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10 Things Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Must Do to Avoid Epic Failure
In the all important Star Trek: Discovery season 2 sophomore debut, these are 10 things the series must do to avoid screwing the pooch.
4. Exploring the Klingons Post-War in Season 2
CBS The product of writing and rewriting Klingons over five decades
One cannot help but feel cheated by the end of the Federation-Klingon war. It really did reek of a sloppy and slapdash conclusion to what was supposed to be a desperate fight to the death.
The “Let’s put a bomb inside Q’ronos! That’ll do the trick!” solution was lacking a lot of the cerebral elements that are a Trek hallmark. Then add some gratuitous sex with a couple of Orion’s, and let Mirror Giorgou remain at-large until we need her again. It was a pretty bad job of writing, let’s be fair.
But, for better or worse, the conclusion of war brings Disovery’s writers to a canonical vacuum: What is the state of the Klingon Empire Post-War?
How will a Klingon High Council ruling at gunpoint operate? Where will L’Rell (Mary Chieffo) as its leader take her people in the post war Alpha Quadrant? How does Ash Tyler/Voq’ (Shazad Latif) fit into the bigger equation of the Klingon drama? There is a lot of promising ground to build upon, despite the hurried and ham fisted conclusion. None of them, however is more subtle or significant than how L’Rell came to power: with Federation complicity.
The Ticking Time Bomb Sitting at the Core of Q’ronos
Even if the said Federation assist was performed on a covert and ad hoc basis, this is a serious problem for her leadership should anyone uncover this fact. If that is so, it could well fracture the now tentative unity that exists.
For all intents and purposes, L’Rell’s ascendency founded on Federation intervention is the real time bomb inside Q’ronos. It makes her complicit not only with the enemy, but even worse in the Klingon eye, with outsiders tampering in their politics. For Star Trek: Discovery season 2, this is the 500lbs gorilla in the room.
That political dirty laundry aside, there is still much to know about the Klingons at this juncture.
In addition to all of the aforementioned story, the Klingon Empire is now unified for the first time in several generations. Clearly the great Klingon pastime is civil war, but beyond that how do they act collectively, and societally?
These decisions are crucial on the part of the writing staff, if for no other reason than the relationship between the Klingons and the Federation is one of the cornerstone grand-strategy storylines upon which Discovery operates.
With the requisite war against the Klingons out of the way, there is every reason to believe Star Trek: Discovery season 2 will take a swipe at a new adversary.
