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Michael Burnham and Adira visit the Trill homeworld while Saru’s efforts on the Discovery to help the crew reconnect yield surprises. “Forget Me Not” attempts to bridge the gap between episodic and serialized storytelling, but the results are mixed.
Dr Hugh Culber’s personal log opens the episode: the crew have become extremely stressed out that they have jumped 930 years into the future. People are exercising with blank stares. They’re getting into fights about technobabble. Culber brings this to Saru’s attention and it is decided that the best way to heal the staff is to give some people the day off and to force others to attend a dinner party.
Meanwhile, Adira realizes that she must travel to the home world of the Trill to learn about the symbiote inside her. Dr. Culber is scheduled to travel with her, but he decides to have Michael Burnham take his place instead. The reaosn for this, we’re told, is because Michael Burnham is a master of emotions. Then everyone cries.
Burnham and Adira arrive at trill where they meet some Trill elders. The elders are disturbed to learn that Adira is a human – it is sacrilegious for a symbiote to be joined to a non-Trill host. After some quick kung fu, Michael and Adira are brought to the Trill milk caves and Adira is put into the pool to learn the truth. She is sucked into a mysterious vortex and the Trill suggest that Michael follow her to help her. Michael, the human (non Trill) jumps into the sacred milk-water pool and also goes down the drain.
Saru’s dinner party starts off well but goes off the rails when the crew start sobbing and yelling at each other. Stamets and Detmer fight about who’s more important to the ship. Everyone cries.
In the Trill dreamworld, Adira learns that the former host of Tal was her boyfriend, Gray. Gray died and the symbiote went to Adira. Then people cried.
In this episode of the podcast, Wes and Clay discuss “Forget Me Not” and whether or not it’s possible to look beyond the flaws of Discovery. Plus! The guys discuss the newly religious Trill, emotional fragility, and the pointless sidekick that is Michael Burnham.