I like this show, and I liked the look of the Time Monastery.
Everything else was garbage, I don't know where they get these writers.
Pike faces an impossible challenge to get a time crystal that apparently nobody else in history has passed, and all it took was to see his future and be ok with it. So he walks off with a time crystal, handed to him by the guy who said "no time crystal ever leaves this place". Bologna. Time crystals should devolve all sense of time having direction or continuity, not just show you in a wheelchair with your face melted. Which btw was low-key ableist to suggest that Pike seeing himself handicapped would drive him mad and be too horrible to want to continue.
Meanwhile, Michael and Spock somehow notice one of the super secret Section 31 ships not reporting in, a routine they have no business knowing about, and the one person left alive is of course Control trying to get Michael assimilated. Like it knew she would turn up cause of them not reporting in to their *secret* organization?
Then, they regain control of the ship with the Control nanobots magnetized to the floor, and apparently just ditch it, as the next scene they're flying their janky shuttle craft that sounded like it was meeting a lot of wind resistance -in space- back to Discovery.
Discovery, who is now surrounded by Section 31 ships and goes by Michael's suggestion to abandon ship because they need a supernova to power the time crystal. Hmmm who was it that said a supernova happens every day? Oh yeah, that was young Michael in the episode before. Also, don't they still have a spore drive? Can't they escape to anywhere a supernova might happen like super easily?
Really annoyed by this episode, hope better writers get a shot and they drop whatever idiots nepotism'd their way into a job.
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