a portal to a parallel universe! The debate begins to heat up, with the still-suffering Book advocating for Tarka’s plan to stop the DMA - even if it may pose a technobabbly risk to Species 10-C in the process - Rillak calls for a recess, which opens the door for us to learn more about the sly scientist. A 32nd century dirty bomb - unquestionably effective, but also unquestionably unethical. It’s a tantalizing prospect, until we learn that Tarka’s device is an isolytic weapon, which fans of Star Trek: Insurrection already know is a science banned by the Second Khitomer Accords, as it can potentially ‘poison’ subspace and render warp drive impossible across a wide swath of space. Ruan Tarka (Shawn Doyle), watching from the audience, sees an opening to interrupt the proceedings to announce that he’s developed a way to disable the DMA. While she outlines a diplomatic strategy involving peaceful contact with the extragalactic Species 10-C - speaking for Starfleet, Burnham emphasizes that destruction doesn’t necessary equate with malicious intent, as with swarms of insects devouring crops - many of the people in attendance grumble. Realistically I have to assume the assembly is actually much more involved than we see - or at the very least, that all the participants had a big stack of pre-reading to do beforehand - but the way it’s depicted, it appears that President Rillak (Chela Horsdal) just jumps right to the core of the matter: what is to be done about the DMA? This is a big problem, of course, but not one Captain Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) has time to focus on as she and Book (David Ajala) must make their way to the conference, filled with familiar 32nd century aliens and faces, including T’Rina (Tara Rosling) of Ni’Var and Ndoye (Phumzile Sitole) of Earth, introduced last season. The calculations are taking longer than expected, and Stamets’ frustrations over Zora’s (Annabelle Wallace) new emotional consciousness are borne out when, at the last moment, Zora announces that she knows the coordinates… but is choosing to keep them to herself, even defying a direct order from Discovery’s captain. Star Trek: Discovery wraps up the first half of Season 4 with “…But To Connect,” telling intertwining stories of existing connections strengthening, old connections falling away, and new connections being forged, and of the emotional landscape that underpins each of these circumstances.Īs Discovery prepares to attend the “Multilateral DMA Strategy Assembly” - a galaxy-wide conference in which Federation and non-Federation alike will have a say in how to proceed about the dark matter anomaly - Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Adira (Blu del Barrio) work with Zora to finish the calculations necessary to pinpoint the DMA’s point of origin, based upon its potential path through the galactic barrier.
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