![]() It’s an especially big ask of Saru who, as the captain of the ship, needs to know he can count on his number one. It’s really moving to see both Tilly and Saru, the two people that Michael is closest to on the Discovery, recognize the changes in their friend and to offer their acknowledgment and patience as she reacclimatizes to life aboard a Starfleet ship. As she tells Saru, it’s going to take some time before she can remember what it’s like to be part of something like the Discovery again. Michael may have spent the last year looking for clues about the fate of the Federation, but she’s been living without the institution of Starfleet around her, without the rules and regulations of a ship and its crew. ![]() He does, and it’s another inspiring example of faith in his crew from Captain Saru, but it’s not not a problem. When the Discovery accidentally pores fuel on the fire that is a dispute between Earth and a band of attacking Titan raiders led by someone named Wen, Michael goes rogue (well, with Book) to solve the problem, expecting that Saru will follow her lead and trust her even though she has kept him in the dark about her plans. She knows that, at a certain point, she had to let go of the hope that the Discovery would come in her lifetime just so she could keep on living. But Michael does, and she knows it’s changed her. Michael has spent a year having to make choices in this strange place without her crew as support, and even us viewers don’t know quite what that means. It’s not malicious or even volatile in nature, but it is there, complicating that simple joy into something a bit more uncertain. While Michael may be back with her family, there is also a tension between Michael and the rest of the crew that is fascinating to see play out. Last week, I mildly lamented the fact that Discovery was reuniting Michael with the Discovery so early in the season, but, after seeing how it is playing out, I am totally on board. For a little while, all that matters is that they’re together. It doesn’t matter that the crew hasn’t seen Michael in days while its been a whole year for her. It’s an emotional reunion and, at first, that joy is simple. We begin more or less where last week’s cliffhanger left off, as Michael beams aboard after dropping the bomb that she arrived to the 32nd century a full year before her ship. ![]() While the plot of “People of Earth” is about the crew’s return to the birthplace of Starfleet, the heart of this story really lies in the reunion of Michael and the rest of the crew.
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