‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Recap – ‘Stormy Weather’

Written by Shae Rufe

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 406 of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’.
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​The crew of the Discovery has faced many difficulties, none of which more challenging than the DMA. With its most recent appearance still fresh on their minds, the crew decide to head back to the site to see what data they can collect. It’s going to be a bumpy ride and it will have its challenges, but nothing will stop the determination to solve the riddle that is the DMA. The crew is ready for whatever is thrown their way, or so they think.
 
They enter what is called the Void, what they’ve named the aftermath of the anomaly, and things aren’t shaky like they all thought it would be. Things are actually calm and eerily quiet. Deadly silent. Book offers to go explore, but Michael sends a probe instead. Whatever the Void is, it’s alive, and it easily dismantles, destroys, and essentially eats the probe. They send a flare next and that soon dies as well. Michael has the shields extended as far as they can go, hoping that will buy them time so they can get out. The problem is, they can’t find where the out is. Zora is unable to detect directions, including where they came in from. So, they’re stuck. They try to jump away, but that backfires. Book is helping Stamets when he’s hit with a ball of energy that has him now seeing illusions of his dead father. Thankfully, it will pass, but still that’s unsettling.

In the meantime, it’s all hands-on deck and Gray is feeling more than a little useless. They’re doing his best to help, which means sitting in the lounge, when Zora and they start to chat. For a computer, she’s naturally evolving to have emotions, and feelings, and that is more than a little confusing for the once not sentient A.I. Gray helps Zora to focus by getting her to play a game. That’s when she starts to calm her mind and realize she’s feeling things, like hull breaches.

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Eventually, Zora informs the captain of what she’s feeling, and Gray tells the captain that Zora is more advanced than they thought. With the Void closing in on them, they need to think of an escape route fast. Stamets comes up with using the energy signature left behind in Book’s brain as a way to track their exit and it’s also a link to whomever made the DMA. The maker is beyond their Galaxy, and that has everyone reeling.

There’s just one problem, the ship’s shields are not strong enough to sustain the impact of leaving the Void. Michael decides to send everyone into the Pattern Buffer in order to keep them safe. She’ll stay behind with Zora and get the ship to safety. It’s risky, but it might work. It takes cutting off life support to get the ship free from the Void, but Zora does it. She even sings to Michael as everything slowly falls apart around them. Zora admits to feeling parts of her dying, and Michael admits that she always trusts Zora.
 
In the end, they make it out alive and Zora brings the crew back to help Michael. Book also confessed his love for Michael and she hers for him. Book also confided in Saru about his feelings towards whoever invented the DMA. Saru understood but offered the best advice in dealing with his feelings. What’s next for the crew? Therapy maybe?

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