Discovery's Season 4 Finale Created A Pattern That Star Trek Has To Break
The resolution to Star Trek: Discoveryseason 4's DMA storyline continues an ongoing pattern that season 5 must now avoid like Klingon love poetry. Sonequa Martin-Green's Michael Burnham couldn't have faced a tougher first season as official captain of the USS Discovery. The 32nd century Federation has only just starting rebuilding when an unprecedented gravitational anomaly strikes Deep Space Repair Beta Six. Dubbed the DMA (Dark Matter Anomaly), this destructive force spans five whole light years, decimates anything unlucky enough to block its path, and can jump unpredictably through space, giving no warning of its arrival.
Faced with this seemingly insurmountable challenge, Burnham and her crew get to science-ing, and quickly deduce the DMA is a man-made creation, rather than a natural phenomenon. That investigative trail leads the Federation to Unknown Species 10-C — the DMA's creators from another galaxy — and as gravitational destruction descends upon Earth and Ni'Var, begging this highly advanced civilization to hit the «off» switch rapidly becomes Burnham's best option.
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Star Trek: Discovery season 4's finale («Coming Home») ends with Unknown Species 10-C humbly apologizing for the inconvenience, and admitting they probably should've used that awesome technology to scan for life forms first. They're a work in progress, and promise to do better moving forward. All's well that ends well, but all ends are beginning to look a lot alike. Here's how Star Trek: Discovery's DMA ending falls too close to The Burn, and why season 5 needs to break the trend.
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