![]() But scientist Ruon Tarka (Shawn Doyle) added some needed off-kilter energy to the cast and his relationship with Book was a great story thread, one that helped to set up Book and Burnham being at odds with one another. With all this going on, Discovery still had to service a number of characters and plot points set up previously (including Zora’s continued evolution, Gray needing a physical body, Tilly’s career path, and the mission to bring worlds back into the Federation while also dealing with the fallout of the Emerald Chain, phew!), which dragged the pace at times. Instead of focusing solely on its destruction, our crew took time-a whole season-to figure out what the DMA was, where it came from, and maybe even how to stop it-or at least come up with a plan on how to go outside our galaxy to find the highly-advanced beings responsible for the DMA and ask them to stop it. Stamets gives this new highly destructive gravitational anomaly the name “Dark Matter Anomaly,” shortening it to “the DMA.” The Discovery writing team did a nice job with a kind of homage to TOS’s “The Doomsday Machine,” which also featured a planet-killer, but Discovery‘s DMA’s went far beyond one episode and became the center of an extended arc which allowed the series to lean into some science, a key them of the franchise. When a totally bizarre phenomenon suddenly appears and swallows up an entire solar system, it becomes clear there’s a grave threat to the galaxy and a mystery that confounds even 32nd-century scientists. ![]() With season 3 being a “ great leap forward” and a fairly successful soft reboot for the show, there was a lot of hope for season 4 of Discovery with a fresh start in the 32nd century and an intriguing new mystery that pointed to (finally!) doing some discovering (pun intended) of something we’d never seen, with some proper, strange, extragalactic aliens. The fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery arrived on home video this week in the USA.
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