The following contains Star Trek: Discovery spoilers.

Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Episode 13

Star Trek: Discovery wraps up Season 4 with a fairly satisfactory if not necessarily groundbreaking finale that neatly wraps up most of its outstanding plot points in a bow by the end of the episode. This is a fairly impressive feat, given how much ground we needed to cover in this hour to begin with. Looking back on this season as a whole, it seems rather obvious now that the show would have done well to jettison some of the meandering middle episodes where not much happened in favor of making this finale more of a two-parter. If only to give some of its more obvious twists and contrivances a little more room to breathe. 

Is it kind of cheesy? Absolutely. Does it work anyway? Actually, for the most part, yes.

It’s true, the 10-C still come off more as glowy giant krill than anything else, but the awe with which the Discovery true reacts to their world and their floaty godlike selves is wonderful. (Plus, on some level, it feels so right that a species who’s so far advanced from us in every conceivable way appears not to have become monstrous, but simply better and more kind.) Tilly returns and gets stuck spending three-fourths of the episode with Admiral Vance, but it turns out that Mary Wiseman and Oded Fehr have wonderful chemistry, and their (admittedly very random) bonding session about purpose and family is lovely. 

It’s unlikely that any of us are truly surprised by any of these twists—Discovery is not the sort of show that often takes the sort of risks killing major characters involves—but there are moments where everyone’s miraculous survival does feel a bit convenient (even if Sonequa Martin-Green truly does do her level best to sell us the idea that at least Michael believes Book is really dead).  Look, I’m not saying I wanted any of these characters to shuffle off this mortal coil, but it’s an outcome that feels like a poor payoff to the stakes the back half of the season was insisting were legitimate. 

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The only true casualty is Tarka who ultimately sacrifices himself to save Book and gets a sort of mild redemption attempt, where he finally realizes that his alien bestie is most likely not waiting for him in a parallel universe, but is probably just dead and has been for some time. I realize I’ve had a much harsher read of this character and his arc than most, but 

One of the few developments that seem likely to have any real impact on whatever next season’s story happens to be is the fact that Saru and T’Rina finally admit they’re into each other and want to give their adorably weird interspecies love a try. (Saru makes an emotional confession! T’Rina finally tells him to stop calling her Madame President! They hold hands!) How they’re going to make it work while she’s got a planet to run and he has to serve as Michael’s 24/7 emotional sounding board is up in the air, but watching them try is going to be amazing. Vulcan/Kelpian inter-species wedding ceremony when?

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