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(The brief encounters Riker has with an androgynous alien in TNG and Dax's kiss with another Trill who is currently in a female body but used to be a male on DS9 were great, and in the right direction of progress, but the Culber/Stamets relationship really breaks that glass ceiling.) My point is, if their relationship was not done well, and felt forced for the point of progressiveness on a TV show, I still would have been all for it, but it would have given the mouth-breathing haters of the world something more to rail about. Outside of the story within the episode, on the more meta side of things Stamets and Culber's relationship and representation of two gay men on screen means so much to those in the LGBT community who have never seen their lives reflected properly in Star Trek until this point. And by "it" I mean the whole relationship with Stamets and Culber was built up beautifully over the previous eight episodes, and this quick kiss was meaningful and touching and heart-wrenching because there was a very real possibility that Stamets would not make it out of the spore drive alive. Ok maybe the second one is just my inner 12-year-old coming out, (but it still did happen, and my mind is scarred for life) but the first "first" was incredibly significant. So! Where is the Prime Universe Lorca? Dead? And I’m confused…so Ash Tyler was a real guy? Does that mean that Voq’s actual body is gone? But they said they reduced his bones…so did they get rid of the original Ash and just overlay his memories and take his face…off? What is the ISS Discovery up to in the Prime Universe if they did indeed switch places? What is Mirror Universe’s Lorca’s grand plan? Hopefully we find out the answers to this and more on next week’s Star Trek: Discovery! Let me know what you thought of the episode in the comments below! For some reason, I think I would have enjoyed it more if Admiral Cornwell was the Emperor instead. I know that story-wise that makes this more complicated between her and Michael Burnham because of their close relationship in the Prime Universe, but I really just am not riveted by Michelle Yeoh’s acting, and I just don’t buy her as this all powerful Emperor. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I really didn’t care that much about that reveal. I should also mention the reveal of Captain Georgiou being the Emperor in the mirror universe. I really would only take one line of explanatory dialog to retcon it and I’d be happy with it. I really do hope they come up with some explanation for all this, otherwise that would feel just a bit lazy to me, and a bit of a cheat to true fans out there. So…either some weird time travel stuff goes down to where none of this ever happened, or they get back to the Prime Universe and Starfleet keep all these activities and the spore drive completely under wraps in such a top secret fashion that Kirk and his crew would not be told of it even when they report their Mirror Universe activities back to Starfleet Command. Included in this is 1) There is no mention or repercussions of Starfleet ever having a spore drive in shows that take place after this one, and 2) Starfleet seems to be completely unaware of the Mirror Universe when it “first” shows up in the original series, which takes place after this. Speaking of loopholes, I am wondering how they plan to retcon many inconsistencies already taking place in the timeline of this show with the rest of Star Trek canon. If they can pull it off organically somehow that the Mirror Universe Culber permanently joins the Prime Universe Discovery crew and once again falls in love with Stamets, I will be a very happy man, but I know this would be difficult to happen without feeling forced. I am hoping, along with so many other fans out there, that Culber still returns to the show in some capacity, whether it be through some weird time travel loophole or via his Mirror Universe counterpart. And of course, along with that, we have the loss of Culber, who does actually return in this episode in the form of a vision in Stamets’ clouded brain. I am saddened that Stamets has spent so long in a state of coma/insanity, because I miss his firey personality in relation to the other characters.
Each and every character has been developed more and more over this season so far, with the exception of Keyla Detmer (played by Emily Coutts, the officer with the damaged face from the battle of the binary stars, with the cool half fade haircut), but they keep giving her more and more screen time, hinting that she will be more important and prominent later on in the series.
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