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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Krenim: [QB] A fun episode for Disco's return, although it would have been nice if the show's momentum hadn't ground to a halt for a month of Prodigy. I am really enjoying the character of Rillak so far. She manages to be a great foil to Burnham while still being portrayed as a reasonable authority figure. The way she grilled both Burnham and Vance about Book and Tarka was spot on. Meanwhile, Tarka is all "Oops, I need this stuff to build the weapon." How Book manages to keep himself from throttling him, I'll never know, but they go in search of the... uh... isolynium? Vance meets with Burnham later and tells her to go after Book, contrary to Rillak's earlier orders. Burnham is able to use the pretext of finding a star chart of Species 10C's extra-galactic neighborhood, which is just outside the galactic barrier. She also takes Owo with her. Both Book and Burnham try to negotiate for the isolynium, but neither has enough latinum for it. Book and Tarka try to sniff out some cheaters to raise the cash, while Owo gets into the ring to help Burnham raise the amount. Both teams' approaches have some niftiness. Book and Tarka manage to find a changeling. While the morphing effects look a bit different, the changeling makeup for their default Odo-ish look is the same. Owo and Burnham raise the cash once Owo fakes a few losses and then curbstomps her opponent. In all this, we do get a nice little scene where we see Culber is feeling very guilty about not helping Book enough to prevent this chain of events. Stamets tells him its not his fault, and gets him to go on a walk with him to relax. Book eventually wins the isolynium in a card game, but not before Burnham puts a tracer on it. Rillak isn't happy to find out that Burnham not only went after Book but failed to catch him. Burnham, however, pulls out the star charts that she did manage to get. Soon after, we find out that Species 10C has set up some kind of energy barrier around their system. A short conversation later, and we figure out what the DMA [i]actually[/i] is: A mining tool. It is extracting some mineral that Species 10C seems to use to maintain the field. Vance makes the great point that if something this powerful is merely a mining tool, what are their weapons like? I have to say that this was another great example as to how much better Disco is dealing with Burnham this season. Even though this episode focuses a lot on her, it not only felt way more organic but also fun due to her chemistry with Book. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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