![]() Her goal is to find out if the Discovery is leading an honorable mission or if they are planning something destructive, but she still broke in. Speaking of messy, Burnham once again displays questionable morals by breaking into the science lab using her roommate’s saliva (um, ew, but okay). I have a strong feeling that this type of questioning and conflicting motives will become a consistent theme of Star Trek: Discovery. Once again, their morals are brought into question and we aren’t quite sure what their end game is. ![]() However, once that misunderstanding is cleared up, we are shown that Captain Lorca had the creature that killed the crew of their sister ship secretly brought on board the Discovery. First we are led to believe that they may be working on a secret weapon, but it’s soon revealed to actually be a new way of traveling. “Context Is for Kings” consistently sets up Discovery as a potentially morally ambiguous star ship. Either way, it’s an interesting character trait. I do wonder if this mysterious eye condition will actually come into play in the plot, or if it’ll simply be used as a device for keeping the setting darker. But all of Discovery seems mysterious and “off grid” in a way, so let’s just roll with this.Ĭaptain Lorca himself also seems “mysterious.” I love how they explain the low light setting as an eye condition, giving them a practical in-universe reason for having a darker atmosphere on the Discovery. If that means plucking a random prisoner off a stranded prison ship to help them with their goals, then so be it. The premise of her being a prisoner one day, then recruited to the Discovery the next seems somewhat ridiculous on the surface, but Captain Lorca explains that they’ve sort of been given a carte blanche to fight the war however they see fit. ![]() Now with all that set up out of the way, it’s time to dive into the real meat of the series.īurnham ends up on Discovery seemingly by accident. Unlike Galactica, however, most people are already familiar with the universe Star Trek resides in so we spent significantly less time fleshing that out, and more time getting to know our protagonist, Michael Burnham. Like Galactica, we needed to get to know our characters and set up the major drama very quickly before we settled in for the long haul. Having ‘Context Is for Kings’ so set apart from the first two episodes felt very much like the episode ’33’ from Battlestar Galactica. Star Trek: Discovery’s third episode, “Context Is for Kings,” steps away from the high paced drama of the first two episodes and introduces us to the title ship, the Discovery.
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