![]() He asks if she’ll take him as her first officer, and she happily accepts. Later, in her Ready Room, Burnham greets a returned Saru with pleasure. ![]() ![]() Michael Burnham attempts to offer comfort, but Book remains unmoved. The screen flashes to images of Kyheem and Leto as Book appears to be reliving his experience of Kwejian’s last moments. “Anomaly” opens with Book sitting in his ship, drowning in grief and shock at the loss of Kwejian. Star Trek’s best story telling focuses on its people and how they work together, and “Anomaly” takes that tradition and pushes it forward by allowing its characters to be people in a way we’ve never seen before. Star Trek: Discovery has received more than its fair share of criticism for going entirely in the other direction, and while I don’t think a lot of that is deserved, I do think “ Anomaly” represents a true exploration of grief on a level we’ve never seen from the franchise before. Grief, unfortunately, doesn’t work that way, no matter how much we wish it did. Despite attempts by the show to deal with it (I’m looking at you, “ The Bonding“), these stories tend to be one and done, meaning that the characters spend precisely one episode navigating their grief process before moving on to the next adventure. The portrayal of grief forms the basis of my greatest ongoing complaint with 90s Trek.
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