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Sonequa Martin-Green as "Specialist Michael Burnham", wearing a Mirror Universe Captain's uniform |
As long as I don't think of Discovery as a true Star Trek show...I'm good. The two newest episodes presented some redemption in my highly critical eyes. For one, the winter premiere revealed that after that last "incomplete" spore jump, the USS Discovery landed in the famed Mirror Universe of Star Trek. At first, I cringed at the thought of another potential desecration of a fan favorite, but then....
Things That Worked Well
1 - Setting: The show's overall dark tone, and allowance of nudity and cursing, actually fits perfectly into the infamously brutal Mirror Universe. In fact, Discovery feels way more at home here. The new uniforms look both magnificent and fascist as fuck. And since some of the actors had to portray their Mirror selves, they got to flex their acting chops and don drastically different personas (shout to Mary Wiseman as "Ensign Tilly/Captain Killy").